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534 THE WEDDERBURN BOOKVI.Heralds'CollegePapers.Some Casual Notes.(a) Tabular Pedigree (Beltz and Pullman, K. iii, 138).Alexander Wedderburn had the lands and barony=j= Helen, daur. of Ramsay ofof Kingennie, co. Angus, favourite of James VI., in Fifeshire.who gave him a ring.Brachniont,Alexander, second baron=of Kingennie, Town Clerkof Dundee.Magdalene,daur. of JohnScrimgeour.James, a merch 1in Dundee.:Mary, d. of James Sir John, physician to K.Goldman, a mer- Charles I., by whom hechant.was knighted.Alexander, third baron=of Kingennie.Eliz., d. of Ramsayof Muiry.Sir Alexander of Blackness, b. 1610,=d. about 1673. Knighted 1642.Town Clerk of Dundee.^Matilda Fletcher ofInnerpessor.Alexander ;fourth=T=Grizell, d. of John, of Black-=j=Rachel, d. of Da- James, =^Eliz. , d. of Robertbaron of Kingennie.Wedderburn before 1700. Was advocate, in 1667.gay, m. 1673.Sir Alexander ness, advocate, d. vid Dunsmoir, d.1696. Davidson of Bal-of Blackness. Clerk to the Bills.Alexander, fifth :baron of Kingennie,stiled Wedderburnof thatilk.:Grisel, d. of Garden,Laird of Latonin Angus.Alexander, of=j=Elizabeth, d. ofBlackness, eldestson and Seton of Pit-Sir Alexanderheir, d. before medden, Bart.1704.Sir Alex. of=Blackness,d. 1741.:Katherine,d. of JohnScott.I 1David Wedderburn Grisel, heir to herof that ilk, d. unm. brother, living 17....in 1761.Sir John Wedderburn ofBlackness, created Bart, ofScotland to him &c, d. inIreland 1722, unm.Sir John of Black-=Jean, daur. ofness, executed on John Fuller-Keunington Com- ton, Esq.mon 1746.[The above pedigree is not a " record," and contains several errors. For instance, Helen Ramsay'sfather was not (John) Ramsay of Bracbmont, but Alexander Ramsay of Dundee, whose connection withthe Brachmont family I have not ascertained. The christian name of his son James' wife was Margaret,not Mary. Sir John, the physician, was knighted by Charles II. Sir Alexander died in 1675-76,and his wife, Matilda Fletcher, was not of Innerpessor. John of Blackness did not die before 1700,but in 1706, nor did his son Alexander die in 1704, but in 1710. His son John, again, did not die in1722 but in 1723, and it was not he, but his grandfather, who was created a baronet (in 1704). FinallySir Alexander, the fourth baronet died in 1744 not 1741.—A. YV.](6) Genealogical Account. (H— Z, xxvii, 177.)This is merely an MS. copy of the account of the family given in Douglas' " Baronage of Scotland,"with a tabular pedigree founded on Douglas. It is among a number of pedigrees collected by Robert Dale.(c) A letter from Sir James Webster-Wedderburn to Debrett, containing nothingof value. (W.C., Peers, i, 34-35.)(d) A letter from Sir James Chatterton, whose daughter Rebecca married Sir JamesWebster-Wedderburn's brother, Charles; also of no value. (W.C., Barts., ii, 70.)