1547
John Wedderburn, complainant in the English Courts 1547-51, “may be identical with John, b. c1500, the second of the three ‘Gude and Godlie Ballates’ brothers who died in England in 1556, but this is speculative. It is possible that he had descendants, including the John of 1621 and Alexander 1630” (q.v.). - In an abstract from Wills at the Commissary Court of London, Vol. 26 (1629-1634), a J. Wedderburne was one of the witnesses (along with Jn. Morgan Jms. Younge & Golbert Lyons), in 1562, to the Will of Roger Younge, of Ratcliffe, Middlx., citizen & clothworker, with Land in Walton. His wife Martha was the executrix. - [If, as seems likely, this J. Wedderburne is John W. ‘the complainant’, he therefore cannot be John b. c1500 as he died in 1556.]
1609
Sara Waderborn (sic) [unidentified - but presumably connected with John Wedderburn - see 1621)] was buried at St. Olave, Hart Sreet, City of London, on 1/9/1609.
1616
Christian Wetherburne (sic), d. of John W. [unidentified] & Dorothy ---, bap. 7/7/1616 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1616
Susanna Wetherburne (sic), d. of John W. [unidentified] & Dorothy ---, bap. 7/7/1616 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1617
Magdelen Wetherbourne (sic), d. of John W. [unidentified] & Dorothy ---, bap. 30/7/1617 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1619
Elleno (sic) Wetherburne (sic), d. of John W. [unidentified] & Dorothie ---, bap. 27/6/1619 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1621
John Wedderburn ‘was resident in the parish of St. Olave’s, Southwark, in 1621’. - [Perhaps it is the same John in the next two entries? - He is probably the John who m. Agnes Williamson in 1628 (q.v.).]
1625
“A commission under the privy signet [was] presented, authorizing John Wedderborne (sic) to receive all estates of Scotchmen deceased in the Indies”.
1626
Alexander Wedderburn or Wetherburn “entered the Scots College, Rome in 1626, but soon left it to enter among the Jesuits…. This person may have become a Protestant and married, and if so may possibly be the Vicar of Sandridge”. [See entry under 1630] - “The wife of the Vicar of Sandridge was from the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, in which a John Wedderburn was resident in 1621”. [‘A.W.’.] - ‘A.W.’ suggests that a still earlier John Wedderburn who was ‘a complainant in the English Courts 1547-51’, may be identical with John W., second of the three ‘Gude and Godlie Ballates’ brothers, who died in England in 1556, and says it is possible that he had descendants, including the John of 1621 & Alexander, the Vicar of Sandridge.
1627
“On 11 May 1627, a letter was read from Sir Wm. Alexander to Mr. Governor on behalf of Wedderburne [see 1621 & 1625, above], to whom his late Majesty granted a Patent to receive out of the estate of every Scottish man deceased in the Indies in their service 12d. in the £. Ordered to avoid clamour and Wedderburne’s importunity that what was remaining collected by virtue of the said letters patent, a very small matter, be paid to him”.
1628
John Wedderborne (sic), [ possiblythe John referred to in 1621 & 1625, above] m. Agnes Williamson at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 11/11/1628.
1630
Alexander Wedderburne [unidentified], a bachelor aged 25, Clerk, Vicar of Sandridge, Herts., m. Esther des Prez, spinster, aged 20 [d. of the late Jacob des Prez of Southwark], by licence, at St. Magnus or St. Margaret’s, New Fish Street, on 25/1/1630-31 “by consent of her uncle John Delanoir of St. Olave’s, Southwark, dyer”. (“In a work entitled ‘Noncon-formity in Herts.’, by the Rev. – Urwick it is stated that the Sandridge Vicar returned to Scotland and became minister at Forgan, Fife, and afterwards at Kilmarnock…but this is an error, as the former was b. in 1605-6, while the latter, whose career is well known died in 1678 aged 57, and was born therefore in 1621”. (W.B. p. 83 - amongst details of ‘various person, chiefly in Dundee, unidentified in the preceding chapters’.)
1652
Ann Wetherburn (sic), d. of Edward W. [unidentified] & Ann ---, bap. 3/8/1652 at St. Katherine’s by the Tower, London.
1680
Elizabeth Weatherburne (sic), d. of George W. [unidentified] & Anne ---, bap. 11/3/1680 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1682
John Weatherbourn (sic), s. of George W. [unidentified] & Anne ---, bap. 29/1/1682 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney.
1699
Elizabeth Wedderburn, d. of David W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth ---, bap. 31/12/1699 at St. James, Westminster.
1704
Thomas Weatherborn [unidentified] m. Margt. Oakes on 17/12/1704 at St. Anne & St. Agnes’, Aldersgate, London.
1704
John Wedderburn, 4th s. of Sir Alexander W. [b. 1675, 4th Bt. of Blackness in 1723 & Clerk of Dundee, 1696-1744] & Katharine Scott [b. 1680, ygst. d. of John Scott, Merchant in Dundee, & Christian Watson], was b. 4/8/1704 & bap. at Dundee. - “John was ‘bred to the law’ and was factor to the Duke of Douglas. - In Sept. 1737 he was named as ‘constable depute’ and bailie of Dundee. (W.B. p. 261, & footnote¹) - [His younger (surviving) brothers were Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708, Sheriff Clerk of Forfar from 1738); Thomas W. ‘of Cantra’ (b. 1810, Collector of Excise at Inverness from 1740) & Alexander (‘Uncle Sandie’, b. 1818,‘who lived in Dundee’). - His youngest surviving sister, Katharine (b. 1715), m. David Scrymgeour of Birkhill, Fife, in 1739 (q.v.).] - In 1724, John m. Jean Fullarton [e.d. of John Fullarton of Fullarton, Perthshire]. - They had 7 sons & 4 daughters. On his father’s death, in 1744, John became the 5th Bt. of Blackness “but there can be little doubt that found himself in very straightened circumstances…”. (In 1743 ‘Blackness’ had been sold to Alexander Hunter of Balskelly to pay off the debts of Sir Alexander and his son. (W.B. p. 259, footnote 5) - “Towards the end of 1744, or early in the following one, Sir John and his family moved to a small farm known as the Mains of Nevay, by Newtyle, Forfarshire… . In July 1745, Prince Charles Edward set foot in Scotland…. …& in April 1746, following the final battle of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion at Culloden, Sir John was taken prisoner. With others officers he was put aboard the man-of-war ‘Exeter’ at Inverness, transported to London and lodged in Southwark Gaol, where he remained throughout his trial….. On the evening of 27 Nov. 1746, Sir John was informed by the gaoler that all appeals had failed”. - (A silhouette of his head, said to have been cut that same evening by the gaoler’s daughter, was reproduced in ‘Country Life’ magazine of 21/4/1960, with an article about ‘Silhouette Curiosities’ by John Woodiwiss.) - Sir John was executed on Kennington Common the following day, 28 Nov. 1746. (The names of all the Gentlemen convicted and sentenced to death for their part in the Rebellion is to be found on W.B. p. 284, footnote 5.) - Following Sir John’s execution, his two eldest sons, John & James, escaped to Jamaica where they were later joined by their two younger brothers and by their cousins, the three sons of Thomas Wedderburn of Cantra, and by their cousin Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755). - (Other relatives also went out to Jamaica at various times.)
1706
Grace Weatherburne (sic), d. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Margaret [Oakes, m. 1704], bap. 11/7/1706 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London.
1709
John Weatherborn (sic), s. of Thomas W. & Margt. [Oakes, m. 1704], bap. 11/8/1709 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London.
1710
Thomas Wetherburn (sic), s. of Thomas W. & Mary [sic - ?Margt. Oakes, m. 1704], bap. 26/10/1710 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London.
1711
Margaret Weatherborn (sic), d. of James W. [unidentified] & Margaret ---, bap. 27/5/1711 at St. Olave’s, Southwark.
1711
Alexander Wedderburn [b. 1711 in Dundee, e. surv. s. of Alexander W. (Shipmaster in Dundee, b. 1678) & Grizell Watson was a Shipmaster in London by 1740. - “It is to him, I think”, says ‘A.W.’, “that James Wedderburn [b. 1730, s. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness] ‘tooke boat’, on 27/11/1746, to see if anything could still be done to avert the execution of his father”. - Alexander m. ‘probably in London’ Marion Stuart [d. of John Stuart of Inverness]. - (W.B. p. 229, footnote 4) - They had an only child, Helen (bap. in London in 1747, q.v.), who m. Dr. James Finlay, of Bogside, Glasgow, “a long-time resident in Jamaica, who had been guardian to his wife, Helen Wedderburn”. (W.B. p. 230, footnote²) - ‘A.W.’ says that Alexander died ‘before 6/12/1757’, the date of his daughter’s marriage ‘when he is referred to as deceased’. (W.B. p. 229) but Alexander died between 30/3/1747 (when Helen was baptised) & Feb. 1749, when his Will was proved in London. - His widow Marion was appointed sole executrix.
1715
Elizabeth Whideborne (sic) [unidentified] m. Thomas Cummins at St. Petrock, Exeter, Devon, in 1715.
1717
Dorothy Wetherbourn [unidentified] m. Wm. Smith at St. Anne’s, Soho, Westminster, on 3/7/1717.
1726
John Wetherburn [unidentified] m. Susanna Jeux at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 25/9/1726.
1739
Katharine Wedderburn [b. 19/1/1715, 6th d. of Sir Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness, b. 1675, & Katharine Scott (m. 1697)] m. David Scrymgeour of Birkhill [Advocate, e. & only surv. s. of Dr. Alexander Scrymgeour (only surv. s. of John Scrymgeour of Kirktoun & Maidelene Wedderburn, b. c1640-1, d. of Alexander W., b. 1615, 3rd of Kingennie & 1st of Easter Powrie) & Janet Falconer] in August 1739. - “David was admitted an advocate in 1731 and from 1748-1768 was sheriff depute of the county of Inverness. Perhaps he was thus intimate with his brother-in-law, Thomas Wedderburn, collector of excise there, in connection with whose affairs he is named, 24 Sept. 1744, 14 Nov. 1759 and 9 Aug. 1768”. - W.B. p. 175, footnote¹ - David Scrymgeour had two sisters, Marion and Jean. - [In W.B. Vol. II (Note 5, following p. xiv), is an amended account, ‘added following the discovery of a fresh batch of old papers, after the completion of Vol. I’, of the details given about these sisters on W.B. p. 174.] - “Marion Scrymgeour m. George Hewett [s. of George Hewett, sometime bailie in St. Andrew’s, Fife, Scotland] in 1722. - George was at one time a merchant in St. Andrew’s but afterwards entered the ministry and, in 1746, was at Newcastle….. Mrs. Hewett was certainly alive in 1757…..(but) of their children, in 1745, only two survived: Alexander, and Jean or Jane….”. Alexander Hewett was in business in Chester-le-Street, Durham, in 1746. He appears to have had a number of children: In 1773, Mrs. Hewett (Alexander’s wife), with six children and a servant, went from Dundee to London; in 1781, Fleming Scrymgeour wrote to Alexander Scrymgeour-Wedderburn in regard to the expense of his outfit for merchant-shipping service in the West Indies; in 1787 a Scrymgeour Hewett is named in an account for school books - and a Mary Hewett is named in a note of annuities and legacies left by the settlement of Janet Scrymgeour (‘Mrs. Gillespie, senior’)… Mrs. Hewett was deceased by 1777”. - “Jean Scrymgeour m. Alexander Watson (s. of Grissell Wedderburn, b. 1680, & Thomas Watson ‘of Grange’, m. 1700 - ‘see Vol. 1, p. 251 where I have omitted to identify her’). Her daughters Margaret & Janet Watson, are named. ‘They must have been born after 1740’. They lived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with their aunt, Mrs. Hewett, who at one time (1745) proposed that Janet should go and live with her maternal uncle, Dr. John Wedderburn in Dundee”. [Dr. Wedderburn of ‘Idvies’ (1678-1751, 3rd s. of James W., Clerk of Dundee) was Janet’s great-uncle. He m. his second cousin, Margaret Balfour. - W.B. p. 250] - Only one of the daughters, Janet (b. c1747), survived childhood. She m. John Gillespie in 1776. (She is the ‘Mrs. Gillespie senior’ referred to above). - (W.B. pp. 175-76 & 263) - In 1896, ‘A.W.’ states that “Mr. Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn now of Wedderburn and Birkhill [see 1773] has no knowledge of any living descendant of these two aunts of his grandfather [Marion & Jean Scrymgeour] and believes their lines to be extinct”. (W.B. p.174, footnote¹) - [The name ‘Hewitt’, however, appears in the family-tree of a Henry Wedderburn ‘or Weatherburn’ in Northumberland and Jabez W., Scalemaker (b. 1801, q.v.) & his daughter Sarah (b. 1834) both m. a ‘Hewitt’ (see below). - On her 2nd m., in 1856, Sarah’s surname is spelt as Hewett on the m. cert.] - David Scrymgeour & Katharine Wedderburn had 4 sons & 5 daughters. In 1769, Grizel ‘Wedderburn of Wedderburn’ (b. 1705), not having married, made David Scrymgeour the first heir-of-entail to the barony of ‘Wedderburn’ and the lands of Wester Goudie, Kingennie and Bullion, but David died on 11/7/1772 and it was therefore his eldest son, Alexander (b. 1742), who, on Grizel’s death in 1778, succeeded to the Wedderburn barony and estates, and assumed the name and arms of ‘Wedderburn’, adding the name to Scrymgeour. - [See m. of Alexander W. b. 1583 - 2nd of Kingennie & Wester Gourdie to Magdalen Scrymgeour in 1612.] - [For a description of a ‘barony’ see under Margaret Wedderburn, wife of Captain Walter Halyburton, in 1571. (A barony is not the same as a ‘baronetcy’. - MWE)] - Katharine died on 19/3/1796. - [On Alexander’s death, without issue, in 1811, his younger brother Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755, q.v.) succeeded to the estates, also adding the name of ‘Wedderburn’. - The ‘attained’ Scottish Earldom of Dundee was restored to a descendant Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn of Wedderburn, ‘de jure’ 7th Earl of Dundee, in 1953. - [See Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755) for further details.]
1743
David Wedderburn [unidentified], widower, m. Mary Dason, Spinster, at St. George the Martyr, Southwark, on 30/1/1743. - Banns called 24th, 26th & 29th Jan.
1743
John Wedderburn, 2nd [but later only surv.] s. of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’, b. 1710, Collector of Excise at Inverness] & Katharine Dunbar [m. 1740], was b. 19/8/1743 & bap. 22/8/1743 at Forres, co. Elgin. John went to Jamaica in 1762 and became the owner of a number of sugar plantations, including - through his marriage to Mary Wisdom Bedward in 1782 (q.v.) - the “Spring Garden” Estate. He returned from Jamaica with his wife & 3 children in 1789 and joined his cousin David (b. 1757) at the ‘West India House’ of Webster & Co. in Leadenhall St., London. In 1796 the firm became ‘Wedderburn, Webster & Co.’. From 1801, when David died, until his death in 1820, John was the chief partner. [In 1815, the firm became ‘Wedderburn, Colvile & Co.’] - John & Mary had 2 more daughters, born in London, and another son, born at Clapham. They lived first in Upper Grosvenor St., then in Bedford Square and later at 19 Devonshire Place, Portland Place. (W.B. pp. 343-45) - [In 1806, a ‘J. Wedderburn’ was the tenant of ‘Mill-farm of Camno’ in Perthshire, which, with 30 other farms, was then ‘to let’. The proprietor of all 31 farms was ‘J. Wedderburn of Portland Place, London’. (“Tay Valley People”) - The origins of the farmer at Camno, John Wedderburn (b. 1748), are somewhat obscure. - “Spring Garden” John died at Chigwell, Essex, on 29/12/1820, leaving in his Will (proved in Feb. 1821) a legacy to ‘John Wedderburn, a free mulatto planter in Jamaica’. In a codicil, he stated that any other beneficiary who objected to the terms of the Will would forfeit their inheritance! - After her husband’s death, Mary Wisdom Wedderburn lived at Queen Anne St. London. - She died at Abele Grove, Epsom, Surrey, on 17/3/1835. (W.B. p. 345, footnote ²) - John & Mary are great-grandparents of Alexander Wedderburn, Q.C. (b. 7/8/1854, q.v.), author of the “Wedderburn Book” published in 1898.
1744
John Wedderburn, e. [surv.] s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708 ] & Isobel Edward [m. 1838], bap. 17/7/1744 at Kingoldrum. “John was b. 28/7/1744”. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.) - John went to India in 1763 and, through the influence of his Webster step-uncles in London, entered the E. India Co.’s army in 1764. (‘A.W.’ says that John was in India in 1779 and that his brother Charles - also in the E. India Co.’s army - “must have been home that year, when, with John’s consent, ‘Pearsie’ was sold by their father, in Jan. 1779, to Charles”. - However, a letter in the Dundee City Archives (written in the Autumn of 1778 by their brother David in London - see 1757 - to Charles in India) shows that John had then been living at ‘Pearsie’ for 2 years. In another letter, dated 4th Feb. 1780, David told Charles that ‘John sailed in July last on the Walpole & I hope arrived in good Health & Spirits’. - John died in Calcutta on 15/7/1787. (There is a grant of the admon. of his estate in the Bengal Admons. at the British Library, dated 2/8/1787, & there was another grant, to his brother David in London, on 9/6/1789.) - “He was never married”.
1746
Elizabeth Widderburn (sic), [e.] d. of Robert Wedderburn [of ‘Pearsie’, b. 1708 & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. May 1746 at Kingoldrum. Elizabeth m. James Graham of Meathie & Balmuir [b. 1741, s. of James Graham & Isobel Guthrie. - His first wife was Grissell W., b. 1706, d. of Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness.] - On W.B. p. 322, James is said to have died in 1792, but a memorial ‘to James Graham, Esq., late of this island, who died July 1795’ was erected at George’s Plain, Westmoreland, Jamaica, ‘by his particular friend, John Wedderburn Esq. of London’. [This John is ‘Spring Garden’ John W. (b. 1743) - Elizabeth’s cousin. - James may not be the same James Graham, of course, but it does seem possible.] - Elizabeth died on 13/9/1825. - They had 4 sons & 2 daughters: i) James (b. 1774), ‘who went into business in London in 1794, and, in 1818, under the terms of the Will of his step-uncle, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Webster (b. 1731, q.v.), took the surname Webster in lieu of Graham’. [In 1823 - as James Webster - he m. Elizabeth Ramsay (in London), by whom he had a daughter & 5 sons: Eliza; James; Robert; David; Graham & Thomas. - In the 1841 Census, James Webster, Colonial Broker ‘aged 65’ (‘b. Scotland’), was living at Plaistow Lane, West Ham, with Eliza, ‘aged 35’ (‘not b. in the county’); Eliza, ‘aged 15’; James, ‘aged 15’; Robert, aged 14; David, aged 13; Graham, aged 9; Thomas, aged 7 (all ‘b. in the county’); L. Ramsay; ‘aged 25’, & Jas. Graham, ‘aged 35’ (neither ‘b. in the county’); & 5 Servants (none ‘b. in the county’). - (In James’s Will, q.v., written on 14/3/1833, James Graham Webster, is called his ‘reputed son’. - James Webster died on 12/6/1841.)]; ii) Robert (b. 1775), ‘who d. unm. 9/9/1830’; iii) Isabella (b. c1779), ‘who d. unm. on 21/8/1830, aged 51’; iv) Katharine (apparently also b. c1779), ‘who d. unm. on 27/3/1843, aged 64’; v) David (b. 1784), ‘who succeeded to Pearsie, as heir of ntail on the death of his uncle Charles W. of Pearsie in 1829 (taking the name of ‘Wedderburn’), and d. unm. in 1858’; & vi) John (b. 1787), ‘who succeeded to Pearsie on the death of his brother David in 1858 (also taking the name ‘Wedderburn’), & d. unm. on 21/8/1870. (W.B. pp. 323 & 324) - [See Katharine W., b. 1750.]
1746
Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Bt. of Blackness [b. 1704 in Dundee], was hanged, drawn & quartered on Kennington Common on 28/11/1746, having been tried and found guilty of treason for taking part in the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.
1747
Hellen (sic) Wedderburn, only child of Alexander W. [Shipmaster in London, b. 1711 in Dundee] & Marion Stuart [m. not found], bap. 30/3/1747 at St. Edmund the King & Martyr, Lombard Street, London. Helen m. Dr. James Finlay, ‘of Bogside, Glasgow’, in the Canongate, Edinburgh, on 22/3/1774. - “Dr. Finlay was long resident in Jamaica, and had been guardian to his wife, Helen Wedderburn”. - Helen & James Finlay ‘had 2 sons & several daughters, including a daughter Sophia who is not mentioned in her great-aunt’s Will’. [Mr. Edward Bulloch Finlay, of Avebury, Calne, Wilts. (s. of Helen & James Finlay’s son Alexander, b. 1778, d. 1836), who provided ‘A.W.’ with these details, owned a portrait of his grandmother, painted by the artist Catherine Read - whose mother was Elizabeth Wedderburn (b. 1699). (W.B. p. 230, footnote²)] - Helen died on 25/11/1786.
1748
Charles Wedderburn, 2nd [surv.] s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708 ] & Isobel Edward [m. 1838], bap. 21/7/1748 at Kingoldrum. “He was b. on 1/8/1748”. (Gregorian calendar.) - Charles joined the E. India Co’s. army where he was aide-de-camp to Brig.-Gen. David Wedderburn (b. 1740 - younger brother of Alexander W., b. 1733, who became Lord Loughborough in 1780, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1793 & was created 1st Earl of Rosslyn in 1801). - ‘A.W.’ says that he “thinks Charles must have been home in Jan. 1779 when, with the consent of Charles’s elder brother John in India, ‘Pearsie’ was sold by their father to Charles” - but a letter in the Dundee City Archives, written to Charles in India by their younger brother David (b. 1757), in the Autumn of 1778, from London, shows that John had then been living at ‘Pearsie’ for 2 years. - Charles m. twice: i) in 1787, Anne Read, & ii) in 1797, Eliza Rattray. - [He had no issue by either wife.] - Charles died at Pearsie on 15/2/1829, aged 81. His heir was David Graham (b. 1784), the 3rd s. of his sister Elizabeth (b. 1746) & her husband James Graham of Meathie & Balmuir, who, in accordance with the terms of the entail set up by Charles, added ‘Wedderburn’ to his surname. (W.B. pp. 325-27) - [See Charles’s Will.]
1750
Katharine Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 28/5/1750 at Kingoldrum. “She was b. at Pearsie on 6/6/1750”. (Gregorian calendar.) - Katharine m. Dr. Robert Stewart, ‘an eminent physician in Dundee’, in April 1781 (acc. to a letter from her brother David to their brother Charles in India, dated 26 Jany. 1782). - They had a son & 3 daughters: James (b. & bap. at Dundee, 13/1/1782) ‘who died unm. on 30/4/1839’; Isobel (b. 8/10/1763, bap. 13/10) ‘who died unm. in 1834’; Margaret (twin with Isobel) ‘who is said to have died in infancy’; & Elizabeth (b. 11/1/1786) ‘who m. her cousin, Alexander Stormonth (b. 1790) - from which marriage descend the Maclagan-Wedderburns of Pearsie’. (W.B. p. 324) - [See Isobel W., b. 1753.] - Katharine died in Dec. 1793, leaving a ‘death-bed deposition’ re a legacy from her step-uncle, John Webster (of Webster & Co., in Leadenhall St., London), who had died in July 1793. [See John’s Will, written 1/2/1792, & Katharine’s ‘disposition’, found at Myddleton House.]
1751
James Wedderburn, 3rd son of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’, Collector of Excise at Inverness, b. 1710 at Dundee] & Katharine Dunbar [m. 1740], was b. 23/9/1751 at Merknish in the parish of Inverness. “The entry in the Inverness Register reads: 23rd Sept. 1751, Mr. Thomas Wedderburn, collector of excise at Inverness and his wife, Katharine Dunbar, had a child baptised by Mr. Alexr. McBean called James. Witnesses: Robert ffraser of Phopachie, Mr. Alexr. McBean.” (W.B. p. 342, footnote²) - “James went to Jamaica at the end of 1768 or early in 1769 and became a member of the House of Assembly in the Island, where his talents gained him great reputation and where for many years his influence and, it must be added, his speculations were almost unbounded”. [He owned the extensive ‘Mint’ estate there.] - James died at Blue Castle, Jamaica, on 17/7/1797. - ‘He was never married’. (W.B. p. 342) - His Will (q.v.) indicates that he nevertheless had children! After making many bequests, including a very substantial legacy ‘in Trust’, to a quadroon child, Lydia Wedderburn, ‘supposed to be mine by a Mulatto Woman named Hannah’, which was to be paid on the day of Lydia’s marriage ‘with a Creditable white person’ (or on her coming of age), ‘on condition that she remains in Great Britain and does not return to Jamaica in the event of Marriage not taking place”, he left the residue of his ‘vast fortune’ to his nephew James Wedderburn (b. 1788 in Jamaica), the elder son of his brother John (b. 1743, who by then was the senior partner in “Wedderburn & Co.” in London.) - In ‘Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica’, by Philip Wright, there is reference to a memorial “erected at Paradise, Westmoreland, by his brother John Wedderburn Esq., Merchant of London, to James Wedderburn Esq., late of this Island, d. 17 July 1797 aged 45”. [A Lydia Wedderburn who m. i) m. Hugh Wilson in London in 1818 (q.v.), & ii) James Douglas in 1829, appears not to be James’s daughter, although she and her two sisters may well have originated in Jamaica!]
1753
Isobel Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. d. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 10/10/1753 at Kingoldrum. “She was b. at Pearsie on 9/10/1753”. (Gregorian calendar.) - Isobel m. the Rev. James Stormonth of Kinclune, minister at Airlie, on 31/3/1795 at Dundee. - They had a son & 6 daughters. - The son, Alexander Stormonth (b. 16/1/1790), m. his cousin Elizabeth Stewart (b. 1786 - see Katharine W. b. 1750). - Their elder daughter, Katharine Stormonth (b. 1/11/1814), succeeded to ‘Pearsie’ on the death of John Graham-Wedderburn in 1870. (See Elizabeth W., b. 1746 & Charles W., b. 1748.) - Katharine had m., at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, on 3/3/1834, the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. - They had 6 sons & 4 daughters. - On succeeding to Pearsie, Mrs. Maclagan was required, as heir of entail, ‘to assume the name & arms of Wedderburn’. - It is from this marriage that the Maclagan-Wedderburn family descends. (W.B. pp. 324-5 & 327-8)
1754 Edward Weatherbourne (sic) m. Ann Druce at Bray on 28/6/1754. [Edward may be the s. of Thos. W. bap. 12/8/1735 at St. John’s, Newcastle upon Tyne. ] - In 1755, Edward Weatherburn, formerly of Bray in the county of Berkshire, Dealer in Corn, late of Slough in the county of Buckinghamshire, Innholder, was a Prisoner for Debt in the Kings Bench Prison in the county of Surrey.
1755
Mary Weatherbourne (sic), d. of Edward W. & Ann [Druce, m. 1754], bap. 7/9/1755 at Bray. [Mary probably m. Joseph Ladgrove at Cookham, Berkshire, in 1777, q.v.]
1755
Henry Scrymgeour [Scrymgeour-Wedderburn ‘of Wedderburn & Birkhill’ in 1811], 4th & ygst. [& eventually only surv.] s. of David Scrymgeour & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, 6th d. of Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness, & Katharine Scott - see 1739], was b. 3/11/1755. Henry went out to Jamaica ‘about October 1773’. “Members of his mother’s family had been established there since the ‘45 and were now prosperous…. He owned an estate called ‘Baulk’ and became a member of the House of Assembly”. - [The three sons of Thomas Wedderburn ‘of Cantra’ (b. 1710, the younger brother of the executed 5th Bt. of Blackness & of Robert Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’), Alexander (b. 1741 at ‘Grange Hill’); John (b. 1743 at Forres, co. Elgin) and James (b. 1751, at Inverness), all went out to Jamaica as well. (Alexander went there in the spring of 1760 “staying on his way South with his uncle ‘Pearsie’….but four years later died, unmarried, at Bluecastle, in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica. - W.B. p. 342) - Henry Scrymgeour returned from Jamaica in 1790-91 and m. Mary Turner Maitland (e.d. of Capt. the Hon. Frederick Lewis Maitland, R.N., sixth s. of Charles, 6th Earl of Lauderdale) in 1793 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 179-80) - [There is no mention in either the W.B. or Burke’s Peerage (Dundee) that Henry had been married previously, but the Will of his cousin, James Wedderburn (b. 1751, d. 1797 in Jamaica) indicates that he had a wife (and children) while he was living in Jamaica. (In a Codicil, written in 1792, James also left legacies, ‘in the event of his marriage’, to Henry’s eldest son and eldest daughter - on the rather curious ‘express condition’ that Henry should marry within three years of the date of the Codicil ‘C’ - i.e. by 30 April 1795.)] - Henry & Mary had 4 sons & 8 daughters, of whom only one of the sons, the youngest, Frederick (b. 1808, q.v.) survived, and only one of the daughters, the 7th, Mathilda (b. 1803, q.v.), had children. - Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn died on 20/12/1841.
1757
David Wedderburn [‘Webster’ from 1789], 4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708 ] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], was b. 15/8/1757 & bap. 25/8/1757 at Kingoldrum. David went to London in 1772 (not ‘c1780’ as shown in the W.B. - viz. his letter dated 8th Feb. 1775) to work for his step-uncles, the Webster brothers, at their East & West India House, ‘Webster & Co.’, at 35, Leadenhall Street. (W.B. p. 322, footnote 5) - He m. Elizabeth Read at Dundee in 1785 (q.v.). - In 1789, in compliance with the terms of the Will of his step-uncle James Webster (dated 14th Nov. 1789) David “assumed for himself and his issue the surname and arms of Webster in lieu of Wedderburn, obtaining to that end a Royal License dated 15 Jan. 1790”, and became a senior partner in the firm, which, in 1796, became‘Wedderburn, Webster & Co.’. - [In July 1789, David’s cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1743, 2nd but elder surv. s. of Thomas W. ‘of Cantra’ - brother of the executed Sir John W., 5th Bt, of Blackness & of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’) had returned from Jamaica, after living there for more than 25 years, and joined David as a partner in the family firm. - David & ‘Eliza’ had 3 sons & 2 daughters (the youngest son being born shortly after David’s death). - The children were at first known as ‘Webster-Wedderburn’ but later as ‘Wedderburn-Webster’. - David died at Bath on 21/3/1801, of a ‘decline’, after which his cousin John was the senior partner. - David’s Will, written in Feb. 1801 (as ‘David Webster’), was proved in London in May 1801. (It is mentioned on W.B. p. 442) - David’s widow, Elizabeth, m. ii) in 1802, Robert Douglas (s. of Wm. Douglas of Brigton).
1758
David Wedderburn was indentured as apprentice to Jacob Atkinson of Maryhill, London, atty (?attorney), in 1758, for £50. [David may be the 7th & ygst. s. of (Sir) John Wedderburn, b. 1704 (5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744, executed 1746) & Jean Fullerton, who was born c1740-44.]
1760
Joseph Weatherbond (sic) [unidentified] m. Anne Gould at St. Thomas’s, Portsmouth, on 23/1/1760.
1761
Catherine Weatherburn [unidentified] & William Bird, both of this parish, were married by Banns at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, City of London, on 8/2/1761, in the presence of Daniel Bird & Mary Bates. (Both signed the Register.)
1762
Robert Wedderburn, [3rd] s. of ‘Rosanna’ [‘a slave belonging to a Lady Douglas in Jamaica’ - W.B. p. 506] & [acc. to Robert’s own account in his pamphlet “The Horrors of Slavery”] James Wedderburn [b. 1730 in Dundee, then living at ‘Bluecastle’, Jamaica (& afterwards of ‘Inveresk Lodge’, Midlothian)], was b. c1762 in Jamaica. - “Robert came to London and worked as a tailor but later became known as the ‘Black Preacher’. He was a man apparently of considerable talent but on Wednesday 10th May 1820 he was sentenced by the Court of King’s Bench to 2 years imprisonment in Dorchester Gaol for uttering blasphemy at a chapel in Berwick St. [off the Strand], wherein he was a licensed Unitarian preacher”. (Gentlemen’s Magazine, 1820, p. 465) - (W.B. p. 506) - [His Prison Record (obtained from Dorset County Record Office) shows that Robert was taken to prison at Dorchester on 16/5/1820. It describes him as ‘aged 57, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, but belonging to St. James’ parish, London, a tailor, married with 6 children’. (In the W.B. only two sons are shown.) - “He was 5 ft. 5ins. tall, with black and grey hair, black eyes and a very dark complexion. A man of colour, broad nostrils, a cut on the left side of the forehead, a slight cut across the bridge of the nose. Lusty”. - Robert was released from Dorchester on 11th May 1822, having “entered into recognizance at the County Hall Dorchester before C.B. Wollaston, Esq., ‘as also see Mr. Maule’s Letter annexed to Warrant of Commitment’, of two securities of £25 each. - His behaviour while in prison was orderly”. (Dorchester Gaol Records, Dorset CRO) - While in prison, Robert was visited by William Wilberforce, to whom the pamphlet he wrote in 1824, entitled “The Horrors of Slavery” is dedicated. It includes letters written to the editor of a Sunday newspaper, “Bell’s Life in London” (pub. March 1822-29 May 1886) by both Robert and Andrew Colvile (James Wedderburn of Inveresk’s eldest surv. legitimate son - see 1779), in an acrimonious exchange which had appeared earlier that year. - ‘A.W.’ states that he ‘had not been able to ascertain whom Robert had married’ but the m. register of St. Katharine Creechurch, London, shows that Robert m. Elizabeth Ryan in 1781 (q.v.). - [Robert’s pamphlet can be read in “The Horrors of Slavery & Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn”, Edited & Introduced by Prof. Iain McCalman (& pub. 1991 by Markus Weiner Publishing of New York & Princetown) & in “The Axe Laid to the Root, The Story of Robert Wedderburn” by Martin Hoyles (pub. 2002 by Hansib Publications).]
1763
Jane Wedderburn [unidentified] m. John Penton at St. Thomas’s, Portsmouth, on 11/1/1763.
1763
Ann Weatherburn [unidentified] m. Charles Farlow at St. Mary’s, Portsea, on 1/11/1763.
1764
Margaret Weatherburn [unidentified] & Richard Fligs, both of this parish, were married by Banns at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, City of London, on 5/1/1764. (Both signed the Register)
1764
Thomas Wedderburn [unidentified], Bachelor, & Eleanor Reid, Spinster, both of this parish, were m. at St. Marylebone, Westminster, on 29/2/1764, in the presence of James Reid & Sarah Clark.
1765
Peter Halkett [6th Bt. of Gosford in 1837], 2nd s. of Sir John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’ (b. 1720), 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. 16/10/1765 & bap. at Dunfermline. - Peter joined the navy and was a Captain in 1802. - He m. Elizabeth Todd [a sister of the first wife of his brother, John Halkett - see 1768] at Edinburgh in 1802. - “At the time of his marriage, and in 1809, Peter was in command of H.M.S. Ganges, and residing at Catherington Hall, co. Hants., where he still was in 1814”. [He and Elizabeth had a son & 2 daughters. - Their granddaughter (e.d. of their e.d. Jane Margaret Halkett, b. 1806, & her husband Capt. Richard Kirwan Hill of the family of St. Columbs, co. Londonderry, Ireland) m. her cousin Sir (Peter) Arthur Halkett, 8th (and last) Bt. of Gosford (b. 1834, q.v.).] - After various promotions (and honours), Peter succeeded Admiral Sir George Cockburn as commander-in-chief on the West India and Halifax station on 6/12/1835, and on 10/1/1837 he was appointed Admiral of the Blue. On the death of his brother Charles (b. 1764), on 26/1/1837, he succeeded him as 6th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir Peter Halkett died on 7/10/1839 & was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. He was succeeded as 7th Bt. of Gosford by his only son [Sir] John Halkett (b. 1805, q.v). -
1766
Phillis Weatherburn [unidentified] m. William Patterson at St. Laurence Pountney, London, on 21/1/1766.
1767
Margaret Wedderburn, d. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth [?Eleanor, m. 1764], bap. 6/3/1767 at Wells Street Scotch Church, St. Marylebone, London.
1767
James Wedderburn [?brother of Robert Wedderburn-the-Black Preacher (b. c1762, q.v.)], bap. 2/12/1767 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.
1768
John Halkett [said to be] 3rd s. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’ (b. 1720), 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. 27/2/1768 at Pitfirrane & baptized next day at Dunfermline. - John warrants a separate chapter in the W.B. (Part IV, Chapter II, Sect. I)] - ‘A.W.’ writes: “The statements in this chapter, where not otherwise vouched for, are made on the authority of John Halkett’s two surviving grandchildren, Mrs. M.K. Robertson and Miss K.E. Halkett”. (W.B. p. 392, footnote¹) - “There is a letter from his father to Alexander Scrymgeour-Wedderburn about his education, dated 27/10/1787 but I have not ascertained where he was educated. He was admitted an advocate in Edinburgh on 8/8/1789, the entry describing him as third lawful son of Sir John Halkett of Pitfirrane and presumably he practised for a time. He was for some years, 1797-1801, secretary of presentations to his cousin, Lord Loughborough, then Lord Chancellor, and, in 1801 (Dec. 5), he was appointed Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands and later, 1803 (Oct. 27) was also Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Island of Tobago. Later on, he was for many years chief commissioner for West India accounts, and was living in London in 1819, when he supplied some of the information as to this branch of the family for the Memoir which J.W. was then preparing for the press”. - John Halkett m. i) Anna Todd [eldest d. of William Todd of Millhill, whose younger sister m. John Halkett’s elder brother, Peter] c1794. [They had no children.] - He m. ii) his first cousin, Lady Katherine Douglas [d. of Dunbar, 4th Earl of Selkirk, & Helen, d. of the Hon. John Hamilton, 2nd s. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington, & sister of John Halkett’s mother (see W.B. p. 388)] at Sydenham, Kent, on, 6/7/1815 (q.v.). - [John & Lady Katharine had 5 sons.] - Lady Katharine died on 31/3/1848, aged 69, and was buried at Petersham, Surrey. - John Halkett, Esq., of the Albany, died at Brighton, Sussex, on 12/11/1852, and was buried with his wife. [John’s Will & Codicil (q.v.) was proved in London on 30/11/1852.]
1770
Henry Halkett, 4th s. of Sir John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’ (b. 1720), 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. in April 1770 at Pitfirrane, Fifeshire, & bap. at Dunfermline. - “Henry entered the military service of the East India Company, where he rose to the rank of captain. - He died, unmarried, on 22/8/1818, in Cecil Street, London.
1770
Sarah Weatherbourne [unidentified] was buried at St. Peter, Woolhampton, Berks., on 9/12/1770.
1773
Alles Weatherburn [unidentified] married John Elder, both of this parish, at St. Paul’s Shadwell, Middlx., by Banns on 27/3/1773. (Both signed the Register.)
1773
Elizabeth Susanna Wedderburn, e.d. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica, & from 1789 a partner in Wedderburn & Co., in Leadenhall St., London], was b. on 31/12/1773 at Bluecastle, Jamaica. [See baptism of ‘Susanna’ Wedderburn in 1785.] - Elizabeth moved to London with her parents & 3 younger siblings in 1789. - She m. her second cousin Andrew Wedderburn (b. 1779 - Colvile from 1814) on 27/12/1802 but died s.p. at Inveresk, Midlothian, a year later, on 22/12/1802, and was there buried. [Andrew m. ii) the Hon. Louisa Mary Eden in 1806 (q.v.), and had a large family. ]
1773
Mary Weatherburne [unidentified] m. Robert Armstrong at All Hallows the Great, London, on 11/4/1773.
1774
Thomas Wedderburn [unidentified - but see death entry for Thomas Wedderburn in 1810 ] m. Dorothy Forster at St. Mary’s, Marylebone Road, St. Marylebone, on 5/6/1774. [This church was much favoured by the ‘posh’ Wedderburns!] - Dorothy Wedderburn [an adult], was buried on 13/5/1810 at St. Marylebone, Westminster. A Thomas Wedderburn was buried there on 8/4/1813, aged 73. (LMA) - [His funeral cost £2:4s - the third most expensive burial in a list of 37 which took place at St. Marylebone that week.]
1776
Ruth House, d. of Thomas & Ruth House, bap. 26/4/1776 at Thurloxton, Somerset. (Baptismal Reg.) - [Ruth had two older brothers, Thomas Major House (bap. 26/1/1773) & James House (bap. 11/5/1774 - who must have died young), and two younger brothers, Charles House (bap. 16/4/1778) & James House (bap. 9/2/1780).] - Ruth m. Alexander Weatherburn [b. 1782 at Berwick on Tweed, 2nd s. of William Weatherburn, Customs’ Officer, b. c1752 - & Margaret (?Nesbit - m. not found)] at S. Mary Abbots, Kensington, on 30/9/1804 (q.v.). - [They had a son & 5 daughters.] - Following the baptism of the eldest dau. in 1805, Alexander changed the spelling of his surname to Wedderburn. - Ruth Wedderburn died at 1 Cleveland Rd. Islington, on 2/5/1860, aged 84. (Gentlemen’s Magazine, vol. viii, p. 643)
1776
Ann Weatherburn, d. of Robert W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth ---, bap. 16/9/1776 at St. Anne’s, Soho, Westminster. [Is Ann an ‘ante-nuptial’ child of Robert Wedderburn & Elizabeth Ryan, who were m. in 1781 (q.v.)?]
1776
‘On Monday evening (30/9/1776) died of a lingering Decline, at her father’s home in Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, Miss Weatherburn, daughter of Nathaniel Weatherburn Esq., Gentleman, who, with his family, arrived from Barbadoes about two months since, a young lady aged 25’. (‘Public Advertiser, 3/10/1776)
1776
John Weatherbourn (sic), s. of Jno. W. [unidentified] & Ann Crap, bap. 1/12/1776 at St. Mary’s, Marylebone Road, St. Marylebone. - [This church was much favoured by the ‘posh’ Wedderburns!]
1777
Mary Wedderburn [probably the Mary ‘Weatherbourne’ bap. at Bray, Berkshire, in 1755, q.v.] m. Joseph Ladgrove at Cookham on 14/8/1777.
1777
Charlotte Wedderburn, d. of Mary W. [?Mary in preceding entry], bap. 24/8/1777 at Cookham. Charlotte Widderburn (sic) was buried at Holy Trinity, Cookham, Berks., on 14/10/1777.
1779
William Wetherburne was b. in July/Aug. 1779 at ‘Netherbanchray’, Aberdeenshire (acc. to his army record in the National Archives at Kew - but in 1780, at Upper Banchory, Kincard-ineshire, acc. to the account on W.B. p. 489.). - When he joined the 21st Foot Regt. at Dundee, in Jan. 1797, William was aged 17 yrs. & 5mths. - The spelling of his surname was changed to ‘Wedderburne’ sshortly before his transfer to the newly-formed Experimental Rifle Corps (afterwards the 95th Foot Rgt.), as a Serjeant in Jan. 1801. While he was ‘drilling volunteers at Norwich’ in 1804, Sjt. Wm. Weddeburn (sic) wrote a ‘drill-book’: “Observations on the Exercise of Riflemen and on the Movements of Light Troops in General”. (It was printed by Stevenson & Matchett in Norwich and sold by Scatcherd & Letterman, Ave Maria Lane, London’, for 1/- a copy. - The booklet is on display at the Royal Green Jackets’ Museum in Winchester.) - William Wedderburn m. Hannah Miller (by licence) at Cambridge in 1805 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & a daughter.] - William, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, died at 28 Marsham St., Westminster, on 6/6/1843, aged 63. - He was buried at St. John the Evangelist Church, Westminster, on 12/6/1843. - His widow Hannah died at her son Christopher’s home in Ashford, Kent, on 3/2/1878, aged 97. - She is buried in a tomb at Ashford Cemetery with Christopher (b. 1813, d. 1882), who was Stationmaster at Ashford for many years, and Christopher’s daughter Mary (b. 1840, d. 1883). - [A brief account of William W. ‘b. 1780 (sic) and his descendants in London & in Kent’ is given on W.B. pp. 489-90 but it is not very accurate. ]
1779
Andrew Wedderburn [‘Colvile’ from 1814], e. surv. [legitimate] s. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’, Midlothian [b. 1730, 2nd s. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness, b. 1704 , executed 1746] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. 6/11/1779 at Inveresk [Midlothian]. - “In 1796, Andrew went to London and c1798 became a salaried partner in the East & West India House of Wedderburn, Webster & Co. (originally ‘Webster & Co.’) at 35 Leadenhall St. - He m. i) in 1802 ‘probably at Clapham’, his second cousin, Elizabeth Susannah Wedderburn [b. 1773 in Jamaica], who died a year later. - By 1803 he was a regular member of the family firm, by now called ‘Wedderburn & Co.’. - Andrew m. ii) the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [b. 1788 in Spain] in 1806 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 12 daughters.] - In 1808 Andrew sold ‘Inveresk Lodge’ (which he had inherited on the death of his father in 1807) to his cousin Col. Alexander W. (b. 1791, d. 1839), for Alexander’s two unm. sisters, Maria (b. 1785) & Susan (b 1785) to live there. - In 1814, on inheriting the estate of ‘Craigflower’ (originally called ‘Crombie’) in Fife from his maternal grandmother, Margaret Aytoun (wife of Andrew Blackburn, and dau. of the Hon. Margaret Colvile, elder sister & co-heiress of Robert, the 3rd and last Lord Colvile of Ochiltree), Andrew “assumed the surname and arms of Colvile in lieu of Wedderburn”. (His father James had earlier assumed the additional name of Colvile.) - In 1815 the firm became Wedderburn, Colvile & Co. and in 1820, on the death of the senior partner, John W. (b. 1743, formerly of “Spring Garden” Jamaica - Andrew’s father’s cousin & father of Andrew’s first wife), the firm became “Colvile, Wedderburn & Co.”. - In 1836 Andrew was Chairman of the West India Dock Company, and in that capacity he attended the inaugural Meeting of the Directors of the South Eastern Railway Company. (RAIL records at the PRO at Kew) - Andrew died in London on 3/2//1856 & was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Brompton. - His widow died on 2/12/1858 and was buried with her husband. (W.B. p. 308 & pp. 441-48) - [There are references to her cousins the Colviles in London “Jemima, the Memoirs of a Victorian Artist”, edited by Robert Fairley & pub. by Canongate in 1988..]
1780 Elizabeth Weatherburn, Spinster, & Thomas Thorn, Bachelor, of the same parish, m. at St. George’s in the East, Tower Hamlets, by Licence, on 31/12/1780. (Both ‘made their mark)
1781
Ann Weatherburn [unidentified] m. Solomon Ranger at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, on 6/9/1781.
1781
Robert Wedderburn [b. c1762 (q.v.) in Jamaica, known in London as ‘the Black Preacher’] m. Elizabeth Ryan at St. Katherine Creechurch, London, on 5/11/1781. (Parish records, Guildhall, London.) -They had 4 sons & (probably) 3 daughters (not just two sons, as is shown on W.B. p. 507): Katherine Wedderburn (d. 1782); twins Elizabeth & Robert ‘Wetherburn’ (b. 1786); Maria ‘Weatherbourne’ (b. 1790); George ‘Weatherbourne’ (b. 1791); & Jabez (see 1798) & Jacob (see 1806). - [When Robert was tried for ‘uttering blasphemy’ at his Hopkins Street Chapel in 1820, the prosecutor was the Attorney-General for England. At that time the Attorney-General for Scotland was James Wedderburn of Inveresk’s youngest (legitimate) son, James Wedderburn (b. 1782, d. 1823 - father of artist Jemima, b. 1823, after her father’s demise), i.e. Robert’s half-brother!] - Robert died in London c1835 (date not known).
1781
Elizabeth Weatherburn m. Thomas Thorn at Tower Hamlets, Middlx., on 31/12/1781. - [She may be the Elizaberth Weatherburn ‘of Portman Square, who was buried at St. James, Piccadilly, Westminster on 16/11/1823, aged 80.]
1782
Katherine Wedderburn [?e. or 2nd d. (see Ann Weatherburn b. 1776) of Robert W., ‘the Black Preacher’ (b. c1762 in Jamaica) & Elizabeth Ryan (m. 1781)] was buried at St. Katharine’s Collegiate Church, City of London, on 17/2/1782, aged 5 mths.
1782
John Wedderburn [b. 1743 (q.v.), 2nd s. of Thomas W. ‘of Cantra’, Collector of Excise in Inverness, b. 1710, & Katharine Dunbar (m. 1740)] m. Mary Wisdom Bedward [b. 1/6/1764 at Ridgeland, co. Cornwall, Jamaica, dau. & heiress of George Bedward of “Spring Garden”, co. Westmoreland, Jamaica] ‘probably’ in Jamaica, on 27/5/1782. (W.B. pp. 343-45) - They had 2 sons & 4 daughters: Elizabeth Susanna (apparently b. 1773 in Jamaica, bap. there1785); Mary (b. 1786 in Jamaica); James (b. there 1788); Catherine Georgina (b. 1791 in London); Thomasina (b. there 1793, d. 1806); & John (b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey). - John died at Chigwell, Essex, on 29/12/1820, leaving in his Will (proved in Feb. 1821) a legacy to ‘John Wedderburn, a free mulatto planter in Jamaica’. In a codicil, he stated that any other beneficiary who objected to the terms of the Will would forfeit their inheritance! - After her husband’s death, Mary Wisdom Wedderburn, lived at Queen Anne St. London. - She died at Abele Grove, Epsom, Surrey, on 17/3/1835. (W.B. p. 345, footnote ²) - [John & Mary are the great-grandparents of Alexander Wedderburn, Q.C. (b. 7/8/1854, q.v.), author of the “Wedderburn Book” published in 1898. ]
1782
Alexander Weatherburn, [2nd] s. of William W. [Customs’ Officer, b. c1752] & Margaret --- [?Nesbit - m. not found], bap. 2/6/1782 at Berwick upon Tweed. [On W.B. pp. 507-8 there is an account of ‘Alexander Wedderburn of Exeter, b. 1782’, in which it is stated that ‘his parentage has not been identified, although he is said to have had some brothers in Berwick, now all deceased’. - However, the Will of William & Margaret’s ygst. s. William (b. c1797, d. 1870), names Alexander’s daughters, proving that he is Alexander Weatherburn bap. 1782.] - Alexander was admitted a Freeman of B-on-T on 28/10/1803 as ‘e.s. of William’ (William’s first-born son, William b. 1780, died in 1788). The ‘Burgess Roll’ of 1806 shows that Alexander was then a Saddler in London. (His younger brother John, bap. 1784, was then a ‘Smith’ in London.) - Alexander Weatherburn m. Ruth House (bap. at Thurloxton, Somerset, 26/4/1776, q.v.) at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, on 30/9/1804 (q.v.). - [They had a son & 5 daughters.] - Alexander Wedderburn died at Exeter on 3/2/1853. (Admon. of his estate was granted on 28/2/1853. - See his Will.) - “Alexander Wedderburn, who died at Exeter on 16 February (sic) 1853, aged 71, was for nearly half-a-century in the service of H.M. General Post Office, the last thirty-five years of which as Inspector of Mail Coaches in the western district”. - His widow Ruth Wedderburn died at 1 Cleveland Rd. Islington, on 2/5/1860, aged 84.
1782
Alexander Wedderburn [b. 1733 in Edinburgh,Lord Loughborough (1780), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1793) & 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1801), e.s. of Peter W., Lord (Justice) Chesterhall, & Janet Ogilvy (m. c1732)] m. ii) on 12/9/1782, the Hon. Charlotte Courtenay [5th d. of William, first Viscount Courtenay of Powderham, Devonshire]. - They had a son [‘b. 2/10/1793 - name unknown - who died the following year’]. - The Earl died on 2/1/1805, and was buried at St. Paul’s Cathedral. - His heir was James Erskine, the elder s. of his sister Janet (b. 1736) and her husband, Lieut-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine of Alva, Bt. (W.B. p. 402-6) - [James Erskine (b. 1762), had succeeded his father in the baronetcy of Alva in 1765 and in 1769 he took the additional name of ‘St. Clair’ before that of Erskine. On succeeding to the Earldom of Rosslyn, he obtained a further licence, on 14/2/1805, to quarter the arms of Wedderburn with his own. He died on 17/1/1837, leaving two sons. - W.B. p. 406, footnote 4] - “Wedderburn House, at Harrogate, which Alexander had built about 1775, was sold by his successor, the 2nd Earl, and in 1858 belonged to a Mr. Weatherburn of Leeds”.
1782
Ralp (sic) Weatherbourne [unidentified] m. Elizabeth Cason at St. Thomas’s, Portsmouth, on 2/12/1782.
1783
John Wedderburn [b. 27/2/1771 in Scotland, e.s. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’, b. 1729 (e. surv. s. of the executed Sir John W.)] & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy, died on 22/6/1783 at Clapham, Surrey, at the home of Sir John’s cousin, David Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1757, afterwards ‘Webster’), who worked for ‘Webster & Co.’, in Leadenhall St., London. (W.B. p. 293) [John was buried on 28/6/1783 at oly Trinity, Clapham.
1785
Susanna Wedderburn, ‘d. of John & Mary W.’, bap. 1 Jim (sic) 1785 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 5) - This would seem to be the baptism of Elizabeth Susanna, e.d. of “Spring Garden” John W. (b. 1743 at Forres, Morayshire), whose birth is shown, in John’s own writing in the Prayer Book given to him by his father, as “E.S.W. born 31st December 1773 at half-past 9 o’clock at night”. (John m. Mary Wisdom Bedward - b. 1/6/1764 - in Jamaica on 27/5/1782. - The full names of John & Mary’s next 3 children follow this entry.)] - Elizabeth Susanna m. her second cousin Andrew Wedderburn (b. 1779 - ‘ Colvile’ from 1814) on 27/12/1802, “probably at Clapham, Surrey”. Elizabeth died at Inveresk just a year later, on 23/12/1803.
1785
Mary Wetherburn (sic) [unidentified] m. John Carter at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 11/12/1785.
1785
David Wedderburn [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1757 in Scotland - ‘Webster’ from 1790] m. Elizabeth Read [only d. of Alexander Read ‘of Logie’ & Anne Fletcher - W.B. p. 326] at Dundee on 26/12/1785. (W.B. p. 329) - [Alexander Read ‘of Logie’ was the e.s. of Alexander Read ‘of Turfbeg’, Forfarshire, & Elizabeth Wedderburn (b. 1699, e.d. of Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness, & Katharine Scott - whose 6th daughter, Katharine, b. 1715, m. David Scrymgeour of Birkhill, Fife, in 1739. - W.B. p. 262, footnote ³, & p. 263)] - In 1772 (not ‘about 1780’, as it says in the W.B.) David had gone to London to work for his step-uncles, the Webster brothers, in their ‘East & West India House’ at 35 Leadenhall St. - He completed his 5-year apprenticeship as a Clerk in Sept. 1787. [See a number of letters written by David (found in the Dundee City Archives).] - He & Elizabeth had 3 sons & 2 daughters: James (b. 1788); Anne (b. 1791); Mary (b. 1793); Charles (b. 1799) & David (b. 10/8/1801 - a few months after his father’s death - who died at Brigton, Angus, in 1816). - On 3/2/1789, James Graham (b. 1774), ‘s. of James Graham’ (husband of David’s e. sister Elizabeth and therefore David’s nephew), was ‘apprenticed to David Wedderburn’. (Ironmongers’ Company records) - [James, later known as James Graham Webster, died in 1841.] - In accordance with the terms of the Will of David’s uncle James Webster, dated 14th November 1789, David, by Royal Sign Manual of 13th January 1790, ‘assumed for himself and his issue the surname and arms of Webster in lieu of Wedderburn’ and became a partner in ‘Webster Wedderburn & Co.’. - His children were known at first as Webster-Wedderburns but later became Wedderburn-Websters.] - David’s cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1743 at Forres, Inverness-shire) returned from Jamaica in 1789 and joined the firm in London. Either David or John (it is not clear which) then became the senior partner. - [In his Will, James Webster appointed his brother John Webster, of Old Fish Street, Distiller, and David & John Wedderburn, of Leadenhall Street, Merchants, as his Executors, and bequeathed substantial legacies to them and other members of the Wedderburn family.] - David Webster died at Bath on 21/3/1801, aged 43, leaving a Will (q.v.). - He was buried at Bath Abbey. - [From then, until his death in 1820, John Wedderburn was the senior partner of Webster, Wedderburn & Co.] - David’s widow Elizabeth m. ii) in June 1802, Robert Douglas (s. of William Douglas of Brigton & Elizabeth Graham), by whom she had (at least) one s. William Douglas. - Elizabeth died on 9/9/1857 at Carbat House, Broughty Ferry.
1786
Elizabeth Wetherburn (sic) [twin with Robert, below], [?e.] d. of Robert W. [the ‘Black Preacher’, b. c1762 in Jamaica] & Elizabeth Ryan [m. 1781], bap. 27/7/1786 at Holborn Lying-in-Hospital, Endell Street. - Elizabeth was recommended to the hospital by the Duchess of Montrose. Robert was said to be aged 33. (‘Debrett’s’ research document No. 2, p. 4) - [Robert’s age differs in various records, i.e. in 1820 he was said to be 57.] - The family surname of the Dukes of Montrose was Graham. [Is it significant that James W. of Inveresk’s children by Esther Trotter were ‘brought up as Grahams’?] “In 1731, his grace, then Lord William Graham, succeeded his elder brother in the British Peerage of Earl and Baron Graham of Belford. He also then became, by courtesy, marquis of Graham, as heir to the dukedom.... On his father's death in 1742 he became 2nd Duke of Montrose.....He died on 23 Sept. 1790. By his duchess, Lady Lucy Manners, youngest daughter of John, 2nd Duke of Rutland, he had two sons and a daughter, Lady Lucy Graham, who married the 1st Lord Douglas of Douglas. The elder son died at birth. The younger son, James, b. 1755, became president of the Board of Trade in 1784, and joint postmaster-general the same year..... In 1795 he was appointed lord-justice-general of Scotland. (From “The Scottish Nation”, by William Anderson, pub. 1860 by A. Fullerton & Co.)
1786
Robert Wetherburn (sic) [twin with Elizabeth above (q.v.)], [e.] s. of Robert W. [the ‘Black Preacher’, b. c1762 in Jamaica] & Elizabeth Ryan [m. 1781], bap. 27/7/1786 at Holborn Lying-in-Hospital, Endell Street. [Is the Robert Wedderburn, Tailor, of 3 New Compton Street, who had a son Jacob bap. on 14/1/1822 (q.v.) this son?]
1786
Mary Wedderburn, 2nd d. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica, & from 1789 a partner in ‘Wedderburn & Co.’, in Leadenhall St., London] but e.d. by his wife, Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], was b. 2/8/1786 at Bluecastle, Jamaica. - Mary moved to London with her parents and older sister & younger brother in 1789. She m. the Rev. John Wellings (chaplain to Jean, née Wedderburn, Countess of Selkirk) in 1817 (q.v.). - [They had a daughter.] - Mary Wellings died at Richmond, Portobello, Edinburgh, on 6/4/1858. (W.B. p. 347 - although according to the Times newspaper, ‘the wife of John Wellings died at her father’s house, 12 Devonshire St., Portland Place, London, on 27/12/1818’!)
1788
James Wedderburn [afterwards Webster-Wedderburn & in 1821 Sir James Wedderburn-Webster], e.s. of David Wedderburn [b. 1757 - ‘Webster’ from 1790] & Elizabeth Read [m. 1785 in Dundee], was b. 31/5/1788 at Clapham (Lambeth), Surrey, & bap. there 18/6/1788. - James m. Lady Frances Annesley in 1810 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & a daughter.] - In 1819 James reversed his ‘Webster’ and ‘Wedderburn’ surnames. - He was knighted in 1821. - Sir James W-W died suddenly in Dublin on 17/8/1840. (W.B. p. 332) - [See Obituary from ‘The Times.] - Administration of the goods of Sir James Webster Wedderburn, knight, was granted on 6/11/1840 to Lucy Sarah Ann Bishop ‘one of the natural and lawful children of the deceased’.
1788
James Wedderburn, elder s. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica, & from 1789 a partner in Wedderburn & Co., in Leadenhall St., London] & Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], was b. 2/6/1788 at Bluecastle, Jamaica. - James moved to London with his parents and two older sisters in 1789. On the death of his uncle James Wedderburn [b. 1751, in Scotland, d. 1797 in Jamaica], young James inherited the ‘Mint’ estate in Jamaica and a ‘vast fortune’. (Uncle James ‘was never married’ - but see his Will.) - James became a partner in the family firm of Wedderburn & Co. in London. - He m. Isabella Lyon [2nd d. of David Lyon of Portland Place, London, & Jamaica] in 1817 (q.v.). - [They had an only child, John Kellerman Wedderburn (b. 1818).] - On his father’s death, in 1820, James succeeded to the ‘Spring Garden’ estate and other property in Jamaica. - He retired from Wedderburn & Co. in 1830 & died at 8 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London, on 23/4/1831, aged 42. He was buried at St. James, Piccadilly, Westminster, on 30/4/1831. - His son, John Kellerman W., was his heir. - James’s widow Isabella remarried in 1836 (q.v.).
1789
John Wedderburn [2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858], 2nd [but e. surv.] s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729 in Dundee] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], bap. 1/5/1789 at Inchture. “John entered the Indian Civil Service and went out to Bombay in 1807. He held a number of important posts there during the following 30 years. - He m. Henrietta Louisa Milburn [only surviving child of William Milburn of the East India Company] at St. Thomas’s Church, Bombay, on 7/9/1822. - [They had 4 sons & 5 daughters, of whom 3 sons & 4 daughters survived infancy. Their 2nd (but e. surv.) son, John, b. 1825, was killed, with his wife and child, in the Indian Mutiny of 1857.] - John retired on 1/5/1837 and returned home with his wife and surviving children. They lived for many years at Keith House, co. Haddington, spending the spring of each year at ‘Meredith’, near Tibberton, Gloucestershire (which his wife had inherited from a maternal uncle of that name). - When his half-brother, Sir David Wedderburn (b. 1775), died on 7/4/1858, without surviving issue, John succeeded him as 2nd Bt. of Balindean. - Sir John died only four years later, on 2/7/1862, at 4 Chichester Terrace, Brighton, where he had been visiting a friend, Mr. George Ashburner (who was one of the executors of Sir John’s Will. - See ‘Ashburner.doc’) - He was succeeded as 3rd Bt. of Balindean by his 3rd son, David (b. 1835, at Bombay), who died, unm., on 18/9/1882, at Inveresk Lodge, Midlothian. - [Sir David was succeeded as 4th Bt. by his younger brother, William (b. 1838 in Edinburgh).] - Lady Wedderburn died in London in 1881 (q.v.).
1790
Maria Weatherbourn (sic), [?2nd] d. of Robert W. [‘the Black Preacher’, b. c1762 in Jamaica] & Elizabeth Ryan [m. 1781], bap. 31/3/1790 at St. Katherine Creechurch, London. [Not shown in the W.B., but Robert’s prison-record from Dorchester Gaol in 1820 shows that he had 6 children, not just 2 sons, as is shown in the W.B.]
1791
George Weatherbourne (sic), [2nd] s. of Robert W. [‘the Black Preacher’, b. c1762 in Jamaica] & Elizabeth Ryan [m. 1781], bap. 1/7/1791 at St. Katherine Creechurch, London. [Not shown in the W.B., but Robert’s prison-record from Dorchester Gaol in 1820 shows that he had 6 children, not just 2 sons (Jabez & Jacob) as is shown in the W.B.]
1791
Catherine Georgina Wedderburn, 3rd d. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica - by now a partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co. in Leadenhall St., London] but 2nd d. by his wife, Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], was b. 1/2/1791 & bap. as ‘Katharine Georgiana’ on 16/3/1791 at Percy Chapel (St. Pancras’ Old Church), London. - Catherine m. Patrick Stirling ‘of Kippendavie’ in 1810 (q.v.). - [They had a son & 2 daus. - The son m. his cousin, the only child of Mary Wedderburn, b. 1786, & her husband, the Rev. John Wellings.]
1791
Ann ‘Webster or Wedderburn’, elder d. of David W. [b. 1757, ‘Webster’ since 1790 (when he became senior partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co.)] & Elizabeth Read [m. 1785 in Dundee], was b. 2/3/1791 at Clapham, Surrey, & bap. at St. Andrew’s Undershaft, off Leadenhall Street, on 12/4/1791. - Ann m. Archibald Murray Douglas [b. 17/6/1790, a Captain in the 52nd Regt., s. of Robert Douglas of Brigton, Douglastown, Forfarshire, & Elizabeth Graham - & brother of Robert Douglas, her mother’s 2nd husband] at Aston Hall (now a small country house hotel), Aston, Yorks., on 6/8/1814. (They had 5 children: Eliza Frances, b. 10/5/1815; William David; Mary; Ann & Margaret. - William, Ann & Margaret did not marry but Eliza Frances Douglas m. twice: i) Alexander Hill, who became a Customs Officer & d. in 1843, & ii) Alexander Smith Black. - Eliza & her second husband emigrated to Brisbane, Australia, in 1849 but they lived mainly in Murrurundi and Armidale, NSW. - Some of her children by her first husband settled in NZ. - Mary Douglas m. James Cox & had 8 surviving daughters.) - Ann died at Dundee in July 1822 & Archibald Douglas died on 6/2/1872. (W.B. p. 330) - [Additional info. received Nov. 2003 from Graeme Stanton of Wellington, NZ - a g.g. grandson of Eliza Frances (d. 13/4/1866 at Armidale, NSW) & her first husband Alexander Hill.]
1792
William Wedderburn, bachelor [unidentified] m. Martha Crompton, widow, by Licence, at St. Bartholomew the Great, London - both of this parish - on 12/5/1792.
1793
Henry Scrymgeour [Scrymgeour-Wedderburn ‘ of Wedderburn & Birkhill’ in 1811, b. 1755 (q.v.), 4th & ygst. s. of David Scrymgeour & Katharine Wedderburn (6th d. of Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness, & Katharine Scott)] m. Mary Turner Maitland [e.d. of Capt. the Hon. Frederick Lewis Maitland, R.N. (sixth s. of Charles, 6th Earl of Lauderdale)] in Edinburgh on 5/4/1793. - Henry & Mary had 4 sons & 8 daughters, of whom only one of the sons, Frederick (b. 1808), survived, and only one of the daughters, Mathilda (b. 1803) had surviving children. (W.B. p. 182) - Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn died at Edinburgh on 20/12/1841 & his widow Mary died at Balmerino on 21/10/1851.
1793
Mary ‘Webster or Wedderburn’, younger d. of David W. [b. 1757, ‘Webster’ since 1790 (when he became senior partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co.)] & Elizabeth Read [m. 1785 in Dundee], was b. 15/9/1793 at Clapham, Surrey, & bap. there on 29/10/1792. - Mary m. George Hawkins [3rd s. of John Hawkins & Ann Colbourne of Harnish House, Wilts. & grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bt., of Kelston, Somserset] in Brussels, Belgium, on 25/3/1815. - “Both were living in 1856 but had no issue”. (W.B. p. 330) - [‘Harnish’ is the pronunciation of ‘Hardenhuish’, nr. Chippenham - now a school. - Mary Hawkins died in 1863. ]
1793
Thomasina Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. d. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica - by now a partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co. in Leadenhall St., London] but 3rd d. by his wife, Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], was b. 19/9/1793 & bap. 14/11/1793 at Percy Chapel (St. Pancras’ Old Church), London. “Thomasina died of a fever at Upper Grosvenor Street, Marylebone, on 21/3/1806”.
1796
Delilah Wetherburn, B.B. [‘base-born’] d. of Robert W. [probably Robert-the-B.P., b. c1762] & Ann Fisher, was b. 11/1/1796 & bap. 20/4/1796 at St. James, Westminster.
1798
John Wedderburn, yngr. s. of John W. [b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica - by now a partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co. in Leadenhall St., London] & Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], was b. 8/1/1798 at Clapham, Surrey, & bap. 6/3/1798 at St. Mary’s, Battersea. (LMA) - “On his father’s death, in 1820, John succeeded to the ‘Prospect’ estate in Jamaica and to a share in the Leadenhall St. House, but he retired from the latter in 1830, owing to a similar retirement of his elder brother James” (b. 1788 in Jamaica). - (W.B. p. 347) - John m. Lady Helen Ogilvy (ygst. d. of 5th (or 7th) Earl of Airlie) on 27/4/1823 at Airlie, Angus. - [Alexander Wedderburn, Q.C. (b. 1854), the author of the ‘Wedderburn Book’ published in 1898, is their grandson.] - In 1824, John published “A Genealogical Account of the Wedderburn family”, which his grandson ‘later found to be full of errors’ (hence ‘A.W.’s’ own, extensively researched, compilation, pub. 1898). - John & Lady Helen had 3 sons b. in Surrey before moving in 1826 to Auchterhouse, Forfarshire, where a daughter was b. in 1830. - John died on 2/4/1839 at Auchterhouse and is there buried. Lady Helen died at Rosebank, Roslin, on 27/4/1868 & was buried at Roslin Chapel.
1798
Jabez Wedderburn, [3rd] s. of Robert W. [the ‘Black Preacher’, b. c1762, in Jamaica] was b. c1798-1801. (Jabez’s baptism cannot be found.) - Jabez, ‘s. of Robert Wedderburn of Long Acre’, was apprenticed to Wm. Lewis Nicholl, Blacksmith, for 1 year from 7/3/1811. (Corp. of London R.O.) - [Boys were usually apprenticed aged 13-14, which makes it more likely that Jabez was born in 1798.] - Jabez m. i) Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 16/7/1802, bap. 13/8/1802 at St. John, Hackney, illegit. d. of James Clarkson & Phoebe Surrage] but their marriage not found. - On W.B. p. 506 (& in footnote²) it shows that Jabez & Sophia had 4 sons & 5 daughters, but it seems they had 4 sons & 8 daughters: Sophia Phoebe (b. 1820, bap.1822, m. 1838); Mary Ann (b. & bap. 1822, ?d. ---); James (b. 1824, m. 1867); Jabez (b. 1827, m. 1846); Elizabeth (b. 1829, m. 1855 or 1860); Robert Cooper (b. 1831, m. 1850); Eliza Cooper (b. 1834, m. 1855 or 1860); Sarah (b. 1836, m. 1856); Emma (b. 1838, d. 1854); Harriet (b. 1840, d. 1847); George (b. & d. 1843); & Hope (b. 1844, d. 1847). - In the 1841 Census, Jabez Wedderburn, a Scalemaker ‘aged 45’, was living at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey, with Sophia, aged 26; James, a Scalemaker aged 16 (none of them‘b. in the county’); Jabez, aged 14; Robert, aged 9; Eliza, aged 7; Sarah, aged 5; Emma, aged 3; & Harriet, aged 7 mths. (all ‘b. in the county’). - Sophia (née Clarkson Surrage) died on 15/11/1846 & Jabez m. ii) Sophia Nunns in 1850 (q.v.). - Sophia (née Nunns) died at the Poland Street Workhouse, Westminster, on 26/10/1880, aged 82, & Jabez Wedderburn died there on 8/11/1880, his death certificate giving his age as 82 (although his family said that he was only 79).
1799
“By 1799 the East India Company’s troops were arranged in regiments, clothed, armed and trained in the European manner”. (“The Raj Exhibition”, London, 1997) - If a man could not afford to buy a commission in the King’s army he could join the Company instead. Promotion could not be bought in the Company, nor were promotions given by merit, but only by seniority, “so 40-year-old men were still lieutenants while, in the King’s army, mere boys were captains or majors….”. It was possible to rise from the ranks in the [British] army but such promotions were extremely rare. “A few men did make the leap and their success inevitably lead to unhappiness….. They were generally disdained by the other officers, and set to work as quartermasters, in the belief that they could not be trusted to lead men in battle. And there was even some truth to that belief, for the men themselves did not like their officers to have come from the ranks…..
1799
Charles Wedderburn [afterwards Webster-Wedderburn], 2nd [surviving] s. of David W. [b. 1757, ‘Webster’ since 1790 (when he became senior partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co.)] & Elizabeth Read [m. 1785 in Dundee], was b. 10/9/1799 in London. - “Charles joined the army in 1821”. - He m. Rebecca Chatterton [ygst. d. of Sir James Chatterton, Bt., of Castle Mahon, co. Cork] at Douglas Church, Cork, Ireland, on 11/12/1822 (q.v.). - [They had a son & a daughter.] - Charles died on 16/12/1863 at 180 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Surrey, and was buried in Norwood Cemetery. (The grave was purchased for him at his death by his uterine brother, William Douglas of Brigton.) - Letters of Admon. of the personal estate & effects of Charles Webster Wedderburn, formerly of Gloucester & of Brigton in the county of Forfar, N. Britain, but late of 13 Addington-square, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, esquire, a widower, dec’d, who died at High Street, Camberwell, was granted at the Principal Registry to Charles Adrian W-W of 46 Walcot Square, Kennington, the Son of the deceased, having first been duly Sworn. - Effects under £20. - Resworn at the Principal Registry Under £200.
1800
David Wedderburn [1st Bt. of Balindean in 1803, b. 1775 in Scotland, e. (surv.) s. of Sir John W. of Balindean (b. 1729) & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy (m. 1769)] m. Margaret Brown [2nd d. of George Brown of Ellistoun, Roxburghshire, a Commissioner for Excise for Scotland] at Comrie, Perth, on 2/9/1800. - [David had joined Webster, Wedderburn & Co. in London in 1796 and was by now a partner in the firm.] - He & Margaret had 2 sons, John James (b. 1802 in London, d. 1810) & George (b. 1804 in London, d. 1823). - On his father’s death (June 1803) David succeeded to Balindean and in October 1803 he was created a baronet of Great Britain. - Sir David was M.P. for Perth 1805-1818. - In 1819-20 he sold Balindean to a Mr. Trotter, provost of Edinburgh, and in 1823 he was appointed Postmaster-General for Scotland - which post he held until 1831. - He died at Inveresk on 7/4/1858 and is there buried.
1800
David Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Ann Taylor at St. Mary’s, Portsea, on 4/9/1800. [See death of ‘Ann Wedderburn or Wilkins’, widow, at Portsea in 1849.]
1801 David Webster [b. ‘Wedderburn’ at ‘Pearsie’, Forfarshire, in 1757] of Shenley Hill, Herts., formerly of Clapham, Surrey, died at Bath on 21/3/1801, aged 43, and is there buried. (W.B. p. 329) - David’s Will, written & signed on 10/2/1801, was proved at London on 16/5/1801. (It is mentioned on W.B. p. 442) - [On David’s death, his cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland), late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica, became senior partner of Wedderburn & Co. in Leadenhall St.] - David’s widow Elizabeth m. ii) Robert Douglas, in June 1802 (q.v.). - [In 1857, Wedderburn Conway Halkett, only son of, Sir (Peter) Arthur Halkett, the 8th and last Bt. of Gosford, was born at Shenley Lodge, Hertfordshire. - This, presumably, was David’s former home.]
1801
David Webster (or Wedderburn), 3rd and ygst. s. of David Webster [b. ‘Wedderburn’ at ‘Pearsie’, Forfarshire, in 1757, d. 1801] & Elizabeth Read [m. 1785], was b. 10/8/1801 in London. - “He died at Brigton, Angus, on 14/7/1816, aged 15”.
1802
Elizabeth Webster [formerly Wedderburn, née Ramsay], widow of David Webster (b. ‘Wedderburn’, 1757, d. 1801), m. ii) Robert Douglas (s. of William Douglas of Brigton, co. Angus, & Elizabeth Graham) in June 1802 at Langham, Suffolk. - [They had a son, William Douglas, b. 1803.]
1802
Sophia Clarkson, [illegitimate] d. of James Clarkson & Phoebe Surrage, was b. 16/7/1802 & bap. 13/8/1802 at St. John’s, Hackney. - Sophia m. Jabez Wedderburn [b. 1798-1801, 3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’] but the date & place of their marriage has not been found. - [They had 4 sons & 6 daughters. - See under Jabez, 1798, & below.)] - Sophia died at Foxes Buildings, St. George’s, Southwark, on 15/11/1846, aged 44. [Jabez m. ii) Sophia Nunns in 1850.]
1802
Peter Halkett [b. 1765, afterwards Admiral Sir Peter Halkett &, in 1837, 6th Bt. of Gosford] m. Elizabeth Todd [younger d. of the late William Todd of Millhill, and sister of the first wife of his brother John Halkett - see 1768] at Edinburgh on 14/10/1802. - “At the time of his marriage, and in 1809, Peter was in command of H.M.S. Ganges, and residing at Catherington Hall, co. Hants., where he still was in 1814”. (W.B. pp. 389-90, & footnote¹.) - He & Elizabeth had a son & 2 daughters. - [Their granddaughter, Eliza Anna Hill (e.d. of their e.d. Jane Margaret Halkett, b. 1806, & her husband Capt. Richard Kirwan Hill ‘of the family of St. Columbs, co. Londonderry, Ireland’) m. her cousin, Sir (Peter) Arthur Halkett, 8th Bt. of Gosford (b. 1834) in 1856 (q.v.). After various promotions and honours, Peter succeeded Admiral Sir George Cockburn as commander-in-chief on the West India and Halifax station on 6/12/1835, and on 10/1/1837 he was appointed Admiral of the Blue. - On the death of his brother Charles (b. 1764), in 1837, Peter succeeded him as 6th Bt. of Gosford. - Elizabeth died at Clifton on 26/4/1814, & was buried at Bath Abbey. - Sir Peter died on 7/10/1839 & was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. - He was succeeded as 7th Bt. of Gosford by his only son, John Halkett (b. 1805, q.v.). -
1802
John James Wedderburn, elder s. of [Sir] David W. [1st Bt. of Balindean in 1803, b. 1775 (e. surv. s. of Sir John W. of Balindean, b. 1729, & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvie, m. 1774)] & Margaret Brown [m. 1800], was b. 16/10/1802 at Hanover Square, London. - He died at Brighton on 11/10/1810 and was buried at Glynde, Sussex, near the seat of his uncle, the then Lord Hampden.
1802
Andrew Wedderburn [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. in Scotland in 1779 (q.v.)] m. i) his second cousin Elizabeth Susannah Wedderburn [b. 1773 in Jamaica (see bap. 1785), e.d. of John W. (b. 1743, late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica - by now the senior partner in Wedderburn & Co. in Leadenhall St., London), “probably at Clapham, Surrey”, on 27/12/1802. (W.B. p. 308) - Andrew Wedderburn of the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, Bachelor, & Elizabeth Susannah Wedderburn of this parish, Spinster, were married at St. Mary, Battesea, by licence, on the twenty seventh day of December 1802, by J. Gardnor, in the presence of John Wedderburn, witness, Mary Wedderburn & James Wedderburn. (LMA) - Elizabeth died ‘s.p.’ at Inveresk, Midlothian, on 23/12/1803. - Andrew m. ii) the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden in 1806 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 12 daughters.]
1803
Mathilda Scrymgeour, 7th d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811 & ‘de jure’ 7th Earl of Dundee] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 30/5/1803 at Duke St., Edinburgh. - Mathilda m. Captain Robert Matthew Isacke ‘in the service of the East India Company’ at Birkhill, Fife, on 15/9/1829 (q.v.) - although, another source states, they were m. at Isle of Thanet. - [They had 4 sons & 2 daughters. - See W.B. p. 182, footnote¹ for details.] - Mathilda died at North Foreland Lodge, Broadstairs, Kent, on 3-4/12/1864 and was buried at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet. - Capt. Isacke died at North Foreland Lodge on 6/3/1896.
1803
Mary Wedderburn [unidentified] m. William Griffin at St. Mary’s, Marylebone Road, St. Marylebone, on 10/4/1803.
1804
Ann Wedderburn, d. of David W. [unidentified] & Ann [Taylor, m. 1800], bap. 14/5/1804 at St. Mary’s, Portsea.
1804
Alexander Weatherburn (afterwards Alexander Wedderburn ‘of Exeter’), [bap. 1782 at Berwick on Tweed, 2nd but e. surv. s. of William Weatherburn, Customs Officer, b. c1752, & Margaret (?Nesbit - m. not found)] m. Ruth House [bap. 26/4/1776 at Thurloxton, Somerset, e.d. of Thomas & Ruth House] at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, on 30/9/1804. They had a son & 5 daughters: Mary Ann House Weatherburn (bap. 1805 in London); William Thomas Wedderburn (‘b. c1807’ - bap. not found but shown in census as ‘b. Taunton, Somerset’); Ruth ‘Howe’ (b. c1810, bap. 1816 at Bristol, d. 1816 in Swansea); Margaret Nesbit (‘b. 1813’ - bap. 1816 at Bristol); Eliza (‘b. 1815’ - bap. 1816 at Bristol); & Caroline (‘bap. 1817 at Swansea & in 1823 in Devon). - [See below.] - In the “Taunton Courier” of 17/9/1812, an entry mentions a dividend on debts re Alexander Weatherburn, Saddler. - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were usually ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Alexander Wedderburn, Inspector of Mail Coaches aged 59, was living at Longbrook St., St. Sidwells, Exeter, Devon, with Ruth, ‘aged 61’, & Mary, ‘aged 34’. - In the 1851 Census, Alexander Wedderburn, Inspector of Mail Coaches, aged 69 (‘b. Berwick-on Tweed’), was living at 5 Longbrook Road, Exeter, with Ruth, ‘aged 72’ (‘b Thurloxton, Somerset’), Mary A. Wedderburn, ‘aged 43’ (‘b. Marylebone, London’); Margaret Wedderburn, ‘aged 35’ (‘b. St. Paul, Bristol’); 2 Servants & a Visitor. - Alexander Wedderburn worked for the GPO for nearly 50 years. For the last 35 years he was Chief Inspector of mail-coaches in Exeter. - In the G.P.O Archives it is recorded that: “Mr. Wedderburn, considering the hard service he has gone through, is awarded a Retiring Allowance of One hundred and eighteen pounds a year”. (Superannuation Form sent to Treasury 18 Feb. 1852.) - Alexander died at Longbrook St., St. David’s, Exeter, on 3/2/1853, aged 71.
1804
John Wetherburn [unidentified*] m. Jane Davis at St. Peter & St. Paul, Milton by Gravesend, on 21/10/1804. [In W.B. Vol. II, p. 523, under ‘possible corruptions of the name’ it shows: “1826: Weatherburn, Jane (formerly Davis), Kent. Nov. Admon. Consist. Court, London”.] - At the London Metropolitan Archives, under ‘Admons’ it shows that on 8 Nov. 1826 ‘administration of all and singular of Jane Weatherburn formerly Davis Spinster late of Greenwich Kent deceased was granted to John Weatherburn the lawful husband of the deceased’. Estate valued at £100. - [*John is perhaps John Wedderburn (bap. 1780 at Newhills, Aberdeenshire, only s. of James W. ‘in Whitekilns’ & Isobel Forbes, m. 1766 who died in London on 24/11/1846 (q.v.), leaving a Will.]
1804
George Wedderburn, younger s. of Sir David W., [1st Bt. of Balindean (b. 1775, e. surv. s. of Sir John W. of Balindean, b. 1729, & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvie, m. 1774] & Margaret Brown [m. 1800], was b. 16/11/1804 at Hanover Square, London. - He died at Brompton on 23/5/1823, ‘whilst a student at Cambridge, and was buried with his elder brother John James in the churchyard at Glynde, Sussex, near the seat of their uncle the then Lord Hampden’.
1805
John Halkett [7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839], only s. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1765, 6th Bt. of Gosford in 1837] & Elizabeth Todd [m. 1802 in Edinburgh], was b. 15/1/1805. - John became a Commander in the navy. - He m. Amelia Hood Conway [d. of General Conway of H.M. 53rd Regiment] at Catherington Church, Hants., on 8/4/1831. [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters.] - On his father’s death, on 7/10/1839, John succeeded him as 7th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir John Halkett died at Southampton on 4/8/1847, aged 42. He was succeeded as 8th (and last) Bt. of Gosford by his eldest (and ultimately only surviving) son (Peter) Arthur Halkett (b. 1834, q.v.). - Lady Halkett died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in 1880.
1805
William Wedderburn [Serjt., 1st Btn. 95th Foot Rgt., b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] m. Hannah Miller [d. of John & Elizabeth Miller] at St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, by licence, on 23/1/1805. In March of that year the ‘Drill-book’ that William wrote in 1804 was reviewed in the“Gentleman’s Magazine” (p. 246) and in May he was promoted to QMS of the 1st Btn. of the 95th Foot Regt. and transferred to Capt. John Stewart’s Company. - After service in the Peninsular campaign (he was evacuated from Corunna on 16/1/1809 and hospitalised in England), William was discharged from the 95th Foot on 4/5/1809 and joined the Royal Berks Militia at Reading the following week as a Sergeant-instructor. He was promoted to Serjeant-Major on 13/1/1810 but was discharged in 1816 ‘when the Permanent Staff of the Regiment was discontinued’. A description of him in his discharge papers shows that he was 5ft 6½ins tall, with fair hair, grey eyes, a fair complexion and a round visage. - On 4/11/1819, still living in Reading, William was recruited by a Major Stewart and re-enlisted, at Aylesbury, Bucks., as a Serjeant in ‘4 Coy’ of the 2nd Veterans’ Battalion. He served for 2 years, which included a period in Ireland. On his discharge he returned to the ‘Chelsea Out-Pensioners’ List’ and was on pension (1/- a day) for the next ten years. - On 23/5/1831 he was ‘transferred to the London District’, as a Staff Serjeant in the Recruiting Service, and served with them, recruiting for the Rifle Brigade (the former 95th Foot) until 2/1/1838, when he was discharged as ‘unfit for further military duty’. He was awarded an ‘out-pension’ of 1/10d a day. - William & Hannah are shown in the W.B. to have had 4 sons & a daughter: William (‘who joined the army & died unm.’ - his bap. not found - ?b. 1806); John (‘b. 1807-8’ - bap. 1807); Joseph (‘b. 1809’ - bap. Jan. 1810); Hannah (‘no details’ - her bap. not found but she m. in 1834, q.v.); & Christopher ‘Stewart’ (‘b. 29/10/1813’ - bap. 1830). - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), William Wedderburn, P [Pensioner] ‘aged 60’ (‘b. Scotland’), was at Tylers Green, Godstone, Surrey, the home of his ygst. s. Christopher, an Inspector of Police, ‘aged 25’, Christopher’s wife Maria, ‘aged 20’; & their 2 daughters, Emma, aged 2, & Mary, aged 8 mths. (none of them ‘b. in the county’). - William’s wife Hannah, Independent, marr. ‘aged 60’, was living at 10 Bowling Street, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, Middlx. - William Wedderburn died at 28 Marsham St., Westminster, on 6/6/1843, aged 63. - He was buried at St. John the Evangelist Church, Westminster, on 12/6/1843. - In the 1851 Census, Hannah Wedderburn, a widow aged 70 (‘b. Cambridge’), was living in Red Lion Alms Houses [more commonly known as ‘Van Dun’s Almshouses’ (“Old & New London”, Vol. 4, by Edward Walford, pub. 1878)], York Street, Westminster. - In the 1861 Census, Hannah, a widow aged 80 (‘b. Cambridge’), was living with her son John, aged 56, at the Carlisle St. Alms House, Lambeth, & in the 1871 Census, Hannah, a widow aged 90 (‘b. Cambridge’), was living at Station Villa, Ashford, Kent, with her son Christopher, a widower aged 57, Station Master S.E. Railway (‘b. Reading, Berks.’); Christopher’s 3 unm. daughters, & a 20-yr-old Domestic Servant. - Hannah Wedderburn died at Ashford, Kent, on 3/2/1878, aged 97. - She is buried in a tomb at Ashford Cemetery with her youngest son Christopher (b. 1813, d. 1882), who was Stationmaster at Ashford for many years, & his daughter Mary (b. 1842, d. 1883). - [A brief account of William ‘b. 1780’ (sic) ‘and his descendants in London & in Kent’ is given on W.B. pp. 489-90 but it is not entirely accurate..]
1805
Sarah Wedderburn [unidentified] & James Sly, ‘both of this parish’, were m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, on 17th March 1805, by Banns, in the presence of Thomas Wedderburn & Ann Adams.
1805
Mary Ann House Weatherburn, e.d. of Alexander W. [bap. 1782 at B-on-Tweed as Weatherburn - afterwards Wedderburn - Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth [née House, m. 1804], bap. 26/7/1805 at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone. [A brief account of Alexander Wedderburn ‘of Exeter’ is given on W.B. p. 507 but there it is stated that his parentage cannot be identified. (It has since been verified - see 1782.)] - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Mary Wedderburn, aged 34, was living with her parents at Longbrook Street, St. Sidwells, Exeter, Devon. - In the 1851 Census, Mary Ann, her mother Ruth, & her sister Margaret, were rather coy about their ages & Mary A. Wedderburn is shown as ‘aged 42’ (‘b. Mary Le Bone, London’). - In the 1861 Census, Mary Ann Wedderburn, sister, unm. aged 55 (‘b. Marylebone, Middlx.’), was living with her brother W. Thomas Wedderburn (sic), Inspector of Mails General Post Office, aged 54 (‘b. Taunton, Somerset’); his wife Mary Jane, aged 44 (‘b. Ilfracombe, Devon’); Mary Ann Richards, Visitor, marr. aged 40 (‘b. Liverpool, Lancs.’); & (?)Ann James, House Servant, unm. aged 20 (‘b. Somerset’), at Coombe Lane, Teignmouth, Devon. - In the 1871 Census, Mary A. Weatherburn, Head, Annuitant, unm. ‘aged 60’ (‘b. London - parish not known’), was living at Tweed St., Berwick - next door to her cousin Margaret Leonard (née Weatherburn, b. c1823) & her family. - In the 1881 Census, ‘Mary Weatherbourne’, Annuitant, ‘aged 59’ (‘b London’), was living at Fore St., North Petherton, Somerset. - Mary Ann Wedderburn, spinster, died at North Petherton, Somerset, on 12/12/1883, aged 84*, leaving a Will. (W.B. p. 508) - [*Mary Ann was 78 when she died.] - In her Will, Mary Ann left ‘only £25’ to her brother, William Thomas (b. c1807), ‘on the ground that he was well provided for’. - As well as other bequests, she left legacies to her first cousin, George Denman, builder, and his two sons, George & William Denman - which identifies her as a niece of Margaret Wedderburn (m. in London, 1834, q.v., who was bap. at Berwick on Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’ in 1796).]
1805
William Weatherburn of Wilstead Street, St. Pancras [unidentified] died on 29/9/1805, aged 43. - He was buried at St. Pancras Parish Church on 4/10/1805, the burial costing 12/6d.
1806
William Wedderburn, e.s. of William W. [QMS, 1st Btn. 95th Foot Rgt., b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge] was probably b. 1805-6. (His baptism not found.)- He is said to have ‘entered the army and died unmarried’.
1806
Jane Margaret Halkett, elder d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1765, 6th Bt. of Gosford in 1837] & Elizabeth Todd [m. 1802] was b. 5/1/1806 at Edinburgh. - Jane m. Capt. Richard Kirwan Hill, ‘late of the 52nd Regt.’ (of the family of St. Columbs, Londonderry, Ireland). - [They had 3 sons & 3 daughters, of whom the eldest, Eliza Anna Hill, m. her cousin Sir Peter Halkett, 8th (& last) Bt. of Gosford (b. 1834, q.v.).] - Captain Hill died in 1842 & Jane died at Barham Wood on 3/5/1857. She was buried at Elstree, Herts. (W.B. p. 390) - [Jane’s aunt, Margaret Halkett (b. 1763), had died at Barham Wood in 1846.]
1806
Jacob Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. [‘the Black Preacher’, b. c1762 in Jamaica], was b. in 1806. (His bap. not found.) - Jacob became a Scalemaker in London. - He m. Mary Elizabeth Williams [d. of Benjamin Williams, Carpenter] in 1828 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 2 daughters.] - Jacob died at 25 Eagle Court on 20/12/1841, aged 35. - His widow Mary m. ii), William Henry Partridge in 1843 (q.v.).
1806
Andrew Wedderburn [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779 (q.v.)] m. ii) the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [b. 14/9/1788 at S. Ildefonso, Spain, fifth d. of William, 1st Lord Auckland] at the Chapel of Bromley Place, on 26/6/1806. They had 4 sons & 12 daughters but only 2 of the sons survived to adulthood: (Sir) James William Colvile (b. 1810, q.v.) & Eden Colvile (b. 1819, q.v.). - Of the 9 daughters born in Kent, 6 survived & 2 married. The 10th daughter, Margaret Agnes Colvile (b. 18/7/1829 at Craigflower, Fife) m. Charles Kegan Paul in 1856, at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, and in 1898 was living in London. The 11th daughter, Alice Douglas Colvile (b. 3/12/1830 at 48 Lower Grosvenor Street, Westminster), was bap. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, & died at Craigflower, Fife, on 27/7/1845. The 12th & youngest daughter, Katharine Colvile (b. 28/7/1834 at Craigflower) died in Nov. 1834 at 11 Lower Berkeley St., Westminster. - Andrew Colvile was present at the inaugural meeting of the “Commercial Railway Company”, held at 16 Bishopsgate on 5/8/1836. - The Minutes list the 28 men present. ‘Andrew Colvile, Esq., Chairman of the West India Dock Company’ is third on the list. - The Chairman of the East India Dock Co., William Routh, was also present, as well as Sir William Young, Bt., George Brown, Esq., & Crawfurd Davidson (plus others). The Directors of the “Commercial” Railway decided to amalgamate with the existing “London-Blackwall Railway Company”. John Robertson, Chairman of London-Blackwall, was elected Chairman of the new “Commercial Co.”. (RAIL records in the National Archives at Kew) - Andrew died in London on 3/2/1856 and was buried at Holy Trinity, Brompton. - His widow died on 2/12/1858 and was buried with her husband. (W.B. pp. 308-9) - [There are references to the Colviles in London in “Jemima, the Memoirs of a Victorian Artist”, edited by Robert Fairley & pub. by Canongate in 1988.]
1806
David Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Sarah Holt at Christchurch, Newgate, in 1806. David, a seaman of H.M.SS. “Volage” & “Resistance”, late of King Street, Drury Lane, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, died in 1814. - Administration of his estate was granted to his widow Sarah Wedderburn in July 1814.
1807
Jean Wedderburn [b. 1786, only surv. d. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) & Isabella Blackburn (m. 1784)] m. Thomas Hamilton or Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, at Inveresk, Midlothian, on 24/11/1807. - They had a son & 2 daughters. - The Earl died at Pau, in the south of France, in 1820, when their son, Dunbar James (b. 1809) became 6th Earl of Selkirk. (He married but died ‘s.p.’ in 1885.) - Jean, Countess of Selkirk, died at St. Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 10/6/1871. (W.B. pp. 307-8, & footnote¹) - [In 1841, their younger daughter, Lady Isabella, m. her cousin, the Hon. Charles Hope [3rd s. of John, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, & Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn (b. 1786, 3rd d. of Sir John W. of Balindean - brother of James W. ‘of Inveresk’). ]
1807
William Thomas Wedderburn, only s. of Alexander W. [Coachman, bap. 1782 at B-on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’ - afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth House [m. 1804], was b. ‘about 1807’. (His baptism not found.) - (W.B. p. 508) - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), William Wedderburn, Independent, ‘aged 35’, was living in Liverpool Street, St. Pancras, Middlx., with his sisters Margaret, ‘aged 25’; Eliza, ‘aged 20’; & Caroline, ‘aged 20’. - William Thomas m. Mary Jane Fishley in 1843 (q.v.). - [They had no children.] - William Thomas Wedderburn died at ‘Dunkeld’, Croydon, Road, Anerley, Surrey, on 14/6/1886, aged 79, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. - In his Will, written on 26/9/1846, William Thomas left everything to his wife. - Mary Jane Wedderburn died on 10/4/1893. - [In 1858, when my g. grandfather William Wedderburn (b. 1840) joined the GPO in London as a Postman, William Thomas was Chief Clerk there.]
1807
John Wedderburn, 2nd s. of William W. [QMS, 1st Btn. 95th Foot Rgt., b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge], bap. 27/12/1807 at St. Leonard’s, Colchester. John became a Fishmonger in London. - He m. Hannah Trowbridge in 1826 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 5 daughters.] - Hannah died at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, London, on 20/10/1860, aged 54, & John died ‘suddenly in the Public Street, outside the Poorhouse in Lambeth’, on 22/3/1870, aged 63.
1808 Matilda Scrimgeour [sic] Wedderburn, d. of Henry S-W., b. ‘about’ 1808 ‘of Greenwich’. [Mathilda Scrymgeour was b. in 1803 (q.v.).]
1808
Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour, 4th [but only surv.] s. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 4/3/1808 in Edinburgh. - Frederick was appointed deputy lieutenant of Fife in 1829 & deputy-lieutenant of Forfar in 1830. (W.B. p. 182, footnote²) - Acc. to the W.B., Frederick m. i) in 1839, the Hon. Helen Arbuthnot (5th d. of John, 8th Viscount Arbuthnot, & Lady Margaret Ogilvie, e.d. of Walter, 7th Earl of Airlie), & ii) in 1852, Selina Mary Garth. - [Acc. to another source Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour Wedderburn m. i) Caroline Mallet Mytton on 27/3/1836 (q.v.).] - By Lady Helen, Frederick had a s. Henry (b. 1840) but Lady Helen died 5 days after his birth. By Selina Garth, Frederick had 2 more sons & 3 daughters. [See below.] - On the death of his father, in Dec. 1841, “Frederick succeeded to the estates of Wedderburn & Birkhill and carried on the line of the family”. - Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour-W. died at Birkhill on 16/8/1874, and was buried at Balmerino. His widow, Selina Mary Wedderburn, of Haines Hill, Twyford, Berks., died at Wimborne, Dorset, on 18/10/1902, leaving a Will. - Probate was granted to Alexander S-W., Col. in the Royal Artillery. - Effects valued at £5,646:0:4d.
1808
Eleanor Wedderburn [afterwards ‘Colvile’], e.d. of Andrew W. [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 23/12/1808 at Clay Hill, Kent, & bap. at Beckenham. - Eleanor Colvile died at Langley Farm on 30/11/1824, and was buried at Beckenham.
1809
John Weatherburn, 2nd s. of John W. [Engineman of Kenton, Northumberland, b. 1768 ] & Priscilla [Harpley, ‘native of Greetham’ (m. 1806 at Bishopwearmouth, Durham], bap. 8/10/1809 at Sunderland. - John m. his cousin Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807 at Blyth, Northumberland] at Monkwearmouth, Durham, on 21/11/1830 (q.v.). [They had 2 sons & 2 daughters bap. there before moving to London, where they had 6 more sons & 2 more daughters.] - Ann died at Stepney in the Dec. qtr. of 1877, aged 70. - In the 1881 Census, John, Retired Marine Engine Fitter, a widower aged 72 (‘b. Sunderland’), was a Lodger at 47 Turners Road, Limehouse, London. - John died at 5 Turner’s Rd., Limehouse, Middx., on 29/3/1889. [In Misc. Refs. on W.B. p. 508, it shows that Admon. of the goods of John Wedderburn or Weatherburn, deceased, widower, of Middlesex, was granted to James Wedderburn, the son and one of the next of kin, in 1889 (q.v.), but the ‘Wills & Admons. Index’ shows that Admon. was granted to his son James Weatherburn of 108 Old Church Rd., Stepney. - Effects valued at £378:15:5d.]
1809
Joseph Wedderburn, 3rd s. of William W. [now Sergt.-Major of the Berks. Militia, b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge], bap. 22/1/1810 at St. Mary’s Church, Reading. Joseph m. Sarah Green at Croydon in 1834 (q.v.). - [Acc. to the W.B., Joseph ‘had no issue’ but perhaps James Weatherburn (sic) who died at Croydon in 1839 & was buried at St. John the Baptist, Croydon, on 21/9/1839, aged 17 months., was his son?] - In the 1841 Census, Joseph, a Fishmonger aged 32, and Sarah, aged 25, were living at 43 Marsham Street, Westminster. - Joseph died in the St. Bernard’s Wing of Uxbridge Hospital, Middx., on 14/7/1852, from T.B.
1810
James William Wedderburn [afterwards Sir James Colvile], e.s. of Andrew W. [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 12/1/1810 at 21 Upper Grosvenor Street, London, & bap. ‘in the parish of St. George’. - “James was called to the Bar in 1835 & in 1845 became Advocate-General for the East India Company at Fort William, Bengal. - He was knighted in 1848. - Sir James succeeded to the estate of ‘Craigflower’ in Fife on the death of his father in 1856, and he also inherited from him the estate of Blackheath in Jamaica, which he sold”. - Sir James m. Frances Elinor Grant [d. of Sir John Peter Grant, K.C.B.., C.C.M.G, of Rothiemurchus, Invernesshire, late Lieut.-Governor of Bengal, and Governor of Jamaica] at the Cathedral in Calcutta, on 13/4/1857. - On his return from India in 1859 Sir James was appointed deputy-lietenant of Fife. [He & Frances had an only child, Andrew John Wedderburn Colvile (b. 20/1/1859 at Calcutta), who died at Craigflower on 4/11/1876.] - Sir James Colvile died at 8 Rutland Gate, London, on 6/12/1880.
1810
Ruth Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Alexander W., Coachman [bap. 1782 at B-on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’ - afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth House [m. 1804], was b. c1810 & bap. 11/2/1816 at Bristol (at the same time as 2 of her sisters). - Ruth Howe (sic) Weatherburn was buried at St. Mary’s Church, Swansea, on 27/4/1816, aged 6.
1810
Catherine Georgina Wedderburn [b. 1791, 3rd d. of John W., b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, late of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica - by now senior partner of Wedderburn & Co., Leadenhall St.] m. Patrick Stirling, a Captain in the Light Dragoons [e.s. of John Stirling of Kippendavie, Perthshire, & Blackgrange, Clackmannanshire] at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone, on 13/2/1810. They had 2 sons & a daughter: John (b. 19/8/1811 at Tunbridge Wells), ‘afterwards of Kippendavie’, m. his first cousin, Katharine Mary Wellings (b. 27/12/1818 in London, d. 28/6/1879, only child of Georgiana’s sister Mary & her husband, the Rev. John Wellings, chaplain to the Countess of Selkirk); Patrick (b. 19/8/1813 at Edinburgh, ‘afterwards of Blackgrange & Gogar’) died unm. in 1839; & Mary (b. 19/11/1814 at Edinburgh. - On the death of her brother Patrick, Mary succeeded under an entail to Blackgrange & Grogar. In 1840 she m. John Davie Morries, M.D., who took the surname Stirling]. - Patrick Stirling died at Hastings, Sussex, in 1816, & Catherine Georgina died at South Eaton Place, London SW, on 13/6/1863, aged 72. She was buried at St. Mary’s, Dunblane.
1810 Dorothy Wedderburn [an adult - ?née Forster, wife of Thomas W. (m. 1774, d. 1813, q.v.)] was buried on 13/5/1810 at St. Marylebone, Westminster.
1810
Sarah Weatherbean (sic) [unidentified] m. William Moss at Clewer, Berks., on 2/9/1810.
1810
James Webster-Wedderburn [afterwards Sir James Wedderburn-Webster, b. 1788, e.s. of David W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1757) & Elizabeth Read (m. 1785)] m. Lady Frances Caroline Annesley [b. 23/5/1793, 2nd d. of Arthur, 8th Viscount Valentia and 1st Earl of Mountmorris by his second wife, Sarah, d. of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bt.] at St. Marylebone, London, on 8/12/1810. - They had a daughter & 4 sons: Lucy Sarah Ann (b. 1812 in Paris); Charles Byron (b. there 1815, d. 1817); Charles Francis (b. 1820 in London); Augustus George Henry Desiré (b. 1821 at Bolougne); & George Gordon Gerald Trophime de Lally-Tollendal (b. 1827 in Paris) - “but they were long separated by mutual consent”. (W.B. p.334) - In 1819 James reversed the ‘Webster’ (adopted by his father in 1790) and ‘Wedderburn’ surnames. - He was knighted in 1821. - Lady Frances died in London on 22/1/1837. - Admon. of her estate was granted to her husband in June 1839. - Estate valued at £1000. - Sir James died suddenly in Dublin on 13/8/1840. (W.B. p. 334) - [See Obituary from ‘The Times.] - Admon. of his estate was granted to his daughter, Sarah Ann Bishop, on 6/11/1840. - Estate valued at £20. - [Sir James Webster-Wedderburn & his wife are mentioned in Elizabeth Longford’s biographies of the Duke of Wellington, “The Years of the Sword” & “Pillar of State” and several other publications.]
1811
Hannah Wedderburn, [only] d. of William W. [Sergt.-Major of the Berks. Militia, b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge], of whom A.W. writes that he ‘has no details’ (W.B. p. 489), was b. c1811. (Her bap. not found.) - Hannah m. Thomas William Harding at St. Ann, Soho, on 27/7/1834 (q.v.). - [They had 2 children.] - Hannah Harding died at 10 Bowling Street, Westminster, on 20/8/1843, aged 32. (Westminster 1 316)
1811
Elizabeth Wedderburn ‘b. 1810’ (unidentified) was buried at Spa Fields Burial Ground on 2/2/1811.
1811
John Wedderburn [afterwards ‘Colvile’], 2nd s. of Andrew W. [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 16/1/1811 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - John Colvile died on 17/2/1830 (of scarlet fever), while at Eton, & was buried at Bovingdon, Herts. (W.B. p. 309)
1811 Jabez Wedderburn [b. c1798 (q.v.)], ‘son of Robert W. of Long Acre’, was apprenticed to Wm. Lewis Nicholl, Blacksmith, from 7/3/1811 for 1 year.
1811
Alexander Wedderburn [unidentified], a Corporal in the 66th Regiment of Foot (the Royal Berks. Regt.), m. Sophia Harden [?Sophia Harding, d. of Robert & Mary Harding, bap. 20/7/1783 at Bremhill, Wilts.) by banns, at Saint Martin, Salisbury, Wilts., on 19/5/1811. Cpl Wedderburn joined the 1st Btn. of the 66th at Trincomalie (sic), Ceylon, in 1812 - ‘Arrived from England 25/11/1812’. He appears in a list of 48 Corporals in the 66th Regt’s Pay List & Muster Roll for 25/12/1812-24/3/1813. At the second & third Musters he was at Colombo, and at the Musters from 25/6-24/9/1813 he was at Batticalao, although most of his Btn. was still at Trincomalie. (Army Records at the National Archives at Kew, WO 12 7471 & 7472) - [During the same period, another ‘unidentified’ Alexander Wedderburn, a Private in the 2nd Btn. of the 66th Foot, was recruited as a boy soldier at Kildare, Ireland, on 16/10/1807. He served in Portugal and Spain in 1808-09 and, in 1812 & 1813, was stationed at the Regimental Depot in Britain. (WO 12 7532 & 7533)]
1811
Mary Emily Elizabeth Halkett, younger d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1765, 6th Bt. of Gosford in 1837] & Elizabeth Todd [m. 1802], was b. 7/9/1811. - Mary m. Robert Henry Stuart Jackson, ‘Captain in the 97th Regt.’, on 10/7/1839. - [They had 4 sons & 4 daughters.] - Mary died at North Kilworth, nr. Rugby, on 17/4/1888.
1812
Lucy Sarah Anne Webster Wedderburn, only d. of [Sir] James W-W [b. 1788] & Lady Frances Caroline Annesley [m. 1810], bap. March 1812 at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone but she was b. in Paris on 2/3/1812 & bap. in Brussels (acc. to the W.B.). - Lucy m. the Rev. Alfred Cæsar Bisshop [rector of Martyr Worthy, nr. Winchester, later of Bramdean, Hants.] in 1834 (q.v.). - [They had 9 sons & 3 daughters.] - Admon. of her father’s goods was granted to his daughter Lucy Bisshop on 6/11/1840. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 519, London Will No. 23) - - Lucy Bisshop [sic] died at Martyr Worthy, Hampshire, on 24/4/1864, and is there buried.
1812
Isabella Wedderburn [afterwards ‘Colvile’], 2nd d. of Andrew W. [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 24/4/1812 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - Isabella m. Samuel Marindin in 1834 (q.v.).
1813
Margaret Nesbit Wedderburn, [3rd] d. of Alexander W. [Coachman, bap. 1782 as ‘Weatherburn’ at Berwick on Tweed, afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth House [m. 1804], was b. 1813. (W.B. p. 508) - She was bap. on 11/2/1816 at Bristol (at the same time as 2 of her sisters). - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Margaret Wedderburn, ‘aged 25’, was living with her brother William, Independent, ‘aged 35’, & her sisters Eliza & Caroline, both ‘aged 20’ at Liverpool Street, St. Pancras, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, Margaret, ‘aged 35’ (‘b. St. Paul, Bristol’), was living with her parents, her sister Mary A., ‘aged 43’ (‘b. Marylebone, London’); 2 Servants & a Visitor, at 5 Longbrook Road, Exeter.] - In her father’s Will, written on 21/10/1852, Margaret’s middle name is spelt ‘Nisbett’. - Margaret died, unm., at Cleveland Rd., Islington, Middlesex, on 14/5/1856.
1813
Thomas Wedderburn [?widower of Dorothy W., m. 1774, q.v., d. 1810], of St. George’s, Hanover Square, was buried in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, Westminster, on 8/4/1813, aged 73. - Thomas’s burial cost £2:4s - the third most expensive in a list of 37 which took place at St. Marylebone that week. ([Could he be Thomas Wedderburn bap. 24/6/1739 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire (e.s. of John W., ?b. 1681, & ‘Marjorie Wastland’, m. 1738 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire?]
1813
George Wedderburn, 3rd s. of Andrew W. [‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856)] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 23/10/1813 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - George died there on 27/6/1814.
1813
Christopher Stewart Wedderburn, [4th & ygst.] s. of William W. [Sergt.-Major of the Berks. Militia, b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge], was b. 29/10/1813. (W.B. p. 489) - [The‘middle’ name of Stewart is shown in the W.B. but does not appear on any of the official documents that have been found, apart from the bap. reg. of his ante-nuptial daughter Emma (b. 1839).] - Christopher was bap. on 18/10/1830 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. (His father William’s ‘abode’ in the baptismal register is shown as ‘Tufton St., Westminster’, and his occupation as ‘Fishmonger’.) - On 5/1/1831 Christopher Wedderburn enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in London. The recruiting officer was District Adjutant Blakeney. He was was ‘sent to Reserve’ on 19/1/1831 and was ‘Finally Approved’ on 24 January, at Dover, by a Major Hope. For the next 6 years he served with the 1st Btn. in Nova Scotia, & in Jan. 1837, on the Battalion’s return to England, Christopher bought his discharge for £20. [On 23/5/1831, his fatherWilliam, who had been ‘on pension’ for 10 years, was appointed a Staff-Serjeant on the London District Recruiting Staff, under District Adjutant Blakeney. ] - Christopher’s ‘antenuptial’ dau. Emma was b. in June 1839 (q.v.). - Christopher Wedderburn m. Maria Webb at St. George’s, Hanover Square, in Sept. 1839 (q.v.). - [In the W.B., Maria’s surname is shown as Wells but the marriage register clearly shows it as ‘Webb’.] - Four days later, Christopher was appointed an ‘Inspector of Police’ by the Directors of the South Eastern Railway Co. (Board Minutes of SE Railway Co. at the PRO at Kew, RAIL 635, piece 16) - [He & Maria had 5 more daughters & a son, all b. in Kent.] - In the W.B., it says that “Christopher was an Inspector of Police (1840) and afterwards was for many years the station-master at Ashford, Kent”. - He retired in 1878 and moved to Islington. - He died at 40 Freegrove Rd., Islington, on 20/10/1882, leaving a Will. - He is buried in a tomb at Ashford Cemetery with his mother Hannah, who had died in 1878, aged 97. His 2nd daughter Mary, who died unm. in London in 1883, aged 42, is also buried with them. [Although Christopher died 16 years before the ‘W.B.’ was published, ‘A.W.’ writes that Christopher, his son Christopher William, & William W. (b. 1840), provided some of the information on which his (somewhat sketchy) account of the family on W.B. pp. 489-90 is based.]
1814
George Wedderburn [b. 1813, 3rd s. of Andrew W. (‘Colvile’ from 1814, b. 1779, d. 1856) & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden (m. 1806, d. 1858)] was buried at St. George, Beckenham, Kent, on 1/7/1814, aged 8 months.
1814
Thomas Wedderburn-Ogilvy, 2nd s. of Peter W-Ogilvy [b. 1781 in Scotland] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811 in Edinburgh], was b. 8/9/1814 at Islabank [it later reverted to its former name of ‘Ruthven’], Perthshire, Scotland. - “Thomas entered the army in 1832 and was a captain in the second Life Guards, when, being on guard at the birth of the Prince of Wales, he at once, in accordance with custom, obtained the rank of Colonel”. - Thomas m. Lady Henrietta Louisa Fermor [ygr. d. of Thomas William, 4th Earl of Pomfret, and sister of George William Richard, the 5th & last Earl] at Northampton on 7/8/1856. [They had no issue.] - Lady Henrietta died in France in 1888. - In 1898, Thomas was living at 23 Grafton St., Westminster, and was heir presumptive to the Balindean baronetcy. - He died ‘s.p.’ on 12/10/1899, during the lifetime of his kinsman, Sir William Wedderburn, the 4th Bt. (b. 1838), so his younger brother, John Andrew (b. 1818), then became the heir presumptive. He died in 1906 so it was his 3rd (but by then e. surviving) son, also John Andrew (b. 1866), who succeeded Sir William as 5th Bt. of Balindean in 1918. Sir John reversed the surnames and became ‘Ogilvy-Wedderburn’.
1814
Andrew Wedderburn [b. 1779 in Scotland, 2nd but e. surv. s. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) & Isabella Blackburn (m. 1774)] “by order in council and licence thereto, took for himself and his heirs in possession of Craigflower the surname and arms of Colvile of Ochiltree in lieu of those of Wedderburn’. (W.B. p. 308) - [Andrew, a partner in Wedderburn & Co. at 35 Leadenhall St., London, became the senior partner in 1820 following the death of his first cousin once removed, John W. (b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica), who had returned from Jamaica in 1789 and who became the senior partner on the death, in 1801, of David Webster (b. ‘Wedderburn’, 1757, ‘of Pearsie’).]
1814
James Wedderburn, e.s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782 - 4th but 3rd surv. s. of James W. of Inveresk] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1774], was b. 23/9/1814 in Edinburgh. - “James studied medicine and in Nov. 1836 entered the army as assistant surgeon to the Coldstream Guards. In 1838 he went with the regiment to Canada but was afterwards with the Scots Greys. In the 1851 Census James was a ‘Visitor’ at 118 Jermyn Street, London. - James died, unm., at 39 Craven Street, London, ‘on or about 17/7/1863’. - Probate was granted to George Wedderburn, WS., of 25 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, the brother and next-of-kin. ‘Scotch Confirmation sealed 27/10/1863’. - [James’ & George’s youngest sister, Jemima (b. 1823 in Edinburgh), who m. Professor Hugh Blackburn, was a noted artist. - [See her biography “Jemima, the Memoirs of a Victorian Artist”, ed. by Robt. Fairley, pub. 1988 by Canongate.]
1814
David Wedderburn [unidentified], seaman of H.M.SS. “Volage” & “Resistance”, late of King Street, Drury Lane, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, died in 1814. - Administration of his estate was granted to his widow Sarah Wedderburn [?née Holt (m. 1806, q.v.)] in July 1814.
1815
Mary ‘Webster or Wedderburn’ [b. 1793 at Clapham, Surrey, yngr. d. of David W. (b. 1757, ‘Webster’ since 1790 - when he became senior partner in Wedderburn, Webster & Co.) & Elizabeth Read (m. 1785 in Dundee)] m. George Hawkins [3rd s. of John Hawkins & Ann Colbourne of Harnish House, Wilts. & grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bt., of Kelston, Somserset] in Brussels, Belgium, on 25/3/1815. [Mary Wederburn (sic) m. --- at Kelston, Somerset, England, 1814. ‘Rel. Elizabeth H. Smith’.
1815
Eliza Wedderburn, [4th] d. of Alexander W. [Coachman, bap. 1782 at B-on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’ - afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth House [m. 1804], was ‘b. 1815’ & bap. 11/2/1816 at Bristol (at the same time as 2 of her sisters). - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Eliza Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’, was living at Liverpool Street, St. Pancras, Middlx., with her brother William, Independent, ‘aged 35’, & her sisters Margaret, ‘aged 25’ & Caroline, ‘aged 20’. - Eliza was one of the witnesses at Caroline’s first marriage, to James Taylor, in July 1843, and also at her brother William Thomas’s marriage in Aug. 1843. - She signed the registers as Eliza ‘Widderburn’. (Church marriage registers.) - In the 1851 Census, Eliza Wedderburn, unm. aged 35 (‘b. Bristol, Gloucs.’), was living with her sister Caroline, aged 33 (‘b. Swansea, Wales’); Caroline’s husband James Taylor, a Woollen Cloth Agent, aged 37 (‘b. Exeter, Devon’); & Agnes Leitch, Domestic Servant, aged 23 (‘b. Scotland’), at 1 Sydney Villa, Whitehorse Rd., Croydon, Surrey. - In the 1861 Census, Eliza Wedderburn, unm. ‘aged 42’, was still living at Sydney Villa, with Caroline, ‘aged 40’; Caroline’s husband James Taylor, a Woollen Cloth Merchant,aged 46; & Mary Ash, House Servant, unm. aged 29 (‘b. Exeter’). - Eliza Wedderburn died unm. at Grendon Villas, West Teignmouth, Devon, on 17/11/1869, aged 54, the then home of her brother William Thomas Wedderburn (b. c1807), & his wife Mary Jane (née Fishley, m. 1843).]
1815
Ruth Wedderburn [unidentified], Spinster, & Peter Pritchard, Bachelor, both of this parish, were m. by Banns at St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn, on 19/2/1815, in the presence of Mary Durham & Wm. Ashfield. (LMA) - [In the St. Giles Register the names shown are Peter Wedderburn & Ruth Pritchard but both ‘made their mark’ so presumably they would not have noticed the error? - The witness Mary Durham is presumably the same Mary Durham whose daughter Mary Ann was bap., as an adult, in 1816 (q.v.), & she may be the Mary --- shown as the mother of Lydia & Hope Wedderburn, of the same address,who were bap. at St. Giles in the Fields on the same day as Mary Ann Durham.] - Peter & Ruth Wedderburn had a daughter Caroline (b. 1810) & a son James (b. 1815), both bap. in Sept. 1815 (q.v.).
1815
John Halkett [b. 1768, (said to be) 3rd s. of SirJohn W-Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 4th Bt. of Gosford (b. 1720, d. 1779), & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton (m. 1762 in Edinburgh] m. ii) at Sydenham, Kent, on 6/7/1815, his cousin Lady Katharine Douglas [d. of Dunbar, 4th Earl of Selkirk, & Helen, dau. of the Hon. John Hamilton, 2nd s. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington - sister of John Halkett’s mother. (Jean Wedderburn, b. 1768, dau. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’, had m. Katharine’s brother Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1807).] - John & Lady Katharine had 5 sons: John Thomas Douglas Halkett (b. 1816, q.v.); Dunbar Stewart Halkett (b. 1817, q,v.); Charles Halkett (b. 1818, d. in infancy) & Peter Alexander Halkett (b. 1820, q.v.).- In the 1841 Census, John Halkett, Independent, ‘aged 75’, was living with Lady Katharine, ‘aged 55’ (both ‘b. Scotland’), in the Road from Star & Garter, Richmond, to Marsh Gate, with 10 Servants & a Gardener. - Lady Katharine died on 31/3/1848, aged 69, and was buried at Petersham, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, John Halkett, Landed Proprietor, a widower aged 81 (‘b. Fifeshire’), was living at A 13 Albany, St. James, Westminster, with his son, P.A. Halkett, Lt. R.N. Half-Pay, unm., aged 30 (‘b. Cheltenham’). - John Halkett, Esq., of the Albany, died at Brighton, Sussex, on 12/11/1852, and was buried with his wife. (W.B. p. 391 & footnote 5, & p. 392) - [John’s Will & Codicil (q.v.) was proved in London the PCC of Canterbury on 30/11/1852.]
1815
Charles Byron Webster-Wedderburn, e.s. of [Sir] James W-W [b. 1788, knighted 1821] & Lady Frances Annesley [m. 1810], was b. 28/8/1815 in Paris. - Charles died at Nantes in Oct. 1817, & was buried in Caen Cathedral.
1815
James May Wedderburn [unidentified], Bachelor, & Eleanor Osborn, Spinster, both of this parish, were m. by Banns in the parish of St. Pancras (St. Pancras Old Church), in the presence of C. Humphrey & H. Harbottle.
1815
William Weatherburn [unidentified], Bachelor, & Margaret Loveless, Widow, both of this parish, were m. by Banns at St. Mary, Rotherhithe, on 23/9/1815, in the presence of Richard Davis & Elizabeth Atkinson.
1815
Caroline Wedderburn, d. of Peter W. [unidentified] & Ruth [Pritchard] of Ivy Lane [m. Feb. 1815], was b. 26/6/1810 & bap. 24/9/1815 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch.
1815
James Wedderburn, s. of Peter W. [unidentified] & Ruth [Pritchard] of Ivy Lane [m. Feb. 1815], was b. 16/8/1815 & bap. 24/9/1815 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch.
1815
Jane Wetherborne (sic), d. of Isabella W. [unidentified], bap. 24/9/1815 at St. Mary’s, Whitechapel, Stepney. [Isabella may have m. James Bruce on 23/9/1816 (q.v.).]
1815
Louisa Colvile, 3rd d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 21/10/1815 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - Louisa died unm. at Hastings, Sussex, on 30/11/1836, and is there buried.
1816
John Thomas Douglas Halkett, e.s. of John Halkett [b. 1768 in Scotland] & his 2nd wife, Lady Katharine Douglas [m. 1815], was b. 14/4/1816 in New Norfolk St., Park Lane, London, “at the house of Lord Morton”. [George, 17thh Earl of Morton - see ‘Lord Morton.doc’]. - ‘Douglas’ entered the army and obtained his majority. - He m. Charlotte Mary Beague [only d. of the late Charles Heard Beague, R.E., of Hollam, Dulverton, Somerset, & Mary, eldest d. of Sir James Pringle & Sholto Charlotte Halkett (b. 1774)] at Petersham, Richmond, Surrey, on 10/7/1849. - “Major Halkett was thus first cousin to his wife’s mother, and Sir John Halkett (4th Bt. of Gosford) & his wife Mary Hamilton were at once paternal great grandparents and maternal great-great grandparents to his daughter”. [‘Douglas’ & Charlotte Halkett had 2 daughters: Mary Katherine (b. 1850, at Island Bridge Barracks, Dublin), who m. at Brighton, on 2/7/1881, Francis Robertson of Netherseale Hall, Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, and Chilcote, Derbyshire, and d.s.p. in 1882; & Helen Douglas (b. 1855 at Leamington), who died aged 3 weeks and was buried at Milverton Church.] - (John Thomas) Douglas Halkett ‘fell at Balaclava on 25/10/1854’.
1816
Ruth Howe (sic) Wedderburn [2nd d. of Alexander W., Coachman (bap. 1782 as ‘Weatherburn’ at B-on-Tweed, afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter) & Ruth House (m. 1804)] was buried at St. Mary’s Church, Swansea, on 27/4/1816, aged 6.
1816
Isabella Weatherburn [unidentified] m. James Bruce at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 23/9/1816. [Isabella may be the Isabella ‘Wetherborne’ who had a daughter Jane bap. on 24/9/1815 (q.v.).]
1816
Mary Ann Durham, an adult, Artificial flower-maker, dau. of James Durham, deceased, WatchspringMaker, & Mary ---, of Smith’s Court, Great Windmill Street, St. James, Westminster, was bap. 15/7/1816 at St. Giles in the Fields, Middlx. - [A Mary Durham was a witness at the marriage of Peter Wedderburn & Ruth Pritchard in 1815 (q.v.).]
1816
Lydia Wedderburn, an adult [b. c1799], Artificial flower-maker, dau. of Robert W., Tailor [unidentified*], & Mary ---, of Smith’s Court, Great Windmill Street, St. James, Westminster, was bap. at St. Giles in the Fields, Middlx., on 15/7/1816. - Lydia m. i) Hugh Wilson at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1818 (q.v.). - [Her husband may be the Hugh Wilson of 50 Basinghall Street, who was buried at St. Michael’s, Bassishaw, City of London, on 25/8/1824, aged 62. (LMA)] - Lydia Wilson, widow, m. ii) James Douglas, widower, at the Chapel of Saint Pancras (St. Pancras Old Church) on 21/9/1829.- [Lydia ‘Duglas’ is mentioned in her sister Hope’s Will in 1837.] - In the 1851 Census, James Douglas, Tailor, aged 52 (‘b. Newcastle on Tyne’), was living with Lydia, aged 53, ‘Blind’ (‘b. Covent Garden’), & their Grandson John Stephens, aged 8 (‘b. St. Martins, Middlx.’), at 9 Searle’s Place, Liberty of the Rolls, St. Thomas, Finsbury, Middlx.]
1816
Hope Wedderburn, an adult [b. c1802], Artificial flower-maker, dau. of Robert W., Tailor [unidentified*], & Mary ---, of Smith’s Court, Great Windmill Street, St. James, Westminster, was bap. at St. Giles in the Fields, Middlx., on 15/7/1816. - Hope was a witness at the marriage of her sister Sarah to James Lambert Dugdale in 1829 (q.v.). - Hope Wedderburn died on 22/10/1837, aged 35 (q.v.). - [Hope’s sisters Lydia ‘Duglas’ (see preceding entry) and her sister Sarah Dugdale are mentioned in her Will. [*See bap. of Jacob Wedderburn, s. of Robert W., Tailor, & Mary --- in 1822.]
1817
Caroline Wedderburn, [5th & ygst.] d. of Alexander W. [Coachman, bap. 1782 as ‘Weatherburn’ at B-on-Tweed, afterward s Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth [House (m. 1804], was b. 28/2/1817 & bap. 28/3/1817 at St. Mary’s Church, Swansea. In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Caroline Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’, was living with her brother William, Independent, ‘aged 35’, & her sisters Margaret, ‘aged 25’, & Eliza, ‘aged 20’ at Liverpool Street, St. Pancras, Middlx. - Caroline m. i) James Taylor at St. Pancras’ Old Church in 1843 (q.v.), & ii) James Goodman, widower (a dental surgeon in Taunton, Somerset), at Weymouth, Dorset, in 1874. - “James Goodman died in 1889 and in 1891 Caroline was living, though infirm, at 3 Linden Grove, Taunton”. Caroline Goodman died at Taunton in the June qtr. of 1894, aged 77. [See Caroline W. bap. at St. Sidwell’s Church, Exeter, in 1823.]
1817
Emily Colvile, 4th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 24/6/1817 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - Emily died at Lustleigh, Devon, on 14/1/1889, and is there buried.
1817
Dunbar Stewart Halkett, 2nd s. of John Halkett [b. 1768 in Scotland] & his 2nd wife, Lady Katharine Douglas [m. 1815], was b. 30/4/1817 at Seymour Place, London. - “He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, & took Holy Orders as deacon in 1841, and as priest 1842. In 1848 he became Rector of Little Bookham, Leatherhead, Surrey.” - The Rev. Dunbar Halkett m. Julia Elizabeth Ross [d. of the late Edward Dalhousie Ross, of George St., Westminster] at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in 1847. [Dunbar & Julia Halkett had 2 daughters: Katherine Euphemia (b. 1848 at New Church, I.o.W.), who was living unm. in London in 1898; & Jane, who was b. & died a few days before her mother’s death, on 23/4/1849. Both are buried at Petersham, Surrey.] - The Rev. Dunbar Stewart Halkett died at Little Bookham on 25/1/1887.
1817
Mary Wedderburn [b. 1786 in Jamaica, 2nd d. of John W. (b. 1743 in Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica, & now senior partner of Wedderburn & Co., London)] m. the Rev. John Wellings, M.D., ‘chaplain to the Countess of Selkirk’, at Marylebone parish church on 7/6/1817. - [The countess of Selkirk was Jean Wedderburn (b. 1786, d. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’) who had m. Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1807. (W.B. p. 307)] - Mary & the Rev. Wellings (who was a doctor before he took Holy Orders) had an only child, Katharine Mary [b. 27/12/1818 in London], who m. her cousin, John Stirling of Kippendavie (b. 19/8/1811), the e.s. of Mary’s younger sister, Catherine Georgina, & her husband Patrick Stirling (m. 1810, q.v.).]
1817
James Wedderburn [b. 1788 in Jamaica, elder s. of John W. (b. 1743 in Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica, & now senior partner Wedderburn & Co., London) & Mary Wisdom Bedward] m. his second cousin Isabella Lyon [b. 1796, 2nd d. of David Lyon of Portland Place, London, & Jamaica, & Isabella Read, of Angus, Scotland] at Marylebone Church on 5/7/1817. - “James was for many years a partner in Wedderburn & Co., retiring in 1830”. - He died at 8 Clarges St., Piccadilly, on 23/4/1831, and was buried with his father in the vault of St. James’ Chapel. - His only child, John Kellerman Wedderburn (b. 1818), was his heir. - His widow Isabella m. ii) on 8/11/1836, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, Capt. Fremantle, R.N. [afterwards Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, G.C.B.]. - Isabella died on 26/12/1876. (W.B. p. 346) - [Margaret Griselda Wedderburn (b. 1884, younger d. of Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Bt. of Balindean, b. 1838, & Mary Blanche Hoskyns, m.1878) m. Sir Charles’s great-nephew, Capt. Charles Albert Fremantle, D.S.O., R.N. (ret.), (4th s. of the Hon. Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B.) on 19/4/1906. (She died on 21/3/1918.)
1818
Maria Webb, ‘d. of William Webb & Prudence Sarah’, bap. 8/3/1818 at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone. - [This is the only Maria Webb who was bap. in 1818. (See m. of Christopher W. & Maria Webb on 27/9/1839.) - No marriage of a William Webb & ‘Prudence Sarah’ found.]
1818
John Kellerman Wedderburn, only child of James W. [b. 1788 in Jamaica] & Isabella Lyon [m. 1817], was b. 13/2/1818 in Upper Seymour St., London, & bap. 25/3/1818 at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone. [John is a grandson of John W. (b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of “Spring Garden”, Jamaica, & from 1801 until his death in 1820, senior partner of Wedderburn & Co. at 35 Leadenhall St., London.] - “In 1836, after Eton & Oxford, he joined the 2nd Life Guards as a cornet. In Nov. 1837 he went on leave of absence to visit his estates in Jamaica, which he had inherited on his father’s death in 1831. In June 1838 he rejoined his regiment and later went to India with the 9th Lancers. - John m. Charlotte McMahon at Bombay in 1843 (q.v.). He left the army & subsequently lived in London”. - [John & Charlotte had 2 daughters.] - John Kellerman Wedderburn died at 41 Cadogan Place, London, on 4/6/1891, aged 73. Charlotte died at 99 Sloane St., London, on 4/4/1894, aged 71, leaving a Will. [Probate was granted to Lionel Westropp McMahon & Edward Hanson Freshfield. - Estate valued at £31,364. ]
1818
Lydia Wedderburn [b. c1799, bap. 1816 (q.v.)] & Hugh Wilson, both of this parish, were m. at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, by Banns, on 10/5/1818. The marriage was conducted by the Revd. William James Aislabie in the presence of James Hutchison & Francis Greville. Hugh Wilson of Bassinghall Street, Ciry of London, was buried in the parish of St. Michael, Bassishaw on 25/8/1823, aged 62. - Lydia Wilson, widow, m. James Douglas in 1829. She was a witness at the marriage of her sister Sarah Wedderburn to John Dugdale that same year (q.v.), & Lydia ‘Duglas’ was the informant of their sister Hope Wedderburn’s death in 1837, aged 35.]
1818
Henry Weatherburn, [5th but 3rd surv.] s. of Robert W. [Engineer, bap. 1780 at Newcastle upon Tyne Groat Market Meeting-NC] & Isabel Wilson [m. 1804 at Bedlington as ‘Wheatherburn’ ], was b. 28/5/1818. Henry Wedderburn [sic], m. Maria Nash at Berkhamsted parish church, Herts., in 1839 (q.v.). [They had 7 sons & a daughter, all bap. as Weatherburn.] - Henry was an Engineer on the South-Eastern Railway & had driven the locomotive “Harvey Coombe” during the building of the London & Birmingham railway c1838. - He is probably the Henry Weatherburn who asked for an invitation to the funeral of Robert Stephenson (b. 1803, q.v.) in Westminster Abbey on 21/10/1859. Henry Weatherburn died at Redhill on 25/8/1873, aged 56. - He left a Will, written on 21/10/1868, which was proved on 12/9/1873 by his e.s. William W. of Redhill [b. 1842] & Henry’s brother James Weatherburn of Birkenhead (Chester) [b. 1827], Engineers, who were the executors. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 522, Note I (j), under ‘References to the name of Weatherburn’. - One of the two witnesses was ‘R. Bunce, Station Master, Reading, of Reigate branch of South Eastern Railway’. - See Henry’s Will.) - In the 1881 Census, Maria, a widow aged 64 (‘b. Berkhamsted, Herts’), was living at 4 Ladbrooke Villas, Ladbrooke Rd., Reigate, Surrey, with her sons Robert & Frederick & daughter Maria. - Maria (& her daughter Maria) died in 1896 (q.v.).
1818
Charles Halkett, 3rd s. of John Halkett [b. 1768 in Scotland] & his 2nd wife, Lady Katharine Douglas [m. 1815], was b. 9/6/1818 at Brighton, Sussex. - ‘He died in infancy’.
1818
John Andrew Wedderburn-Ogilvy [b. 2/7/1818 at Islabank (later reverting to ‘Ruthven’), Perthshire, Scotland, 4th s. of Peter W-Ogilvy (b. 1781) & Anna Ogilvy (m. 1811)] m. Jessie Stewart Gray, at Edinburgh in 1860. - They had 7 sons & 4 daughters. On the death of his brother Thomas (b. 1814), in 1899, John Andrew W-O became the heir presumptive to the baronetcy of Balindean. - He died in 1906 (while Sir William W., the 4th Bt., was still living), so it was his 3rd (but, by then, e. surviving) son, also John Andrew (b. 16/9/1866) who became the 5th Bt. of Balindean on Sir William’s death in 1918. - [Sir John reversed his surnames and became ‘Wedderburn-Ogilvy’.] - It is his descendant, Sir Andrew John Alexander Ogilvy-Wedderburn (b. 4/8/1952) who is the present (7th) Bt. of Balindean.
1818
James Hay Wedderburne [unidentified] m. Elener Osborn at St. Pancras’ Old Church on 31/8/1818. [Perhaps James is a descendant of James W. (b. 1710) & Jean Hay, m. 1744 at Eyemouth, Berwick? ]
1818
Jane Weatherburn [unidentified] m. Thomas Dodd at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 22/12/1818. [An Ann Weatherburn m. Thomas Dodds at Jarrow on 24/12/1796.
1819
Eden Colvile, 4th & ygst. [but ultimately only surv.] s. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 12/2/1819, at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - “He joined his father’s business, being the last representative of the old West India House of the Wedderburns [originally ‘Webster & Co.’] of which his father had long been the head”. - Eden m. at Montreal, in Dec. 1845, Annie Maxwell [d. of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell of Montreal] but by her had no issue. He was Governor of the Red River Settlement under the Hudson Bay Company….. and visited Vancouver Island. He returned to England in 1852 and on his father’s death, in 1856, he succeeded to most of his directorships and to the management of much West India business for members of his family and for himself. Few men have been more respected in all relations of life….”. Eden Colvile died on 2/4/1893, “while visiting his sister at Lustleigh, Devon, and is buried there”. [His sisters Jean (b. 1820), Charlotte (b. 1823) & Isalen (b. 1825) were all living at Lustleigh in 1893.] - “On his death, the representation of his grandfather, James Wedderburn of Inveresk, devolved on the descendants of his uncle, Peter Wedderburn-Ogilvy” (b. 1781).
1819
Henry Halkett, 4th s. of John Halkett [b. 1768 in Scotland] & his 2nd wife, Lady Katharine Douglas [m. 1815], was b. 6/6/1819 at Mortlake ‘or in London’. - “He was bred to the Bar, but his health being weak, made a voyage to Canada to benefit it. He later went with his father and brother Peter to Malta”. - He died there in 1849, and is there buried.
1820
Charles Francis Webster-Wedderburn, 2nd [but e. surv.] s. of [Sir] James W-W [b. 1788, knighted 1821] & Lady Frances Annesley [m. 1810], was b. 1/7/1820 in Piccadilly. - “He was educated at Charterhouse (a ‘gown-boy’, 1831), then joined the army and served in India (two medals). For a time, later, he was Governor of the Borough Gaol at Armley, Yorks.” - Charles m. three times: i) Mary Ann Taylor, at Agra, Bengal, in 1846 (who died in 1848); ii) Ann Helyar, in Somerset in 1849 (who died in 1883); & iii) Emily Honoria Helyar [?Ann’s cousin] in London in 1885 (q.v.). - [By his first wife Charles had one child who died at birth, and by his second he had 5 sons & 4 daughters (several of them were b. in Yorks.). He had no issue by his third wife.] - Charles died at 74 Warrior Square, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, E. Sussex, on 28/2/1886 and was buried with his second wife, Ann, at Bournemouth. (W.B. p. 335) - His widow Emily died at 39 Upper Baker Street, Regent’s Park, London, on 9/6/1892, aged 59. - [Acc. to W.B. p. 336, Emily Honoria W-W (née Helyar), was living at 74 Warrior Square in 1897, but this is incorrect, as Admon. of the estate of Emilia Honoria Webster, of 74 Warrior Square, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea, was granted at London on 25/8/1892 to the Rev. Wyndham Hugh Helyar, clerk. - Effects were shown as £1330:1:7d but the Admon. was resworn, in Jan. 1896, and the amount increased to £1400.] - (Perhaps Emily dropped the ‘Wedderburn’ because Charles chose to be buried with his second wife, Ann?!)
1820
Jean Colvile, 5th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 21/8/1820 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - Jean died unm. at Lustleigh, Devon, in 1895, and is there buried.
1820
Sophia Phebe (sic) Wedderburn, e.d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 27/9/1820 & bap. 29/12/1822 at Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney. [Her parents were then living in Great Arthur Street. - Debrett’s research document No. 1)] - Sophia m. James Shuttleworth in 1838 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 506, footnote²) - [In March 1865, Emma Shuttleworth - probably James & Sophia Phoebe’s daughter - was a witness at the second marriage of Sophia Phoebe’s widowed sister Sarah, b. 1834.] - In the 1881 Census, Sophia Shuttleworth, Tailoress, ‘Head’, aged 59 (‘b. Bethnal Green’), was living at 3 Norfolk St., Bethnal Green, with her son Charles, a Drover, unm., aged 34, & daughter Sarah, a Tailoress, unm., aged 24 (both ‘b. Bethnal Green’).]. - [See Sophia Phebe’s baptism in 1822.]
1820
Peter Alexander Halkett, 5th s. of John Halkett [b. 1768 in Scotland] & his 2nd wife, Lady Katharine Douglas [m. 1815], was b. 16/10/1820 at Cheltenham. - “He entered the navy and obtained the China medal but seems to have retired early as his name was gazetted, 29/9/1864, among the retired lieutenants to be retired commanders. He had a taste for invention and was the inventor of the Halkett boat-cloak in 1848, and also of some agricultural implements. - He never married. - In the 1851 Census, P.A. Halkett, Lt. R.N. Half-Pay, unm. aged 30 (‘b. Cheltenham, Gloucs.’), was living with his widowed father, aged 81 (‘b. Fifeshire’), at A 13 Albany, St. James, Westminster. - In the 1861 Census, Peter Alex. Halkett, Lieut. R.N. Half-Pay, unm. aged 40 (‘b. Cheltenham, Gloucs.’), was a Visitor at the home of John V. O’Halloran, Lieut. Retired List, E.I.C.S., aged 50, at Courteney Villa, Milverton, Warwickshire. - Peter Alexander Halkett died at Horwood, Vansitttart Road, Torquay, Devon, on 23/3/1885, and was there buried. - His Will was proved on 9/9/1885 by his only surviving brother and sole executor, the Rev. D.S. Halkett (b. 1817), the probate describing him as formerly of Christchurch, Province of Canterbury, N.Z. but late of Horwood, Torquay”.
1820
John Wedderburn, 3rd s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 5/12/1820 in George St., Edinburgh, & bap. 7/8/1823. - “He entered the military service of the E. India Co. in 1838 and was subsequently in the Bengal Staff Corps, where he became a Major-General. - John m. i) in 1846, in Bengal, Matilda Costello [d. of Don Costello “a Spanish gentleman settled in India”]. - In the 1871 Census, John Wedderburn, Staff Capt., St. College Bengal, on Furlough, aged 50 (‘b. Edinburgh, Scotland’), & his wife Matilda, aged 48) (‘b. London, Middlx.’), were Boarders in the Boarding House kept by Marianne Tozer, a widow aged 64 (‘b. London’), at 271 Mare St., Hackney, Essex. - Matilda d.s.p. at 99 Earl’s Court Road, Kensington, in 1874, & John m. ii) Margaret Panton in 1875 (q.v.). - [He had no issue by either marriage.] - John died at 21 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Middlesex, on 4/1/1879. (W.B. p. 313, & footnote 4) - His Will was proved on 25/1/1879. - Personal Estate was valued at ‘under £1500’ but was re-sworn in Feb. 1879 as ‘under £4000’. - In the 1881 Census, John’s widow, Margaret Wedderburn, aged 29 (‘b. Surrey’), was living at 19 Haverstock Hill, Middlesex.
1820
John Wedderburn, Esq. [b. 1743, q.v.], senior partner of Wedderburn & Co., of 35 Leadenhall Street, died at Chigwell, Essex, on 29/12/1820, aged 77, leaving in his Will (proved in Feb. 1821) a legacy to ‘John Wedderburn, a free mulatto planter in Jamaica’. - In a codicil, he stated that any other beneficiary who objected to the terms of the Will would forfeit their inheritance! – John Wedderburn, Esq., was buried on 5/1/1821 in the parish of St. James, Westminster.
1821
Augustus George Henry Desiré Webster-Wedderburn, 3rd s. of Sir James W-W [b. 1788, knighted 1821] & Lady Frances Annesley [m. 1810], was b. in Nov. 1821 at Boulogne. - He died unm. in Jamaica in 1845, and is there buried.
1821
Andrew Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Maxwell], 4th & ygst. [& ultimately only surv.] s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 16/12/1821 at Edinburgh & bap. 9/3/1822. “He entered the Madras Civil Service in 1842”. - Andrew m. Joanna Keir [2nd d. of James Keir, M.D.] at Trinity (Episcopal) Chapel, Edinburgh, on 14/9/1847. - [They had 4 sons & 2 daughters, most of them born in India.] - On his retirement in 1878 Andrew returned to Scotland and, in 1879, he succeeded his cousin, James Clerk-Maxwell, in the estates of Middlebie, Dumfriesshire, and Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire, and ‘took the name and arms of Maxwell’. - Andrew died at Bath on 12/5/1896, and was buried at Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire. - On his death, his e.s., James Andrew Colvile Wedderburn (b. 1849, in India), succeeded to the estates and added the name Maxwell to his surname. [James m. Helen Mary Faussett-Osborne in Kent in 1891, q.v.] - “In 1898, Andrew’s widow Joanna was living in Oxford”. Joanna Wedderburn-Maxwell died at Headington [Oxford] in the Sept. qtr. of 1917, aged 91.
1822
Jacob Wedderburn, s. of Robert W., Tailor [unidentified*], & Mary [?Durham], of 3 Compton Street, bap. 14/1/1822 at St. Giles in the Fields. (LMA) - [See baptisms of Lydia & Hope Wedderburn, adult daus. of Robert & Mary W. in 1816. [*Robert W. ‘the Black Preacher’ (b. c1762 in Jamaica, who m. Elizabeth Ryan in London in 1781) is said to have been a Tailor but he was in Dorchester Gaol in Jan. 1822, having been imprisoned on 16 May 1820 for uttering blasphemy. He was not released until 1 May. However, if Jacob was an adult when he was bap., as were (his sisters?) Lydia & Hope, he may be the father - or is this Robert perhaps Robert’s son Robert ‘Wetherburn’, b. 1786?]
1822
Charles Webster-Wedderburn [b. 1799, 2nd s. of David W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1757, d. 1801) & Elizabeth Read (m. 1785)] m. Rebecca Chatterton [b. 1796, ygst. d. of Sir James Chatterton, Bt., of Castle Mahon, co. Cork] at Douglas Church, Cork, Ireland, on 11/12/1822. - They had a son & a daughter: Charles Adrian W-W. (b. 13/5/1824 at Lincroft Lodge, nr. York, who m. Frances Mary Huntley in 1851, q.v.), & Rebecca Georgina W-W. (b. 22/9/1834, who died in Paris in 1890). - In the 1841 Census, Rebecca, aged 35 (‘b. Ireland’), was living in the Precinct of Bedford Circus, Exeter, Devon, with her children: Charles, aged 15, & Rebecca aged 6. - Rebecca (senior) died on 22/6/1858 and was buried in Père de la Chaise cemetery in Paris. - In the 1861 Census, Charles W. Watson (sic), Retired Officer (Army), aged 56, was living at 13 Addington Sq., Camberwell, with his ‘wife’ Mary (both ‘b. London, Middlx.’) & daughter Ellen Watson, unm. aged 21 (‘b. Haggerstone, Middlx.’). - Charles died at 180 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Surrey, on 16/12/1863, & was buried in Norwood Cemetery. (The grave was purchased for him at his death by his uterine brother, William Douglas of Brigton. - W.B. p. 330 & footnote², & W.B. p. 332) - Letters of Admon. of the personal estate & effects of Charles Webster Wedderburn, formerly of Gloucester & of Brigton in the county of Forfar, N. Britain, but late of 13 Addington-square, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey, esquire, a widower, dec’d, who died at High Street, Camberwell, was granted at the Principal Registry to Charles Adrian W-W of 46 Walcot Square, Kennington, the Son of the deceased, having first been duly Sworn. - Effects under £20. - Resworn at the Principal Registry Under £200.
1822
Georgiana Mary Colvile, 6th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 21/2/1822 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - Georgiana m. Sir Frederick Rogers, Bt. (afterwards created Lord Blatchford) at Trinity Chapel, Dunfermline, Fife, on 29/9/1847. [They had no issue.] - “Lord Blatchford died on 21/11/1889 & in 1898 Georgiana was living at Blachford, Ivybridge, Devon”.
1822
Robert Weatherburn [unidentified] was buried in the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, Westminster, on 2/8/1822, aged 70.
1822
John Wedderburn [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858 - 2nd s. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780) m. Henrietta Louisa Milburn (only surv. child of William Milburn, of the East India Company) on 7/9/1822 at St. Thomas’s Church, Bombay. - John & Henrietta had 4 sons & 5 daughters: Alicia Henrietta (b. 1823, who m. her cousin, Lt.-Col. (afterwards General) Sir William Hope, Bt., in 1862 - he succeeded his brother, Sir John Hope, as 14th Bt. of Craighall, and inherited ‘Pinkie’, in 1892); John (b. 1825, who was killed, with his wife and child, in the Indian Mutiny of 1857); Elizabeth (b. 1827, d. 1876 at Harrogate); Margaret (b. 1828, d. unm. 1874); William (b. & d. 1830); Mary Ann (b. 1832, d. 1833); David (b. 1835, afterwards 3rd Bt. of Balindean); another William (b. 1838, afterwards 4th Bt. of Balindean); & Louisa Jane (b. 1842, who m. Edward Hope Percival of the Indian Civil Service in 1869). - John retired on 1/5/1837 and he and his wife & children returned from India. They lived for many years at Keith House, co. Haddington, spending the spring of each year at ‘Meredith’, nr. Tibberton, Gloucestershire (which his wife had inherited from a maternal uncle of that name). - On the death of his half-brother, Sir David W., 1st Bt. of Balindean (b. 1775) on 7/4/1858 (with no surviving issue), John succeeded him as 2nd Bt. of Balindean. - In the 1861 Census, John Wedderburn, Baronet, Landed Proprietor, fund-holder, retired Indian Civil Servant, aged 72 (‘b. Scotland’), was living at Meredith Cottage, Tibberton, with his wife Henrietta Louisa, Proprietor’s Wife, aged 57 (‘b. London, Middlesex’); their daughters Margaret, unm. aged 32 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’) & Louisa Jane, aged 15 (‘b. Scotland’), and 8 Servants. - Sir John died at 4 Chichester Terrace, Brighton, Sussex (where he had been visiting a friend, Mr. George Ashburner, one of the executors of his Will - see ‘Ashburner.doc’), on 2/7/1862. - He was succeeded as 3rd Bt. of Balindean by his 3rd s. David (b. 1835, at Bombay) who died unm. at Inveresk Lodge, Midlothian, on 18/9/1882. (David was succeeded by his brother William, b. 1838.) - (W.B. pp. 295 & 298-301) - In the 1871 Census, Henrietta L. Wedderburn, Baronet’s widow, Landowner, aged 67 (‘b. Bow, London’), was living at ‘Meredith’, Tibberton (next-door to ‘Meredith Cottage’), with her son Sir David, Baronet, Member of Parliament, unm. aged 44; Elizabeth, unm. aged 44; Margaret, unm. aged 42; ‘Visitor’ Claudius William Bell, East India Civil Service, unm. aged 34 (all ‘b. Bombay, East Indies’); & 5 Servants. In the 1881 Census, Henrietta Wedderburn, Baronet’s widow aged 76 (b. London), was a ‘Visitor’ at the home of Mary, Lady Hope, Earl’s daughter, a widow aged 70 (b. Donegal, Ireland - a daughter of the 5th Earl of Hopetoun, e.s. of the late John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, & Louisa Dorothea W., b. 1786), at 7 Ovington Gardens, Kensington, London. - Henrietta Louisa Wedderburn died there on 7/4/1881, aged 77, and was buried at Tibberton, Gloucestershire.
1822
Mary Ann Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - b. 1846], bap. 22/12/1822 at St. Luke’s, Old Street, Finsbury. [The bap. reg. shows that Mary Ann was b. at Great Arthur St. on 18/9/1822. (She is not shown amongst the daughters of Jabez & Sophia listed in footnote² on W.B. p. 506. - Maybe she was bap. because she was ill, and subsequently died, as her 2-year-old sister Sophia Phebe (b. 1820) was bap. a week later at a different church. (See next entry.)]
1822
Sophia Phebe (sic) Wedderburn eldest d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], bap. 29/12/1822 at Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney. [The bap. reg. shows that Sophia was b. 27/9/1820. (Her parents were then living in Great Arthur Street. - Debrett’s research document No. 1)] - Sophia m. James Shuttleworth in 1838 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 506, footnote²) - In the 1881 Census, Sophia Shuttleworth, Tailoress, ‘Head’, aged 59 (‘b. Bethnal Green’), was living at 3 Norfolk St., Bethnal Green, with her son Charles, a Drover, unm., aged 34, & daughter Sarah, a Tailoress, unm., aged 24 (both ‘b. Bethnal Green’).]
1823
Caroline Wedderburn [b. 28/2/1817 at Swansea & bap. at St. Mary’s Church there on 28/3/1817, q.v)], 5th & ygst. d. of Alexander Wedderburn [Coachman, bap. 1782 at B- on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’ - afterwards Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter] & Ruth House [m. 1804], was bap. [again] on 17/8/1823 at St. Sidwell, Exeter. [See entry under 1817.]
1823
Ann Wedderburn, of Queens Head Walk, Shoreditch, was buried at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, Hackney, on 20/1/1823, aged 60.
1823
Elizabeth Weatherburn, of Portland Square [?who m. Thomas Thorn at Tower Hamlets in 1781], was buried at St. James, Piccadilly, Westminster, on 16/11/1823, aged 80.
1823
Charlotte Colvile, 7th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 18/12/1823 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - “In 1897 Charlotte was living at Lustleigh, Devon”.
1823
Sarah Wedderburn [unidentified - but perhaps née Holt (widow of David W., seaman of H.M.SS. “Volage” & “Resistance”, who m. in 1806 & died 1814?] m. Benjamin Waterman at Christ Church, Greyfriars, Newgate, London, on 20/12/1823.
1824
John Weatherburn, s. of Thomas W. [bap. 1787 at Alnwick (Farmer, of Snab Leazes, Longhoughton, Northumberland)], & Mary Hudson [m. 1823 at Hebron, Northumberland ], was bap. on 15/4/1824 at Alnwick, Northumberland. – John became a Customs’ Officer in London. - He m. Margaret Dunn [d. of George Dunn, Mariner] at Tynemouth in 1855 (q.v.). - [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters.] - John Weatherburn (shown in Misc. Refs. on W.B. p. 508 as John Wedderburn ‘formerly of Homerton, but late of Essex’) died at 1 Kings Rd., Upton Park, Essex, on 3/11/1889. - Admon. of his Will (with codicil) was granted to his widow Margaret.
1824
Isabella Weatherburn [unidentified] m. William Yapp at St. James, Westminster, on 13/4/1824.
1824
Charles Adrian Webster-Wedderburn, [only] s. of Charles W. [b. 1799 in London] & Rebecca Chatterton [m. 1822 in Ireland], was b. 13/5/1824 at Lincroft Lodge, nr. York. - In the 1841 Census, Charles, aged 15, was was living with his mother & sister Rebecca in the Precinct of Bedford Circus, Exeter, Devon. - He m. Frances Mary Huntley in London in 1851 (q.v.). - [They had a daughter & a son.] - “Charles was a Captain in the 27th Foot Rgt. & also, at one time, Chief Constable for Monmouthshire”. - [In December 1863, when Charles Adrian was granted Letters of Admon. on the death of his father, he was living at 46 Walcot Square, Kennington, Surrey.] - Frances died in London on 16/12/1874, & was buried at Norwood. - Charles Adrian died on 16/1/1885 “from his injuries after falling between the platform and a moving train at Farringdon St. Station three days earlier”.
1824
John Walter Wedderburn, e.s. of John W. [b. 1798, afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823, at Airlie, Angus], bap. 5/8/1824 at Beddington, Surrey. “John Walter was born on 20/7/1824. He entered the army and became a Captain in the 42nd Highlanders (the Black Watch), with whom he served in the West Indies and elsewhere. - He m. Margaret Ann Whaite [d. of Thomas Waite, lieut., 94th regt., & Sara Elizabeth Paton, d. of Capt. E. Paton of the 42nd Regt.] at Castle Eden, co. Durham, on 27/4/1854. - [They had 2 sons & a daughter, all b. in Scotland.] - John Walter died at Blairgowrie, Perth, in 1879. (W.B. pp. 349) - In the 1881 Census, Margaret, a widow aged 44 (‘b. Ireland’), was living at Marfield, Blairgowrie, with her only daughter, Helen Margaret Ogilvy W. (b. 1857), unm. aged 23, & her younger son, Charles David St. Clair W. (b. 1864), a Scholar aged 17, (both ‘b. Rosslyn, Edinburgh’); with a ‘Visitor’ Janetta Jameson, aged 18 (‘b. Kirkcaldy, Fife’), & a Servant. - “In 1898, Margaret was still living at Marfield”.
1824
James William Wedderburn, e.s. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was bap. on 7/11/1824 at Christ Church, Spitalfields, Stepney. [The bap. reg. shows that his parents were then living in Fort St.] - In the 1841 Census, James, a Scalemaker aged 16, was living with his parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - James m. Mary Ann Barrow in 1843 (q.v.). - [They had 5 sons & 3 daughters.] - Acc. to W.B. p. 506, James was born ‘about 1821’ & died ‘before 1872’. - He is the James Wedderburn who died (from epilepsy) on Christmas Day 1869, aged 46, at Alderbury Lunatic Asylum, Fisherton Anger, Salisbury. [James’s death is shown in Misc. Refs. (English Records) on W.B. p. 508 but he is not identified and the date of his death is given incorrectly as 31/3/1869.] - The Alderbury records show that James Wedderburn, a scalemaker aged 44, was admitted to the asylum on 4 June 1867, from Newington Workhouse (previous place of abode, 32 Wellington Street, London S.E.), and that in 1869 James’s wife Mary Ann was living at 10 John Street, East Street, Newington. - Mary Ann Wedderburn m. ii) Joseph Wright, 1872 (q.v.).
1824
Alice Weatherburn [b. 1786 at Berwick on-Tweed, 2nd d. of William W. (Customs Officer, b. c1752, d. 1818) & Margaret [?Nesbit - m. not found - d. 1842] m. George Steel at St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlx., on 9/11/1824. (LMA) - They had a daughter Margaret Steel (bap. 14/5/1826 at Wells Street Scotch Church, St. Marylebone, London). - In the 1841 Census, George Steel, a Wood Pattern Maker ‘aged 50’, & Alice ‘aged 50’ (neither ‘b. in the county’), were living with Margaret ‘aged 15’ (‘b. in the county’), at St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell, Middlx.
1825
Isalen Mary Colvile, 8th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 21/6/1825 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - “In 1897 Isalen was living at Lustleigh, Devon”.
1825
James Alexander Wedderburn, 2nd s. of John W. [b. 1798, afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823 at Airlie, Angus], was b. 1/8/1825 at Beddington, Surrey. - “James Alexander was educated privately and at Haileybury College, Herts., the training college for the East India Company. He entered the Company’s service at Madras in 1848, having m. Marion Melvill in London in 1848 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons & 2 daughters.] - James died at Chingleput, India, on 19/5/1854 - 2½ months before the birth of his younger son in London. [This (only surviving) younger son, Alexander (b. 1854, q.v.), is the author of the ‘Wedderburn Book’ pub. for Private Circulation in 1898.] - (W.B. pp. 350-51) - Marion Wedderburn, of ‘The Hoo’, Willingdon, Sussex, died on 17/9/1914, aged 88. Effects valued at £21,015.7s.1d.
1826
David Ogilvy Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. s. of John W. [b. 1798, afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823, at Airlie, Angus], bap. 1/8/1826 at Beddington, Surrey. - “David was born on 18/7/1826. He entered the army and was a lieutenant in the 27th native infantry in India. - He was killed by a rogue elephant on 2/9/1853, while out hunting. He was unmarried”.
1826
John Wedderburn [b. 1807, 2nd but e. surv. s. of William W. (b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen) & Hannah Miller, m. 1805] m. Hannah Trowbridge at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, on 31/10/1826. (W.B. p. 489, where it says that John & Hannah were m. ‘1826-1830’ - and that ‘John was in business in Blackfriars’.) - The baptismal reg. entries for their children show that John was a Fishmonger. (Westminster City archives & Guildhall) - John & Hannah had 4 sons & 5 daughters (not 2 sons & 4 daughters as shown on W.B. p. 489): John Weddeburn (sic - b. 1830, d. 1833); Hannah (b. c1832, m. - as ‘Anna’ Wedderburn - 1872); Sophia Louisa (b. 1834, d. 1838); Charles (b. 1836, d. 1838); Eliza Frederica (b. 1837, m. 1859); William (b. 1840, m. 1861); Alfred (b. 1842, d. 1866); Emily (b. 1844. d. 1908); & Clara (b. 1846, m. 1874). - In the 1841 Census, John, a Fishmonger ‘aged 35’, was living at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, with Hannah, ‘aged 35’; Hannah, aged 9; Louisa [sic - Eliza] aged 3, & William, aged 1 [but shown, incorrectly, as aged 3]. - In the 1851 Census, John, a Fish-porter, aged 43 (‘b. Cambridge’), was living at 12 Printing House Lane, with Hannah, aged 45 (‘b. Dorset, Blandford’); Eliza, a Scholar aged 13 (‘b. St. Martin’s, Middlx.’); William, a Scholar, aged 10; Alfred, aged 8; Emily, aged 6; & Clara, aged 4 (all ‘b. City of London’). - Hannah Wedderburn died at 12 Printing House Lane, City of London, on 20/10/1860, aged 54. (Death cert. - E. Wedderburn - Hannah’s daughter Emily, b. 1844, was the ‘informant’.) - In the 1861 Census, John, aged 56, was living with his mother Hannah (née Miller), a widow aged 80 (‘b. Cambridge’) at the Carlisle St. Alms House, Lambeth. - John, an Almsman, died suddenly in Lambeth on 22/3/1870, aged 63.
1826
Jane Weatherburn (née Davis) wife of John W. [m. 1804, q.v.] died at Greenwich: “1826: Weatherburn, Jane (formerly Davis), Kent. Nov. Admon. Consist. Court, London”. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 523, Note II - though it should be in Note I) - The ‘Admon.’ (in the London Metropolitan Archives) reads: “On 8 Nov. 1826 administration of all and singular of Jane Weatherburn formerly Davis Spinster late of Greenwich Kent deceased was granted to John Weatherburn the lawful husband of the deceased’. - Estate valued at £100. - [Was John a brother of William, b. 1779 in Scotland? - William died in 1843 at 28 Marsham St., Westminster, where several members of a ‘Davis’ family were living in 1841.]
1827
Caroline Colvile, 9th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 1/2/1827 at Langley Farm, Beckenham, Kent. - “Caroline died at Craigflower, Fife, on 5/6/1846, and is buried at Crombie”.
1827
Jabez Wedderburn, 2nd s. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], bap. 29/4/1827 at St. Olave’s, Southwark. [In the W.B. it shows Jabez ‘b. 1828’ but the bap. reg. shows that he was b. 1/3/1827. - His parents were‘of Joiner St.’] - In the 1841 Census, Jabez, aged 14, was living with his parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - Jabez m. Harriett Bassom in 1846 (q.v.). - [They had 9 sons & 3 daughters.] - Jabez died at 46 Blackheath Rd., Greenwich, Kent, on 5/1/1882, leaving a Will, proved on 13/2/1882. - His widow Harriett was the Executrix. - Estate valued at £320. Harriett died in 1897 (q.v.).
1827
George Gordon Gerald Trophime de Lally-Tollendal Webster-Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. s. of Sir James W. [b. 1788, knighted 1821] & Lady Frances Annesley [m. 1810], was b. 12/12/1827 in Paris. - “Among his godparents were the Duchess of Richmond & M. de Lally Tollendal, from whom he took his second & fifth names”. [The Marquis de Tolly Lallendal, a Peer of France, was the husband of Elizabeth Charlotte Wedderburn ‘or Halkett’ (b. 12/12/1758, only d. of Sir John Wedderburn-Halkett, b. 1720, & his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher, m. 1758. (W.B. p. 388)] - In the 1841 Census, George Wedderburn, aged 14, was a Pupil, living with his sister Lucy Bishop, ‘aged 25’ (neither’ born on the county’), & her husband Alfred Bishop, Clergyman, ‘aged 35’; their (then) 2 sons: Henry Bishop, aged 2, & Herbert Bishop, aged 1 (all ‘b. in the county’); 3 other Pupils & 3 female Servants. - “George joined the Army and was a lieut. in the 24th Regt. but exchanged in 1851 into the 76th, and was afterwards a major in the 7th Fusiliers, and staff officer of pensioners at Newcastle-under-Lyme”. - He m. Caroline Teresa Dixon [b. 1827 in Corfu, d. of Captain William Dixon, R.A] at Corfu in 1853 (q.v.). - [They had 7 daughters.] - George died at Abington Abbey, Northants., on 20/8/1875, aged 47. (W.B. p. 334 - with corrections from John Stewart via Peter Garwood’s e-mail of 12/9/2000 included.] - George Webster Wedderburn of Arundel Villa, Sydenham - ‘removed from Northants’ - was buried on 25/8/1875 at Norwood Cemetery (South Metropolitan Cemetery), Norwood Road, Lambeth.
1828
Jacob Wedderburn [Scalemaker, b. 1806, 4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’] m. Mary Elizabeth Williams [d. of Benjamin Williams, Carpenter] in the United Parishes of Christ Church & St. Leonard, Foster Lane, in the City of London on 8/10/1828. - They had 3 sons & 3 daughters: Mary Ann (b. 1829); Jacob (b. 1834, d. 1846); Hope (b. 1835, d. 1839); William (b. 1837, d. 1839); Joseph (b. 1839, d. 1869) & Elizabeth (b. 1841, bap. 1850, m. 1886). - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Jacob W., a Scale Maker ‘aged 35’, was living at Eagle Court, St. James, Clerkenwell, Middlx., with Mary, ‘aged 30’; ‘Marian’ aged 12; Jacob, aged 7; & Joseph, aged 1. - [Jabez William W. (b. 1849), who gave ‘A.W.’ information about the family, “was positive that there were no living descendants of his great-uncle Jacob”. - However, both of Jacob’s surviving daughters married: Mary Ann m. William Matthew Tennant in 1858 & Elizabeth Hannah (‘or Susannah’) m. John Charles Aubrey in 1886 (q.v.). - Jacob died at 25 Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, on 20/12/1841, aged 35. - His widow, Mary, m. ii) William Henry Partridge in 1843 (q.v.).
1829
Mary Ann Wedderburn, e.d. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Elizabeth [Williams, m. 1828], bap. 24/5/1829 at St. Sepulchre, London. In the 1841 Census, ‘Marion’ Wedderburn, aged 12, was living with her parents & 2 younger siblings at Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, Mary Ann, unm. aged 22 (‘b. Clerkenwell, Middlx.’), was a House Servant in the household of Alfred Barwick, a Plumber aged 31 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.) - Mary Ann m. William Matthew Tennant in 1858 (q.v.).
1829
Margaret Agnes Colvile, 10th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 18/7/1829 at Craigflower, Fife. - Margaret Agnes Colvile m. the Rev. Charles Kegan Paul in 1856 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons & 3 daughters.] - In 1898 the Kegan Paul family was living in London. (W.B. p. 309) - Margaret died on 30/3/1905.
1829
Elizabeth Seymour Wedderburn, Infant [unidentified], of Angel Terrace, was buried at Pentonville Chapel, St. James, Clerkenwell, on 31/7/1829.
1829
Elizabeth Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Jabez W., Scale Maker (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 20/7/1829 & bap. 13/12/1829 at St. Saviour, Southwark. [The bap. reg. shows that her parents were of Fishmonger Alley.] - Elizth. Wedderburn, of West Street, was buried at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, on 1/1/1833, aged 3. (LMA) - [Jabez & Sophia’s 4th daughter, b. 1834 (q.v.), was named Eliza.]
1829
Matilda Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [b. 1803 in Edinburgh, 7th d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1793)] m. Captain Robert Matthew Isacke ‘of Foreland Lodge’, Kent, at Birkhill, Fife, on 11/9/1829. (Acc. to one source they were m. at St. Peter’s Church, Isle of Thanet, on 20/1/1829, The Times Newspaper & the W.B. show that the marriage took place at Birhill.] - Robert Matthew Isacke [b. 20/3/1803, elder s. of Capt. Matthew Isacke (b. 1767 at St. Helena, d. 1831) of North Foreland Lodge, Isle of Thanet, & Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, Kent, & Margaret Steell, only d. of Robert Steell of Finsbury Sq., London, & Baldastard, Largo, Fife] was in the naval service of the East India Company. (W.B. p. 182) - (In a “Biography of E. India Co. shipowners”, pub. 1999, it shows that Matthew, s. of Gabriel Isacke & Sarah, was b. 16/11/1767 & bap. 12/1/1768 at St. Helena. He was a seaman on the “Dublin” 1784-85, midshipman on the same ship 1788-89, then 4th mate on the “Kent”.) - Robert & Matilda had 4 sons & 2 daughters: Mary Harriet Isacke (b. 1832, who m. Charles Morse, barrister-at- law in 1854); Matthew Henry George Isacke (b. 1834, d. unm. 1856); Margaret Louisa Isacke (b. 1836,who m. J. Hardy, Capt. in the 9th Lancers, in 1869 in Paris); Robert James Isacke (b. 1837, d. unm. 1869); Frederick William Isacke (b. 1839, d. unm.); & Henry Wedderburn Isacke (b. 1841, living 1897 at North Foreland Lodge’), who m. Louisa, d. of Rev. --- Chesshyre, Canon of Canterbury, in 1865 at Canterbury. [W.B. p. 182, footnote¹, & Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Chesshyre (‘formerly Isacke of North Foreland Lodge’)] - In the 1841 Census, Matilda Isacke, aged 33 (‘b. Scotland’), was living at North Foreland Lodge, St. Peter, Ramsgate, Kent, with her husband Robert Isacke, Independent, aged 35; Margaret Isacke, aged 5; Robert Isacke, aged 3 (all ‘b. in the county’), Margaret Bond, aged 37 (‘not b. in the county’); Matilda’s sister Jannette Widderburn (sic), aged 35 (‘b. Scotland’); & 6 Servants. - Matilda Isacke died at North Foreland Lodge, Broadstairs, Kent [which subsequently became a girls’ private school], on 3/12/1864. - Capt. Robert Matthew Isacke died there on 6/3/1896. - Both were buried at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, Kent.
1829
Lydia Wilson, Widow (née Wedderburn - bap. as an adult in 1816, q.v., widow of Hugh Wilson, m. 1818, d. 1823l), & James Douglas, Widower, both of this parish, were married in the Parish of Saint Pancras, Middlx., by Banns on 21/9/1829. [Both signed their names.] - (LMA) - In the 1851 Census, James Douglas, Tailor, aged 52 (‘b. Newcastle on Tyne’), was living with Lydia, aged 53, ‘Blind’ (‘b. Covent Garden’), & their Grandson John Stephens, aged 8 (‘b. St. Martins, Middlx.’), at 9 Searle’s Place, Liberty of the Rolls, St. Thomas, Finsbury, Middlx. – [Lydia Douglas was a witness to the marriage of PatienceWedderburn, widow (née Taylor, dau. of Robert Tyalor, Brass Finisher, at the Church of St. John, Clerkenwell, on 12/8/1845 (q.v.).]
1829
Sarah Wedderburn [her bap. not found but see those of Lydia & Hope W. in 1816] m. John Lambert Dugdale at St. Anne’s, Soho, Westminster, by Banns, on 24/11/1829. Sarah’s sister Hope Wedderburn (bap. as an adult in 1816) was one of the witnesses. - Hope died on 22/10/1837, aged 35, with Sarah & their sister Lydia Douglas both mentioned in her Will. (‘London Will’ No. 20, W.B. Vol. II, p. 519.)] - In the 1841 Census, Sarah Dugdale, aged 36 (‘b. in the county’), was living with her husband John Lambert Dugdale, Bookseller, aged 36 (‘not b. in the county’), & Lydia Wilson, Feathermaker, aged 17 (‘b. in the county’), at Frederick’s Place, St. Pancras, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, Sarah Dugdale, aged 47 (‘b. St. James, Westminster’), was living at 50 Holywell Street, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, with her husband John, a Bookseller aged 47 (‘b. Stockport’); Lydia Stevens, Niece, Artificial Florist, married, aged 27 (‘b. St. Clement Danes’); & a Visitor, Christopher Moores, Bookseller, a widower aged 34 (‘b. St. Luke, Middlx.’)
1830
George Weatherborne (sic), s. of Alice W. [unidentified], was b. 18/7/1830 in the Islington Workhouse & bap. 10/8/1831 at St. James, Clerkenwell, Islington.
1830
John Weddeburn [sic], e.s. of John Wedderburn [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah Trowbridge [m. 1826, d. 1860], bap. 11/10/1830 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. [John is not shown in the list of John & Hannah’s children on W.B. p. 489.] - His baptism took place exactly a week before that of Christopher (Stewart) Wedderburn (see next entry). - The baptismal register shows that John was born at Hungerford Market and that his father John was a Fishmonger. - John Wedderburn, of 43 Tufton Street (his grandparents’ address - see next entry), was buried at St. John-the-Evangelist, Westminster, on 15/12/1833, aged 3.
1830
Christopher Wedderburn, [4th & ygst.] s. of William W. [b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge], bap. 18/10/1830 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. [The bap. register shows that Christopher was ‘stated to be b. 29/10/1813’ (q.v.). - His father William’s ‘abode’ was given as Tufton St., Westminster, & his occupation as ‘fishmonger’.] - Christopher m. Maria Webb in 1839 (q.v.). - [They had 6 daughters & a son.]
1830
John Weatherburn [Marine Engine Fitter, bap. 1809 at Sunderland ] m. (his cousin) Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807 at Earsdon by North Shields, Northumberland, e.d. of James W. (Husbandman, b. 1770) & Jane Hunter (m. 1803)] at Monkwearmouth, Durham, on 21/11/1830. They had 8 sons & 4 daughters, the first 4 children born in Sunderland and the others in London: James (bap. 1831, who m. Sarah Ann Lee in 1864); Priscilla (bap. 1833, who m. Thomas Green in 1867); Jane (bap. 1834, d. 1836 in London); William (b. 1836, d. 1839 in London); Elizabeth (b. 1838, m. Walter Marins in 1860); John (b. 1840, m. Elizabeth Muddiman in 1870 & d. 1880); another William (b. 1842, m. Mary Ann Hudson in 1865); Francis (b. 1846, d. before 1851; Robert (b. 1848, m. Jane Catherine Morris in 1878); Thomas (d. Mar. 1849); another Thomas (b. 1850, d. 1852); & Frances Ann (b. 1852, m. Thomas Williams in 1870). - In the 1841 Census, John, an Engineer aged 32, was living at 10 Red Lion Place, St. John, Wapping, with Ann, aged 34; James, aged 9; Priscilla, aged 7; Elizabeth, aged 3; & John, aged 1. (John, Ann & James are shown as ‘not b. in the county’ & the others as ‘b. in the county’). - [Also living at the same address (but with the Sadler family) was Thomas Weatherburn, ‘I.F’ (Iron Founder), aged 18, who is apparently Ann’s brother Thomas Martin Jeffery Weatherburn (bap. 1823 at Gateshead as Wedderburn, who m. Emma Wright in 1846 & d. in 1849), but he may have been Ann’s son.] - In the 1851 Census, John, an Engineer aged 42 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, with Ann, aged 43 (‘b. Blyth’); James, a Moulder aged 19; Priscilla, a Nurse aged 18; Elizabeth, aged 12; John, aged 10; William, aged 8; Robert, aged 2; & Thomas, aged 5 mths. - In the 1861 Census, John was probably at sea as Ann Weatherburn, Wife, aged 54, was living at 14 Bower Street, Stepney, with James, an Iron Moulder aged 29; Priscilla, aged 28 (both ‘b. Sunderland’); John, an Engineer aged 20; William, a Plumber aged 18 (both ‘b. Wapping’); Robert, a Scholar aged 12; & Frances A., a Scholar aged 8 (both ‘b. Shadwell’). - [In 1865, John (senior), of 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Middlx., was granted Admon. of his brother Francis’s ‘goods’ when Francis (b. 1824 in Sunderland) died at that address.] - In the 1871 Census, John, Marine Engineer, aged 62 (‘b. Sunderland, Durham’), was living at 2 Thames Street, Tower Hamlets, Middlx., with Ann, aged 63 (‘b. Blyth, Northumberland’); & their s. Robert, a Cabinet Maker, unm. aged 22 (‘b. Shadwell, Middlx’). - Ann died at Stepney in the Dec. qtr. of 1877, aged 70. In the 1881 Census, John, Retired Marine Engine Fitter, a widower aged 72 (‘b. Sunderland’), was a Lodger at 47 Turners Road, Limehouse, London. - John died at 5 Turner’s Rd., Limehouse, Middlesex, on 29/3/1889, aged 80. - Admon. was granted to his son James Weatherburn of 108 Old Church Rd., Stepney. - Effects valued at £378:15:5d. - [In Misc. Refs. on W.B. p. 508, it shows that Admon. of the goods of ‘John Wedderburn or Weatherburn’ deceased, widower, of Middlesex, was granted to James Wedderburn, the son and one of the next of kin, in 1889.]
1830
Alice Douglas Colvile, 11th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 3/12/1830 at 48 Lower Grosvenor Street, Westminster, & bap. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London. - “Alice died at Craigflower, Fife, on 27/7/1845 & was buried at Crombie”.
1831
Isabella Wadderburn (sic) [unidentified] m. Andrew Fish at St. Luke’s, Old Street, Finsbury, Middlx., on 20/2/1831.
1831
John Halkett [afterwards Sir John Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford, in 1839 (b. 1805 at Pitfirrane, Fife, only s. of Sir Peter Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 6th Bt. of Gosford (b. 1765), & Elizabeth Todd (d. of the late Wm. Todd of Millhill, & sister of the first wife of Sir Peter’s brother, John Halkett, b. 1768)] m. Amelia Hood Conway [d. of General Conway of the 53rd Regt.] at Catherington Church, Hants., on 8/4/1831. - They had 3 sons & 2 daughters: Katharine Halkett (b. 1832, d. 1843); Peter Arthur Halkett (b. 1834, q.v.); Amelia Halkett (b. c1836, q.v.); George Halkett (b. 1839, d. 1858) & Wedderburn Halkett (b. 1844, d. 1853). - On the death of his father, on 7/10/1839, John succeeded him as 7th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir John died at Southampton on 4/8/1847 & was succeeded by his eldest, & only surviving, son (Peter) Arthur Halkett (b. 1834). - In the 1851 Census, Lady Amelia Halkett , Annuitant, a widow aged 43 (‘b. Marylebone London’), was living with her sister [in law], Helen Halkett, Fund Holder, unm. aged 73 (‘b. Scotland’); her son Wedderburn Halkett, a Scholar at Home, aged 6 (b. Scotland’), a Nurse, Cook, Lady’s Maid, House Maid & a Footman, at Manor House, Elstree, Herts. - Lady Halkett died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on 13/2/1880.
1831
James Wedderburn [b. 1788 (q.v.), elder s. of John W. (b. 1743 in Forres, Scotland, afterwards of ‘Spring Garden’ Jamaica, & from 1789 a partner in Wedderburn & Co., in Leadenhall St., London) & Mary Wisdom Bedward (m. 1782 in Jamaica)] died at 8 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London, on 23/4/1831, aged 42, and was buried in the vault at St. James’ Chapel, Piccadilly, Westminster, on 30/4/1831. (LMA) - [His son, John Kellerman W., was his heir. - James’s widow Isabella m. ii) Captain Fremantle, R.N. (afterwards Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, G.C.B.), in 1836 (q.v.)]
1831
George Weatherborne, s. of Alice W. [unidentified], was b. on 18/7/1831 in the Workhouse & bap. 10/8/1831 St. James, Clerkenwell.
1831
James Weatherburn, [e.] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, Durham, d. 1889 in London] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in London], was b. 9/9/1831 at Sunderland. In the 1841 Census, James, aged 9 (‘not b. in the county’), was living with his parents & 3 siblings at 10 Red Lion Place, St. John, Wapping, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, James, a Moulder aged 19 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living with his parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. - In the 1861 Census, James, an Iron Moulder aged 29 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living with his mother & 5 siblings at 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Stepney. [His father was probably at sea.] - James m. Sarah Ann Lee at Mile End in the Dec. qtr. of 1864 (q.v.). - In the 1881 Census, James is shown as ‘Jane’ Weatherburn, Engineer aged 49 (‘b. Stepney’ - sic), living with his wife Sarah, aged 49 (‘b. Stepney’), at 50 Copley St., Mile End Old Town, Middlx. - In 1889, James Weatherburn, of 108 Old Church Rd., Stepney, was granted Admon. of his father’s effects, valued at £378:15:5d. James had died by Jan. 1891 when his widow, Sarah Ann Weatherburn, died in the Mile End Infirmary, aged 59.
1831
Robert Cooper Wedderburn, 3rd s. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 28/10/1831 & bap. 6/5/1832 at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey. [The bap. reg. shows that his parents were then ‘of West St’. - Robert’s ‘middle’ name, Cooper, is not shown in the W.B.] - In the 1841 Census, Robert, aged 9, was living with his parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - Robert Wedderburn m. Martha Hayward in 1850 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 5 daughters.] - Robert Wedderburn died at 129 Commercial Rd., Camberwell, on 24/6/1889, aged 57 & Martha Wedderburn died at 5 Kimberley Rd., Nunhead, Surrey, on 30/4/1892, aged 66. Emily Matilda W. (b. 1853), Spinster, was granted Admon. of her mother’s estate on 25/11/1892. - Effects valued at £166.
1832
Emma Wedderburn, d. of William W. [unidentified] was b. c1832. - Emma, ‘aged 38, d. of William W., Pipe Maker’, m. Joseph Barham at St. Thomas’s, Bethnal Green, in 1870. [She may be the Emma W. who had a d. Jessy Ann (b. 1848 at Shoreditch, d. 1851 at Stepney.)]
1832
Hannah Wedderburn, e.d. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah [Trowbridge, m. 1826, d. 1860], was b. c1832. (‘Anna’, acc. to the W.B. - her baptism not found) - In the 1841 Census, Hannah, aged 9, was living with her parents & 2 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1851 Census, Hannah, aged 18 (‘b. Blackfriars’), was a Servant in the household of A.E. Barrett, a Licensed Victualler, & his family, at 9 Water Lane, Blackfriars. - In the 1861 Census, Hannah, a Servant aged 28 (‘b. St. Margaret’s, Westminster’), was a Nurse in the household of Stephen Court, a Merchant aged 30 (‘b. Sittingbourne’); his wife Fanny L., aged 34 (‘b. St. Saviour, Westminster’); & their twin 7-month-old daughters, at 24 Old Bond Street, St. George’s Hanover Square. - In the 1871 Census, Hannah, unm. aged 38 (‘b. London’), was a General Servant in the household of John P. Kilby, Surgeon-Major (Ret’d Indian Army), aged 51 (‘b. Calcutta’), his wife Ruth, aged 40 (‘b. Stoke, Surrey’); their 3 daughters & 3 sons (b. in various places in India); & another Servant, aged 16 (‘b. London’), at 23 The Gardens, St. Giles, Camberwell. - Anna Wedderburn m. Daniel Collins in 1872 (q.v.).
1832
Katherine Halkett, [?elder] d. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. 1832. - She died at Pitfirrane, Fife, on 27/1/1843, aged 11, & is buried at Dunfermline Abbey.
1833
Elizth. Wedderburn, aged 3, of West Street, was buried on 1/1/1833 at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey. – [Elizabeth, 3rd d. of Jabez W., Scale Maker (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage (b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846), was b. 20/7/1829.]
1833
Priscilla Weatherburn, [e.] d. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, Durham, d. 1889 in London] & Ann Weatherburn [m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in London], was b. on 28/2/1833 at Sunderland. In the 1841 Census, Priscilla, aged 7 (‘b. in the county’ - sic), was living with her parents & 3 siblings at 10 Red Lion Place, St. John, Wapping, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, Priscilla, a Nurse aged 18 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living with her parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. - In the 1861 Census, Priscilla, unm. aged 22 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living with her mother & 5 siblings at 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Stepney. [Her father was probably away at sea.] - Priscilla m. Thomas Green at St. John the Evangelist, Limehouse, London, on 7/4/1867 (q.v.).
1833
William Weatherburn [Engine-wright, b. 1807, e.s. of John W. (Engineman of Kenton, ?b. 1768) & Priscilla Harpley (m. 1806 at Bishopwearmouth, m. Jane Hall at Monkwearmouth [Durham] on 14/5/1833. William & Jane had (at least) 5 sons & a daughter: James Harpley (b. 1837 at Sunderland, d. there 1856); William (b. 1839 at Sunderland, d. there 1840); another William (b. 1846 at Stepney, London, died there on 12/3/1849, aged 2½); Francis (b. Stepney, Middlx., in 1849, who m. there in 1867 & died there in 1870, aged 21); Priscilla Mary Jane (b. 1851 at Sunderland, d. there 1852), & a third son William (b. 1855, m. 1881, d. 1886). - Jane died at Sunderland in the Dec. qtr of 1869, aged 53, & William died there in the March qtr. of 1870, aged 62.
1833
John Wedderburn, of 43 Tufton Street, Westminster (b. 1830, e.s. of John W. (Fishmonger, b. 1807, & Hannah Trowbridge (m. 1826), was buried at St. John-the-Evangelist, Westminster, on 15/12/1833, aged 3.
1834
Eliza Cooper Wedderburn, 4th d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia [Clarkson Surrage, b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 31/1/1834 at Long Lane, Borough, Southwark, & bap. 20/11/1836 at St. Saviour, Southwark. (The bap. reg. shows that her parents were then living in Bermondsey. - Eliza’s ‘middle’ name, Cooper, is not shown in the W.B.] - In the 1841 Census, Eliza, aged 7, was living with her parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, Eliza Dykins, a Dressmaker aged 18 (‘b. Long Lane, Borough’), was living at 5 York Place, Stoke Newington, Finsbury, Middlx., with her ‘husband’ Henry Dykins, a (?)Ham Dresser, aged 36 (‘b. Manchester, Lancs.’), & nephew Jabez Wedderburn, aged 1 yr. 10 mths. (‘b. Baltic St., Old Street, Middlx.’). - Eliza Wedderburn, ‘d. of Jabez W., Scalemaker’, m. Henry Dykins, Boot-maker, a widower, s. of Thomas Dykins, Plumber & Glazier, at St. John’s Church, Bethnal Green, on 28/8/1855 (q.v.). [In footnote² on W.B. p. 506, Eliza is shown as the 2nd d. of Jabez W. & Sophia Clarkson Surrage.] - The witnesses at the marriage were (?)S. J. Dixon & F. Studdard (whose wife, acc. to the 1881 Census, was a ‘Mission woman’).] - On W.B. p. 507, it states that ‘Eliza, b. at Little Arthur Street (St. Luke’s) on 5/11/1854, 2nd d. of Jabez & Sophia’s son Jabez (b. 1827) & Harriett Basson (m. 1846), m. George Gaddes at Islington Parish Church in 1860. This obviously cannot be right and it seems that the 1860 marriage is a second marriage of this Eliza (b. 1834), as both Eliza & George Gaddes are shown in the 1861 Census to be aged 28.] - (The witnesses at the marriage were ‘J. Wedderburn & Harriet Wedderburn’, which could be how the confusion about Eliza b. 1854 arose.) - In the 1861 Census, George Gaddes, Carpenter, & Eliza (‘b. Lambeth, Surrey’), were living at 4 Brick Lane, St. Luke, Finsbury, but Henry Dykins & Eliza do not appear in the 1861, 1871 or 1881 censuses.
1834
Sophia Louisa Wedderburn, [believed to be] 2nd d. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah Trowbridge [m. 1826, d. 1860], was b. in 1834. (Her baptism not found.) - Sophia Louisa died at Sturminster, Okeford, Devon, on 20/9/1838, aged 4. - Ann Trowbridge, grandmother, ‘residing in Child Okeford’, was the informant. (Misc. Refs., W.B. p. 509) - [Sophia’s death cert. shows that she died of ‘water on the brain’ in the parish of Child Okeford. - The 1851 Census shows that John’s wife, Hannah Trowbridge, was born at Blandford, Dorset, so it seems likely that Ann was Hannah’s mother.]
1834
Isabella Colvile [b. 1812, 2nd d. of Andrew Colvile (formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, & the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden (m. 1806)] m. Samuel Marindin ‘of Chesterton’, Shropshire, at St. Marylebone’s Church, London, in Feb. 1834. - “Samuel was then a lieut. in the 2nd Lifeguards, but was later in Holy Orders, and rector Buckhorn Weston, Dorset, and Pen Selwood, Somerset. They had 6 sons & 3 daughters. - The Rev. Samuel Marindin died on 3/1/1852. - His widow lived for some years at Chesterton, where she died on 4/8/1896”.
1834
Jacob Wedderburn, e.s. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Elizabeth [Williams, m. 1828], bap. 9/3/1834 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch. In the 1841 Census, Jacob, aged 7, was living with his parents & 2 siblings at Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, Middlx. - He died at 63 Noble St., St. Luke’s, on 26/11/1846, aged 12.
1834
Peter Arthur Halkett [afterwards Sir Arthur Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 8th (& last) Bt. of Gosford in 1847], e.s. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. 1/5/1834. - In the 1851 Census, Arthur Halkett, aged 16 (‘b. ???, Hampshire’), was a ‘Visitor’, one of a number of Pupils staying with the Rev. Wm. Bayle, a Clergyman & Teacher of Latin & Greek, aged 30, his wife and another Teacher of Writing & Mathematics, at ?Priory B., Cheltenam, Gloucs. - “Arthur entered the army and served throughout the Crimean War, carrying the colours of his regiment at the battle of Alma”. - In 1847, on the death of his father, Arthur became the 8th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir Arthur m. his cousin Eliza Anna Hill in 1856 (q.v.). - They had a son & 5 daughters. - The daughters, none of whom married, were born at Dunfermline. Their son, Wedderburn Conway Halkett (b. 1857, q.v.), m. Jessie Elizabeth Lemprière in 1881 (q.v.) but died in 1885. [Their only child, Arthur Wedderburn Halkett, b. 1882 at Gibraltar, died at Camberley, Hants., in 1886, aged 4. - W.B. pp. 390-91] - In 1896, Sir Arthur was lieut-col. commanding the Fife Artillery Militia and captain of the Fife Mounted Rifle Volunteers. He was also commander of the Royal order of Isabella la Catolica of Spain. - Sir Arthur died at Pitfirrane on 8/3/1904. - His only surviving son, & his only grandson, having predeceased him, the baronetcy of Gosford became extinct.
1834
Jane Weatherbourn (sic), d. of Isabella [?Isabella Weatherburn bap. 1809 at Berwick-on-Tweed ‘b. in the Workhouse’, was bap. 14/5/1834 at St. James, Paddington, Middlx.
1834
Jane Weatherburn, [2nd] d. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in London] & Ann Weatherburn [m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham], was b. 8/6/1834 at Sunderland. Jane Weatherburn, of Red Lion St., Wapping, was buried at St. John’s of Wapping on 24/2/1836, aged 1 yr. 8 mths.
1834
Joseph Wedderburn [b. 1809, 3rd s. of William W. (now Army Staff Sgt., b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen) & Hannah Miller (m. 1805)] m. Sarah Anne Green at St. John the Baptist, Croydon, on 14/6/1834. [Acc. to the W.B. Joseph ‘had no issue’ but James Weatherburn (sic) who died at Croydon in the Sept. qtr. of 1839 & was buried at St. John the Baptist, Croydon, on 21/9/1839, aged 17 months is probably his son.] - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were usually ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Joseph, a Fishmonger aged 32, was living in Marsham Street, Westminster, with Sarah, aged 25. (Joseph’s father William died at No. 28 Marsham St. in June 1843.) - Joseph died in the St. Bernard’s Wing of Uxbridge Hospital on 14/7/1852, from T.B., having been transferred there from Norwood County Lunatic Asylum because of his illness. (Asylum records at the LMA give the cause of his ‘suicidal mania’ of 7 years standing as “Irritation of mind at the Misconduct of his wife”!) - [On W.B. p. 489 it says that he died in the Uxbridge County Asylum. - At his death Joseph is shown as aged ‘about 43’ but he was 42. ]
1834
Hannah Wedderburn [only] d. of William W. [now Army Staff Sgt., b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen] & Hannah Miller [m. 1805 at Cambridge] m. Thomas William Harding at St. Anne, Soho, on 27/7/1834. (Witnesses were William Wedderburn & Mary Furneaux) In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were usually ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Hannah Harding, ‘aged 30’, was living at 8 Bowling Street, St. John-the-Evangelist, Westminster, with her husband Thomas, a Journeyman Shoemaker ‘aged 50’; Ann Harding, ‘aged 50’; George Harding, aged 5; & Emma Harding, aged 1 (all ‘born in the county’). - [Hannah’s mother was living at 10 Bowling Street, Westminster.] -Hannah Harding died there on 20/8/1843, aged 32. (Westminster 1 316) - She was buried at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, on 25/9. (Burial register, Westminster Archives) - [Her widower, Thomas William Harding, Shoemaker, died at Earl’s Court Workhouse, Kensington, on 2/2/1870, aged 80. (] - [Their son George Harding m. Hannah Perry in 1868.]
1834
Lucy Sarah Anne Webster-Wedderburn [b. 1812 in Paris, only d. of Sir James W-W (b. 1788) & Lady Frances Annesley (m. 1810)] m. the Rev. Alfred Cæsar Bisshop (rector of Martyr Worthy, nr. Winchester, later of Bramdean, Hants.), at Norwood, Surrey, on 23/8/1834. - They had 9 sons & 3 daughters. [For the names and other details of these children see W.B. p. 335, footnote² - and John Stewart’s e-mail to Peter Garwood of 12 Sept. 2000.] - In the 1841 Census, Lucy Bishop, ‘aged 25’ (‘not born on the county’), was living with her husband Alfred, a Clergyman, ‘aged 35’; their (then) 2 sons: Henry Bishop, aged 2, & Herbert Bishop, aged 1 (all ‘b. in the county’); 4 ‘Pupils’, including George Wedderburn, aged 14 (‘not b. in the county’), & 3 female Servants, at Tichborne, Hants. - Lucy Bisshop died at Martyr Worthy on 24/4/1864.
1834
Rebecca Georgina Webster-Wedderburn, [only] d. of Charles W. [b. 1799 in London, afterwards Webster-Wedderburn] & Rebecca Chatterton [m. 1822 in Ireland], was b. 22/9/1834. –In the 1841 Census, Rebecca, aged 6, was living with her mother & brother Charles, aged 15, in the Precinct of Bedford Circus, Exeter, Devon. - Rebecca m. i) M. Dufour, “an officer in the French army, who died s.p.”, & ii) in Paris, Leon Jean Consigny, “but by him, who survived her, also had no issue. Mme Dufour was in Paris throughout the siege (1870-71) and went through all the terrors of that event….”. Rebecca Dufour died in Paris in 1890.
1834
Margaret Wedderburn [bap. 5/3/1796 at Berwick-on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’] m. John Denman at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street, London, on 25/9/1834. [Margaret is a sister of Alexander W., Chief inspector of Mail coaches at Exeter, b. 1782]. - In the 1841 Census, John Denman, a Coffee House Proprietor, aged 65, was living in Leather Lane, St. Andrew above Bars, Finsbury, Middlx., with Margaret, aged 45, & their son George Denman, aged 14. - John Denman died at Holborn in the Dec. qtr. of 1844. The Will of John Denman of 27 & 73 Leather Lane, Holborn, Brewer, Tea & Coffee Vendor, written on 11/3/1841, was proved at London on 11/11/1845. His widow Margaret Denman was the Executrix and sole beneficiary. - Margaret Denman, Widow, of Leather Lane, dau. of William Weatherburn, Customs Officer, m. ii) Thomas Rivolta, Widower, Looking Glass Frame Maker, of Cross Street, s. of Thomas Rivolta, Farmer, at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, on 23/4/1846. (LMA) - [In the Will of Margaret’s brother William Weatherburn (b. 1794, d. 1870), her son George Denman is named as a first cousin of Mary Ann House Wedderburn (bap. 1805 in London as ‘Weatherburn’, the e.d. of Margaret’s brother Alexander Wedderburn ‘of Exeter’, bap. 1782). ]
1834
Katharine Colvile, 12th d. of Andrew Colvile [formerly Wedderburn, b. 1779, d. 1856] & his 2nd wife, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden [m. 1806, d. 1858], was b. 28/7/1834 at Craigflower, Fife, & bap. at Torryburn. - “Katharine died at 11 Lower Berkeley St., Westminster, in Nov. 1834, & was buried in St. Marylebone parish”.
1834
Susannah Weatherburn [unidentified] m. Henry Dargue at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, on 1/12/1834.
1835
Hope Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Elizabeth [Williams, m. 1828], bap. 13/12/1835 at St. Luke’s, Old Street, Finsbury. Hope died at 2 Red Lion Market, St. Luke’s, on 17/8/1839. - [On W.B. p. 506, ‘A.W.’ states that Hope was ‘twin with William b. 1837’ and that he (sic) was aged 2yrs. & 2 mths. at death - but Hope was b. in 1835. - Both died in Aug. 1839.
1835
David Wedderburn [3rd Bt. of Balindean in 1862], 3rd [but later e. surv.] s. of [Sir] John W. [2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858, b. 1789 in Scotland - half-brother of the 1st Bt., Sir David W., b. 1775] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 in Bombay], was b. 20/12/1835 at Woodgreen, Bombay. - David was called to the Scotch Bar in 1861. A year later, on his father’s death, he succeeded him as 3rd Bt. of Balindean. - “David owned Inveresk Lodge but leased it to his eldest sister, Alicia Henrietta (b. 1823) & her husband (her cousin, Lt.-Col., afterwards General, Sir William Hope, Bt.). - (W.B. p. 299) - In the 1871 Census, Sir David, Baronet & Member of Parliament, aged 35 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’), was living with his mother and 2 unm. sisters at ‘Meredith’, Tibberton, Gloucs. - In the 1881 Census, Sir David Wetherburn (sic), Baronet, M.P., aged 45 (‘b. Bombay’) was a ‘Renter of Chambers’ at the Reform Club, St. James, Westminster, London. (His mother, Lady Wedderburn, was then a Visitor at the home of ‘Earl’s daughter’ Lady Mary Hope, widow, at 7 Ovington Gdns., Kensington, London. She died there on 7/4/1881.) - On his mother’s death, Sir David inherited ‘Meredith’ (which his mother had herited from a maternal uncle of that name) & was captain of the 3rd Btn. of the Gloucestershire Militia. - Sir David died, unm., at Inveresk on 18/8/1882 and was succeeded by his younger brother William (b. 1838, q.v.). - A ‘Life of Sir David Wedderburn’ was written by his youngest sister, Mrs. Louisa Percival (b. 1842), and published in 1884 by Kegan Paul & Co. [N.B. Margaret Agnes Colvile b. 1829, 10th d. of Andrew Colvile, m. the Rev. Charles Kegan Paul in 1856, q.v.]
1836
Jane Weatherburn, of Red Lion Street, Wapping [b. 1834, 2nd d. of John W. (Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in London) & Ann Weatherburn (b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham)], was buried at St. John’s of Wapping on 24/2/1836, aged 1 yr. 8 mths.
1836
Ann Wedderburn [unidentified] m. William Cant at Holy Trinity, Newington, on 4/3/1836. (Both signed the register)
1836
Charles Wedderburn, 2nd s. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah Trowbridge [m. 1826, d. 1860], bap. 11/6/1836 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. [The baptismal reg. shows that Charles was b. at Duke St., Westminster, & that his father was a Fishmonger.] - Charles is not shown in the list of John’s & Hannah’s children on W.B. p. 489 but his death “at Duke St., Adelphi (St. Martin in the Fields) on 22/3/1838, aged 2 - H. Wedderburn, mother, informs” - appears in ‘Misc. Refs.’
1836
Sarah Wedderburn, 5th d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 13/9/1836 & bap. 20/11/1836 at St. Saviour, Southwark. (Her parents then then living in Bermondsey.) - [On W.B. p. 506 it shows Sarah ‘b. 1834’ but she must be the 4th d. of Jabez’s brother Jacob (b. 1806) & Mary Elizabeth Williams (m. 1828). - In the 1841 Census, Sarah, aged 5, was living with her parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, Sarah Wedderburne (sic), aged 16 (‘b. Southwark’), was a Servant in the household of John Rivers, Lodging House Keeper, aged 42 (‘b. Elstree, Herts.’), & his wife Martha, at 1 St. Ann’s Terrace, Marylebone, Middlx. - Sarah m. i) John Hewitt in 1856 (W.B. p. 506, footnote ²) & ii) (as widow of John Hewett), Edward Norris, in 1865 (q.v.). [Emma Shuttleworth - probably daughter of Sarah’s sister Sophia Phoebe & her husband James Shuttleworth - was a witness.]
1836
Isabella Wedderburn [née Lyon, 2nd d. of David Lyon of Portland Place], widow of James W. [b. 1788 in Jamaica, d. 1831 in London - a partner in Wedderburn & Co. until 1830] m. ii) on 8/11/1836, at St. George’s, Hanover Square, Captain Fremantle, R.N. [afterwards Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, G.C.B.]. - Isabella died on 26/12/1876. (W.B. p. 346) - [Margaret Griselda Wedderburn (b. 1884, younger d. of Sir William W., 4th Bt. of Balindean, b. 1838, & Mary Blanche Hoskyns, m.1878) m. Sir Charles’s great-nephew, Capt. Charles Albert Fremantle, D.S.O., R.N. (ret.), (4th s. of the Hon. Sir Charles Fremantle, K.C.B.) on 19/4/1906. (She died on 21/3/1918.)]
1836
William Weatherburn, [2nd] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, Durham, d. 1889 in London] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham], was b. Dec. 1836. (His bap. not found.) - William died at 10 Red Lion Street, Wapping, Stepney, on 21/7/1839, aged 2yrs. 7mths. He was buried at St. Kohn of Wapping on 28/7/1839. (LMA) - [Another son named William was b. in 1842 (q.v.).]
1836
Alexander Wedderburn, Esq. [b. 1791 in Scotland, 3rd & ygst. s. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780)] m. Elizabeth Julia Stratton (3rd d. of John Stratton of Farthinghoe Lodge, Brackley, Northants) in Rome in 1836, with another ceremony, by licence, at St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Middlx., on 15/6/1836. (LMA) - Col. Alexander Wedderburn died in Glasgow on 30/7/1839 & was buried in Inveresk Kirkyard. - His widow m. ii) Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake (e.s. of Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake of Shardilloes, Amersham, Bucks.) on 8/8/1843 at Farthinghoe, Brackley, Northants., by whom she had issue.
1836
Amelia Halkett, [younger] d. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. c1836 at Halifax, N. America. - In the 1851 Census, Amelia Halkett, Daughter, Scholar at Home aged 14 (b. Halifax, N. America), was living at Culverden Grove, London Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with Adelaide Abbott, Visitor, a Governess, unm. aged 24 (‘b. London’), & Amelia Whittaker, General Servant aged 21 (‘b. Hastings, Sussex’). - “Amelia was living unm. in 1898”.
1837
Lady Frances Caroline Webster-Wedderburn [wife of Sir James W.W. (b. 1788, m. 1810)] died in Hertford St., Mayfair, Middlx., on 22/1/1837 and was buried in South Audley Street Chapel burying ground. ‘She had long been separated from her husband, by mutual consent, and resided mainly in Paris’. (W.B. p. 334) - Admon. of her estate was granted to her husband in June 1839. - Her personal estate was valued at £1000. [Sir James died in 1840 (q.v.).]
1837
William Wedderburn, 2nd s. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Elizabeth [Williams, m. 1828], bap. 16/7/1837 at St. Luke’s Old Church, Finsbury. William died at 2 Red Lion Market, St. Luke’s, on 7/8/1839, aged 2 yrs. 2mths.
1837
Hope Wedderburn [b. c1802, bap. 1816 (q.v)] ‘late of 40ª Rupert St., Haymarket’, died on 22/10/1837, aged 35, and was buried at St. James, Westminster. [Hope left a Will in which two sisters, Lydia, Mrs. Duglas (see bap. of Lydia Wedderburn in 1816, her 1st m. in 1818, & her 2nd m., as Lydia Wilson, in 1829), & Sarah, Mrs. Dugdale (see m. of Sarah Wedderburn in 1829) are mentioned. ]
1837
Eliza Frederica Wedderburn, 3rd [but, from Sept. 1838, 2nd surv.] d. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah [Trowbridge, m. 1826, d. 1860], was b. 24/12/1837 at Duke St., Adelphi, Strand, & bap. 8/4/1838 at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. In the 1841 Census, Eliza [incorrectly shown as ‘Louisa’], aged 3, was living with her parents & 2 siblings at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1851 Census, Eliza, a Scholar aged 13 (‘b. St. Martins, Middlx.’), was now living with her parents & 4 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars. Eliza m. Isaac Hopes in 1859 (q.v.). - [They had a son, Isaac Henry Hopes, b. 1863.] - Isaac Hopes died in the March qtr. of 1892. Eliza F. Hopes died in the Dec. qtr. of 1917, aged 79.
1838
Charles Wedderburn [b. 1836, 2nd s. of John W. (Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870) & Hannah Trowbridge (m. 1826, d. 1860)] died at Duke St., Adelphi, on 22/3/1838, aged 2 - H. Wedderburn, mother, was the informant.
1838
William Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. s. of [Sir] John W. [2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858, b. 1789 in Scotland] & Henrietta Louisa [Milburn, m. 1822, in Bombay], was b. 25/3/1838 in Edinburgh, & bap. 9/5/1838 at Inveresk Lodge, Midlothian. - “In 1859 William was placed third in the open competition for the Indian Civil Service”. [‘The Heaven Born’, acc. to M.M. Kaye!] - “In Nov. 1860 he went out to Bombay. He began his service in the revenue department but rose to be District & Sessions Judge at Poona….. For a time he acted as a Judge of the High Court and as a member of the Governor’s Council, altogether spending 27 years in India”. - William m. Mary Blanche Hoskyns [only d. of Henry William Hoskyns, of North Perrott Manor, Crewkerne, Yeovil, Somerset] at Crewkerne on 12/9/1878 (q.v.). - Their elder daughter, Dorothy Hope, was b. in 1879 at Poona. - In the 1881 Census, William, a Judge in the Indian Civil Service ‘aged 43’, was living at 48 Welbeck Street, St. Marylebone, London, with Mary Blanche, aged 27 (‘b. Henson, Somerset’), & Dorothy H., aged 1. (Their younger daughter, Margaret Griselda, was born in London in 1884, while ‘A.W.’s’ daughter Margaret Griselda was b. there in 1888.) - On the death of William’s brother Sir David, unm., on 18/9/1882, William succeeded him as 4th Bt. of Balindean. - Sir William retired from the Indian Civil Service and left India in May 1887. - In March 1893 he was elected as Liberal M.P. for Banffshire, in a by-election, being returned again at the general election in 1895. - In 1896 he was living at Meredith “where he has much improved the house, chiefly by the addition of a large room, hung with the beautiful tapestry and the family pictures formerly at Inveresk Lodge….”. - A.W.’ writes: “Sir William is the only male descendant in the male line of his grandfather, Sir John Wedderburn the 6th Bt. of Blackness (sic). He is the representative of James Wedderburn, who died in 1627, and also the male heir of Alexander Wedderburn (died 1535) and his wife Janet Myln, and their eldest son, Alexander, first of Kingennie”. (W.B. pp. 301-02) - Having no male heir, Sir William’s heir presumptive in 1898 (when the W.B. was published) was Col. Thomas Wedderburn-Ogilvy (b. 1814), s. of John Andrew W-Ogilvy (b. 23/9/1781, d. 1873) & a grandson of James Wedderburn-Colvile of Inveresk (b. 1730, d. 1807). - However, Colonel Wedderburn-Ogilvy died on 12/10/1899, leaving no issue, so his younger brother, John Andrew W-Ogilvy (b. 2/7/1818), then became the heir presumptive. He died on 17/9/1906 and it was his third but, by then, only surv. son, John Andrew W-Ogilvy (b. 16/9/1866) who, on Sir William’s death, on 25/1/1918, became the 5th Bt. of Balindean. [On assuming the title, Sir John reversed his surnames, becoming ‘Ogilvy-Wedderburn’.] - His eldest son, Commander (John) Peter Ogilvy-Wedderburn (b. 1917), succeeded to the title in 1956 and was in turn succeeded by his e.s. (the present holder of the title), Sir Andrew John Alexander Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 7th Bt. of Balindean, who was born on 4/8/1952. He has twin sons, born 20/4/1987. - The elder twin, Peter Robert Alexander Ogilvy-Wedderburn, is the present heir to the baronetcy.
1838
Sophia Phoebe Wedderbourn (sic), Servant, ‘of Charlotte Row’ [b. 1820, e.d. of Jabez W. (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage, d. 1846] m. James Shuttleworth, bachelor, Stenciller, of Baldwin Gardens [s. of Matthew Shuttleworth, Painter], at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, on 26/3/1838. [In August 1847, Sophia Shuttleworth was the informant of the death of Hope Widderburn (sic), ‘d. of Jabez W., Scale Maker’, on 9/8/1847, aged 2yrs. 8mths. (See 1844) - [In March 1865, Sophia’s daughter Emma Shuttleworth was a witness at the second marriage of Sophia’s widowed sister Sarah (b. 1834).] - In the 1881 Census, Sophia Shuttleworth, Tailoress, ‘Head’, aged 59 (‘b. Bethnal Green’), was living at 3, Norfolk St, Bethnal Green, with her son Charles, a ‘Dev…er’, unm., aged 34, & daughter Sarah, a Tailoress, unm., aged 24 (both ‘b. Bethnal Green’).
1838
Emma Wedderburn, 6th d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found - d. 1846], was b. 8/8/1838 at Little Charlotte Row, Bermondsey. In the 1841 Census, Emma, aged 3, was living with her parents & 7 siblings at Foxes Buildings, St. George, Southwark, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, Emma Wedderburn, aged 14 (‘b. London’), was a House Servant in the household of William Dawson, Messenger in a House of Business (‘b. Paddington’), at 5 Robert Street, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster. - “Emma died at 19 Brownlow Street, St. Giles, on 16/1/1854”.
1838
Elizabeth Weatherburn, [3rd] d. of John W. [Marine Engineer Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in Stepney] was b. in the Sept. qtr. of 1838 at Stepney. In the 1841 Census, Elizabeth, aged 3, was living with her parents & 3 siblings at 10 Red Lion Place, St. John, Wapping, Middlx. In the 1851 Census, Elizabeth, aged 12 (‘b. Wapping’), was living with her parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. - She m. Walter Marins at Stepney on 9/7/1860 (q.v.).
1838
Sophia Louisa Wedderburn [b. c1834 - believed to be 2nd d. of John W. (Fishmonger, b. 1807) & Hannah Trowbridge (m. 1826)] died at Sturminster, Okeford, Devon, on 20/9/1838, aged 4. Ann Trowbridge, grandmother, residing in Child Okeford, was the informant. (Misc. Refs., W.B. p. 509) - [Sophia’s death cert. shows that she died of ‘water on the brain’ in the parish of Child Okeford. [The 1851 Census shows that John’s wife, Hannah Trowbridge, was born at Blandford, Dorset, so it seems likely that Ann was her mother.]
1839
Jane Hudson Weatherburn, d. of Jane Hudson W. [b. 1812, 2nd d. of Elias W. (Mariner, b. 1783) & Isabella White (m. 1804 at Berwick on Tweed)], was b. 17/4/1839 at 54 Frith Street, St. Anne’s, Westminster & bap. at Berwick on 19/5/1839. - In the 1841 Census, Jane, aged 2, was living with her uncle Elias W. (b. 1805 - Jane Hudson W. senior’s brother) & his wife Margaret (Gibson - m. 1828) & their family. [Her mother, Jane Weatherburn, ‘aged 30’, was a Servant, living in Frith Street, St. Ann, Soho, Westminster, with John Snow, Surgeon, ‘aged 25’ (neither ‘b. in the county’).] - In the 1851 Census, Jane H. Weatherburn, a Scholar aged 12, was still living with Elias & his family, as a daughter. - In the 1861 Census, Jane, a Domestic Servant aged 22 (‘b. London, Middlesex’), was living in the household of Henry Weatherhead, an India Rubber Manufacturer Employing 4 Males, 2 Women & a Boy, aged 54 (‘b. London, Middlx.’), & his wife Mary, aged 48, at 25 Panton Street, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster. - [Jane Hudson W. senior m. James Mace on 8/3/1863 at Wooler, Northumberland, District of Glendale. ] - In the 1871 Census, Jane, aged 32 (‘b. Soho, Middlx.’), was a Domestic Servant in the household of Mary Weatherhead, a widow aged 65, Brace & Bell Manufacturer (‘b. Holborn, Middlx.’), at 27 Panton Street, St. Martin’s, Westminster. - In the 1881 Census, Jane, a Cook, unm. ‘aged 40’ (‘b. Soho, St. Ann’s’), was servant to Albert Thurston, Brass Bell Manufacturer, aged 39 (‘b. Newent, Gloucs.’) & his wife & 2 sons, at 27 Panton Street. - In the 1891 Census, Jane, a Cook/Domestic Servant, unm. ‘aged 55’ (‘b. Soho, London’), was servant to Elizabeth Thompson, a widow aged 75, & her sister Mary D. Cahill, unm. aged 72, both ‘living on own means’ (both ‘b. Berwick’), at ‘Bay View’, Wellington Terrace, Berwick-on-Tweed. - In the 1901 Census, Jane Weatherburn, a Retired Domestic aged 61 (‘b. Soho, London’), was living at 48 Esmeralda Street, Bermondsey, Surrey. - In the 1911 Census, Jane Hudson Weatherburn, Retired Cook/Domestic with Private Means, unm. aged 71 (‘b. Soho, London’), was living in 1 room at 5 Ryde Buildings, Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey. - Jane H. Weatherburn died at Camberwell in the June qtr. of 1920, ‘aged 82’.
1839
Henry Wedderburn [Engine Driver, b. 1818, 5th but 3rd surv. s. of Robert Weatherburn (Engineer, bap. 1780 at Newcastle upon Tyne) & Isabel Wilson (m. 1804 at Bedlington, Northumber-land)] m. Maria Nash at Berkhamsted parish church, Herts., on 29/5/1839. (In Misc. Refs. on W.B. p. 508 the year is given, incorrectly, as 1837.) - [Henry was an Engineer on the South-Eastern Railway & had driven the locomotive “Harvey Coombe” during the building of the London & Birmingham railway c1838. - He may be the Henry Weatherburn who asked for an invitation to the funeral of Robert Stephenson (b. at Willington Quay, Northumberland, on 16/10/1803) in Westminster Abbey on 21/10/1859. - In the 1841 Census, Henry Weatherburn, ‘aged 20’, was living in Brick Yards, Southwick, Sussex, with Maria, ‘aged 20’; & Martin & Thomas Weatherburn, both ‘aged 20’ (none of them ‘born in the county’). - [Martin & Thomas may be sons of John W. & Priscilla Harpley (m. 1806 in Bishopwearmouth, Durham).] - Henry & Maria had 7 sons & a daughter, all bap. as ‘Weatherburn’: William (b. 1842); Henry (b. 1843, d. 1844); & Thomas Henry (b. 1845, d. 1846) were b. at Brighton, Sussex; Robert (b. 1847, d. 1925); & Martin (b. 1849) were b. at Ramsgate, Kent; & Henry James (b. 1851); Frederick John (b. 1853, bap. 1854, d. 1887); & Maria Ann (b. 1856, d. 1896) were b. at Redhill, Surrey. - In the 1861 Census, Henry Weatherbourn (sic), Foreman of Engines, aged 42 (‘b. Killingworth, Northumberland’), was living in Private (Railway) property at Reigate Foreign, Surrey, with Maria, aged 43 (‘b. Berkham-sted, Herts.’); Robert Wheatherbourn (sic), a Scholar aged 13 (‘b. Ramsgate, Kent’); Henry J. Whetherbourn (sic), aged 9; Frederick J. Whetherbourn, aged 9; & Maria A. Wheatherbourn (sic), aged 4 (all ‘b. Reigate, Surrey’). - In the 1871 Census, Henry Weatherburn, Locomotive Manager, aged 51 (‘b. Killingworth’), was living at No. 10 Station Cottages, Reigate, Surrey, with Maria, aged 51 (‘b. Birkhamstead’ - sic); Robert, a Railway Fireman, unm. aged 23 (‘b. Ramsgate’); Frederick John, a Clerk aged 17; & Maria Anne, unm. aged 15 (both ‘b. Reigate Foreign’). - Henry Weatherburn died at Redhill in 1873, aged 56. In the 1881 Census, Maria, a widow aged 64 (‘b. Berkhamsted, Herts’), was living at 4 Ladbrooke Villas, Ladbrooke Rd., Reigate, Surrey, with her sons Robert & Frederick & her daughter Maria. - In the 1891 Census, Maria Weatherburn, a widow aged 74 (‘b. Berkhamsted, Herts.’), was still living at Ladbrooke Rd., Reigate, with her son Robert, an Engine Driver, marr. aged 44 (‘b. Ramsgate’); her daughter Maria, unm. aged 30 (‘b. Redhill’); & her granddaughter Florence M., aged 18 (‘b. Strood, Kent’). - Both Maria & her daughter died in the Dec. qtr. of 1896.
1839 Emma Wedderburn, [‘ante-nuptial’] e.d. of Christopher W. [Stationmaster, b. 1813 (bap. 1830)] & Maria Webb [m. 1839, d. 1856], was b. at 36 George St., Marylebone, on 12/6/1839. [Emma’s birth cert. shows her as ‘daughter of Christopher Stewart Wedderburn & Maria, formerly Webb, although Christopher &Maria were not married until Sept. 1839. (Christopher’s occupation is shown as ‘Policeman’.)] - Emma was bap. on 22/7/1839 at All Souls, St. Mary-le-bone, as d. of Christopher & Maria Wedderburn. (Chris-topher’s occupation given as ‘Police Officer’). In the 1841 Census, Emma, aged 2, was living with her parents; her sister Mary, aged 8 mths., & her grandfather William Wedderburn, ‘aged 60’ (‘b. Scotland’), at Tylors Green, Godstone, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, Emma, a Scholar aged 11 (‘b. St. Marylebone, Middlx.’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at Gravel Pit Street, Ashford, Kent. - In the 1861 Census, Emma, aged 21 (‘b. London’), was living with her widowed father Christopher, Station Master, aged 47; 4 siblings, & her uncle Alfred Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’ (‘b. London’, 1842), in 1 of 2 dwellings at Ashford Station (the other being occupied by the tenant of the Refreshment Rooms & her staff). - Emma Wedderburn m. Harry Foreman Willard in 1868 (q.v.).
1839
William Weatherburn [b. 1836, 2nd s. of John W. (Marine Engineer Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in London) & Ann Weatherburn (b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in London)] died of Measles at 10 Red Lion Street, Wapping, Stepney, on 21/7/1839, aged 2yrs. 7mths. [John & Ann Weatherburn named another s. William b. at Stepney in 1842 (q.v.).]
1839
George Halkett, 2nd s. of Sir John Halkett [b. 1805, ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. 4/9/1839. - “George died of bronchitis on 8/2/1898, aged 19, at Lausanne, Switzerland, and is there buried”.
1839
Christopher Wedderburn [b. 1813 (bap. 1830), 4th & ygst. s. of William W. (b. 1779 nr. Aberdeen) & Hannah Miller (m. 1805)] m. Maria Webb [not Wells, as shown in the W.B.] at St. George’s, Hanover Square, on 27/9/1839. [In the W.B. Maria is shown as ‘b. 1818’. (The only Maria Webb b. in 1818 in London was bap. on 8/3/1818 at St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone, as ‘d. of William Webb & Prudence Sarah’, but in the W.B. she is shown as ‘d. of William Wells, Saddler, of Lower Grosvenor St.’.] - In the m. reg. Christopher’s occupation is given as ‘Servant’ (which may mean ‘Railway Servant’) & his address as ‘Old Bond Street’. (See Anna Wedderburn, b. c1832. - Christopher’s father’s occupation is shown as ‘Gentleman’ and Christopher’s signature appears to show his surname as ‘Widderburn’.) - ‘A.W.’ states: “Christopher was an Inspector of police (1840) but afterwards was in the service of the South-Eastern Railway Co., and was for many years station master at Ashford, Kent”. [The Minutes of the Board of Directors of the South-Eastern Railway Co. (at the PRO at Kew) show that Christopher was appointed an ‘Inspector of Police’ at a Salary of 30/- a week, on 1/10/1839, just four days after he married Maria.] - An ‘ante-nuptial’ daughter, Emma, was b. in London in June 1839 (q.v.). They had 5 more daughters & a son (all b. in Kent): Mary Ann (b. 1840, d. 1883); Maria (b. & d. 1842); Christopher William (b. 1846); Caroline (b. 1848); Jane (b. 1851); & Alice (b. 1854). - In the 1841 Census, Christopher Wedderburn, Inspector of Police ‘aged 25’, was living at Tylors Green, Godstone, Surrey, with Maria, ‘aged 20’; Emma, aged 2; Mary, aged 8 mths. (none of them b. in the county); & Christopher’s father William, ‘aged 60’ (‘b. Scotland’). - In the 1851 Census, Christopher Wedderburn, Station Superintendent, aged 37 (‘b. Reading, Berks.’), was living in Gravel Pit Street, Ashford, with Maria, aged 33; Emma, a Scholar aged 11 (both ‘b. St. Marylebone, London’); Maria, a Scholar aged 10 (‘b. Leigh, Kent’); Christopher William (‘b. Marden, Kent’); Caroline, aged 2; Jane, aged 1 mth. (both ‘b. Ashford’); & Harriet Weeks, House Servant, aged 19 (‘b. Charing, Kent’). - Christopher’s wife Maria died at Ashford on 13/6/1856. - In the 1861 Census, Christopher, Station Master, a widower aged 47, was living in 1 of 2 dwellings at the Station (the other being occupied by the tenant of the Refreshment Rooms & her staff), with Emma, aged 21 (‘b. London’); Christopher, Station Clerk, aged 14; Caroline, aged 12; Jane, aged 11; Alice, aged 9 (all shown as ‘b. Ashford’); & nephew Alfred Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’ (‘b. London’ - 1842). - In the 1871 Census, Christopher, a widower aged 57, was living at Station Villa, Ashford, with his mother Hannah, a widow aged 90; his 3 unm. daughters: Mary, a Governess aged 30; Jane, a Milliner aged 20; Alice, a Milliner aged 17; & Ann Perkins, a Domestic Servant, aged 20 (‘b. Ashford’). - Christopher’s mother Hannah died at ‘Rail View Villa’ on 3/2/1878, aged 97, and later that year Christopher retired & moved to Islington, Middlx. - In the 1881 Census, he was living at 40 Freegrove Road, Islington, with his unm. daughters Mary, aged 40, & Jane, a Mantle Saleswoman, aged 30, and a General Servant, Mary Furley, aged 16. Christopher died at Islington on 20/10/1882 (q.v.). - He is buried, with his mother & daughter Mary (who died in 1883 aged 42) in a tomb at Ashford Cemetery, Kent.
1839
James Weatherburn [probably s. of Joseph Wedderburn & Sarah Green (m. 1834)] died at Croydon [Surrey] in the Sept. qtr. of 1839. James was buried at St. John the Baptist, Croydon, on 21/9/1839, aged 17 months.
1839
William Wedderburn [bap. 1837, 2nd s. of Jacob W. (Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841) & Mary Elizabeth Williams (m. 1828)] died at 2 Red Lion Market, St. Luke’s, on 7/8/1839, aged 2 yrs. 2mths.
1839
Hope Wedderburn [bap. 1835, 2nd d. of Jacob W. (Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841) & Mary Elizabeth Williams (m. 1828)] died at 2 Red Lion Market, St. Luke’s, on 17/8/1839. (On W.B. p. 506, ‘A.W.’ states: “Hope (no doubt twin with William b. 1837) died aged 2yrs. 2mths….” - but this is incorrect. Hope was b. in 1835 & her brother in 1837.
1839
Joseph Wedderburn, 3rd s. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’), d. 18] & Mary Elizabeth Williams [m. 1828], was b. 12/10/1839 at Red Lion Market, St. Luke’s. He was bap. 1/12/1839 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn. In the 1841 Census, Joseph, aged 1, was living with his parents & 2 siblings at Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, Middlx. - [Joseph’s widowed mother m. ii) William Partridge, Scalemaker, in 1843 (q.v.).] - In the 1851 Census, Joseph Wedham (sic), a Scholar aged 11 (‘b. St. Luke, Middlx.’), was living with his step-father William Partridge, Scale Maker, aged 31 (‘b. S. Pancras, Middlx.’); his mother Mary Partridge, aged 42 (‘b. Camberwell, Surrey’); his sister Ellen Wedham (sic), a Scholar aged 9 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’), 2 Partridge half-brothers & 2 Partridge half-sisters, at 24 Gloster Buildings, St. Luke’s, Middlesex. - In the 1861 Census, Joseph Wederbourn (sic), a Blacksmith aged 21 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’), was living with his step-father William Partridge, a Scale Maker aged 40 (‘b. S. Pancras, Middlx.); his mother Mary Partridge, aged 51 (‘b. Clerkenwell’); 2 half-brothers & 2 half-sisters, at 1 Peace Place, St. Luke, Finsbury, Middlx. - “Joseph Wedderburn, a Smith, died at St. Luke’s Workhouse, Shoreditch, on 2/11/1869”.
1839
Harriett Wedderburn, [apparently] e.d. of James W. [Scalemaker, b. 1824, e.s. of Jabez W. (Scalemaker, b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage (m. not found) & Mary Ann Barrow [m. 1843) - but probably Mary Ann’s eldest daughter, as she appears after James’ & Mary’s younger children in the 1851 census] was b. c1839 at Westminster, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, Harriett Wedderburn, aged 12 (‘b. Westminster’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at 34 Mint Street, Southwark, Surrey.
1840
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, only s. of Frederick Lewis S-W. [b. 1808 in Edinburgh] by his 1st wife, the Hon. Helen Arbuthnott [m. 1839 - 5th d. of John, 8th Viscount Arbuthnott, & Lady Margaret Ogilvy (eldest sister of the wife of John W. ‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1788, at Clapham, Surrey)], was b. 18/4/1840. - The Hon. Helen died at Balgarvie, Fife, on 23/4/1840. - [Frederick m. ii (or iii?) Selina Mary Garth in 1852 (q.v.)] - Henry m. Juliana Braddell [ygst. d. of Thomas Braddell, Esq., of Coolmelagh, Wexford] in Dublin in 1869 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 6 daughters.] - Henry died on 1/2/1914. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Dundee)
1840 Richard Weatherburn, [‘ante-nuptial’] elder s. of Richard Graham W. [Master Mariner, bap. 1796 at S. Shields, Durham, d. there 1858] & Ann [Tapscott, m. 21/11/1840 (q.v.), d. at Camden Town, Middlx., in 1854], bap. 7/6/1840 at St. Dunstan’s, Stepney. In the 1851 Census, Richard, a Scholar aged 11 (‘b. Stepney, Middlx.’), was living with his parents, 5 siblings, a Visitor & a House Servant, at Laygate Square, Westoe, South Shields. Durham. - In the 1861 Census, Richard Weatherburn, Head, a Sailor, unm. aged 21 (‘b. Middlesex, London’), was living at Adelaide Street, Westoe, South Shields, Durham, with his sister Elizabeth, aged 17; his brother Charles, aged 12; & an ‘unidentified’ Visitor, Ann Isabella Weatherburn, aged 30 (all ‘b. South Shields’). - Richard Weatherburne (sic) died at Constantinople between 1871-5.]
1840
William Wedderburn, 3rd [but ultimately only surv.] s. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah Trowbridge [m. 1826, d. 1860], was b. 31/5/1840 at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, London, & bap. 14/6/1840 in the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars. [On W.B. p. 489 it shows William ‘b. 1839-40’.] - In the 1841 Census, William, aged 1 [incorrectly shown as aged 3], was living with his parents & 2 siblings at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1851 Census, William, a Scholar aged 10 (‘b. City of London’), was now living with his parents & 4 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, St. Ann Blackfriars, City of London. - William joined the GPO as a Postman in 1858. - In the 1861 Census, William Wedderburne (sic), Sorter, General Post Office, aged 20 (‘b. London’), was still living at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars. His married sister Eliza was also living there with her husband and [David Hughes, Hatter, aged 52 (‘b. Denby - sic - North Wales’) & his wife Ann, aged 57 (‘b. Dolgelly, Merionethshire’), who would become William’s parents-in-law in Aug. of that year, were living next-door at No. 11.) - William m. Eleanor Hughes [b. 10/10/1835] in 1861 (q.v.). - [They had 3 sons & 3 daughters.] - Eleanor died in 1878 & William m. ii) in 1883, Jane Tytherleigh. [No issue.] - He was Inspector in charge of the Sorting Office at Charing Cross when he retired early, because of a ‘rheumatic heart’, in 1893. He died at 27 Chaucer Road, Herne Hill, S.E. London, on 20/2/1914, aged 73, leaving a Will.
1840
Sir James [Webster] Wedderburn [b. 1788, widower of Lady Frances Caroline W-W, née Annesley, m. 1810, d. 1837)] died suddenly in Dublin on 13/8/1840, from a paralytic stroke, and is there buried. (W.B. p. 334) - Admon. of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Sir James W-W, late of Hertford Street, May Fair, in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square, Middlx., Knight, widower, deceased, was granted on 6th Nov. 1840 to Lucy Sarah Ann Bishop, Wife of the Rev. Alfred Bishop, Clerk, one of the natural and lawful children of the said deceased, having been first duly Sworn to Administer.
1840
Harriet Wedderburn, 7th d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 - m. not found], was b. 8/10/1840 at Foxes Buildings, St. George’s, Southwark, Surrey “Harriet died at 13 Moore Square, St. Giles, Cripplegate, on 2/11/1847, aged 7, the entry wrongly calling her daughter of Robert Wedderburn, scalemaker”. (W.B. p. 506, footnote²) - [Harriet’s mother died in Nov. 1846, & Jabez did not remarry until 1850, so perhaps the death was registered by Jabez’s brother Robert, b. 1832?]
1840
Mary Ann Wedderburne (sic), 2nd d. of Christopher W. [Stationmaster, b. 1813 (bap. 1830)] & Maria [Webb, m. 1839], was b. 24/10/1840 at Leigh, Sevenoaks, Kent. She was bap. as ‘Mary Wedderburne’ on 16/11/1840 at Leigh, Kent, as dau. of Christopher Steward W. - In the 1841 Census, Mary, aged 8 mths., was living with her parents; her sister Emma, aged 2; & her grandfather William Wedderburn, ‘aged 60’ (‘b. Scotland’), at Tylors Green, Godstone, Surrey. - In the 1851 Census, ‘Maria’, a Scholar aged 10 (‘b. Leigh, Kent’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at Gravel Pit Street, Ashford, Kent. - In the 1871 Census, Mary, a Governess, unm. aged 30, was living at Station Villa, Ashford, Kent, with her father, grandmother, & 2 unm. sisters. - In the 1881 Census, Mary, aged 40, was living with her father & sister Jane at 41 Freegrove Road, Islington. - Mary Wedderburn died, unm., in the parish of St. Olave, London, on 9/7/1883, aged 42. She is buried in a tomb at Ashford Cemetery, with her father Christopher (d. 1882) and her grandmother Hannah Wedderburn (d. 1878).
1840
Richard Graham Weatherburn, Mariner, a bachelor, of 17 Green Street [bap. May 1796 at South Shields, Durham], ‘s. of Robert Weatherburn, deceased’ [& Elizabeth Anderson (m. 1794 at Jarrow, Durham)] m. Ann Tapscott, spinster, ‘d. of Charles Tapscott, deceased’, at All Saints Church, Stepney, on 21/11/1840. (The witnesses were Robson Dowson & Sarah Hollice.) - They had 2 sons & 4 daughters: Richard Weatherburn (b. at Stepney in June 1840, q.v.); Elizabeth White Wetherburn (sic - b. 1842 at Westoe, S. Shields, Durham); Anne Weatherburn (b. 1844 at South Shields, d. there 1861); Charles Weatherburn (b. there 1846 - who became a Ship Broker); Ellen (b. 1849 at S. Shields - who became a School Mistress); & Emily Weatherburn (b. 1851 at S. Shields, d. 1889 at Hexham, Durham) - Ann Weatherbourne (sic) died at Camden Town, Middlx., in 1854 (q.v.), & Richard died at South Shields, Durham, in the Sept. qtr. of 1858.
1840
John Weatherburn, [3rd] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 at Stepney], was b. in the Dec. qtr. of 1840 at Stepney. In the 1841 Census, John, aged 1, was living with his parents & 3 siblings at 10 Red Lion Place, St. John, Wapping, Middlx. - In the 1851 Census, John, aged 10 (‘b. Wapping’), was living with his parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. - In the 1861 Census, John, an Engineer aged 20 (‘b. Wapping’), was living with his mother & 5 siblings at 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Stepney. [His father was probably away at sea.] - John m. Elizabeth Muddiman at Bethnal Green in 1870 (q.v.). [They had 2 children.] - John Weatherburn, Engineer, died at the Friern Barnet Lunatic Asylum on 9/10/1880, his age given as 49.
1841
Elizabeth Hannah (‘or Susannah’) Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. d. of Jacob W. [Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Elizabeth Williams [m. 1828], was b. 17/6/1841 at 25 Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, & bap. 29/3/1850 at St. Thomas, Charterhouse, Finsbury. - In the 1851 Census, Ellen Wedham (sic), a Scholar aged 9 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’), was living with her step-father William Partridge, a Scale Maker, aged 31 (‘b. S. Pancras, Middlx.’); her mother Mary Partridge, aged 42 (‘b. Camberwell, Surrey’); her brother Joseph Wedham (sic), a Scholar aged 11 (‘b. St. Luke, Middlx.’), 2 Partridge half-brothers & 2 Partridge half-sisters, at 24 Gloster Buildings, St. Luke’s, Middlesex. - In the 1881 Census, Elizabeth W. ‘aged 37’ (‘b. London’), was a Domestic Servant in the household of Hannah Bowker & her family at 12 Union Street, Islington. - Elizabeth m. John Charles Aubrey in 1886 (q.v.).
1841
Jacob Wedderburn [Scalemaker, b. 1806 (4th & ygst. s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] died at 25 Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, on 20/12/1841, aged 35.
1842
William Weatherburn, e.s. of Henry W. [Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland (d. 1873)] & Maria Nash [m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts. - Henry’s surname given as ‘Wedderburn’ - bap. 6/3/1842 at St. Peter’s, Brighton. [The family later lived at Redhill, Surrey.] - In the 1861 Census, William, an Engineer in Railway Factory, unm. aged 19 (‘b. Brighton, Sussex’), was a Lodger at Willesborough, Kent, at the home of Richard Slater, Blacksmith aged 30 (‘b. ???, Kent’), & his wife & family. - William m. Maria Barrett at Strood, nr. Rochester, Kent, on 6/11/1870 (q.v.). - [They (probably) had 6 daughters & 2 sons.] - William was one of the executors of his father Henry’s Will in 1873 (q.v.). - William died at 4 Studda Villas, Strood, Kent, on 2/2/1890, aged 48. Admon. was granted to his e.d. Florence Maria, spinster. - Estate valued at £464:8:4d. Maria died at Strood in the Sept. qtr. of 1895, aged 42.
1842
Maria Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Christopher W. [Railwayman, b. 1813 (bap. 1830)] & Maria [Webb, m. 1839], was b. 28/3/1842 at Drum Lane, Ashford, Kent. “She died there the next day”.
1842
Martin Weatherburn [Engine Driver, bap. 1820 in Sunderland] m. Mary Ann Longhurst at St. Nicholas, Brighton, on 22/5/1842. [Martin is ‘Morten Wetherborn’ (sic), 4th s. of John W., Engineman of Kenton, ?b. 1768, & Priscilla Harpley (m. 1806 at Bishopwearmouth, Durham), who was bap. on 26/4/1820 at Zion Chapel Methodist New Connexion, Sunderland. - John & Priscilla also had a d. ‘Priscella’ bap. there on 22/8/1820.) - Martin & Mary Ann had 2 daughters & 2 sons: Priscilla Mary Ann (bap. 1843 at Brighton, Sussex, d. at Boston, Lincs., 1849); Frank Martin (b. 1845 at Romford, Essex); Ruth (b. 1852 at St. George’s in the East, m. 1871); & John Thomas (b. 1855 at Poplar, Middlx. - In his Will, John Thomas W. mentions his sister Ruth Fletcher.) - In the 1851 Census, Martin, Locomotive Engineer, aged 31 (‘b. Sunderland’), was living at 1 Great Northern Terrace, St. Mary le Wigford, Lincs., with Mary Ann, aged 30 (‘b. Shoreham, Sussex’); & Frank Martin, a Scholar aged 6 (‘b. Romford, Essex’). - Martin Witherbourn (sic), a Stoker on a Steamboat, ‘aged 40’, was found drowned at Cardiff, Glamorganshire, in Sept. 1856. In the 1861 Census, Mary Ann Wetherburn (sic), a widow aged 41, Charwoman (‘b. Shoreham, Sussex’), was living at 23 George Street, Ratcliff, Stepney, with Frank Martin W., a Grocer aged 15 (‘b. Hornchurch, Essex’), Ruth W., a Scholar aged 9 (‘b. Wapping, Middlx.’), John Thomas W., a Scholar aged 6 (‘b. Poplar, Middlx.’), & Ann Longhurst, Visitor, a Servant aged 25 (‘b. Shoreham, Sussex’). - Mary Ann Weatherburn m. ii) William Pratt at Stepney in 1861. In the 1871 Census, Mary Ann Pratt, aged 53 (‘b. Shoreham, Sussex’), was living with her husband William Pratt, a Brakesman, aged 67 (‘b. Nottingham’), her son John W. Pratt (John Thomas Weatherburn), aged 17 (‘b. London, Middlx.’), & a daughter, Mary Ann Pratt, aged 9 (‘b. Ratcliff, Middlx.’) at 21 Dalgleish Sreet, Limehouse, Middlx.
1842
Alfred Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. [but 2nd surv.] s. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah Trowbridge [m. 1826, d. 1860], was b. 11/7/1842 at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, London, & bap. 7/8/1842 in the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars. In the 1851 Census, Alfred, aged 9 (‘b. City of London’), was living with his parents & 4 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1861 Census, Alfred, aged 20, was living with his widowed uncle Christopher Wedderburn & his family in 1 of the 2 dwellings at Ashford Station, Kent. - Alfred died at the City of London Workhouse (‘Admitted on the Common Fund’) on 18/4/1866, aged 23, of T.B. – He was ‘buried by Friends’.
1842
Percival Weatherburn [bap 1807 at Earsdon by N. Shields, 2nd s. of James W. (Husbandman, b. 1770) & Jane Hunter (m. 1803)] died on 25/7/1842 at St. George’s in the East Union, Stepney, aged 37.
1842
William Weatherburn, [4th] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 at Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 at Stepney], was b. 2/11/1842 at 7 Red Lion St., Wapping. In the 1851 Census, William, aged 8 (‘b. Wapping’), was living with his parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. - In the 1861 Census, William, a Plumber aged 18, was living with his mother & 5 siblings at 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Stepney. [His father was pobably away at sea.] - Willam m. Mary Ann Hudson at St. John the Evangelist, Limehouse, on 13/8/1865 (q.v.). - [They had 6 sons & 3 daughters.] - Mary Ann died at Poplar in the March qtr. of 1922, aged 76 & William died there on 13/2/1926, aged 83.
1843
James Kellerman Wedderburn [b. 1818, only s. of James W. (b. 1788 in Jamaica) & Isabella Lyon (m. 1817)] m. Charlotte McMahon [b. 15/2/1823, d. of Gen. Sir Thomas McMahon, Bt.] at Bombay on 23/2/1843. - They had 2 daughters: Emily Frederica (b. 1844 at Poona, m. 1863 in London); & Isabella Lottie (b. 1854, m. 1874 in London & d. 1881 in India). - “John had joined the army in July 1836 and was a cornet in the 2nd Life Guards. In Nov. 1837 he took leave of absence to visit his estates in Jamaica, which he had inherited on his father’s death in 1831. After visiting the US, he returned home and rejoined his regiment. He afterwards sold out of the Life Guards and entered the 9th Lancers, with whom he went to India. After his marriage he left the army and long resided in London”. (W.B. p. 346) - In the 1851 Census, John K. Wedderburn, Army Captain, aged 33 (‘b. London’), was living at No. 9 Great Cumberland Street, Marylebone, London, with Charlotte, aged 28; Emily, aged 6 (both ‘British Subjects b. East Indies’); & 4 Servants. - In the 1881 Census, John ‘Widderburn’, a Fund Holder, aged 63 (‘b. Marylebone’) & Charlotte ‘Widderburn’, aged 58 (‘b. Calcutta, East Indies’), were living at 21 Lowndes St., Chelsea, with six servants.] - John Kellerman Wedderburn died at 41 Cadogan Place, London, on 4/6/1891. - Charlotte died at 99 Sloane St., Middlesex, on 4/4/1894, leaving a Will. - Probate was granted to Lionel Westropp McMahon & Edward Hanson Freshfield. - Estate valued at £31,364. (Somerset House Will.) - Both were buried at Kensal Green.
1843
James Wedderburn [Scalemaker - James William, bap. 1824, e.s. of Jabez W. (Scalemaker, b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage] m. Mary Ann Barrow [d. of Joseph Barrow, cabinet maker] at Holy Trinity, Brompton, on 26/2/1843. They had 5 sons & 3 daughters: Mary Ann (b. 1844, m. 1863); Sophia (b. 1845, d. 1849); James (b. 1847, m. 1867); John Joseph (b. 1849); Robert (b. 1851); William (b. 1854); & Henry (b. 1856). - In the 1851 Census, James Wedderburn, Scale Beam Maker aged 26 (‘b. St. George, Surry’ - sic), was living at 34 Mint Street, Southwark, with Maryann, aged 26 (‘b. Newington’), Mary, aged 6 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’); James, aged 4; John, aged 2; Robert, aged 1 mth. (all ‘b. London, Middlx.’); & Harriett Wedderburn, dau., aged 12 (‘b. Westminster’ - her birth reg. not found ). - In the 1861 Census, James, a Scale Beam Maker aged 37 (‘b. Southwark’), was living at 2 Friars Place, St. George the Martyr, Southwark, with Mary Ann, aged 37 (‘b. Lambeth’); Mary Ann, a Scholar aged 17 (‘b. St. Luke’s’); James, a Whitesmith aged 14 (‘b. City of London’); & Jane Wedderburn, a Scholar aged 8 (‘b. Salford, Lancs’- her birth reg. not found but see entry in 1855 & Sarah ‘Waterburn’, bap. 1845 at Hayfield, Lancs.). - James Wedderburn, a scalemaker aged 44, was admitted to Alderbury Lunatic Asylum on 4 June 1867, from Newington Workhouse. Previous place of abode, 32 Wellington Street, London S.E. - “In 1869, James’s wife Mary Ann was living at 10 John Street, East Street, Newington. (Asylum records) - James Wedderburn died (from epilepsy) at Alderbury Lunatic Asylum, Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, on Christmas Day 1869, aged 46. [James’s death is shown in Misc. Refs. (English Records) on W.B. p. 508 but he is not identified and the date of his death is given incorrectly as 31/3/1869.] - His widow Mary Ann Weatherburn m. ii) Joseph Wright, at St. Mary’s, Lambeth, on 12/5/1872 (q.v.). -
1843
Mary Elizabeth Wedderburn [née Williams, widow of Jacob W. (Scalemaker, b. 1806, d. 1841)] m. William Henry Partridge, scalemaker, at St. John’s Church, Waterloo, Lambeth, on 10/4/1843. In the 1851 Census, Mary Partridge, aged 42 (‘b. Camberwell, Surrey’), was living at 24 Gloster Buildings, St. Lukes’. Middlx., with her husband William, a Scale Maker, aged 31 (‘b. S. Pancras, Middlx.’), Joseph Wedham, a Scholar aged 11 (her son Joseph Wedderburn, b. 1839); Ellen Wedham, a Scholar aged 9 (her daughter Elizabeth Wedderburn, b. 1841); William Partridge, a Scholar aged 7; Arthur Partridge, a Scholar aged 5; Amelia Partridge, aged 3; & Martha Partridge, aged 1 (all ‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’). - In the 1861 Census, William Partridge, a Scalemaker aged 40 (‘b. St. Pancras, Middlx.), was living at 1 Peace Place, St. Luke, Finsbury, Middlx., with Mary, aged 51 (‘b. Camberwell’); William, a Paper ???, aged 17; Arthur, a Scalemaker aged 15; Amelia, aged 13; Martha, aged 11; & their half-brother (Mary’s yngst. son by her first marriage), Joseph Wederbourn (sic), a Blacksmith aged 21 (all ‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’). - [Joseph Wedderburn died on 2/11/1869, aged 30. - The Partridge family later lived in Bull Court, Lambeth, Surrey. - In 1872, Mary & William’s second son Arthur Frederick Partridge (b. 19/6/1845 at Little Arthur St., St. Luke’s, Middlx.), scalemaker, was m. & living at 9 Galloway St., London. (e-mail from a Partridge descendant - via Peter G. on 8/3/2004)]
1843
William Wedderburn [b. 1779, nr. Aberdeen] died at 28 Marsham St, Westminster, on 7/6/1843, aged 63. (W.B. p. 489 & death cert. The death cert. shows him as: ‘Army pensioner, local militia, late sergeant; out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital’.) - [In the W.B. it is stated that William was b. in 1780 at Upper Banchory, Kincardineshire - but William’s Army record (found in the PRO at Kew) shows that he was b. in July or August 1779 at Nether Banchory. (His baptism cannot be found.) - William joined the 21st Foot Regt. at Dundee in Jan. 1797 - his surname spelt as ‘Wetherburne’. In 1800 he was transferred to the newly-formed ‘Rifle Corps’ (afterwards the 95th Foot Regt.) as a serjeant, his surname from then on spelt ‘Wedderburn’. He became QMS of the 1st Btn. 95th Foot in 1805 and served in Denmark & the Peninsular Campaign, being amongst those who were in the 250-mile ‘retreat to Corunna’ in 1808-09. - He was evacuated from Corunna on 16/1/1809 & spent some time in hospital. He was discharged from the 95th Foot in May 1809 he joined the Royal Berks Militia as a Sergeant-Instructor. He was later in the 2nd Veteran’ Btn. & from 1831-1838, when he retired because of ill-health, he was a Staff Sergeant with the ‘Recruiting Staff’ in London.] - William was buried on 12/6/1843 at St. John the Evangelist, Westminster. [William’s widow Hannah (née Miller, m. 1805) died at Ashford, Kent, on 3/2/1878, aged 97.]
1843
Mary Wedderburn [unidentified] ‘of Brill Row’, was buried at St. Pancras Parish Chapel on 12/6/1843, aged 75.
1843
Caroline Wedderburn [b. 28/2/1817 at Swansea - ygst. d. of Alexander W., bap. 1782 in Berwick as ‘Weatherburn’, Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter, & Ruth House (m. 1804)] m. i) James Taylor, Junior, at St. Pancras’ Old Church, on 22/7/1843. (Another entry as Caroline ‘Widderburn’, same ref.) - [James Taylor was the executor of Alexander’s Will in 1853. (‘L.W. No. 26’) - A Wm. James Taylor was the informant of the death of a John W. who died at St. George’s Hospital, Hanover Square, on 18/9/1863, aged 71 (Misc. Refs., W.B. p. 508) but he is not Caroline’s uncle John, b. 1784 at B-on-T, as he died there on 18/7/1850, aged 66.] - In the 1851 Census, Caroline Taylor, aged 33 (‘b. Swansea, Wales’ - so she must be the Caroline who was bap. i) in 1817 in Swansea & ii) at Exeter in 1823), was living with her husband James Taylor, a Woollen Cloth Agent, aged 37 (‘b. Exeter, Devon’); her sister Eliza Wedderburn, unm. aged 35 (‘b. Bristol, Gloucs.’); & Agnes Leitch, Domestic Servant, aged 23 (‘b. Scotland’), at 1 Sydney Villa, Whitehorse Rd., Croydon, Surrey. - In the 1861 Census, Caroline Taylor, ‘aged 40’, was still living at Sydney Villa, with her husband James Taylor, a Woollen Cloth Mechant, ‘Wool shop’, aged 46; & Mary Ash, House Servant, unm. aged 29 (‘b. Exeter’). - James Taylor’s death not found but Caroline m. ii) James Goodman, widower, a dental surgeon in Taunton, Somerset, in 1874. (W.B. p. 508) - In the 1881 Census, Caroline Goodman, ‘aged 50’ (‘b. Swansea, Wales’), was living with her husband James Goodman, a Dentist aged 76 (‘b. Ashbrittle, Som.’), at 12 East Reach, Taunton. - James Goodman died at Taunton in the June qtr. of 1889, aged 82. “In 1891 Caroline was living, though infirm, at 3 Linden Grove, Taunton”. [No issue from either marriage.] Caroline Goodman died at Taunton in the June qtr. of 1894, aged 77.
1843
Elizabeth Julia Wedderburn [née Stratton], widow of Col. Alexander W. [b. 1791, 3rd & ygst. s. of Sir John W. of Balindean (b. 1729) & his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780)], who had died in Glasgow on 30/7/1839, m. ii) Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake [e.s. of Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake of Shardilloes, Amersham, Bucks.] at Farthinghoe, Brackley, Northants, on 8/8/1843. “By him she had issue”.
1843
William Thomas Wedderburn ‘of Liverpool St., St. Pancras’ [b. c1807, Chief Clerk in the mail office & Inspector of Mails in the General Post Office, 1827-60, only s. of Alexander W., Chief inspector of mail coaches in Exeter (bap. 1782 at Berwick-on-Tweed as ‘Weatherburn’) & Ruth House (m. 1804)] m. Mary Jane Fishley [bap. 30/10/1814 at Ilfracombe, Devon, d. of George Fishley, Mariner, & Jane Brooks (m. 1803)] at Holy Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square, Islington, on 17/8/1843. [In footnote², ‘A.W.’ says that there is no record of this marriage at Somerset House but that William Thomas’s widow gave him the details. However, the m. is there under ‘Widderburn’ (William Thomas and his father both signed the m. register as ‘Widderburn’ - as did William’s sister Eliza, who was one of the witnesses. - Although Wm. Thomas & his father worked for th;e GPO, the profession of both of them was given as ‘Gentleman’!] - William Thomas & Mary Jane had no children. - In the 1851 Census (& the Islington Directory of 1855), W.T. Wedderburn (‘b. Taunton, Somerset’ - though there is no record of his baptism found as yet was living at 4 Grange Cottages, Canonbury Park West. - In March 1860 he applied for early retirement. He was then aged 54 and was ‘Deputy Inspector of Mails’. His application was successful and he was awarded a pension of £400 p.a. (GPO Archives) - He had worked for the GPO in London for 33 years & 6 months. - In the 1861 Census, W. Thomas Wedderburn (sic), Inspector of Mails General Post Office, aged 54 (‘b. Taunton, Somerset’), was living at Coombe Lane, Teignmouth, Devon, with Mary Jane, aged 44 (‘b. Ilfracombe, Devon’); Mary Ann Wedderburn, sister, aged 55 (‘b. Marylebone, Middlx.’); Mary Ann Richards, Visitor, marr. aged 40 (‘b. Liverpool, Lancs.’); & (?)Ann James, House Servant, unm. aged 20 (‘b. Somerset’). - In the 1871 Census, William T. Wedderburn, GPO Deputy Inspector general of Mails, Superannuated, aged 64 (‘b. Taunton, Somerset’), was living at 1 Grendon Villas, West Teignmouth, Devon, with his wife Mary J., aged 56 (‘b. Ilfracombe, Devon’), & 2 Domestic Servants. - [It was at this address that William Thomas’s sister Eliza died in 1869 (see below).] - In the 1881 Census, William F. Widderburn (sic), GPO Dep. Inspector Gen. of Mails, Superannuated (C S), aged 74 (‘b. Taunton, Somerset’), was living with Mary Jane, aged 66 (‘b. Ilfracombe, Devon’), at ‘Dunkeld’, Penge, Surrey, with two young sisters as Domestic Servants. - William Thomas Wedderburn died at ‘Dunkeld’, 39 Croydon Rd., Anerley, on 14/6/1886, aged 79. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery. - In his Will, written on 26/9/1846, he left everything to his widow, the executrix, and the only person named in the Will. - In the 1891 Census, Mary ‘I’ Wedderburn, a widow aged 76 (‘b. Ilfracombe, Devon’), was still at 39 Croydon Road, Penge, ‘living on own means’, with a Cook & a Housemaid. - Mary Jane Wedderburn died there on 10/4/1893, leaving a Will, written on 11/11/1891. - She bequeathed a legacy of £100 to her niece ‘Annie or Annette’ Fishley (daughter of her late brother Peter Brook Fishley) ‘now residing in Melbourne Australia’. - Probate was granted on 3/7/1893 to Mary Jane’s nephew, Horace Collins, an India Rubber Manufacturer’s manager (son of MaryJane’s sister, Margaret Brook Collins), the executor. - Effects valued at £4,804:2:0d.]
1843
Priscilla Mary Ann Weatherburne (sic), [e.] d. of Martin W. [Engine Driver, bap. 1820 in Sunderland, d. 1856] & Mary Ann [Longhurst (m. 1842)], bap. 8/10/1843 at St. Peter’s, Brighton. Priscilla Mary Ann ‘Wetherburn’ died at Boston, Lincs., in the June qtr. of 1849.
1843
George Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. s. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802, d. 1846 - m. not found], was b. 26/8/1843 at Foxes Buildings, St. George’s, Southwark. “George died there on 24/11/1843”.
1843
Henry Weatherburn, 2nd s. of Henry W. [Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland] & Maria Nash [m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts.], was b. at Brighton [Sussex] in the Dec. qtr. of 1843. He was bap. 7/1/1844 at St. Peter’s, Brighton. Henry died in 1844. - [Another son was given the same name in 1851 (q.v.).]
1844
Mary Ann Wedderburn, e.d. of James W. [Scalemaker, b. 1824, d. 1869 (grandson of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Ann Barrow [m. 1843], was b. 4/1/1844 at 83 Kent St., St. George’s, Southwark. In the 1851 Census, Mary, aged 7 (‘b. St. Luke’s’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at 34 Mint Street, Southwark, Surrey. - In the 1861 Census, Mary Ann, a Scholar aged 17 (‘b. St. Luke’s, Middlx.’), was living with her parents & 2 siblings at 2 Friars Place, St. George the Martyr, Southwark. – In the 1861 Census, Mary Ann m. James Chard in 1863 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 506) - Mary Ann died in the Dec. qtr. of 1877, aged 33. - [In the 1881 Census, James Chard, a Fitter (E & M), a widower aged 38, was a Lodger at 22 Wayford St., Battersea, Surrey - the home of his former mother-in-law and her second husband, Joseph Wright (m. 1772).]
1844
Henry Weatherburn [2nd s. of Henry W. (Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland) & Maria Nash (m. 1839)] died at Brighton in the March qtr. of 1844. [Another son was given the same name in 1851 (q.v.).]
1844
Emily Frederica Wedderburn, elder d. of John Kellerman W. [‘Fund Holder’, b. 1818] & Charlotte McMahon [m. 1843 in Bombay], was b. 21/4/1844 at Poonah, in the Bombay Presidency of India. - In the 1851 Census, Emily F., a Scholar at Home, aged 6, was living with her parents at 9 Great Cumberland Street, Marylebone, London. - Emily m. Carey John Knyvett in London in 1863 (q.v.).
1844
Emily Wedderburn, 4th [but 3rd surv.] d. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah [Trowbridge (m. 1826, d. 1860)], was b. 26/6/1844 at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, London. She was bap. 14/7/1844 in the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars. In the 1851 Census, Emily, a Scholar aged 6 (‘b. City of London’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1861 Census, Emily, aged 16 (‘b. Blackfriars’), was a Nurse in the household of Henry Broughton, Asphalte Merchant, aged 35 (‘b. Abbotsbury, Dorset’); his wife Sophia & their 2 children, at Warwick Lodge, 4 Gresham Rd., Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey. - In the 1871 Census, Emily, a Housemaid, unm. aged 26 (‘b. London’), was a Servant in the household of the Rev. John J. White, D.D., Rector of St. Martin’s [in-the-Fields] aged 61 (‘b. Selborne, Hants’), his wife Anna, aged 57 (‘b. Bermondsey, Surrey’), 2 unm. daughters, a Niece & a Cook, at 21 Campden Hill Road, Kensington, Middlx. - In the 1881 Census, Emily, a Housemaid, unm. aged 36 (‘b. Blackfriars’), was a Servant in the household of Charles Marshall, Vicar of St. Brides, Fleet Street, aged 77 (‘b. Stoke Newington’), his wife Sarah, aged 69 (‘b. St. Giles in the Fields’), a Niece & 3 other Servants, at 9 South St., St. Luke, London, Middlx. - “Emily was living, unmarried, in 1891”. (W.B. p. 489) - In the 1901 Census, Emily, unm. aged 56 (‘b. Blackfriars, London’), was Housekeeper-domestic at Twynersh House, Thorpe Road, Chertsey, Surrey. [The only other resident was housemaid Lucy Maud Bowler, unm. aged 18 (‘b. Puttenham, Surrey’).] Emily Wedderburn died at Chertsey in the Dec. qtr. of 1908, aged 64.
1844
Wedderburn Halkett, 3rd & ygst. s. of Sir John Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane, 7th Bt. of Gosford (b. 1805)] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. 30/10/1844. - In the 1851 Census, Wedderburn, a Scholar at Home, aged 6 (‘b. Scotland’), was living with his aunt Helen Halkett, Fund Holder, unm. aged 73 (‘b. Scotland’), his widowed mother Lady Amelia Halkett, Annuitant, aged 43 (‘b. Marylebone, London’), a Nurse, Cook, Lady’s Maid & a Footman, at Manor House, Elstree, Herts. - Wedderburn Halkett died on 11/12/1853, aged 9, and was buried at Kensal Green, London.
1844
Hope Wedderburn, 8th & ygst. d. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. c1798 (3rd s. of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Sophia Clarkson Surrage [b. 1802 – m. not found - d. 1846], was b. in late 1844. (Her birth not reg.) - Hope Widderburn (sic) died at 2 Donnington St., Leather Lane, on 9/8/1847, aged 2yrs. 8mths. - Sophia Shuttleworth (née Sophia Phoebe Wedderburn, b. 1820), of the same address, was the Informant.]
1845
Sophia Wedderburn, 2nd d. of James W. [Scalemaker, b. 1824, d. 1869 (grandson of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Ann Barrow [m. 1843], was b. 16/4/1845 at 3 Foxes Buildings, St. George’s Southwark “Sophia died at 5 Queen St., Newington, on 2/9/1849”. [Sophia was buried on 2/9/1849 at St. Peter, Walworth. See Sarah ‘Waterburn’, bap. 1845, below.]
1845
Isabella Weatherburn, Spinster aged 56 [Isabel Weatherburn, bap. 19/7/1789 at Berwick upon Tweed died at 26 St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, on 19/4/1845. - George Steel, of the same address, was ‘present at the death’. She was buried at St. John, Clerkenwell, Islington, on 25/4/1845, aged 56. (LMA) - [Note 1 (c) in W.B. Vol. II, p. 522, shows, incorrectly, that Isabella died on 15/5/1864.] - Admon. of her personal estate etc. was granted to her brother, Robert Weatherburn, Fishmonger, of Berwick-on-Tweed [b. c1791, d. 1871, q.v.] but not until 18/7/1865. (See Admon. & death cert.) - [Isabel & her brother Robert are siblings of Alexander Wedderburn (Chief inspector of mail-coaches in Exeter - bap. as ‘Weatherburn’ at B-on-T in 1782, d. 1853). - See Alexander Wedderburn of Exeter under 1782.]
1845
Thomas Henry Weatherburn, 3rd s. of Henry W. [Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland] & Maria Nash [m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts], was b. at Brighton [Sussex] in the March qtr. of 1845. He was bap. 1/6/1845 at St. Peter’s, Brighton. Thomas Henry died at Isle of Thanet in the Sept. qtr. of 1846.
1845
Patience Wedderburn, Widow, ‘d. of Robert Taylor, Brassfinisher’, & William Walden, Bachelor, ‘s. of Charles Walden, Carpenter’, both of full age, of Greenhill Rents, were m. at St. John, Clerkenwell, Islington, on 12/8/1845, in the presence of Thomas Carroll & Lydia Douglas. Both ‘made their mark’ but the witnesses signed the register. [See m. of Lydia Wedderburn to Hugh Wilson in 1818. (N.B. In 1829, Lydia Wilson, Widow, m. James Douglas.)]
1845
Frank Martin Weatherburn, [elder] s. of Martin W. [Engine Driver, bap. 1820, at Sunderland, d. 1856] & Mary Ann Longhurst [m. 1842 at Brighton, Sussex], was b. in the Sept. qtr. of 1845 at Romford, Essex. In the 1851 Census, Frank Martin, a Scholar aged 6 (‘b. Romford, Essex’), was living with his parents at 3 Great Northern Terrace, Lincoln. - In the 1861 Census, Frank Martin Wetherburn (sic), a Grocer aged 15 (‘b. Hornchurch, Essex’), was living with his widowed mother & 2 younger siblings at 23 George Street, Ratcliff, Stepney, Middlx.
1845
Sarah Waterburn (sic), ‘d. of Jabez Waterburn & Sarah’, bap. 14/12/1845 at Hayfield [about 12 miles SE of Manchester], Derbyshire. [Jabez is probably Jabez Wedderburn (b.1827, 2nd s. of Jabez W., b. c1798, & Sophia Clarkson Surrage, b. 1802, d. 1846), who m. Harriett Bassom in 1846 (q.v.). - His elder brother James (bap. 1824) & his wife Mary Ann Barrow (m. 1843) had a daughter Sophia b. 16/4/1845 (who died at Newington in 1849), but Jane Sophia Wedderburn, apparently their 3rd & ygst. daughter (though no date or place of b. shown), m. Edward Wasey on 24/7/1870.]
1846
Charles Francis Webster-Wedderburn [b. 1820, e. surv. s. of Sir James W-W (b. 1788) & Lady Frances Annesley (m. 1810)] m. i) Mary Ann Taylor [‘d. of H. Taylor’] on 1/1/1846 at Agra, Bengal. - Mary Ann died on 3/1/1848, aged almost 25, and was buried at Ferozepore the next day, with her only child who had died at birth. (W.B. p. 335) - Charles m. ii) Ann Helyar [d. of William Helyar], in Somerset in 1849 (q.v.); & iii) Emily Honoria Helyar [d. of the Rev. H.W. Helyar of Sutton Bingham, Somerset] in London in 1885 (q.v.).
1846
Francis Weatherburn, [5th] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 at Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in Stepney], was b. in the June qtr. of 1846 at Stepney. [Francis is not with John & Ann and their family in the 1851 Census so he must have died before then.]
1846
Christopher William Wedderbourne (sic), only s. of Christopher Wedderburn [Stationmaster, b. 1813 (bap. 1830)] & Maria Webb [m. 1839], was b. 7/6/1846 at Marden, Kent. In the 1851 Census, Christopher Wm. Wedderburn, aged 4 (‘b. Marden’), was living with his parents & 4 sisters at Gravel Pit Street, Ashford, Kent. - In the 1861 Census, Christopher, Station Clerk aged 14 (‘b. Ashford’ - sic), was living with his widowed father Christopher; Station Master, aged 47; 4 sisters, & his uncle Alfred Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’ (‘b. London’, 1842), in 1 of 2 dwellings at Ashford Station (the other being occupied by the tenant of the Refreshment Rooms & her staff). - In the 1871 Census, Christopher W. Wedderburn, a Railway Clerk, unm. aged 25 (‘b. Marden’), was a Lodger at 7 Queen St., Ashford. - Christopher Willam Wedderburn m. Elizabeth Ann Farrance in 1871 (q.v.). - [They had one son.] - (W.B. p. 489) - Christopher William became proprietor of the West Cliff Hotel in Sandgate Rd., Folkestone, Kent, and afterwards of the Brunswick Hotel in Jermyn Street, London. - Elizabeth died at 52 Jermyn Street in 1892, & Christopher William died at Ashford, Kent, in 1894, leaving a Will. - He appointed Joseph Sams, of 24 Panton Street, Haymarket, Middlesex, Licensed Victualler, and George B. Willis, of 14 Devonshire Square, City of London, Wine & Spirit Merchant, as guardians of his only child, Christopher Farrance Wedderburn. - Probate was granted on 13/7/1894 to J. Sams. - [Son Christopher Farrance W., an Accountant, died in the Isle of Wight in 1900.]
1846
Thomas Martin Jeffery Weatherburn, bachelor [Iron Moulder, bap. 1823 at Gateshead, Durham, as Wedderburn], ‘s. of James Weatherburn, Tailor’ [Husbandman, b. 1770 (James, a Tailor/Pauper was living in the Tynemouth Union Workhouse in 1841) & Jane (Hunter, m. 1803 ] m. Emma Wright, spinster, d. of John Wright, Brick maker - both of Lucas Street - at Christ Church, St. George’s in the East [Middlx.], on 1/6/1846. Witnesses were William & Jane Sadler. - In 1841, William & Jane Sadler & their family were living at the same address as John W., b. 1809, & his wife Ann (née Weatherburn, b. 1807, m. 1830, q.v.), who was Thomas Martin Jeffrey W’s sister - or perhaps his mother?). Thomas & Emma had 2 daughters: Emma Jane (b. 1847) & Mary Ann (b. 1848). - Thomas died at Stepney in the June qtr. of 1849. In the 1851 Census, Emma Weatherburn, a widow aged 26 (‘b. Barnet, Herts.’), was living at 19 Foxes Lane, St. Paul, Shadwell (Tower Hamlets), Middlx., with her daughters, Emma J. aged 4 (‘b. Poplar, Middlx.’) & Mary A., aged 3 (‘b. Limehouse’). - Thomas’s widow Emma Weatherburn m. ii) James Sadler, at Stepney in 1854 (q.v.). - [A Margaret Wedderburn (d. of an ‘unidentified’ Henry W., Compositor) m. Edward Kaines at St. George’s in the East on 5/3/1848 (q.v.).]
1846
Clara Wedderburn, 5th & ygst. [but 4th surv.] d. of John W. [Fishmonger, b. 1807, d. 1870] & Hannah [Trowbridge, m. 1826, d. 1860 13/6/1846 at 4 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, London, & bap. 26/7/1846 in the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars. In the 1851 Census, Clara, aged 4 (‘b. City of London’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at 12 Printing House Lane, Blackfriars, City of London. - In the 1861 Census, Clara, aged 14 (‘b. Blackfriars’), was a Nurse Maid in the household of James Wood, Woollen Draper, aged 41 (‘b. Bath, Somerset’); his wife Jane, & their 2 daughters (all ‘b. London’), at 79 Bishopsgate St., Without. - In the 1871 Census, Clara, unm. aged 24, Unemployed, was living at 12 Printing House Lane but with her married sister Eliza (b. 1837), & Eliza’s husband Isaac Hopes. [Several Boarders, inc. 4 ‘Engineers’ (i.e. Railway Engine Drivers), were also living there.] - Clara m. John Evans at Christ Church, Southwark, on 18/8/1874. (LMA) - [Acc. to Misc. Refs., W.B. p. 508, Clara m. J. Evans at St. Saviour’s, Southwark.]
1846
William Weatherburn, [4th] s. of William W. [Engine-wright, b. 1807 at Sunderland,d. 1870] & Jane Hall [m. 1833 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1869], was b. 27/8/1846 at 1 Mill Place, Limehouse. - William Wedderburn ‘s. of William Wedderburn, Engineer’, died at Stepney on 12/3/1849, aged 2½.
1846
Thomas Henry Weatherburn [b. 1845 at Brighton, 3rd s. of Henry W. (Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland) & Maria Nash (m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts.)] died at Isle of Thanet in the Sept. qtr. of 1846.
1846
Sophia Clarkson Wedderburn [née Surrage (b. 1802), first wife of Jabez W. (b. c1798)] died at Foxes Buildings, St. George’s, Southwark, 15/11/1846, aged 44. Jabez Wedderburn m. ii) Sophia Nunns in 1850.
1846
John Wedderburn [Office Clerk, bap. 20/9/1780, at Newhills, Aberdeenshire), only s. of James W. ‘of Inchmarlo, Kincardineshire’, & Isobel Forbes (m. 1766 at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire - W.B. p. 485, footnote ¹)] died at 1 Prince’s Place, St. James, Westminster, on 24/11/1846, aged 66 and was buried at Old Brompton Cemetery. - His nephew, William Fowler, of 10, St. James Street, was ‘present at the death’. - [Was John the widower of Jane, née Davis, who d. 1826? - See m. 1804.] - John’s Will (q.v.) identifies four of his sisters - born in Kincardineshire & Aberdeenshire - and shows that the information given in the ‘Wedderburns in Aberdeenshire’ section of the W.B. re John’s father is inaccurate. (James W. ‘gardener in Newhills’ is the same person as James W. ‘in Whitekilns’, not his father. - W.B. p. 479). - [In footnote² on W.B. p. 489, ‘A.W.’ suggests that William W. (‘b. 1780’ - see 1779) may be anotherJames W. ‘of Inchmarlo’ - but my investigations make this seem unlikely. ]
1846
Jacob Wedderburn [b. 1834, e.s. of Jacob W., Scalemaker (b. 1806), & Mary Elizabeth Williams (m. 1828)] died at 63 Noble St., St. Luke’s, on 26/11/1846, aged 12. Jacob was buried in the parish of Golden Lane on 6/12/1846.
1846
Jabez Wedderburn [Scalemaker, b. 1827 (grandson of Robert the ‘B.P.’), 2nd s. of Jabez W. (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage] m. Harriett Bassom ‘of Thomas St.’ [d. of John Bassom, Wine porter] at St. John’s Church, Waterloo, Lambeth, on 27/12/1846. They had 9 sons & 3 daughters: Jabez William (b. 1849, m. 1866); Harriett (b. 1850, m. 1874); Robert (b. 1853, m. 1875); Eliza (b. 1854 - who did not m. George Gaddes in 1860!); George Alexander (b. 1856, m. 1882); James (b. 1858, who emigrated to Australia); Frederick William (b. 1858, m. 1882); Mary Ann (b. 1862, m. 1881 as Mary Jane); Alice (b. 1863); William (b. 1864, d. 1865); John (b. 1865, m. 1889); Harry (bap. 1869, ‘Henry’ d. 1870) & Albert Edward (b. & d. 1863). - In the 1851 Census, Jabez, a Scalemaker aged 23 (‘b. Kent St. South’), was living at 8 Little Arthur St., Liberty of Glass House Yard, Finsbury, with Harriett, aged 21 (‘b. Old Kent Rd.’); Jabez, aged 1 (‘b. St. Luke’s’); & Harriett, aged 3 mths. (‘b. City’).] - In the 1861 Census, Jabez, a Scalemaker aged 34 (‘b. Scotland’!), was living at 22 High St., Islington, with Harriet, aged 31 (‘b. Brandon, Norfolk’); Jabez, aged 12; Harriett, aged 10; Robert, aged 8; George, aged 5 (all ‘b. Golden Lane’); James, aged 3; & Frederick, aged 1 (both ‘b. Islington’). - In the 1871 Census, Jabez, a Scalemaker ‘aged 45’ (‘b. Bermondsey’), was living at 9 Deptford Bridge, Greenwich, Kent, with Harriett, aged 44 (‘b. Kent Rd.’); Harriett, unm. aged 20; Robert, married, aged 18; George, aged 16 (all ‘b. City, London’); James, aged 14; Frederick, aged 12; Mary Ann, aged 9; & John, aged 5 (b. 1865), (all ‘b. Poplar, Middlx.’). - In the 1881 Census, Jabez, a Scale-Maker (‘100 M Appr Mk’), ‘aged 54’ (‘b. Bermondsey, Surrey’), was living at 46 Blackheath Rd., Greenwich, Kent, with Harriett, ‘aged 53’ (‘b. Kent Rd., Surrey’), & 5 unm. children: George ‘aged 25’; Frederick ‘aged 21’ (both Scalemakers) & Mary ‘aged 18’ (all ‘b. London’); John ‘aged 16’ (‘b. Middx.’); Albert ‘aged 10’ (‘b. Deptford’, 1871), ‘Visitor’ James Buckler, a Butcher aged 19 (‘b. Devon’ - he m. Mary on 4 Dec. 1881, q.v.); & William Ayles, a General Servant (Scale Mkr.). - Jabez died at 46 Blackheath Rd., Greenwich, Kent, on 5/1/1882, aged 54. - His widow was the sole executor of his Will. - Estate valued at £320. (W.B. p. 506 & Debrett’s research doc. 2, p. 5) - Harriett died at Greenwich in the March qtr. of 1897, aged 68.
1847
James William Wedderburn, e.s. of James W. [Scalemaker, b. 1824, d. 1869 (grandson of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Ann Barrow [m. 1843], was b. 21/3/1847 at 71 Little Britain St., St. Botolph, Aldersgate. In the 1851 Census, James, aged 4 (‘b. London, Middlx.’), was living with his parents & 4 siblings at 34 Mint Street, Southwark, Surrey. - In the 1861 Census, James, a Whitesmith aged 14 (‘b. City of London’), was living with his parents & 2 sisters at 2 Friars Place, St. George the Martyr, Southwark. - He became a Scalemaker & Commercial traveller. - James William m. Caroline Peplow (not Catherine, as shown on W.B. p. 506) in 1867 (q.v.). - [They had 3 sons & a daughter.] - Caroline Wedderburn died at Wandsworth in the Sept. qtr. of 1912, aged 63 & James Wedderburn died at Wandsworth in the Dec. qtr. of 1917, aged 71.
1847
Emma Jane Weatherburn, [elder] d. of Thomas Martin Jeffery W. [bap. 1823 at Gateshead, Durham, as Wedderburn, d. 1849] & Emma Wright [m. 1846], was b. in the June qtr. of 1847 at Poplar. (Another source shows Emma’s birth at Cheshunt, Herts. - about 12 miles north of Poplar.] - In the 1851 Census, Emma J., aged 4 (‘b. Poplar’), was living with her widowed mother Emma, aged 26 (‘b. Barnet, Herts.’) & her sister Mary A., aged 3 (‘b. Limehouse’), at 19 Foxes Lane, St. Paul, Shadwell (Tower Hamlets), Middlx. - [Her mother m. ii) James Sadler in 1854 (q.v.).] - Jane Weatherburn, a spinster aged 29, of 220 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow, d. of Thomas Weatherburn, Marine Engineer, deceased, & Emma Sadler, formerly Weatherburn (née Thomson), m. John Clark, Tinsmith (Journeyman), a bachelor aged 23, of 16 Adelphi Street, Glasgow [s. of Andrew Clark, Fine Drapery Journeyman, & Elizabeth (née ?Gibb)] at 28 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, on 31/12/1877. [Emma Jane’s sister, Mary Ann (b. 1848), m. William Henry Clark (s. of Charles Clark, Porter, at Stepney in Dec. 1869, q.v.). ]
1847
Sir John Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford [b. 1805, only s. of Sir Peter Halkett, 6th Bt. of Gosford, & Elizabeth Todd, m. 1802, in Edinburgh], ‘a commander in the navy’, died at Southampton on 4/8/1847. - He was succeeded as 8th Bt. of Gosford by his eldest & only surviving son, Sir (Peter) Arthur Halkett (b. 1834) - who m. his cousin, Eliza Anna Hill, in 1856 (q.v.).
1847
Robert Weatherburn, 4th s. of Henry W. [Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland (d. 1873)] & Maria Nash [m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts.], was b. in the Sept. qtr. of 1847 at Ramsgate. In the 1861 Census, Robert Wheatherbourn (sic), a Scholar aged 13 (‘b. Ramsgate, Kent’), was living with his parents & 3 siblings in Private (Railway) property at Reigate Foreign, Surrey. - In the 1871 Census, Robert, a Railway Fireman, unm. aged 23 (‘b. Ramsgate’), was living with his parents & his brother Frederick John & his sister Maria Ann, at No. 10 Station Cottages, Reigate, Surrey. - In the 1881 Census, Robert Weatherburn, a Railway Engine Driver ‘aged 32’, was living at 4 Ladbrooke Villas, Ladbrooke Road, Reigate, Surrey, with his widowed mother Maria & his brother & sister. [Admon. of his brother Frederick’s ‘goods’ was granted to Robert in 1887 (q.v.), and he was also the administrator named when his sister Maria Ann died at Redhill in 1896.] - Robert m. Ellen Agnes Crowley at St. Saviour, Southwark, in 1888 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons: Robert Charles Crowley (b. 1888), & Edward Joseph (b. 1890).] - Robert died at 86 Ladbroke (sic) Rd., Redhill, Surrey, on 15/1/1925, aged 77. Probate was granted to his son Robert, an upholsterer, & his brother Henry James Weatherburn [b. 1851], a retired railway clerk, on 21/3/1925. - Effects valued £1975:10:7d.
1847
Hope Widderburn (sic) [Hope Wedderburn, b. 1844, 7th & ygst. d. of Jabez W., Scalemaker (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage (d. 1846)] died of measles, at 2 Donnington St., Leather Lane, on 9/8/1847, aged 2yrs. 8mths. [Jabez’s daughter Sophia Shuttleworth (b. 1820), of the same address, was the ‘informant’. – Hope was buried in the parish of Golden Lane on 12/8/1847.]
1847
Harriet Wedderburn [b. 1840, 7th d. of Jabez W. (b. c1798) & Sophia Clarkson Surrage (d. 1846)] died at 13 Moore Square, S. Giles, Cripplegate, on 2/11/1847, aged 7, “the entry wrongly calling her the daughter of Robert Wedderburn”. [Harriett’s mother died in Nov. 1846, & Jabez did not remarry until 1850, so the death may have been registered by Jabez’s brother Robert, b. 1832. – Harriet was buried on 7/11/1847 in the parish of Golden Lane.]
1848
Euphemia Scrymgeour Wedderburn [b. 1809 in Edinburgh, 8th & ygst. d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1793)] m. [as his 2nd wife] John Scott, M.D., & F.R.C.S. Edinr., of Stratton St., Piccadilly [physician to the East India Company], at St. Peter’s, Thanet, Kent, on 20/1/1848. “They had an only child who died shortly after its birth”. - Euphemia died a widow at ‘Angles’, East Sheen, Surrey, on 3/2/1881.
1848
Margaret Wedderburn, of St. George Street, dau. of Henry W., Corn Porter [unidentified] m. Edward Kaines, Stationer, of Hermitage Street, s. of George Kaines, Stationer, at Christ Church, Watney Street, St. George’s in the East, on 5/3/1848.
1848
James Alexander Wedderburn [b. 1825, 2nd s. of John W. ‘of Auchterhouse’ & Lady Helen Ogilvy (m. 1823)] m. Marion Melvill [5th d. of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, K.C.B., Sec. to the East India Company and afterwards Secretary of State for India] at Hampstead Parish Church on 28/3/1848. “James & Marion went to India.” - A son & 2 daughters were born there, though of these only one daughter, Marion Hester (b. 1852) survived. - James died on 19/5/1854, of brain fever at Chingleput (where, shortly before, he had been appointed head-assistant). Three months later, a 2nd son, Alexander [author of the ‘Wedderburn Book’, pub. 1898], was b. at Cannon Hall, Hampstead (then the residence of his mother’s father), on 7/8/1854. - “Between 1854 & 1895 James’s widow Marion lived successively at Tunbridge Wells & Brighton but chiefly (1875-96) at 76 Cadogan Place, London. In 1898, she was living at The Castle, Tiverton, Devon, the home of her daughter Marion & son-in-law, Stephen Blyth Moore”. - In the 1861 Census, Maria Wedderburn, Fund Holder, a widow aged 35 (‘b. Middlesex’), was living at Grosvenor Cottage, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, with Maria H., a Scholar aged 8 (‘b. Madras, India’); Alexander, a Scholar aged 6; Margaret Davidson, Governess, aged 31, & 2 Housemaids. - In the 1901 Census, Marion Wedderburn, a widow aged 75 (‘b. Bloomsbury’), was living with her son Alexander, his 2 children, & 9 servants, at 47 Cadogan Place, Chelsea. - Marion Wedderburn, of ‘The Hoo’, Willingdon, Sussex, died on 17/9/1914, aged 88. Effects valued at £21,015:7:1d.
1848
Robert Weatherburn, [6th] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 at Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [b. 1807, m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 in Stepney], was b. 18/6/1848 at 15 Foxes Lane, Shadwell. In the 1851 Census, Robert, aged 2 (‘b. Shadwell’), was living with his parents & 6 siblings at 10 Foxes Lane, Shadwell, Middlx. In the 1861 Census, Robert, a Scholar aged 12 (‘b. Shadwell, Middlx.’), was living with his mother & 5 siblings at 14 Bower St., Ratcliff, Stepney. (His father was perhaps away at sea?) - In the 1871 Census, Robert, a Cabinet Maker, unm. aged 22, was living with his parents at 2 Thames Street, Tower Hamlets, Middlx. - Robert m. Jane Catherine Morris at Stepney in 1878 (q.v.). [They had 3 daughters & a son.] - Robert Weatherburn died at St. Olave in the March qtr. of 1933, aged 84.
1848
Mary Ann Weatherburn, [younger] d. of Thomas Martin Jeffery W. [Brass Moulder, bap. 1823 at Gateshead, Durham, as ‘Wedderburn’, d. 1849] & Emma Wright [m. 1846], was b. in the June qtr. of 1848 at Stepney. In the 1851 Census, Mary A., aged 3 (‘b. Limehouse’), was living with her widowed mother Emma, aged 26 (‘b. Barnet, Herts.’), & her sister Emma J., aged 4 (‘b. Poplar’), at 19 Foxes Lane, St. Paul, Shadwell (Tower Hamlets), Middlx. - [Her mother m. ii) James Sadler in 1854 (q.v.).] - In the 1861 Census, Mary Ann Weatherburn, aged 12 (‘b. Poplar’), was living with her mother Emma Sadler, aged 35 (‘b. Barnet, Middlx.’), ‘Wife of Engine-Driver at Sea’; & a Visitor, Arthur Sly, a Commercial Traveller, unm. aged 20 (‘b. St. Carney, Gloucs.’), at 52 Johnson St. W., St. George’s in the East, Middlx. - Mary Ann m. William Henry Clark at Stepney in 1869 (q.v.). [Emma’s sister ‘Jane’ m. John Clark, Tinsmith, at 28 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow, in 1877. ]
1848
Caroline Wedderburn, 4th d. of Christopher [Stewart] W. [Stationmaster, b. 1813 (bap. 1830)] & Maria Webb [m. 1839], was b. 21/6/1848 at Ashford, Kent. In the 1851 Census, Caroline, aged 2 (‘b. Ashford’), was living with her parents & 4 siblings at Gravel Pit Street, Ashford. - In the 1861 Census, Caroline, aged 12 (‘b. Ashford’), was living with her widowed father Christopher; Station Master, aged 47; 4 siblings, & her uncle Alfred Wedderburn, ‘aged 20’ (‘b. London’, 1842), in 1 of 2 dwellings at Ashford Station (the other being occupied by the tenant of the Refreshment Rooms & her staff). - [Caroline had a son, John Cooper Wedderburn, b. & d. at Pancras in 1869 (q.v.).] - She m. Augustus Brown in 1870 (q.v.).
1848
Jessy Ann Wedderburn, d. of Emma W. [unidentified*], b. 29/6/1848 at Shoreditch Workhouse, Shoreditch. Jesse Ann Wedderburn [Jessy Ann, b. 1848, ‘d. of Emma W.’], of Ratcliff, was buried at St. Dunstan & All Saints, Stepney, on 4/1/1852, aged 3. (The cost was 5/- for the ground.) [*Emma Wedderburn, aged 38, ‘d. of William W., Pipe-maker’ (unidentified), m. Joseph Benham at St. Thomas’s, Bethnal Green, in 1870 (q.v.). - She was probably Jessy Ann’s mother. ]
1848
James Alexander Wedderburn, elder s. of James Alexander W. [ICS, b. 1825 at Beddington, Surrey] & Marion Melvill [m. 1848 in London] was b. 21/1/1849 at Guindy, Madras. - He died on 20/10/1852 and was buried at Coimbatore. ]
1849
John Joseph Wedderburn, 2nd s. of James W. [Scale Maker, b. 1824, d. 1869 (grandson of Robert the ‘B.P.’)] & Mary Ann Barrow [m. 1843], was b. 22/1/1849 at 4 Queen’s Square, Bartholomew’s Close, West London. In the 1851 Census, John, aged 2 (‘b. London, Middlx.’), was living with his parents & 4 siblings at 34 Mint Street, Southwark, Surrey. [Nothing more is known about him.]
1849
James Andrew Colvile Wedderburn [Wedderburn-Maxwell from 1896], e.s. of Andrew W. [b. 1821, Wedderburn-Maxwell from 1879] & Joanna Keir [m. 1847], was b. 3/2/1849 at Cuddapah, Madras. - In the 1881 Census, James, a Lieut. Bengall Staff Capt., ‘aged 29’ (‘B. Subject, b. East Indies’), was a boarder at the Lodging House of Mrs. Hellen C. Bucknall, aged 40 (‘b. Lambeth’), at 43 Grove Place, Kensington, Middlesex. - [Fellow lodgers were Cecilia Reed, a widow aged 65, Annuitant (‘B. Subject, b. Mauritius’), and Cecilia’s Grandson, John Hesse, a Scholar aged 9 (‘b. Scotland’).] - In the 1891 Census, James, a retired army major aged 42 (‘b. Cuddapah, Madras’) was living at Oxmead, Norfolk.] - He m. Helen Mary Faussett-Osborne at St. Michael’s, Hartlip, Kent, on 29/10/1891 (q.v.). [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters.]
1849
Ann Wedderburn or Wilkins, widow [probably Ann Taylor, who m. David W. at Portsea in 1800] died at Portsea [Hants.] in Jan. 1849, aged 72. ‘Jane Wilkins informs’.
1849
Thomas Weatherburn, [7th] s. of John W. [Marine Engine Fitter, b. 1809 at Sunderland, d. 1889 in Limehouse] & Ann Weatherburn [m. 1830 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1877 at Stepney], died at Stepney in the March qtr. of 1849. [Thomas’s birth not reg. but another son named Thomas was b. in 1850 (q.v.). - He died in 1852.]
1849
William Wedderburn [William Weatherburn, b. 1846 at Stepney, 4th s. of William W., Engine-wright (b. 1807 at Sunderland, d. 1870) & Jane Hall (m. 1833 at Monkwearmouth, Durham, d. 1869)] died at Stepney on 12/3/1849, aged 2½.
1849
Jabez William Wedderburn, e.s. of Jabez W. [Scalemaker, b. 1827, d. 1882 (grandson of Robert W. the ‘B.P.’)] & Harriett Bassom [m. 1846, d. 1897], was b. 13/5/1849 at 24 Baltic St., St. Luke’s. Jabez William was bap. in 1856 (q.v.). - In the 1851 Census, Jabez, aged 1 (‘b. St. Luke’s’); was living with his parents & sister Harriett, aged 3 mths. (‘b. City’), at 8 Little Arthur Street, Liberty of Glass House Yard, Finsbury. - In the 1861 Census, Jabez, a Scholar aged 12 (‘b. Golden Lane’), was living with his parents & 5 siblings at 22 High Street, Finsbury, Islington. - He m. Ruth Smith in 1866 (q.v.). - [They had 5 sons & 6 daughters.] - It was Jabez William, living at 130 Hill St., Peckham, in 1895, who gave ‘A.W.’ the information about Robert the ‘B.P.’ & his descendants on which the account in the W.B. is based. “The descent, it should be noticed, is not traced beyond 1890”. (W.B. p. 505, footnote 7) - [Acc. to Debrett’s researchers for the “Wedderburn Scales” family in Australia, “all Jabez William’s & Ruth’s children emigrated to Austalia or N.Z”.] - Ruth Wedderburn, of 130 Hill St., Peckham, Surrey, died on 21/3/1907, aged 67. - Jabez Wedderburn, of 130 Hill Street, Peckam, died at the Constance Road Institution, St. Giles, on 10/12/1915, aged 66, from a Cerebral haemorrhage. - He was ‘buried by Friends’.
1849
Martin Weatherburn, 5th s. of Henry W. [Engine Driver, b. 1818 in Northumberland] & Maria Nash [m. 1839 at Berkhamsted, Herts.], was b. 28/7/1849 at 6 Elgar Place, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent. Martin died at Reigate in 1852 (q.v.).
1849
Thomas Martin Jeffery Weatherburn [b. 1823 at Gateshead, Durham, m. 1846 at St. George’s in the East] died at Stepney in the June qtr. of 1849. - His widow Emma (née Wright) m. ii) James Sadler in 1854 (q.v.).
1849
Priscilla Mary Ann Wetherburn (sic) [b. 1843, elder d. of Martin Weatherburn (Engine Driver, bap. 1820 at Sunderland) & Mary Ann Longhurst (m. 1842 at Brighton)] died at Boston, [Lincs.] in the June qtr. of 1849.
1849
Francis Weatherburn, [5th] s. of William W. [Engine-wright, b. 1807, d. 1870 (e.s. of John W., Engineman of Kenton, & Priscilla Harpley, m. 1806)] & Jane Hall [m. 1833 at Monkwear-mouth, Durham, d. 1869], was b. in the Sept. qtr. of 1849 at Stepney. In the 1851 Census, Francis, aged 1 (‘b. London’), his parents & his brother James, an Engineer Apprentice aged 14 (‘b. Sunderland’), were Lodgers at 22 Johnson Street, Bishopwearmouth, Durham. - In the 1861 Census, Francis, a Scholar aged 11 (‘b. London, Middlx.’), was living with his parents & his younger brother William, aged 6 (‘b. Sunderland’, in 1855), at 10 Liddle Terrace, Sunderland. - Francis Weatherburn m. Ellen Robinson at Sunderland in the June qtr. of 1867. Francis Weatherburn died at Sunderland in the June qtr. of 1870, aged 21.
1849
Sophia Wedderburn [b. 1845, 2nd d. of James W. (Scalemaker, b. 1824) & Mary Ann Barrow (m. 1843)] died at 5 Queen St., Newington, on 2/9/1849. She was buried at St. Peter’s, Walworth, on 6/9/1849, aged 4.
1849
Charles Francis Webster-Wedderburn [Army captain serving in India, b. 1820, e. surv. s. of Sir James W-W (b. 1788) & Lady Frances Annesley (m. 1810)] m. ii) Ann Helyar [d. of William Helyar of Coker Court, Somerset, & Sedgehill House, Wilts., & Harriet Grove] at E. Coker Parish Church, Somerset, on 9/10/1849. They had 4 sons & 5 daughters. - Charles later became Governor of the Borough Gaol at Armley, Yorks. - Their children were: Charles Albert (b. 1850 at Weymouth, d. at Peshawur, Bengal, 1852); Frances Helyar (b. Bengal 1851, d. at Peshawur, Bengal, 1852); Arthur Augustus (b. Bengal 1853, m. i) in Jamaica in 1888, ii) in 1913 & d. 1919); Charles Edward (b. Weymouth 1855, m. 1885, d. 1936); Gertrude Violet (b. Paris 1857, m. i) 1877 & ii) 1894); Florence (b. Yorks. 1859, d. 1861); Mary Annesley (b. Yorks., 1861, d. Weymouth, 1862); Lucy Constance (b. Weymouth 1863, d. young at Boulogne); & Albert Annesley (b. Boulogne 1864, m. twice in Australia & d. c1929.). - Ann died at Bournemouth on 2/11/1883, aged 56, & Charles m. iii) Emily Honoria Helyer in 1885 (q.v.). - He died at 74 Warrior Square, St. Leonard’son-Sea, Sussex, in 1886, & was buried at Bournemouth with Ann. (W.B. pp. 335-36) - [In the 1891 Census, Emily H.W. Wedderburn, ‘Living on own means’, a widow aged 58 (‘b. Sutton Bingham, Somerset’), was a ‘Visitor’ - with a 24-yr.old Lady’s Maid - in a Boarding House at 74 Warrior Square, Hastings, Sussex. - Acc. to the W.B., Emily was living at St. Leonard’s-on-Sea in 1897 but this is incorrect as Emily Honoria Wedderburn died at 39 Upper Baker Street, Regent’s Park, London, on 9/6/1892 (q.v.).]