1731
Thomas Webster [afterwards the Rev. Dr. Thomas Webster], s. of George Webster & Beatrice Proctor [m. not found], bap. 26/7/1731 at Dundee. - [Thomas is the 4th s. of Beatrice Proctor (widow of David Edward ‘of Pearsie’ & mother of Isobel Edward who m. Robert Wedderburn in 1738), by her 2nd husband, ‘Mr. Webster’. (W.B. p. p.322 footnote 5)] - In the “Fasti Ecclesiae” it says: “Thomas Webster was born in 1731; graduated as M.A. from St. Andrew’s in 1750 and was ordained to Clunie, Perthshire on 23/9/1755. He married, on 8/6/1756, Elizabeth Meik, d. of James Meik, portioner of West Banchory, and had a daughter, Katherine, born 14/9/1757. His wife died on 23/6/1758 and, on 5/2/1759, Dr. Webster was presented by John, Earl of Strathmore, the Patron of the living, to Kinghorn, in Fife. Dr. Webster was admitted there on 26/7/1759. His daughter Katherine died on 24/3/1772. On 24/11/1779, he was demitted, having given offence to his parishioners by not opposing the Catholic Toleration Bill”. He then moved to London, to live with his brothers, partners in the ‘East &West India House’ of “Webster & Co.” in Leadenhall Street, afterwards “Wedderburn Webster & Co.”. (See letter in the Dundee City Archives from Thomas to Robert W. of Pearsie dated 1779, & various letters written by Robert’s son David.) - Thomas died at Bath on 6/7/1816, leaving a Will. - The chief beneficiary, on condition that he changed his surname to ‘Webster’, was James Graham (b. 1774, d. 1841), ‘Merchant, of Leadenhall St., London’, e.s. of Robert W. of Pearsie’s e.d. Elizabeth (b. 1746) & her husband, James Graham ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’. (W.B. pp. 323-24 & see p. 322, footnote 5)
1731
Margaret Wedderburn [unidentified] m. George Bogue on 29/7/1731 at Coldingham.
1731
John Wedderburn, s. of John W. [unidentified] & Barbara Gib [no m. found], bap. 12/8/1731 at Dundee.
1731
Agnes Bunkle, d. of James Bunkle [Saddler] & Elizabeth Wedderburn, bap. 12/11/1731 at Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 503) - “Elizabeth is no doubt the d. of Archibald W., cordiner, & Eupham Sympson, bap. 26/5/1699”. (W.B. pp. 492-93)
1731
Alison Wedderburn, e.d. of William W. [& Elizabeth Mason, m. 1723], bap. 19/12/1731 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1732
Peter Wedderburn [afterwards Halkett - Sir Peter Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 2nd Bt. of Gosford in 1746 (b. 1695, e.s. of Sir Peter W., 1st Bt. of Gosford, & Janet Halkett (m. c1694)] m. ‘before 1738’ [it was probably in 1731/32 (see Jean Halkett, b. 6/10/1732)] Lady Æmilia Stewart [2nd d. of Francis, 7th Earl of Moray, & the Hon. Jean Elphinstone (2nd d. of John, 4th Lord Balmerino - whose son - like Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Bt. of Blackness - was executed in 1746).] - Peter & Lady Æmilia had 3 sons: Peter, Francis & James and (acc. to ‘The Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Family Bloodline’, p. 30), ‘probably’ 4 daughters: Jean (b. 1732); Janet (b. 1735); another Jean (b. 1742) & Emilia (b. 1744). - [Because the Gosford branch of the Wedderburn family would not permit ‘A.W.’ access to their archives, the sons’ dates of birth have not been ascertained. (W.B. p. 380, footnote 8)] - Sir Peter, then Colonel of the 44th Regiment, was killed in battle in America in 1755 and was succeeded as 3rd Bt. of Gosford by his e.s. Peter, even though ‘Peter was afflicted from birth with a weakness of mind’. The 2nd son, Francis, entered the army and was gazetted a captain in Halkett’s foot in 1751. He was later a major in the Black Watch. - Because of Peter’s mental condition, their father (by a settlement dated 14/10/1751) had settled the estates of Pitfirrane on his second and third sons, with their cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1720) as heir to both title and estate in the event of Francis & James dying without male issue. - Francis therefore succeeded to the estates on his father’s death but he died unm. at Naples in 1760. - The remains of both his father and his younger brother James are said to have identified in 1756-57 by Major Francis Halkett (“a full and graphic account ….is given in the Dunwiddie Papers, vol. i, p. 467, published in 1883 by the Virginia Historical Society, U.S.A., in vol. iii of their Collections - W.B. p. 380, footnote 5), “but, oddly enough, a different year - 1758 - is given for his [James’s] date of death in the Court of Session papers printed in the family law-suit in 1761, in which it is stated that ‘James died in 1758’, and again that ‘Major (Francis) Halkett died at Naples 11 Nov. last (1760) and his younger brother, James, two years before’, both of them unmarried”. (W.B. p. 381) - Whichever date is correct for James’s death, both younger brothers predeceased Sir Peter, the 3rd Bt., so when he died, in 1779, it was his ‘curator’, his cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1720, q.v.), who succeeded him and became Sir John Wedderburn-Halkett of Pitfirrane, 4th Bt. of Gosford. - Lady Æmilia Halkett died at Inveresk, co. Midlothian, on 18/5/1781 (acc. to the Scots’ Magazine - though on p. 294 of the Gentleman’s Magagazine, 1781, & Annual Reg., vol. xxiv, p. 212, it states that she died on 27/6/1781 at Inverness.) - (W.B. p. 380 & footnote 8, & W.B. p. 381)
1732
Charles Wedderburn, 4th s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1774], was b. 4/5/1732. - “Charles died on 25/3/1733, two days before his eldest brother Alexander”. (W.B. p. 285)
1732
Peter Wedderburn [Advocate (Secretary to the Excise in 1732) - Lord (Justice) Chesterhall in 1755 (b. c1693, e.s. of Alexander W., b. c1660, & Mary Daes, m. 1692] m. Janet Ogilvy [d. of Capt. David Ogilvy (a captain in the Dragoons, s. of David Ogilvy of Innsto - “not s. of Sir David Ogilvy, 2nd Bt. of Inverquharity, as stated by ‘J.W.’”)] ‘about 1732’. - They had 2 sons & a daughter: Alexander (b. 1733, who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1793 & was created Earl of Rosslyn in 1801); Janet (b. 1736, who m. Lieut-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine of Alva, Bart. in 1659) & David (b. 1740, who was killed in India in 1772). - Lord Chesterhall died on 11/8/1756 and was buried in Grey Friars’ Cemetery. - His widow Janet died in London on 2/6/1771. (W.B. pp. 397-401)
1732
Peter Wedderburn, 4th (?or 5th but 4th surv.) s. of Charles W. [b. 1696, ‘of Gosford’ from 1746] & Mary Wardlaw [m. c1719], bap. 2/10/1732 at Dunfermline. (OPR) - Peter “is said to have entered the Dutch army and died young”. (W.B. p. 382) - [‘A.W. shows Charles & Mary’s s. Peter as ‘bap. Nov. 1722’ and states that he was their 3rd son. In footnote 4 on W.B. p. 382, he states: “Playfair, in the ‘Baronage of Scotland’, erroneously places him as fourth son.” - Apparently ‘A.W.’ did not discover the baptism of this second Peter, in 1732, which would seem to indicate that either he was mistaken about the Peter he shows as b. in 1722 or that Peter died young. (MWE)]
1732
Jean Halkett, [probably e.] d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1695, 2nd Bt. of Gosford in 1746] & Lady Æmilia Stewart [m. not found - but see 1732], was b. 6/10/1732. - [This Jean presumably died young as “another daughter was given the same name in 1743”. (‘Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Family Bloodline’, p. 30)
1733
John Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Ennipel Dyet (sic) in Feb. 1733 at Hamilton.
1733
Alexander Wedderburn [afterwards Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1793) & 1st Earl of Rosslyn (1801)], elder s. of Peter W. [Advocate, b. 1693, Lord (Justice) Chesterhall in 1755] & Janet Ogilvy [m. c1732], was b. 13/2/1733 in Edinburgh & bap. there 15/2. (Witnesses: Mr. John Drummond, younger of Blair, & George Cheap, Esq. - W.B. Vol. II, p. 503 - the latter being the husband of Alexander’s aunt, Mary W., b. 1697.) - By 1754 Alexander was an advocate in Edinburgh but he left the Scottish Bar in late July or early August 1757 and went to London. - He m. i) Betty Anne Dawson [only child & heiress of John Dawson of Morley, Yorks.] on 31/12/1767 at Batley, Yorks. - By 1771 Alexander was Solictor-General and, in 1773, Attorney-General. In 1780 he was created Baron Loughborough of Loughborough, co. Leicester. - Betty died on 15/2/1781 (leaving no issue). - Alexander m. ii) on 12/9/1782, the Hon. Charlotte Courtenay [5th d. of William, first Viscount Courtenay of Powderham, Devonshire], by whom he had one son, b. 2/10/1793, who died the following year. (W.B. p. 405, footnote²) - On 27/1/1793 Alexander succeeded Lord Thurlow as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and in 1795 he was created anew Baron Loughborough of Loughborough, co. Surrey. On 21/4/1801 he was made an Earl of the United Kingdon, with title of Earl of Rosslyn, co. Midlothian. “He resigned the Great Seal in April 1801, after which he resided at Baylis, near Windsor…..”. The Earl died there 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. 402-06) - [James (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)] - “Alexander at one time lived a good deal at Harrogate. There is a curious old house on the common here called ‘Wedderburn House’. It was built and the grounds enclosed and planted by Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughboro’, about 1775. It was sold, I believe, by his nephew the late (second) Earl of Rosslyn, and oddly enough belongs now to a Mr. Weatherburn of Leeds”. (W.B. p. 405, footnote²) - [Alexander’s first wife would seem to be related to Mr. William Dawson of Kelso, Roxburghshire, a noted agriculturist of his day. (See Scots Magazine, 1815, pp. 420-424 & pp. 119, 155 & 157 of “The Diary of a Tour through Great Britain in 1795”, by the Rev. Wm. MacRitchie.)]
1733
David Webster, s. of George Webster & Beatrice Proctor [m. not found], bap. 3/6/1733 at Dundee. - [David, b. 31/5/1733, is the 5th s. of Beatrice Proctor (widow of David Edward ‘of Pearsie’ & mother of Isobel Edward who m. Robert Wedderburn in 1738) by her 2nd husband, ‘Mr. Webster’. (W.B. p. p.322 footnote 5)] - David is described in the W.B. as ‘druggist in London’. He was one of the brothers who were partners in “Webster & Co.”, the ‘East & West India House’ in Leadenhall St., London - afterwards “Wedderburn, Webster & Co.”. - David died at his house in Leadenhall St., London, on 19/12/1787. He was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft. - His Will, written on 10/11/1787 (with a codicil added the following day), was proved at London on 2/1/1788. - Admon. was granted to his brother James Webster, the sole Executor. (He left legacies to various members of the Wedderburn family, as did his brothers John, James & Thomas. - (See W.B. p. 322, footnote 5)]
1733
Helen Wedderburn [? a d. of William or George W. in Coldingham - see William m. 1695] m. William Anderson on 15/7/1733 at Coldingham.
- [There appears to an error of name here. - See next entry.]
1733
Isobel Wedderburn m. William Anderson on 18/7/1733 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
- [See preceding entry.]
1733
Janet Wedderburn (an adult - ?‘Wife of D. Campbell’) was buried on 8/12/1733 at Rickelside, Coldingham [Berwickshire]. (Coldingham Mortcloth Index ) - [Mathilda Wedderburn (b. 1677, 3rd d. of the late Sir John W., 1st Bt. of Blackness (b. 1641) & Rachel Dunmuir (m. 1667), m. David Campbell (younger, of Keithick in Couper of Angus) on 4/2/1711 at Edinburgh. (See W.B. p. 237)]
1734
Susannah Wedderburn, 3rd d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness from 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1724], was b. 9/1/1734. - “Susannah died in Sept. 1776, in a fire at the family house in Dundee”. (W.B. p. 287)
1734
Thomas Wedderburn [?bap. 1691] m. Jean Ker on 7/2/1734 at Glasgow. - In “The Wedderburns in Glasgow & later in Edinburgh” (W.B. pp. 495-96), ‘A.W.’ presumes that “Thomas is the son of Alexander W. (?b. c1670, q.v.) & Elspet Gilliland, who was bap. 24/1/1691”. He states that Thomas & Jean “had a son William bap. at Glasgow on 26/6/1735 and probably other issue”. ‘A.W.’ “ventures to suggest” that another family may be descended from this couple - that of a Thomas Wedderburn ‘said to have lived in Ayr’ (his baptism not found), who m. Jane Gavelston (dau. of Mary Gavelstone, heiress of an estate near Berwick-on-Tweed) and had a son Thomas ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ who m. Jane Cockburn (‘dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---) & died in Glasgow ‘where he is buried in the Southern Necropolis’. [Date not given - & it would seem to be their son Thomas (b. c1807) who was buried in Glasgow, not her husband.] - See Thomas Wedderburn b. c1787. - [A Thomas Weatherburn was a witness at the m. of George Cockburn to Mary Carr* at St. Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 31/7/1768 ) & he was also a witness at the m. of William Carr to Catherine Cooper there on 28/4/1772. - (*The surname ‘Ker’ is often spelt ‘Carr’ in Northumberland, and ‘Wedderburn’ as ‘Weatherburn’).]
1734
William Wedderburn (an adult) was buried at ‘Rickelside of Coldingham’ on 15/2/1734. (Coldingham Mortcloth Index, from Bob W.’s ‘e-mail’, 24/9/98.) - [William may be the William W. who m. Helen Anderson at Coldingham in 1695.]
1734
Janet Wedderburn, 2nd d. of William W. [& Elizabeth Mason, m. 1723], bap. 1/3/1734 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1734
Elizabeth Wedderburn, d. of Robert W. & Christian McKenzie, bap. 29/7/1734 at Forfar. - [Elizabeth would seem to be an illegitimate daughter of Robert W. (b. 1708 - who m. Isabel Edward ‘of Pearsie’ in 1738). - An entry in the Dundee Mortcloth Dues: ‘1738-39, Robert Wedderburn’s child’, A.W. says in footnote² on W.B. p. 322, ‘must refer to a child of Robert Wedderburn of Pearsie’. (Perhaps to the death of this daughter Elizabeth?) - Robert & his wife Isobel are said to have had a child ‘which died soon after its birth’, but that child is probably Alexander - who is not shown in the W.B. but whose baptism is recorded at Forfar in 1742 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 322)]
1735
Beatrice Webster, d. of George Webster & Beatrice Proctor, bap. 20/2/1735 at Dundee. - [Beatrice is believed to be the only d. of Beatrice Proctor (widow of David Edward ‘of Pearsie’ & mother of Isobel Edward who m. Robert Wedderburn in 1738) by her 2nd husband, ‘Mr. Webster’. (See W.B. p. 322, footnote 5)]
1735 Janet Wedderburn, only d. of [Sir] Peter W. [Advocate, b.1693, Lord (Justice) Chesterhall in 1755] & Janet Ogilvy [m. c1732] was b. in 1736. (W.B. p. 406) - Janet m. Lieut-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine of Alva, Bart., in 1761 (q.v.). - Their elder son, James (b. 1762) succeeded to the Earldom of Rosslyn on the death of his uncle Alexander (b. 1733) in 1805. - James had succeeded his father in the baronetcy of Alva in 1765. In 1769, he took the additional name of ‘St. Clair’ before that of Erskine and 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 2 sons. (W.B. p. 406, footnote 4) - [The Janet who m. John Erskine of Balgonie was b. 1726 (q.v.).]
1735
William Wedderburn, [?only] s. of Thomas W. [?b. 1691] & Jean Ker [m. 1734], bap. 26/6/1735 at Glasgow. (W.B. p. 495)
1735
Janet Halkett, [probably 2nd] d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1695, 2nd Bt. of Gosford in 1746] & Lady Æmilia Stewart [m. not found - but see 1732], was b. 14/8/1735. (‘Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Family Bloodline’, p. 30)
1736
Peter Wedderburn, 5th [but 3rd surv.] s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1724], was b. 2/1/1736. - “Peter went out to Jamaica and in 1763 was working there as a millwright. In 1769 he was living at Savannah, Jamaica, but died there, unm.” (W.B. p. 285) - In ‘Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica’, by Philip Wright, there is reference to a memorial “Erected at Blue Castle, Westmoreland, to Peter Wedderburn our brother, d. 1773 aged 37 [and three other relatives], by us John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn” [i.e. Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) and James W. (b. 1730) ‘of Inveresk’].
1737
Charles Wedderburn, 5th & ygst. s. of Charles W. [b. 1696, ‘of Gosford’ from 1746] & Mary Wardlaw [m. c1719], bap. 5/6/1737 at Dunfermline [Fife]. - ‘A.W.’ says that he has no note of Charles’s birth or baptism but adds that ‘J.W.’ stated, ‘on the authority of John Halket’ (b. 1768), that Charles died unmarried. - ‘A.W.’ states: “In the ‘Genealogical Account’ of about 1780, it is Charles who is described as an officer in the service of the East India Company who died with many others in the Black Hole of Calcutta, and says that he believes this is fact.” [See entry for Charles’s brother James in 1725.]
1737
Mary Wedderburn, elder d. of Thomas W. [?b. 1691] & Jean Ker [m. 1734], bap. 2/6/1737 at Glasgow.- Mary presumably died before 28/11/1738 - when another daughter was given the same name.
1738
Robert Wedderburn [Notary & Writer in Forfar, afterwards ‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708, 5th (but 2nd surv.) s. of Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1675), & Katharine Scott (m. 1697) - & brother of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness, b. 1704, who was executed in London in November 1746 for his part in the ’45 Jacobite uprising] m. Isabel Edward [b. 1718, granddaughter & heiress of John Edward of Pearsie] on 1/2/1738 at Dundee. ( - Also shown, in separate entry, on 29/1/1738 at Forfar.) - On 7/4/1738 (2 months after his marriage), Robert was appointed Sheriff Clerk of Forfar. [See under Robert, 1708.] - Robert & Isabel had 3 sons & 3 daughters “in addition to a child who died soon after its birth”: (?)Alexander (bap. 1742); q.v.); John (bap. 1744): Elizabeth (bap. 1746); Charles (bap. 1748); Katharine (bap. 1750); Isobel (bap. 1753) & David (bap. 1757). - Robert Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ died on 19/2/1786 & was buried in the Howff of Dundee. - Isobel died on 6/1/1788 and was buried with her husband. “Now represented in the male line by the Webster-Wedderburns, and in the female line by the Maclagan-Wedderburns”. (W.B. pp. 261 & 318-22)
1738
William Wedderburn, 4th s. of William W. [& Elizabeth Mason, m. 1723], bap. 4/4/1738 at Coldingham [Berwickshire]. - [It is probably this William who m. Mary Scott at Ayton on 22/5/1763.
1738
John Wedderburn m. Marjory Wastland on 1/6/1738 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire. - [This m. is not shown in the “Wedderburns in Aberdeen” section of the W.B. but on W.B. p. 223 ‘A.W.’ relates a tale told to ‘J.W.’ (A.W’s grandfather) by a Charles Wedderburn ‘of Perth’, who said that his father, John Wedderburn, had m. a ‘Margaret Westland’ at Echt in 1737. (This m. at Dyce in 1738 must be their marriage.) Charles said that his father was the younger son of Peter Wedderburn, b. 1652 (7th but 3rd surviving son of Sir Alexander Wedderburn, Kt.) & Catherine Man. (Their son John was bap. in Dundee on 7/2/1681, q.v. - his ‘name-father’ being John W. of Gosford. - W.B. p. 370, footnote 8) - Charles told ‘J.W.’ that his father John had taken the life of a fellow-student at St. Andrew’s and had escaped to the Highlands, where he obtained a small-holding on Forbes’ lands at ‘Eicht’ in Donside. He had married Margaret Westland, and died there in 1744 leaving two sons, himself (Charles), ‘b. 1739’ & John, ‘b. 1741’.” - - Peter R.W. Nicol in Australia, a descendant of Charles and Elizabeth, in an e-mail to Peter Garwood on 9/11/2002, states that a Malcolm Ferguson, whilst researching his Ferguson ancestry, found that a Ferguson was killed in a duel by another student at St. Andrew’s University in 1703, which could indicate a connection. (See Charles’s marriage in 1776). - In footnote¹ on W.B. p. 224 ‘A.W.’ says: “John Wedderburn and Margaret Westland may, of course, have had other sons besides Charles b. 1739 and John b. 1748 (who became a farmer at Camno in Perthshire and died at ‘Arthurstone’, near Meigle, in 1822), but these would seem to have been the only two who survived”. ]
1738
Abigail Wedderburn $ [‘servant to John Cunninghame of Balbougie, Esq.’] m. John Young [s. to the deceased William Young, baxter in Edinburgh] on 5/11/1738 at Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 506) - “Abigail is presumed to be the dau. of Alexander W. (?b. c1670, q.v. ) & his presumed second wife, Janet Glen, bap. 5/12/1703”. (W.B. p. 495) - [John Young, ‘baxter, burgess’, & Abigail Wedderburn had a child bap. at Edinburgh on 30/1/1743 (q.v.). - (W.B. Vol. II, p. 503)]
1738
Mary Wedderburn, [?2nd] d. of Thomas W. [?b. 1691] & Jean Ker [or Carr, m. 1734], bap. 26/11/1738 at Glasgow. - [Presumably their first daughter, named Mary (bap. 1737), died young.]
1738
Alexander Wedderburn 6th [but 4th surv.] s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1724], was b. c1738. - On W.B. p. 285, ‘A.W.’ writes that “Alexander was perhaps born in 1737, the date of a blank entry in his father’s register in which his name does not occur…… He went to Jamaica and was living there, in the parish of Hanover, in 1763. - He died unm. before 31/7/1766”. [An Alexander Wedderburn is shown in the Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, transcripts of Registers on 13/12/1763 (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6) and in “Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica”, by Philip Wright, there is reference to a memorial “erected at Blue Castle, Westmoreland, by John & James Wedderburn, to Alexander Wedderburn, our brother, died 1764, aged 25”, so it would seem that Alexander was b. in 1738/39. (MWE)]
1739
William Wedderburn [no parent shown], bap. 16/2/1739 at Liberton [s. of Edinburgh].
1739
Thomas Wedderburn, [e.] s. of John W. [?b. 1681] & ‘Marjorie Wastland’ [m. 1738 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire], bap. 24/6/1739 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire. (Thomas is not shown in the W.B.) - On W.B. p. 223, ‘A.W.’ says that Charles W. ‘of Perth’ told J.W. that he was the son of John W. (b. 1681, younger s. of Peter W., b. 1652, & Catherine Man, m. 1677) & Margaret Westland, and that he was b. in 1739. (He said that he had a brother John, b. 1741.) - The Aberdeen IGI, however, showed the baptism of Thomas ‘s. of John W.’ at Dyce in 1739 & that of Charles in 1741. [No baptism of a son John appears, although a John W. who became a farmer at Camno in Perthshire, & m. Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neill at Meigle in 1771, is said to be Charles’s brother. In footnote¹ on p. 224, ‘A.W.’ adds (significantly?): “John Wedderburn & ‘Margaret Westland’ may, of course, have had other sons besides Charles and John, but these would seem to have been the only two who survived”. (A son William ‘Wodderburn’ was bap. at Dyce on 29/1/1744. - OPR from ) - [A Thomas Wedderburn (unidentified) of St. George’s, Hanover Square, was buried at St. Mary-le-bone, Westminster, London, on 8/8/1813, aged 73.(LMA) - Could he perhaps be this Thomas?]
1739
Elizabeth Wedderburn [?b. 1717, 6th & ygst. d. of George W. & Alison Fleming (m. not found)] m. Robert Darling on 28/6/1739 at Coldingham.
1739
Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, 6th d. of Sir Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1675), & Katharine Scott (m. 1697)] m. David Scrymgeour [Advocate, ‘of Birkhill’, e. & only surv. s. of Dr. Alexander Scrymgeour (b. 1669) & Janet Falconer (m. 1697)] on 13/8/1739 at Dundee. ( - Also shown on 12/8/1739 at Balmerino in Fife) - “David was admitted an advocate in 1731 and some four years later he bought the estate of ‘Birkhill’ in Fife, which has since been the residence of his descendants”. (‘Birkhill’ had belonged to John Alison, s. of Alexander Alison, W.S. - who died in 1728 - & his wife, Janet, d. of Sir John Leslie of Newton.) - “David seems to have had a considerable practice at the Scotch Bar and is always named as ‘of Birkhill’. (W.B. p. 263) - In 1748 he was appointed sheriff depute of the county of Inverness, an office which he held until 1768 when his health failed and he retired”. (W.B. p. 174, & footnote². - In footnote¹ on W.B. p. 175 ‘A.W.’ says:“Perhaps when David was sheriff depute of Inverness, he was intimate with his brother-in-law, Thomas Wedderburn (b. 1710), collector of excise there, in connection with whose affairs he is named in 1744, 1759 and 1768”.) - David & Katharine had 4 sons & 5 daughters. - Of the daughters, only one, Janet (b. c1747), survived childhood. She m. John Gillespie in 1776 (who is the ‘Mrs. Gillespie senior’ referred to in the entry re Marion Scrymgeour in 1722). - (W.B. pp. 175-76 & 263) - The sons were: Alexander Scrymgeour (b. 1742); John Scrymgeour (b. 1746, d. 1791 in India); David Scrymgeour (b. ?, d. 1780 in India); & Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755). - In 1769, Grizel ‘Wedderburn of Wedderburn’ (b. 1705 - great-great granddaughter of Alexander W., b. 1583, 2nd of Kingennie & Wester Gourdie, & Magdalen Scrymgeour, m. 1612), who had inherited the Wedderburn estates on the death of her brother David Wedderburn in 1761, ‘not having married and being no longer young’, made David Scrymgeour of Birkhill the first heir-of-entail to the barony of Wedderburn and the lands of Wester Goudie, Kingennie and Bullion. However, David Scrymgeour died on 11/7/1772 and it was therefore his & Katherine’s eldest son, Alexander Scrymgeour (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. - On Alexander S-W’s death, without issue, in 1811, his younger brother Henry (b. 1755) succeeded to the estates, and also added the name ‘Wedderburn’. - Katharine died on 19/3/1796. (W.B. pp. 175 & 263) - [It was to her descendant, Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn of Wedderburn & Birkhill, b. 1902 (‘de jure’ 11th Earl of Dundee), that the ‘attained’ Scottish Earldom of Dundee was restored in 1953. In 1954, as 11th Earl of Dundee, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Glassary of Glassary. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn.)]
1739
Elisabeth Wedderburn or Bunkle $ [‘relict of the deceased James Bunkle, saddler in the south-west parish] m. ii) William Tait [‘Merchant in Fetham in Traquair parish’] on 28/5/1739 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 500) - “She is no doubt the Elizabeth bap. 1699, d. of Archibald W., cordiner, & Eupham Simpson”. - Elizabeth m. i) James Bunkle - by whom she had a s. Edward (b. 1729) & a d. Agnes (b. 1731). - (W.B. pp. 492-93) - Another source showed that Elizabeth Wedderburn m. William Tait on 7/1/1739 at Traquair. (Also shown at Edinburgh on same date in OPR)
1740
David Wedderburn, 7th & ygst. s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1724], ‘was probably b. c1740 and certainly before 10/8/1744’. - “David’s name does not appear in his father’s register. He was bred to physic but died unm. in London before 19/8/1763”. (W.B. p. 286) - [It may be this David who was indentured as apprentice to Jacob Atkinson of Maryhill, London, atty(?), for £50 in 1758. ]
1740
David Wedderburn, younger s. of [Sir] Peter W. [Advocate, b. c1693, Lord (Justice) Chesterhall in 1755] & Janet Ogilvy [m. c1732], was b. in March 1740. - “David was bred to the law but after his father’s death, in 1756, he joined the army. In 1760 he wrote to Robert W. of Pearsie requesting assistance in raising a troop…. By 1762 he was lieut-col. of the 68th Regt. & in 1770 was made Col. & Brig.-Gen. in the H.E.I.Co’s presidency in Bombay. - He was shot through the head by an Arab of the garrison at Baroach on 14/11/1772, at the age of 32 years 8 months”. - He died unmarried. (W.B. pp. 401-02)
1740
Thomas Wedderburn [‘of Cantra’ (‘Gallacantray’, Inverness), Collector of Excise in Inverness, b. 1710, 7th but 3rd surv. s. of Sir Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1675), & Katharine Scott (m. 1697)] m. Katharine Dunbar [b. 1720, 2nd d. of Alexander Dunbar of Grange, Morayshire, & Mary Fraser (d. of James Fraser, Secretary of Chelsea Hospital)] on 20/9/1740, ‘no doubt in the North’. [See under Thomas, 1710.] - Thomas & Katharine had 3 sons & 5 daughters: Alexander (b. 1741); Mary (b. 1742); John (b. 1743); Katharine (b. 1744); Elizabeth (b. 1747); Robina (b. 1749); Thomasina (b. 1750) & James (b. 1751). - The sons were brought up as Episcopalians, like their father, & the daughters as Presbyterians, like their mother. The 3 sons went out to Jamaica. The precise date of Thomas’s death is not clear, but ‘A.W.’ says that he was living in August 1768 and he thought that ‘1771 may be taken as the correct year of his death’. - Katharine died at Baxter’s Building, Leith Walk, Edinburgh, on 12/2/1818. Thomas is said to have been on the side of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ in the 1745 Jacobite uprising but, from his reports, he appears to have been on the government side! (As Thomas was an Episcopalian & his wife Katharine was a Presbyterian, perhaps he ‘rode both horses’?) - “Thomas, grandfather of John Wedderburn of Auchterhouse (‘J.W.’) is now represented by the Wedderburns at Blairgowrie and in London”. (W.B. pp. 261 & 337-41)
1741
Jean Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Thomas W. [?b. 1691] & Jean Car [sic, Ker, m. 1734], bap. 1/3/1741 at Glasgow. - [Jean is one of the ‘probable other issue’ of Thomas W. & Jean Ker. (W.B. p. 495)
1741
James Wedderburn in Rickelsyde of Coldingham [see entries on 3/11/1632 & 12/12/1643] “got a tack, registered 17/4/1741 (made in 1739), by Henry Morison of Hiltoun, of the lands there possessed by the said James and by his father and grandfather”. (W.B. p. 496)
1741
Charles Wedderburn [afterwards a Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth], (?2nd) s. of John W. [?b. 1681] & ‘Marjorie Wastland’ [m. 1738 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire], bap. 9/5/1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire. [Charles told ‘J.W.’ that he was born in 1739 and that he had a brother John b. in 1741, but it was Thomas ‘s. of John’ who was bap. at Dyce in 1739 & a William ‘Wodderburn’, ‘s. of John’ was bap. there in 1744. (See John b. 1748.)] - Charles m. Elizabeth (‘or Isobel’) ‘Imrie, Imbrie or Emery’ in 1776 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 223)
1741
Alexander Wedderburn, [?e.] s. of John W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Nairn [?Iron], bap. 22/6/1741 at Libberton [nr. Lanark]. (OPR) - This Alexander probably died young as another son was given the same name on 2/10/1743. - [Elizabeth’s surname is shown as Iron in two further entries, in 1743 & 1745.]
1741
Alexander Wedderburn, e.s. of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’, b. 1710, Collector of Excise at Inverness] & Katharine Dunbar [m. 1740], was b. 20/8/1741 at Grange Hill, in the parish of Dyke, Morayshire (but ‘A.W.’ could find no entry in the Dyke parish register). - “Alexander went out to Jamaica in the spring of 1760, staying on his way south with his uncle Robert at Pearsie (see 1738). - He died, unm., on 10/2/1770, at Bluecastle, parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica, and was no doubt buried in the garden there”. (W.B. p. 342) - [In ‘Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica’, by Philip Wright, there is reference to a memorial “Erected at Blue Castle, Westmoreland, to Alexander Wedderburn, our cousin german, d. 1771 (sic) aged 30, by John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn - i.e. Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) and James W. (b. 1730) ‘of Inveresk’.]
1742
Agatha Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1704, 5th Bt. of Blackness in 1744] & Jean Fullarton [m. 1724], was b. ‘between 1736 & 1744’. - “Agatha m. John Smyth in Dundee in 1766 (q.v.) and died ‘s.p.’ not many years after her marriage”. (W.B. p. 287)
1742
Alexander Scrymgeour [afterwards Scrymgeour-Wedderburn ‘of Wedderburn & Birkhill’], e.s. of David Scrymgeour & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, m. 1739], was b. in 1742 (“where is not ascertained”). - Alexander m. Elizabeth Ferguson [2nd d. of James Ferguson, ‘a lord of session under the title of Lord Pitfour’, & Anne Murray, d. of Alexander, 4th Lord Elibank] on 2/3/1771. - “By her (b. 7/6/1742, d. at Pitfour 13/10/1810) he had no issue. - Alexander settled down at Birkhill, where he managed his own estates as well as one adjoining Birkhill belonging to Sir Laurence Dundas” (1st Earl of Zetland). - In 1778, on the death of Grizel Wedderburn ‘of Wedderburn’ (b. 1705), Alexander succeeded to the estates of Wedderburn, Kingennie and Bullion, “both under the provisions of her entail and also in right of his great grandmother, who was sister to her [Grizel’s] grandfather, being thus her heir special under the tailzie and general in right of descent… Upon succeeding, he assumed the name of Wedderburn and quartered the Scrymgeour with the Wedderburn arms”. - Alexander (‘de jure’ 6th Earl of Dundee & 8th Viscount Dudhope) died at Edinburgh on 4/7/1811. His heir was his brother Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755, q.v.). - (W.B. pp. 178-79)
1742
Alexander Wedderburn, [?e.] s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708)] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 31/5/1742 at Forfar. - [Alexander must be the ‘unnamed’child of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isabel Edward ‘who died soon after birth’. (W.B. p. 322)]
1742
Jean Halkett, [probably 3rd] d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1695, 2nd Bt. of Gosford in 1746] & Lady Æmilia Stewart [m. not found - but see 1732], was b. 29/7/1742. (‘Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Family Bloodline’, p. 30) - [Jean Halkett b. 1732 - presumed to be the e.d. - presumably died young.]
1743
------ Young [Christian name not shown in register], child of John Young [Baxter & Burgess] & Abigail Wedderburn [m. 1738], bap. 30/1/1743 at Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 503) - Abigail is presumed to be the d. of ‘unidentified’ Alexander W. (b. c1670), & Janet Glen (m. 1699), who was bap. 5/12/1703. (W.B. p. 495)
1743
John Wedderburn, 2nd s. of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’, b. 1710, Collector of Excise at Inverness] & Katharine Dunbar [m. 1740], bap. 22/8/1743 at Forres, co. Elgin. [“John was born on 19 Aug. - The witnesses to his baptism were John Frigge, merchant in Findhorn, & Cecilia Colley, Mrs. Dunbar of Dykeside.” - W.B. p. 344, footnote¹] - 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 - the “Spring Garden” Estate. He returned from Jamaica with his wife & 3 children in 1789 and joined his cousin David (b. 1757 - ygst. s. of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708) at the ‘West India House’ of ‘Wedderburn, Webster & Co.’ at 35 Leadenhall St., London (founded by the Webster brothers from Dundee - who were half-brothers of his uncle’s - Robert W. of Pearsie’s - wife, Isobel Edward). From 1801, when David died, until his death in 1820, John was chief partner of ‘Wedderburn & Co.’. - He & Mary had 2 more daughters and another son born in London. - They lived first in Upper Grosvenor St., then in Bedford Square and later at 19 Devonshire Place, Portland Place. (W.B. pp. 343-45) - John died at Chigwell, Essex, on 29/12/1820, leaving in his Will (proved in Feb. 1821) a legacy to a ‘John Wedderburn, a free mulatto planter in Jamaica’. (W.B. pp. 322 & 343) - [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 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), author of the “Wedderburn Book” published in 1898. (W.B. p. 351)]
1743
Alexander Wedderburn, [2nd] s. of John W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Iron [?’Nairn’ - see entry 1741], bap. 2/10/1743 at Libberton [nr. Lanark].
1743
Robert Wedderburn [Merchant in Dunfermline, b. 1709, 7th s. of Sir Peter W., 1st Bt. of Gosford (b. 1659/60), & Janet Halkett (m. c1694)] m. Rachel Thomson [d. John Thomson of Charleton, Fife] c1743. - Robert & Rachel had 3 daughters: Halket (b. 1744); Rachel (b. 1745) & Janet (b. 1747). - Robert died on 21/8/1748, ‘probably at Dunfermline’, & Rachel died at Torryburn on 5/12/1777. (W.B. p. 378)
1744
Halket Wedderburn, e.d. of Robert W. [Merchant in Dunfermline, b. 1709] & Rachel Thomson [m. c1743], was b. 1/1/1744 at Edinburgh & bap. the same day. -“Halket died in infancy, her sisters being designed their father’s only children in 1752-57”. (W.B. p. 378)
1744
Emilia Halkett, [probably 4th & ygst.] d. of [Sir] Peter Halkett [b. 1695, 2nd Bt. of Gosford in 1746] & Lady Æmilia Stewart [m. not found - but see 1732],
was b. 21/1/1744.
1744
John Wedderburn, 2nd [but e. surviving] s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 17/7/1744 at Kingoldrum. - [John was b. on 28/7/1744. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.)] - John was apprenticed to his step-uncle James Webster in London on 25/3/1758 (Ironmonger’s Company) and through his Webster step-uncles’ influence he went to India in 1763 and entered the E. India Co.’s army in 1764. (In the W.B., ‘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 and that Charles was then in India. - John returned to India in 1779. (In a letter dated 4th Feb. 1780, David wrote that ‘John sailed in July last on the Walpole & I hope arrived in good Health & Spirits’.) - John died in Calcutta on 15/7/1787. (The admon. of his estate, dated 2/8/1787, is in the Bengal Admons. at the British Library. There was another grant, to his brother David in London, on 9/6/1789.) - ‘A.W.’ states: ‘He was never married’. (W.B. p. 325)
1744
James Wedderburn [b. 1710, e.s. of John W. & Anne Ferguson (m. 1706 at Berwick upon Tweed)] m. Jean Hay on 25/11/1744 at Eyemouth. (Another entry in the showed James Weatherburn m. Jane Hay on 6/12/1743 at Berwick upon Tweed.) - - ‘James s. of John’ became a Freeman of B-on-T in 1730. - [He is presumably the James ‘Widderburn’, ‘the father of the corporation of Berwick’, who is mentioned on p. 327 of the ‘History of Berwick’, written by John Fuller in 1799.]
1744
Robert Wedderburn [unidentified - but perhaps another s. of Robert W. (b. 1685) & Mary Douglas (m. 1712)?] m. Elspeth Redfoord on 10/8/1744 at Pencaitland [co. Haddington].
1745
Agnes Wedderburn $ [d.o.b. unknown, d. of Alexander W., Advocate (b. c1660), & Mary Daes (m. 1692)] m. James St. Clair [tenant in the parish of Stobo] on 10/2/1745 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. - [On W.B. p. 397 James is shown as ‘Captain’. - In footnote² ‘A.W.’ says: See Douglas’s Baronage, “Sinclair of Roslin”.]
1745
Rachel Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Robert W. [Merchant in Dunfermline, b. 1709] & Rachel Thomson [m. c1743], was b. 31/3/1745 & bap. 1/4 at Edinburgh. - “Rachel was living in 1799 when she and her sister Janet gave up their mother’s Will”. - She died unm. (place & date unknown). - (W.B. p. 178)
1745
Janet Wedderburn, d. of John W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Iron [?’Nairn’ - see entries in 1741 & 1743], bap. 14/7/1745 at Libberton [nr. Lanark].
1746
Elizabeth Wedderburn, e.d. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. May 1746 at Kingoldrum. - [In the W.B., Elizabeth is shown as ‘b. 1 June’. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.)] - Elizabeth m. James Graham ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’ [b. 1741, s. of James Graham of Meathie & Isobel Guthrie. (His first wife was Grissell Wedderburn, b. 1706, d. of Sir Alexander W., 4th Bt. of Blackness, who died before 1730. - W.B. p. 263)]. - 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 Elizabeth’s cousin, ‘Spring Garden’ John W., b. 1743. - It may not be the same James Graham, of course, but it seems possible.] - James & Elizabeth Graham apparently had 4 sons & 2 daughters: i) James Graham ‘who went into business in London in 1794, and, in 1816 (under the terms of the Will of his step-uncle, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Webster, b. 1731), ‘took the surname Webster in lieu of Graham’ [James Graham Webster (b. 1774 - who is called his ‘reputed son’ in James’s Will, q.v., in 1841)]; Robert Graham (b. 1775), ‘who d. unm. 9/9/1830’; Isabella Graham (b. c1779), ‘who d. unm. 21/8/1830, aged 51’; Katharine Graham (apparently also b. c1779), ‘who d. unm. 27/3/1813, aged 64’; David Graham (b. 1784) ‘who succeeded to Pearsie, as heir of entail on the death of his uncle Charles W. of Pearsie in 1829 (adding the name ‘Wedderburn’ to Graham), and died unm. 25/12/1858’ & John Graham (b. 1787), ‘who succeeded to Pearsie on the death of his brother David in 1858 (also taking the additional name of ‘Wedderburn’) & died unm. 21/8/1870. - Pearsie then passed to Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814, a granddaughter of two of the daughters of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ & Isobel Edward), who had m. the Rev. James Maclagan in 1834. - On succeeding to Pearsie, Mrs. Maclagan ‘assumed the name and arms of Wedderburn in addition to Maclagan’. (W.B. pp. 323-24 & p. 327) - [See Katharine W., b. 1750.]
1746
John Scrymgeour, 2nd s. of David Scrymgeour [Advocate, of Birkhill], & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, m. 1739], was b. 26/11/1746 & bap. 30/11 at Edinburgh (by Mr. George Wishart, ‘one of the ministers of the city’. - Witnesses: Mr. David Falconer, advocate, Henry Scrimgeour, W.S., & Mr. Charles Guthrie, writer in Edinburgh. - W.B. Vol. II, p. 503) “John joined the East India Co.’s military service and went to India about 1768, in which year he was at Rupert St., London”. - He died unm. at Bangalore, India, in 1791. (W.B. p. 176)
1747
Janet Scrymgeour, 2nd d. of David Scrymgeour [Advocate, ‘of Birkhill’] & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, m. 1739], was b. ‘about 1747’. (Janet was the only one of David & Katherine’s 5 daughters to survive childhood.) - Janet m. John Gillespie (s. of Dr. John Gillespie of Kirktoun & Mountquhanie, co. Fife), on 20/5/1776. (W.B. p. 176) - [She is the ‘Mrs. Gillespie, senior’ mentioned in the entry for Marion Scrymgeour in 1722 (q.v.).]
1747
Janet Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. d. of Robert W. [Merchant in Dunfermline, b. 1709], & Rachel Thomson [m. c1743], was b. 13/2/1747 at Edinburgh & bap. the next day. - “Janet m. George Bruce in 1783 & died in Edinburgh on 10/12/1828, having had two sons”. (W.B. p. 378)
1747
Henry Wedderburn [b. 1721, ‘of Gosford’ from 1763, 2nd s. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m.1719)] m. i) Alice ---, c1747. - “No-one could mind Alice’s surname”. - Alice & Henry had 2 sons & 3 daughters (all born in India) but only the e.d., Mary (bap. at Calcutta 1748, q.v.), survived. - Alice is said to have died between 1766 (when the ygst. daughter was born) & 1768, when Henry married Miss Mary Belsches. [Henry m. iii) Alice Tetley, in Calcutta, on 4/3/1773 (q.v.).] - Following a law-suit, Henry succeeded to the estates of Gosford in 1763 and, on the death of their cousin, Sir Peter Halkett, 3rd Bt. of Gosford, unm., in 1779, Henry’s elder brother John (b. 1720) - who had succeeded to the estates of Pitfirrane in 1763, succeeded to the baronetcy of Gosford. - Henry died at Calcutta on 17/11/1777, leaving a Will. (W.B. pp. 383-86)
1748
Mary Wedderburn, only surviving child of Henry W. [b. 1721, ‘of Gosford’ from 1763] by his first wife, Alice ---, bap. 27/6/1748 at Calcutta. - ‘Between 2/2/1768 & 13/5/ 1777, Mary m. Lt.-Col. Sir John Cumming of the East India Company’s service and had issue’. (Details of their children are given on W.B. p. 386.) - [On her father’s death, in 1777, Mary succeeded to Gosford but had to sell the estate to pay her father’s debts. It was bought, at a judicial sale, by Alexander Farquharson, an Edinburgh accountant, from whom it was purchased in 1784 by Francis, fifth Earl of Wemyss “in whose family it has since remained, adorned (says ‘J.W.’ in his MS., acc. to ‘A.W.’) with an extensive mansion erected on a less favourable spot than that where the former dwelling stood. The lands and barony of Innerwick and Thornetoun were also sold in 1782”. (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)]
1748
John Wedderburn, [said to be] 2nd s. of John W. [b. 1681, ygr. s. of Peter W. (b. 1652)/Catherine Man (m. 1677)] & Margaret Westland [‘Marjory Wastland’, m. 1738 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire], was said originally to have been b. in 1741 - the year that his brother Charles was bap. at Dyce. - John became a tenant-farmer at Camno, Perthshire. - He m. Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neill in 1771 (q.v.). - [They had a son & 4 daughters.] - In 1806, when the tenant at Mill-farm of Camno was a ‘J. Wedderburn’, the farm, along with 30 others, was ‘to let’. A notice stated: “Mr. Watson, the factor at Belmont Castle, by Meigle, will show the boundaries of the several farms..…Offers may be transmitted to the Proprietor at Portland Place, London”. - [A.W.’s great-grandfather, John Wedderburn (b. 1743 in Forres, co. Elgin - later, by marriage, owner of the ‘Spring Garden’ estate in Jamaica), was by then living at Portland Place and was the chief partner in the ‘East & West India House’ of ‘Wedderburn & Co.’ in Leadenhall St., London.] - John died at Arthurstone (nr. Meigle, Perthshire) on 21/1/1822 - but the memorial tombstone of John & his family in Meigle Churchyard “was revised by the surviving family of 3 daughters on 5th February 1876”. - The revised inscription shows that John was 74 in 1822 and the day of his death is given as 31 Jan., not 21”. (It seems therefore that he was born in 1748.) - (W.B. p. 224 & 225, footnote¹)
1748
Charles Wedderburn, 2nd [surv.] s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isabel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 21/7/1748 at Kingoldrum. - [Charles was b. 1/8/1748. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.)] - Charles joined the E. India Co.’s army, where he was aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General David Wedderburn (b. 1740, younger brother of Alexander W., b. 1733, who became Lord Loughborough & later 1st Earl of Rosslyn). - ‘A.W.’ thought that Charles “must have been home in Jan. 1779 when, with the consent of his mother & elder brother John, in India, ‘Pearsie’ was sold by their father 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 and that Charles was then in India. - John returned to India in 1779. In a letter dated 4th Feb. 1780, David wrote that ‘John sailed in July last on the Walpole & I hope arrived in good Health & Spirits’. - He died at Calcutta in 1787.) - Charles returned from India about 1786. - He m. i) in 1787, Anne Read & ii) in 1797, Eliza Rattray. [He had no issue by either marriage.] - Charles died at Pearsie on 15/2/1829, leaving a Will. His heir was his nephew David Graham (b. 1784, 3rd s. of Charles’s sister Elizabeth, b. 1746). - In accordance with the terms of the entail, David added the name ‘Wedderburn’ to his surname on succeeding to the estate of ‘Pearsie’. (W.B. pp. 325-27) - [‘J.W.’ was given by Charles W. ‘of Pearsie’ a ring engraved ‘P.W. 1571’, which Charles had received from Capt. James Murray who m. Elizabeth Wedderburn (bap. at Calcutta 1776, q.v.), youngest daughter of Henry W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1721). - (W.B. p. 385, footnote 6)]
174?
David Scrymgeour, (no birth-date given), 3rd s. of David Scrymgeour [Advocate, of Birkhill] & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, m. 1739], joined the East India Company in 1776, as writer to Bencoolen “which he announced to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Ferguson, in a letter dated at London 12th Feb. - He wrote to his brother Alexander Scrymgeour on 5th March, on the eve of his departure, and again, from Portsmouth, on 10th March”. - David died, unm., in India in 1780. (W.B. p. 176)
1750
Katharine Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 28/5/1750 at Kingoldrum. - [Katharine was b. 6/6/1750. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.)] - Katharine m. Dr. Robert Stewart, ‘an eminent physician in Dundee’, in April 1781 (acc. to a letter in the Dundee City Archives dated 26/1/1782, written by Katharine’s brother David to their brother Charles in India.) - They had a son & 3 daughters: James Stewart (b. & bap. at Dundee, 13/1/1782), ‘who d. unm. on 30/4/1839’; Isobel Stewart (b. 8/10/1763, bap. 13/10), ‘who d. unm. in 1834’; Margaret (twin with Isobel), ‘who is said to have d. in infancy’; & Elizabeth Stewart (b. 11/1/1786) ‘who m. her cousin, Alexander Stormonth (b. 1790, only s. of Katharine’s sister Isobel W. (b. 1753) & her husband, the Rev. James Stormonth). - The Maclagan-Wedderburn family are descended from Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814, elder d. of Elizabeth Stewart & Alexander Stormonth). - (W.B. p. 324) - Katharine W. died at Dundee in Dec. 1793, leaving a ‘death-bed deposition’ disponing to her husband, Dr. Robert Stewart, ‘for certain onerous Causes and Considerations’, a legacy of £500 from her step-uncle, John Webster (b. 1722 - of ‘Webster & Co., Leadenhall St., London), who had died earlier that year (July 1793) but which she had not received by the time of her impending death. (See her ‘Will’ - obtained from Chancery Lane, London, in 1996.) - Her husband Dr. Stewart died in 1804.
1750
Mary Wedderburn # [unidentified] m. Robert Androw (sic) on 3/6/1750 at Linlithgow.
1751
James Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. s. of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’, b. 1710, Collector of Excise at Inverness] & 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. - In the W.B., ‘A.W.’ states that ‘James was never married’ but his Will indicates that he had several children! - After making many bequests he left the residue of his ‘vast fortune’ to his nephew James (b. 1788 in Jamaica), the elder son of his brother John (b. 1743). - [Lydia Wedderburn (who m. Hugh Wilson on 10/5/1818 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London), is perhaps James’s ‘quadroon’ daughter of that name, to whom he left a substantial legacy in his Will: “In Trust to Hugh ffraser, on the day of her marriage or coming of Age, provided she remains in Great Britain and does not return to Jamaica in the event of Marriage not taking place”.] - 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”.
1752
Alexander Wedderburn [unidentified] ‘servitor to John Ballinghall, writer in Dundee is mentioned, 1752-58. (See ante, p. 261, note 6.’ - Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497) - ‘A.W.’ states that there are various references to an Alexander Wedderburn: ‘as Servitor to John Ballinghall, notary’; ‘as Writer in Dundee’; ‘as Apprentice to James Smith, writer in Edinburgh’; ‘as Servitor to Mr. Andrew Balfour’ and ‘as Witness to a document dated 3 May 1758, and referred to again on 28 Feb. 1783 as ‘wrote by Alexander Wedderburn, writer in Edinburgh, a man of unexceptional character’. - He did not know whether all the references were to the same Alexander W., “nor, if they do, do I have any means of identifying him with his namesake (b. 1718), the youngest son of Sir Alexander (b. 1675), who, moreover, can hardly have been a servitor and apprentice 1752-56, when he would be from 34-38 years.” (W.B. p. 261, Note 6)
1753
Isobel Wedderburn, ygst. d. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 10/10/1753 at Kingoldrum. - [Isobel was b. at Pearsie on 9/10/1753. (The date anomaly is accounted for by the change from the Julian to the 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., 1750). - Their elder daughter, Katharine Stormonth (b. 1/11/1814), succeeded to ‘Pearsie’ in 1870, on the death of John Graham-Wedderburn. (See Elizabeth W., b. 1746.) - Katharine had m. the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D., on 3/3/1834, at Broughty Ferry. - On her succession to Pearsie, in accordance with the terms of the entail, Mrs. Maclagan ‘assumed the name & arms of Wedderburn’, as did her children - she had 6 sons & 4 daughters - hence the various members of the family of Maclagan-Wedderburn. (W.B. pp. 324-25 & 327-28)
1755
Henry Scrymgeour [afterwards Scrymgeour-Wedderburn ‘of Wedderburn & Birkhill’], 4th & ygst. s. of David Scrymgeour & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1715, m. 1739], was b. 3/11/1755. (W.B. p. 179) - “About October 1773, Henry went out to Jamaica, where members of his mother’s family had been established since the ‘45 and were now prosperous. He owned an estate there called ‘Baulk’ and became a member of the House of Assembly”. - In 1790-91, he returned from Jamaica (where, acc. to the Will of his cousin James, b. 1751, he already had a wife & children). - Henry m. Mary Turner Maitland at Edinburgh in 1793 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 8 daughters, of whom only one son (the youngest), Frederick Lewis (b. 1808) survived, and only one daughter (the 7th), Mathilda (b. 1803), had surviving issue.] - On the death of his brother Alexander S-W in 1811, Henry inherited the Wedderburn estates and became the de jure 7th Earl of Dundee. - Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn died on 20/12/1841 at Edinburgh. - [On 31/7/1952, the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords accepted the claim of Henry & Mary’s g.g.grandson, Henry James S-W (b. 1902), to the (Scottish) titles, honours & dignities of Viscount Dudhope & Lord Scrymgeour and, on 18/5/1953, to those of 11th Earl of Dundee & Lord Inverkeithing, and on 30/7/1954 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Glassary of Glassary, Argyll. - His son, Alexander Henry Scrymgeour of Dundee (b. 1949) is the 12th Earl of Dundee. - Alexander’s son, Henry David Wedderburn of that Ilk (b. 1982) has the title Lord Scrymgeour.]
1756
John Wedderburn [?b. 1726, 2nd s. of William W. & Elizabeth Mason (m. 1723)] m. Margaret Robertson on 28/11/1756 at Cockburnspath. (Another entry on 26/12/1756 at Coldingham.) - They had a daughter & 3 sons bap. at Coldingham: Elizabeth (1757); John (1760); William (1764) & James (1770).
1757 David Wedderburn [Webster, from 1789], ygst. s. of Robert W. [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708] & Isobel Edward [m. 1738], bap. 25/8/1757 at Kingoldrum. - [He was b. on 15/8/1757.] - He was apprenticed to his step-uncle David Webster on 28/9/1771 (Ironmonger’s Company) and went to London [not ‘about 1780’, as is shown in W.B. (See David’s letter to his brother John dated 8th Feb. 1775)] to work for his step-uncles, the Webster brothers, in their ‘East & West India House’ at 35 Leadenhall Street. - David m. Elizabeth Read in 1785 (q.v.). - [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters.] - On the death of his uncle James Webster (b. 1724), in Dec. 1789, David became a partner in “Wedderburn, Webster & Co.”, on condition that he changed his surname to Webster. [David & Elizabeth’s children were at first known as ‘Webster-Wedderburns’ but later as ‘Wedderburn-Websters’.] - David died at Bath on 21/3/1801, aged 43, of a ‘decline’. - His 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). - (W.B. pp. 329-336)
1757
Elizabeth Wedderburn, d. of John W. [?b. 1726, & Margaret Robertson (m. 1756)], bap. 1/12/1757 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1758
John Wedderburn, $ [b. 1720, (Sir) John W-Halkett, ‘of Pitfirrane’ in 1763, & 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779, e.s. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. i) Elisabeth Fletcher [d. of Andrew Fletcher of Milton, Esq. - one of the senators of the College of Justice] on 5/2/1758 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. - By Elizabeth he had a daughter, Elizabeth Charlotte ‘Wedderburn or Halkett’ (b. 12/12/1758). - Elizabeth died on 16/12/1758 and was buried at Aberlady. (Captain John Wedderburn was abroad in the West India expedition at the time. - W.B. p. 388, footnote¹) - John m. ii) Mary Hamilton in 1762 (q.v.). - In 1754, on the death of his father, John had succeeded to the Gosford estates and in 1761 he was appointed curator to his cousin, Sir Peter Halkett, 3rd Bt. of Gosford (d.o.b. unknown but see his parents’ m. in 1732), who was ‘weak-minded’ from birth. [Sir Peter’s two younger brothers were by then deceased and John had become heir presumptive to the Gosford title and the estate of Pitfirrane, the running of which he took over.] In 1770-71, John’s brother Henry successfully claimed his right to the Gosford estates (an ‘elborate entail’ drawn up by their grandparents in 1706 decreed that the two estates could not be possessed by the same person), and the Pitfirrane estates were established as belonging to John. - On Sir Peter’s death in 1779, John succeeded him as 4th Bt. of Gosford. (W.B. pp. 387-88)
1758
Elizabeth Charlotte Wedderburn or Halkett, only d. of [Capt.] John W. [b. 1720, afterwards (Sir) John W-Halkett, ‘of Pitfirrane’ in 1763, & 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] by his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher [m. 1758], was b. 12/12/1758. [Her mother died four days later.] - Elizabeth Charlotte m. the Marquis de Lally Tollendal (a Peer of France), in 1779. (They had 2 daughters, “one of whom married”.) - Elizabeth died on 6/2/1850, in her 92nd year. (W.B. p. 388) - [George Gordon Gerald Trophime de Lally-Tollendal Webster-Wedderburn, ygst. s. of James Wedderburn (b. 1788 in London, 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”. (W.B. p. 334)]
1759
Janet Wedderburn [b. 1726, 2nd d. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. John Erskine of Balgonie [Advocate], “who made a bond of provision charging Balgonie & Thrask with an annuity in her favour on 23/6/1759. He died between then & 10/4/1767, when Janet is spoken of as his relict”. - They had no issue. (W.B. p. 383) - [The Janet Wedderburn who m. Henry Erskine, Bt., (in 1761) was b. in 1736 (q.v.).]
1760
John Wedderburn, e.s. of John W. [?b. 1726, & Margaret Robertson (m. 1756 at Cocksburnpath)], bap. 21/9/1760 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1761
Janet Wedderburn [b. 1736, only d. of Sir Peter W., Lord (Justice) Chesterhall (b.1693) & Janet Ogilvy (m. c1732)] m. Lieut-Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, Bt., of Alva, on 26/4/1761 at Anstruther Wester. - [Janet & Sir Henry had 2 sons, & a daughter, Henrietta Maria (who died unm. in 1820). The younger s., John Erskine, died in 1802 (having m. & had a daughter); the elder s., James Erskine (b. 1762), “succeeded his father in the baronetcy of Alva in 1765 and, in 1789, took the additional name of ‘St. Clair’ before that of Erskine. On the death of his uncle Alexander W. (b. 1733), in 1805, he succeeded him as 2nd Earl of Rosslyn and obtained a further licence, on 14/2/1805, to quarter the arms of Wedderburn with his own. - James St. Clair Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, died on 17/1/1837, leaving two sons”. (W.B. p. 406, & footnote 4)]
1761
James Wedderburn, [? b. 1729, 3rd s. of William W. & Elizabeth Mason (m. 1723)] m. Rachel Bookless on 1/6/1761 at Coldingham.
1762
John Wedderburn [b. 1720, afterwards (Sir) John W-Halkett, ‘of Pitfirrane’ in 1763, & 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779, e.s. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. ii) Mary Hamilton [b. 1740, d. of the Hon. John Hamilton, Esq., advocate (2nd s. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington, by Margaret, d. of Sir John Home of Blackadder)] on 28/3/1762 at Edinburgh. ( W.B. p. 386-89) - They had 6 sons & 7 daughters: Margaret (1763); Charles (1764); Peter (1765); Mary (1767); John (1768); Janet (1769); Henry (1770); Amelia (c1771); Katharine (1773); Sholto Charlotte (1774); Alexander (1776); Helen (1777); & Thomas (?1778). - On the death of his cousin, Sir Peter Halkett, 3rd Bt. of Gosford, in 1779, John succeeded him as 4th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir John Wedderburn-Halkett died at Pitfirrane on 7/8/1793 & was succeeded by his e.s., Charles Halkett (b. 1764). - Lady Mary W-H died at Dalmahoy, nr. Edinburgh, in Dec. 1803. (W.B. pp. 386-89)
1762
Mary Wedderburn, $ [b. 1729, 4th d. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. [Capt.] Charles Stewart [e.s. of John Stewart of Blairhall & Lady Anne Stewart - a sister of Lady Æmilia Stewart, wife of Charles’ brother, Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Bt. of Gosford] on 4/4/1762 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. - Charles Stewart ‘of Annefield’ (afterwards Lt.-Col.in the 63rd Foot) & Mary had two sons, Francis (b. 1770) & James (b. 1773) - both bap. at South Leith - “and apparently other issue, as Douglas in his ‘Baronage’ (p. 244, s. ‘Bruce of Blairhall’) gives 3 sons, John, Charles & Henry, & a daughter, Mary”. (W.B. p. 383) [Maybe these other children were born abroad and/or died young? (MWE)]
1762
Janet Weatherburn, [unidentified] m. James Thomson on 19/7/1762 at Edinburgh. (Also shown at Ayton in Berwickshire , though in this entry Jane’s surname is spelt as ‘Wedderburn’.]
1763
Margaret Halkett, e.d. 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 1763. - “Mary died unm. at Barham Wood on 12/8/1846”. (W.B. p. 389) - Acc. to the ‘Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Bloodline’, Margaret m. Hugh Biggar at Cathcart, Renfrewshire, on 9/11/1820. [Margaret’s niece, Mrs. Richard Hill (Janet Margaret Halkett, b. 1806), died at Barham Wood in 1857.]
1763
William Weatherburn [?b. 1738, 4th s. of William W. & Elizabeth Mason (m. 1723)] m. Mary Scott on 22/5/1763 at Ayton. (Another entry on 22/6/1763 at Coldingham.)
1763
Alexander Wedderburn [b. c1738, 6th (but 4th surv.) s. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1704), & Jean Fullarton (m. 1724)] was buried on 13/12/1763 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6) - “He went to Jamaica and was living there, in the parish of Hanover, in 1763. He died unm. before 31/7/1766”. (W.B. p. 285) - [In ‘Monumental Inscriptions of Jamaica’, by Philip Wright, there is reference to a memorial “Erected at Blue Castle, Westmoreland to Alexander Wedderburn, our brother, d. 1764 (sic) aged 25, by John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn” [i.e. Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) and James W. (b. 1730) ‘of Inveresk’].
1764
Charles Halkett [5th Bt. of Gosford in 1793], e.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. 6/6/1764 at Pitfirrane & bap. at Dunfermline (as Charles Wedderburn). - “Charles joined the army and was for a time in the 21st Regt. of Dragoons. On his father’s death in 1793 he succeeded him as 5th Bt. of Gosford, dropping the name ‘Wedderburn’. - Sir Charles Halkett died on 26/1/1837 & was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. He never married, and was succeeded as 6th Bt. of Gosford by his brother [Sir] Peter Halkett (b. 1765, q.v.). - (W.B. p. 389)
1764
Anne Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Peter Gibson on 1/6/1764 at Liberton [s. of Edinburgh].
1764
William Wedderburn, 2nd s. of John W. [?b. 1726] & Margaret Robertson [m. 1756], bap. 9/6/1764 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
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 when he m. Elizabeth Todd [a sister of the first wife of his brother John Halkett - see 1768] in 1802 (q.v.). - “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) - [Peter & 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), married her cousin, Sir (Peter) Arthur Halkett, 8th Bt. of Gosford (b. 1834 ] - 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, Peter 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 ). - (W.B. pp. 389-90)
1765
Jenet (sic) Wedderburn [unidentified] m. James Spittal on 20/10/1765 at Torryburn. (Also shown on 20/10/1765 at Culross.)
1766
Agatha Wedderburn [b. c1742, 4th & ygst. d. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1704), & Jean Fullarton (m. 1724)] m. John Smith on 8/6/1766 at Dundee. - On W.B. p. 287, ‘A.W.’ writes: “Agatha m. James Smyth (sic), e.s. of John Smyth, W.S., of Balharry, in the parish of Alyth, co. Perth. She died ‘s.p.’ & John m. ii) Joanna, d. of Robert Gray”. - In footnote 5, he adds that ‘J.W.’ in his MS., says ‘significantly’: “From the character of her husband, her family had little credit by the alliance... John Smyth was admitted a WS. 12/7/1779”.
1767
Mary Halkett, 2nd d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. at Pitfirrane & bap. on 27/1/1767 at Dunfermline. - “Mary died unm. at Pitfirrane in July 1798”. (W.B. p. 389)
1767
Dorothea Wedderburn was ‘b. abt 1767 at Ballindean’ @ relative John Cairns. - [She may be Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn b. 8/6/1786 (q.v.). - (MWE)]
1767
Gray Wedderburn [unidentified] m. John Alexander on 19/5/1767 at Glasgow. - [Jean Alexander, who had a son Gray Wedderburn McIndoe by Alexander McIndoe at Kirkland, Stirling, in 1801 (q.v.) must be their daughter.]
176?
William Wedderburn ‘died aged 77 & was buried at Coldingham on 2/8/176-? [sic] - Spouse Mason’. - [See m. of William Wedderburn & Elizabeth Mason at Coldingham, Berwickshire, on 27/10/1723.]
1767
James Wedderburn [?brother of Robert Wedderburn-the-Black Preacher (b. c1762 )], bap. 2/12/1767 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.
1768
Henry Wedderburn, $ [b. 1721, ‘of Gosford’ from 1763, 2nd s. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. ii) Mary Belsches [d. of John Belsches, Esq., of Invermay (Perth)] on 31/1/1768 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. - “Mary died in child-bed in Calcutta, in July 1771, leaving no issue”. (W.B. p. 385) - [Henry had m. i) Alice --- c1747 (q.v.), & he m. iii) Alice Tetley, ‘sister of Capt. James Tetley’, at Calcutta on 4/3/1773 (q.v.).] - Henry died at Calcutta 17/11/1777, leaving a Will.
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 & bap. the next day at Dunfermline. [John Halkett 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 it is not known 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 (Adv. Adm. 7) and presumably he practised for a time. He was for some years, 1797-1801, secretary of presentations to his cousin, Lord Loughborough [Alexander Wedderburn, b. 1733], then the Lord Chancellor, and on 5/12/1801 he was appointed Governor-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands. Later (27/10/1803) he was also Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Island of Tobago”. [He was appointed a Director of the Hudson Bay Company’s London Committee in 1811. ] - “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 m. i) c1794, Anna Todd (eldest d. of William Todd of Millhill) - whose younger sister m. John Halkett’s elder brother Peter (b. 1765). - [John & Anna had no children.] - Anna died in 1805 & John m. ii) on 6/7/1815, at Sydenham, Kent, 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, therefore, to John Halkett’s mother - so that he and his wife were first cousins.) - [Jean Wedderburn (b. 1768), d. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’, m. Katharine’s brother Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1807.] - John & Lady Katharine had 5 sons: John Thomas Douglas (b. 1816); Dunbar Stewart (b. 1817); Charles (b. 1818); Henry (b. 1819) & Peter Alexander (b. 1820). - 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. (W.B. p. 391, footnote 5, & p. 392) - [John’s Will & Codicil (q.v.) was proved in London on 30/11/1852.]
1768
Andrew Wadderburn (sic), [?e.] s. of Thomas W. [unidentified - but perhaps the Thomas who had several children by Elizabeth Younger (m. not found)?], bap. 15/5/1768 at Ladykirk (nr. Norham, Northumberland). [Other children of a Thomas W. are: ‘Isoble’ (bap. 1769 at Hutton); William (bap. 1772 at Ladykirk); James (bap. 1773 at Whitsome & Hilton); Elizabeth (bap. 1775 at Coldingham & Ladykirk); Margaret (bap. 1777 at Ladykirk); Thomas & Isobel (bap. at Ladykirk in 1773, acc. to one source, but in 1779 acc. to the OPR); & Mary (bap. 1782, at Hutton). - N.B. Some of these children may not be the children of Thomas W. & Elizabeth Younger. (MWE)]
1769
Janet Halkett, 3rd d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. at Pitfirrane & bap. on 21/4/1769 at Dunfermline. - “Janet died unm. on 25/4/1785”. (W.B. p. 389)
1769
Isoble (sic) Wedderburn, [?e.] d. of Thomas W. [unidentified - but perhaps the Thomas who had several children by Elizabeth Younger (m. not found)?], bap. 3/9/1769 at Hutton [Berwickshire].
1769
John Wedderburn [Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’, b. 1729, e. (surv.) s. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1704), & Jean Fullarton (m. 1724)] m. i) Margaret Ogilvy [e.d. of David, Lord Ogilvy - e.s. of John, 4th Earl of Airlie] on 25/11/1769 at Dundee. ( - Also shown, in separate entry, on 26/11/1769 at Cortachy & Clova.) - Sir John had returned from Jamaica in 1768 & in 1769-70 he bought the estate of Balindean, and part of Balledgarno, in the parish of Inchture, Perthshire. - He & Margaret had 2 sons & 2 daughters: John (b. 1772); Margaret (b. 1772); Jean (b. 1773) & David (b. 1775). - Margaret died on 23/3/1775 (3 weeks after the birth of her son David) & Sir John m. ii) Alicia Dundas in 1780 (q.v.). [They had 3 sons & 4 daughters.] - Sir John died on 13/6/1803, leaving a Will. (W.B. pp. 293-96)
1770
George Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Elizabeth Patterson on 28/2/1770 at Coldingham. They had 2 sons & a daughter: William (bap. 1770); Archibald (bap. 1772); & Elizabeth (bap. 1774).
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. at Pitfirrane in April 1770 & bap. at Dunfermline. - “A blank entry in the Dunfermline register of baptismal headed ‘John Wedderburn, Esq. of Gosfoord’ dated April 1770 may refer to him or his sister Amelia” (see 1771). (W.B. p. 388, footnote 8] - “Henry entered the military service of the East India Company, where he rose to the rank of captain. - He died unm. on 22/8/1818, at Cecil Street, London”. (W.B. p. 383)
1770
James Wedderburn, 3rd s. of John W. [?b. 1726] & Margaret Robertson [m. 1756], bap. 16/6/1770 at Cocksburnpath [Berwickshire].
1770
William Wedderburn, [elder] s. of George W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Patterson [m. 1770], bap. 9/9/1770 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1770
Francis Stewart, e.s. of [Captain] Charles Stewart ‘at Bowling Green’ & Mary Wedderburn [b. 1729, m. 1762], was b. 7/12/1770 & bap. ‘soon after’ at South Leith. (Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Scott, minister, & William Drysdale, merchant, in Leith. - W.B. Vol. II, p. 507) - [Mary is the ygst. d. of Charles W. of Gosford (b. 1696) & Capt. (later Lt.-Col.) Stewart ‘of Annefield’ is the e.s. of John Stewart of Blairhall & Lady Anne Stewart, a sister of Lady Æmilia (wife of Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Bt. of Gosford, b. 1695). - (W.B. p. 383)
1771
Amelia Halkett, 4th d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. ‘about 1770-71’. - “Amelia died unm. at Pitfirrane on 14/6/1787”. (W.B. p. 389)
1771
John Wedderburn, elder s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy [m. 1769], bap. 27/2/1771 at Inchture. John died at the home of his father’s cousin, David Webster-Wedderburn (b. 1757), at Clapham, Surrey, on 22/6/1783, aged 12. (W.B. p. 293)
1771
Alexander Scrymgeour [b. 1742, e.s. of David Scrymgeour of Birkhill & Katharine Wedderburn (m. 1739)] m. Elizabeth Ferguson [b. 7/6/1742, 2nd d. of James Ferguson, a lord of session under the title ‘Lord Pitfour’, & Anne Murray, d. of Alexander, 4th Lord Elibank] on 2/3/1771. - [They had no issue.] - In 1778, on the death of Grizel Wedderburn ‘of Wedderburn’ (b. 1705), Alexander succeeded to the estates of Wedderburn, Kingennie and Bullion, “both under the provisions of her entail and also in right of his great grandmother, who was sister to her [Grizel’s] grandfather, being thus her heir special under the tailzie and general in right of descent… Upon succeeding, he assumed the name of Wedderburn and quartered the Scrymgeour with the Wedderburn arms”. - Elizabeth died at Pitfour on 13/10/1810 & Alexander (‘de jure’ 6th Earl of Dundee & 8th Viscount Dudhope) died at Edinburgh on 4/7/1811. His heir was his brother Henry Scrymgeour (b. 1755, q.v.). - (W.B. pp. 178-79)
1771 John Wedderburn [b. c1748 (q.v.), Tenant farmer of Mill-farm in Camno, Perthshire] m. Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neill on 13/12/1771. (‘J.W.’s Memoir & MS’) - [John is said to be a brother of Charles W. ‘Manufacturer in Perth’ (see 1741, above). - John & Agnes had a son & 4 daughters: Jean (b. 1772); Catharine (b. 1776); Robert (b. 1782); & Anne (b. 1788). - In “ Tay Valley People” (produced by the Tay Valley FHS), it shows that ‘J. Wedderburn’ was the tenant at Mill-farm of Camno in 1806. With 30 others, the farm was then ‘to let’. The (unnamed) proprietor of all 31 farms lived at Portland Place, London (which is where John Wedderburn, b. 1743 - formerly of “Spring Garden” Jamaica, and, by then, chief partner in the West India House of “Wedderburn & Co.” in Leadenhall St., London, was living). - ‘Farmer’ John W. died at ‘Arthurstone’, near Meigle, on 21/1/1822. - The memorial tombstone to him and his family, in Meigle Churchyard, “was revised by the surviving family of three daughters on 5 February 1876. The revised inscription shows that John was 74 in 1822. He must therefore have been b. c1748. The day of his death is given as 31 Jan., not 21. (W.B. p. 224 & 225, footnote¹) - “The lands of Arthurstone, and part of the lands of Camno, passed into the hands of George Nicholl, from the island of Jamaica, who sold them to Captain James Rattray in 1789. - East Camno was acquired by the McKenzie family, and the mill of Camno, still part of the lands of Arthurstone, belonged to a Smyth of Camno, who predeceased his wife, Elizabeth Thriepland of Fingask. She married again, this time a Robert Graeme, son of Graeme of Balgowan, and had a son and 3 daughters. The family were brought up at Camno. The girls, said to be great beauties, received their education in a school in Dundee held by the sisters of the unfortunate Sir John Wedderburn, who was executed at Kennington in 1746 for his share in the rebellon.” (“Our Meigle Book”, published 1930). - [See m. of Margaret W. (b. 1780) to George Nichol (sic) at Meigle in 1798.]
1772
William Wedderburn, [?2nd] s. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Younger [m. not found], bap. 22/3/1772 at Ladykirk. - [A William W. ‘of Tweedmouth, s. of Thomas & Elizabeth (née Younger)’ was buried at Berwick on Tweed in Nov. 1804, aged 17. - If the age at death is correct, it cannot be this William who died in 1804 but no bap. of another son of Thomas & Elizabeth named William can be found. - (See Andrew ‘Wadderburn’ (sic), b. 1768.)]
1772
Margaret Wedderburn, elder d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy [m. 1769], was b. 1/6/1772 at Inchture. Margaret m. Philip Dundas [4th & ygst. s. of Robert Dundas of Arniston, M.P., Lord President of the Court of Session] in 1803 (q.v.). - [They had two sons.] - (W.B. p. 293)
1772
Jean Wedderburne (sic), e.d. of John W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1748] & Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil [m. 1771], bap. 4/10/1772 at Coupar Angus. - Jean m. John Wilson, Shipmaster in Dundee, ‘clandestinely’ at Dundee in 1790 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons & 2 daughters - their great-grandmother was Helen Duncan. (W.B. p. 224) - (See m. of Helen Wedderburn to John Duncan on 30/7/1745, at Tarves, Aberdeenshire.)]
1772
Archibald Wedderburn, [younger] s. of George W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Patterson [m. 1770], bap. 22/11/1772 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1773
[A note, in ‘Spring Garden’ John Wedderburn’s writing, in a Prayer Book given to him by his father Thomas ‘of Cantra’, shows “E.S.W. born 31st December 1773 half-past 9 o’clock at Night” (W.B. p. 353) - but John &Mary Wisdom Bedward were not m. until 1782 (q.v.). - Following the ‘ESW’ entry are the names of John & Mary’s 5 children.) - ‘Susanna’ Wedderburn, ‘d. of John & Mary W.’, was bap. on 1 Jim (sic) 1785 (q.v.) in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 5) - [Elizabeth Susanna Wedderburn m. her second cousin Andrew Wedderburn (b. 1779 - ‘Colvile’ from 1814) “probably at Clapham, Surrey”, on 27/12/1802. - Elizabeth died at Inveresk just a year later (perhaps in childbirth?), on 23/12/1803. (W.B. pp. 346-47)]
1773
James Stewart, 2nd s. of [Captain] Charles Stewart & Mary Wedderburn [b. 1729, m. 1762], was b. 13/1/1773 & bap. that month at South Leith. (Witnesses: Mr. Thomas Scott, minister, & William Drysdale, merchant in Leith. - W.B. Vol. II, p. 507) - [Mary is the ygst. d. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696). - Capt. (later Lt.-Col) Stewart ‘of Annefield’ is the e.s. of John Stewart of Blairhall & Lady Anne Stewart, a sister of Lady Æmilia Stewart (wife of Sir Peter Halkett, 2nd Bt. of Gosford, b. 1695).
1773
Henry Wedderburn [‘of Gosford’, b. 1721, 2nd s. of Charles W. ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1696) & Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719)] m. iii) Alice Tetley [‘sister of Capt. James Tetley’] at Calcutta on 4/3/1773. - By this third marriage, Henry had one surviving daughter, Elizabeth, who was bap. at Calcutta in 1776 (q.v.) - (W.B. p. 385) - Henry died at Calcutta on 17/11/1777, leaving a Will. - His widow Alice died before ‘1806’. (W.B. p. 384)
1773
Jean Wedderburn, younger d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] & his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy [m. 1769], bap. 31/7/1773 at Inchture. Jean m. John Hope Oliphant in 1805 (q.v.) - (W.B. p. 294)
1773
Katherine Halkett, 5th d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], was b. 17/10/1773 at Pitfirrane & bap. 1/11/1773 at Dunfermline. - “Katherine died unm. at Pitfirrane on 4/12/1789”. (W.B. p. 389)
1773
James Wedderburn, [?3rd] s. of Thomas W. [unidentified - but perhaps the Thomas who had several children by Elizabeth Younger (m. not found) - see next entry], bap. 1/12/1773 at Whitsome & Hilton [near Ladykirk].
1773
Thomas Wedderburn & his sister Isobel [presumably twins], ‘s. & d. of Thomas W. & Elizabeth Younger’ were bap. at Ladykirk (near Norham) on 12/12/1773 - acc. to some records - but in the OPR the year of baptism is shown as 1779 (q.v.).
1774
James Graham [‘Webster’, from 1816], e.s. of James Graham [b. 1741, ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’, co. Angus, d. 1792] & Elizabeth Wedderburn [b. 1746, e.d. of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)], was b. in 1774. - On 3/2/1789, James Graham was apprenticed to his uncle David Wedderburn (afterwards Webster - Elizabeth’s youngest brother, b. 1757 - who worked for his Webster step-uncles in London). - (Ironmongers’ Company records) - “James went into business in London in 1794”. (W.B. p. 322) - In 1816, in accordance with the terms of the Will of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Webster (b. 1731 - one of Elizabeth’s & David’s step-uncles), James, ‘a Merchant of Leadenhall St., London’, took the surname of Webster in lieu of Graham’. - James Webster married Elizabeth Ramsay, in London. [They apparently has 3 sons & a daughter.] - James Webster, ‘of West Ham & Great Tower’, died on 12/6/1841. [In the Death Duty Register (found at Myddleton House) his eldest son, James Graham, of 13 Calvert Street, Wapping, London, is called his father’s ‘reputed son’. He was the Executor of James’s Will (written in 1833), to whom Admon. was granted ‘with power reserved to David Wedderburn’. (Not the David Wedderburn to whom James was apprenticed in 1789, as he died in 1801). - James’s Will (q.v.) was proved in London on 29/6/1841.]
1774
James Wedderburn # [‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) - Wedderburn-Colvile from 1814 - 2nd (surv.) s. of Sir John W., 5th Bt. of Blackness (b. 1704) & Jean Fullarton (m. 1724)] m. Isabella Blackburn [b. 1756, d. of Andrew Blackburn & Margaret Aytoun (d. of Andrew Aytoun, 2nd s. of Sir John Aytoun of Codour, provost of Glasgow, by the Hon. Margaret Colvile, e. sister & co-heiress of Robert, 3rd & last Lord Colvile of Ochiltree - see Janet W., b. 1700] on 3/3/1774 at Glasgow. After his father’s execution in 1746, James had escaped to Jamaica and become a sugar-plantation owner there. [As well as other ‘coloured’ children, James fathered Robert Wedderburn, b. C1762 by a slave named Rosanna, who became known in London as ‘the Black Preacher’.] - James returned to Scotland in 1773 and bought ‘Inveresk Lodge’ in Midlothian, as well as properties in Banffshire. (W.B. p. 306) - By Isabella, James had 4 sons & 2 daughters: Margaret (b. 1774, d 1800); John (b. 1776); Andrew (b. 1779); Peter (b. 1781); James (b. 1782); & Jean (b. 1786). - [Isabella Blackburn ‘or Colvile’, “in right of her mother”, inherited ‘Craigflower’ (formerly called ‘Crombie’) in Fife in 1799. This property was subsequently inherited by Isabella & James’s eldest surv. son Andrew Wedderburn (b. 1779) “who assumed the name Colvile only in 1814”. - James died at Inveresk on 4/12/1807, leaving a Will (q.v.). - Isabella died at Craigflower on 14/1/1821. (W.B. pp. 305-08)
1774
Helen Wedderburn $ [b. 1747 in London, only child of Alexander W., Shipmaster (b. 1711), & Marion Stuart (m. not found)] m. James Finlay on 22/3/1774 at Canongate, Edinburgh. - “James Finlay, Esq., of Jamaica, and Miss Helen Wedderburn, d. to the late Captain Alexander Wedderburn, late of London.” (W.B. Vol. II, p. 504, W.B. Vol. I, p. 229, footnote 4, & W.B. p. 230, & footnote²)
1774
Elizabeth Wedderburn, d. of George W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Patterson [m. 1770], bap. 1/5/1774 at Coldingham [Berwickshire]. [An Elizabeth W. who m. John Cormack at Coldingham in 1807, and was buried there on 3/11/1829 aged 56 may be this Elizabeth - but see Elizabeth b. 1775.]
1774
Margaret Wedderburn, [elder] d. of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], bap. 12/11/1774 at Inveresk [E. Lothian]. Margaret is said to have died ‘aged 7’. (W.B. p. 307 - In footnote 6, A.W. adds: “There is an entry in the Inveresk reg. of deaths, Dec. 6 1800, which must refer to her”.)
1774
Sholto Charlotte Halkett, 6th d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], bap. 9/1/1775. - “She was b. in 1774, as appears by her age at her death”. (W.B. p. 389) - Sholto m. i) at Edinburgh, on 5/4/1800, Lt.-Col. James Pringle [s. of Robert Pringle of Edgefield, a Lord of Session], afterwards General Sir James Pringle, in the East India Company’s service. - They had 3 daughters: Mary, who m. Charles Heard Beague, R.E., of Somerset (they had an only child, Charlotte Mary, who m. her mother’s first cousin, John Thomas Douglas Halkett - see 1816); Charlotte, who m. Admiral Trotter of Porchester Terrace, London; & Elizabeth, who m. Captain O’Halloran of Leamington. - Lady Pringle m. ii) on 4/12/1818, Stewart Boone Inglis. (They had no issue). - She died on 8/10/1853. (W.B. p. 389)
1775
Robert Graham, 2nd s. of James Graham [b. 1741, ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’, Angus, d. 1792] & Elizabeth Wedderburn [b. 1746, e.d. of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)], was b. in 1775. - He became a Merchant in London. - Robert is said to have died unm. on 30/9/1830 (W.B. p. 324) but in the family ‘Pedigree’ (W.B. p. 323) the year is shown, correctly, as 1836. - Robert is mentioned in the Will of his brother James Graham (b. 1774 - afterwards Webster), which was written in 1833. (James ‘Webster’ died in 1841.)
1775
David Wedderburn [1st Bt. of Balindean in 1803], 2nd [but afterwards only surv.] s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his first wife, Margaret Ogilvy [m. 1769], was b. 10/3/1775 at Inchture. In 1796, David became a partner in the East & West India House of “Wedderburn, Webster & Co.”, at 35 Leadenhall Street, London. - He m. Margaret Brown (2nd d. of George Brown of Ellistoun, co. Roxburgh) in 1800 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons, who both died in youth.] - In 1803, immediately following his father’s death, David was created a baronet & became the 1st Bt. of Balindean. (In a footnote, ‘A.W.’ writes: “In later years, 1826-30, J.W. endeavoured to get Col. Alexander W. (b. 1791) to urge his brother, Sir David, to recover the old baronetcy, presumably lost to his descendants because of the attainder of Sir John, whose name, however, was not included in any act of attainder, and whose son was described as a baronet in a subsequent Act of Parliament”.) - In 1805 Sir David was elected M.P. for the Perth burghs, which he represented until 1818. He sold Balindean in 1819-20 [it was purchased by a Mr. Trotter from Edinburgh, for £67,000] and in 1823 he was appointed Postmaster-General for Scotland, which post he held until 1831. Sir David died on 7/4/1858 and was buried at Inveresk. - He was succeeded as 2nd Bt. of Balindean by his half-brother John (b. 1789). - (W.B. pp. 293-97)
1775
Janet Wedderburn $ [‘of College Church parish, ‘natural daughter of Sir John Halket Wedderburn (sic), Baronet’ - W.B. Vol. II, p. 500] m. Joseph Elliott [Painter, in Old Church parish] on 11/6/1775 at Edinburgh. [There is no record of Janet’s baptism. - Presumably she was born before John’s first marriage to Elizabeth Fletcher, in 1758. (John W-Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, did not become Sir John, 4th Bt. of Gosford, until 1779.) - Janet m. ii) in 1794, John McGlashan (Writer, in Old Kirk parish). - In W.B. Vol. II, p. 500, footnote³ refers to a marriage in 1798.]
1775
Elizabeth Wedderburn, [?2nd] d. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Younger [m. not found], bap. 25/6/1775 at Coldingham. (In OPR
as ‘Elizabeth W. bap. 27/8/1775 at Ladykirk’. - (An Elizabeth W. who m. John Cormack at Coldingham in 1807, and was buried there on 3/11/1829 aged 56 - 36 - may be this Elizabeth - but see Elizabeth b. 1774.)]
1776
Alexander Halkett, [Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H., in 1837], [said to be] 5th s. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], shares a separate chapter in the W.B. (Part IV, Chapter II, Sect. I) with John Halkett (b. 1768, who is said to be John W-Halkett’s & Mary Hamilton’s 3rd son). Alexander’s baptism has not been found. [In footnote³ on W.B. p. 393, ‘A.W.’ states that his year of birth (1776) ‘is inferred from his age at his death, as given on his tomb’ (but his age at death in 1851 is given as 78 which indicates that he was b. c1773. As John W-Halkett’s daughter Katharine was b. & bap. that year, presumably A.W. changed Alexander’s y.o.b. to 1776 after he wrote the footnote.) - “Alexander entered the army, and rose to rank of General, having served in the capture of the French West Indian Islands in 1794, at San Domingo in 1796 and again in 1804, as aide-de-camp to Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Cape of Good Hope. He was made a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Order, and retired on a distinguished service pension. - Alexander m. Georgiana Sproule [d. of George Sproule, captain in the 16th Regt., and, later, Surveyor-General of the province of New Brunswick] ‘about 1814’ [so ‘A.W.’ was told by Sir Alexander’s great-grandson, Mr. H.R. Mansel-Jones, of 1 Paper Buildings, Temple, London, who added that the family was settled in co. Meath, Ireland. (W.B. p. 394, footnote²)] - [They had 4 sons & a daughter.] - Sir Alexander, “whose descent in the male line is now extinct”, died at Edinburgh on 24/8/1851, aged 78, and was buried in the Dean Cemetery there. - Georgiana died at Morningside, Edinburgh, on 17/2/1874, and was buried with her husband. (W.B. pp. 393-94 - In footnote² on W.B. p. 393, ‘A.W.’ adds: “The account has been submitted to Miss Georgiana Leith, Sir Alexander’s only grandchild, and to her mother Mrs. Leith. While unable to go into much detail, they are clear that Charles Halkett was the only one of Sir Alexander’s sons who married, and that he had no children. Miss K.E. Halkett is also clear as to this state of things”.) - Sir Alexander’s daughter, Mary Anna Halkett (b. 26/10/1819), m. in 1843, at Edinburgh, Alexander Leith of Freefield, Glenkindle, co. Aberdeen. [They had an only daughter, Georgiana Leith - the granddaughter to whom ‘A.W.’ submitted the account and who ‘was unable to go into detail about her family’s ancestry’.]
1776
Katharine Wedderburn, 2nd d. of John W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1748] & Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil [m. 1771], bap. 29/1/1776 at Coupar Angus. - Catharine m. i) in 1793, James Waddle or Waddel (Brewer in Dundee), & ii) in 1803, William Cowborough. (W.B. p. 224) - [Between 1809-10 a George Waddell (b. 1788, d. 1833) was surgeon on the “Arniston”, a ship belonging to John W. of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica (b. 1743 at Forres, Inverness). - See entry for Katharine’s father John W., b. 1748.]
1776
Elizabeth Wedderburn, only surviving d. of Henry W. [‘of Gosford’, b. 1721] by his third wife, Alice Tetley [m. 1773 at Calcutta], bap. 12/3/1776 at Calcultta. - Elizabeth is named in her father’s Will in 1777. - “She m. Capt. James Murray, who is said to have been a nephew of John, Duke of Atholl” (date not given). - They had no issue. (W.B. p. 385 & footnotes)
1776
Janet Scrymgeour [b. c1747, 2nd but only surv. d. of David Scrymgeour of Birkhill & Katharine Wedderburn (b. 1715, m. 1739)] m. John Gillespie [s. of Dr. John Gillespie of Kirktoun & Mountquhanie, co. Fife] on 20/5/1776. - “Janet and her issue (a son, David, & 3 daughters) are named, after her brothers and the issue of her brother Henry, in all the [Wedderburn] entails of 1766-1811”. - Janet Gillespie died at Birkhill on 18/3/1811. (W.B. p. 176)
1776
Charles Wedderburn [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire (see m. of John W. &Marjorie Westland in 1738, above) - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] m. Elizabeth Imrie on 30/5/1776 at Perth. ( W.B. p. 223 - Also shown on 10/5/1776 at Alloa.) - Charles told ‘J.W.’ that he was born in Echt, Aberdeenshire, in 1739, & that he was the son of Peter W.’s & Catherine Man’s (m. 1677) younger son John (b. 1681, q.v.) & ‘Margaret Westland’. [John W. m. ‘Marjory Wastland’ in Dyce, Aberdeenshire in 1738. - A Thomas ‘s. of John W.’ was bap. at Dyce on 24/6/1739 & Charles ‘s. of John W.’ was bap. there on 9/5/1741 - the year in which Charles told ‘J.W.’ his brother John (who m. Agnes Neill in 1771, q.v.) was born, although John’s daughters said that their father was born in 1748. (W.B. p. 225, footnote¹ - & see Camnowed.doc) - ‘A.W.’ (who searched for baptisms in Echt without success), wrote: “John Wedderburn & Margaret Westland may, of course, have had other sons besides Charles & John, but these would seem to be the only two who survived”. (The baptism at Dyce of William ‘s. of John W.’ in 1744 has since been found.] - Charles W. & Elizabeth or ‘Isobel’ Imrie are said to have had 7 children who died young & 3 who survived. - Their known children are: Isobel (bap. 1777); John (bap. 1779, who is said to have died at Newark, USA, in 1822); Margaret (b. c1780, who m. George Nicoll ‘of Jamaica’ in 1798, q.v.); James (bap. 1781); Mary Ann (who m. Dr. John Robertson at Edinburgh in 1821, q.v.) & Robert (bap. 1793 at Perth - but not mentioned in the W.B.). - [Peter R.W. Nicol in Australia, a descendant of Margaret & George Nicholl has discovered that a Malcolm Ferguson, whilst researching his Ferguson ancestry, found that a Ferguson was killed in a duel by another student at St. Andrew’s University in 1703. (e-mail from Peter Garwood, 9/11/2002) - This indicates a connection with John W., b. 1681.] - Elizabeth died in 1821 & Charles died at Perth in Dec. 1824. (W.B. pp. 222-25) - [It is possible that an ‘unidentified’ Thomas W. who m. Jane Gavelston (m. not found - but she was ‘the d. of Mary Gavelstone, heiress of an estate near Berwick-on-Tweed’) and had a son, Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’, who m. Jane Cockburn (m. not found - see Thomas W., b. c1784), is Charles’s elder brother Thomas, bap. at Dyce in 1739 - but see also m. of Thomas W. to Jean Ker in 1734. - (MWE)]
1776
John Wedderburn, e.s. of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. 18/8/1776 at Inveresk (Midlothian) & bap. 30/8/1776. (Witnesses: Mr. Paton & Mr. Crawford.) - “John went out to Jamaica from London in the spring of 1794 and died there, unm. on 19/5/1799”. (W.B. p. 307, & footnote 5) - The burial of John Wedderburn esqr. is recorded on 21/5/1799 in the Burial Register in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, 1740-1800. - [In a pamphlet entitled “The Horrors of Slavery”, written by Robert Wedderburn ‘the Black Preacher’ in 1824, Robert says: “When he came over to Jamaica, John acknowledged his father’s tawny children, and amongst them, my brothers as his brothers. He once invited them all to a dinner, and behaved very free and familiar to them. I was in England at that time….”. (Robert’s pamphlet, catalogued 8156c71 4 - s. Wedderburn - at the British Library.)
1777
Isobel Wedderburn, e.d. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imrie [m. 1776], b. 19/3/1777 at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, & bap. there 23/3/1777. - “Isobel must be one of Charles’ & Elizabeth’s seven children who are said to have died young”. (W.B. p. 224)
1777
Margaret Wedderburn, [?3rd] d. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Younger [m. not found], bap. 7/9/1777 at Ladykirk.
1777
Helen Halkett, 7th & ygst. d. of [Sir] John W-Halkett [‘of Pitfirrane’, b. 1720, 4th Bt. of Gosford in 1779] & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton [m. 1762], b. 1/11/1777 at Pitfirrane & bap. 17/11/1777 at Dunfermline. - In the 1851 Census, Helen Halkett, Fund Holder, unm. aged 73 (‘b. Scotland’), was living at Manor House, Elstree, Herts., with her sister (in law) Lady Amelia Halkett, Annuitant, a widow aged 43 (‘b. Marylebone London’), her nephew, Wedderburn Halkett, a Scholar at Home, aged 6 (b. Scotland’), a Nurse, Cook, Lady’s Maid, House Maid & a Footman. - “Helen died unm. on 22-23/12/1867, at Little Bookham, Surrey (home of her nephew, Dunbar Halkett, b. 1817, s. of John Halkett)”. - (W.B. p. 389)
1778
Charles Wedderburn [unidentified] died at Boggah, Bengal, on 1/1/1778. - He was a cornet on 13/10/1766 & a captain on 4/4/1773. (Longmans ‘List of Officers in th Indian Army’, 1838.) - Admon. of Charles’s estate was granted to his father, Charles W., as next-of-kin, on 6/4/1778. (Ind. Office Bengal Administrations, No. 12960). ‘A.W.’ says that “Charles cannot be the son of Charles Wedderburn ‘of Gosford’ (b. 1737) as he died in the Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756, and his father died in 1753-4”. (W.B. p. 383, footnote¹)
1778
Robert Wedderburn, only s. of John W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1748] & Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil [m. 1771], bap. 1/8/1778 at Coupar Angus. ( & W.B. p. 224) - Robert succeeded his father as tenant farmer at Camno. - He m. Barbara Hay at Meigle in 1828 (q.v.). - [They are said to have had 2 sons & 4 daughters but the e.d., Ann Neil W. was born in 1819, nine years before Robert m. Barbara.] - Robert died on 24/10/1855 & was buried at Meigle. [See 1748 re the ‘revised’ tombstone on the family grave in Meigle Churchyard.]
1778
Thomas Halkett, 6th & ygst. 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. ‘about 1778’. - “Thomas entered the East India Company’s Civil Service at Bengal on 1/10/1796 & was appointed Collector of Sarun, 17/12/1798. - He died unm. at Calcutta, 1800-01”. (W.B. p. 389) - [In a painting by David Allen, featuring Sir John & Lady Mary with their 14 children, Thomas - who was not born when the painting was started - was painted in by the artist, lying on his mother’s knee. (W.B. p. 387)]
1779
John Wedderburn, e.s. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imrie [m. 1776], was b. 29/3/1779 at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, & bap. there 2/4/1779. (W.B. p. 223 & OPR) - In ‘J.W.’s’ published memoir, 1824 (which ‘A.W.’ says ‘was full of errors’), ‘J.W.’ says that “John was b. in 1773; went to sea in 1790; was resident in Perth in 1806, embarked as mate of a vessel from Dundee for America in 1809 and died in Newark, U.S.A. in 1822”. (W.B. p. 223) - [In footnote 4 ‘A.W.’ adds: “Here again the evidence to identify the person who died at Newark, 1822, with Charles’ son is not quite satisfactory. J.W. says that the death was notified to him by a letter from William Wedderburn in America, ‘who was not aware of the relationship’ between him and the deceased John, which is not surprising, as none can be shown, and the cousinship supposed by J.W. is disproved. But, presumably, J.W. ascertained from Charles that he had a son John who had gone to sea and to America.”]
1779
Andrew Wedderburn [‘Colvile’ from 1814], 2nd [but afterwards e. surv.] s. of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. 6/11/1779 at Inveresk, & bap. 7/12/1779 at Inveresk (Midlothian). (Witnesses: Sir John Wedderburn & Mr. Smith.) - (W.B. p. 308, & footnote²) - “In 1796, Andrew went to London and became a salaried partner in the ‘East & West India House’ of “Wedderburn, Webster & Co.” (originally ‘Webster & Co.’) c1798. - In Dec. 1802, Andrew m. i) his second cousin Elizabeth Susanna Wedderburn (bap.1/1/1785 in Westmoreland, Jamaica - e.d. of Andrew’s father’s cousin, “Spring Garden” John W., b. 1743) but Elizabeth died ‘s.p.’ at Inveresk on 22/12/1803. - By then Andrew was a regular member of the house and in 1810 Alexander Seton joined the firm, then called “Wedderburn & Co.”. - Andrew m. ii) in 1806, the Hon. (Louisa) Mary Eden (5th d. of William, 1st Lord Auckland). - [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 (“Spring Garden” John W. b. 1743 - 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 the Colviles in “Jemima, the Memoirs of a Victorian Artist”, edited by Robert Fairley & pub. by Canongate in 1988. - See Jemima Wedderburn (b. 1823).]
1779
Thomas Wedderburn, [twin with Isobel, below], [?4th] s. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Younger [m. not found], bap. 12/12/1779 at Ladykirk (nr. Norham, Northumberland).
1779
Isobel Wedderburn, [twin with Thomas, above], [?4th] d. of Thomas W. [unidentified] & Elizabeth Younger [m. not found], bap. 12/12/1773 at Ladykirk (nr. Norham, Northumber-land). - ) - [See preceding entry.]
1780
Margaret Wedderburn, [2nd] d. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imrie [m. 1776], was probably b. c1780. - In ‘J.W.’s’ unpublished MS., Margaret is said to have married & had issue. (W.B. p. 224) - Margt. Wadderburn (sic) m. George Nicoll at Meigle on 20/10/1798 (q.v.). - See ref. to ‘George Nicholl of the Island of Jamaica’ in entry re marriage of Charles W’s brother John to Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil in 1771.]
1780
Sir John Wedderburn, [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729, widower of Margaret Ogilvy (m. 1769, d.1775)] m. ii) Alicia Dundas [b. 1754, 2nd d. of the late James Dundas of Dundas & the Hon. Jean Maria Forbes (2nd d. of William, 13th Lord Forbes)] on 26/12/1780 at Canongate, Edinburgh. They had 3 sons & 4 daughters: James (b. 1782); Maria (b. 1783); Susan (b. 1785); Louisa Dorothea (b. 1786); John (b. 1789); Anne (b. 1788) & Alexander (b. 1791). - Sir John died at Balindean on 13/6/1803 & was buried in the Howff of Dundee. - Alicia [Lady Wedderburn] died at 32 St. George’s Square, Edinburgh, on 24-25/6/1831 and was buried in the Dundas vault in the Carmelite Priory Church, Queensferry. (W.B. p. 294)
1781
Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1750, 2nd d. of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. Dr. Robert Stewart ‘an eminent Physician in Dundee’ in April 1781. (M. not found but, in a letter written by Katharine’s brother David in Jan. 1782, he refers to ‘sister Kate’s marriage in April last’.) - They had a son & 3 daughters: James Stewart (b. & bap. at Dundee, 13/1/1782), ‘who d. unm. on 30/4/1839’; Isobel Stewart (b. 8/10/1763, bap. 13/10), ‘who d. unm. in 1834’; Margaret (twin with Isobel), ‘who is said to have d. in infancy’; & Elizabeth Stewart (b. 11/1/1786) ‘who m. her cousin, Alexander Stormonth (b. 1790, only s. of Katharine’s sister Isobel W., b. 1753, & her husband, the Rev. James Stormonth). - The Maclagan-Wedderburn family are descended from this marriage, through Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814, elder d. of Elizabeth Stewart & Alexander Stormonth). - (W.B. p. 324) - Katharine ‘Wedderburn or Stewart’ died at Dundee in Dec. 1793, leaving a ‘death-bed deposition’ (q.v.) by which she disponed to her husband, Dr. Robert Stewart, ‘for certain onerous Causes and Considerations’, a legacy of £500 from her step-uncle, John Webster (b. 1722 - of ‘Webster & Co., Leadenhall St., London), who had died earlier that year (in July 1793) but which she had not received by the time of her impending death. - Dr. Stewart died in 1804, leaving a Will (q.v.).
1781
Elizabeth Weatherburn [unidentified] & Charles Heatley ‘paid dues at Morpeth on 2/8/1781 on being married in Scotland’. (Morpeth Record Office, Marriages & Banns 1781, Film 7883, entry 22.)
1781
James Wedderburn, [?2nd] s. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imrie [m. 1776], was b. 17/8/1781 at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, & bap. there 18/8/1781. - “James must be one of Charles’ & Elizabeth’s seven children who are said to have died young” (W.B. p. 223) - but could he be the James Wedderburn who m. Isabel Little at Dunbar East Lothian. on 6/12/1805, q.v.? (Also entered in OPR records as James ‘Watherburn’ m. Isobel Little on 15/11/1805.)
1781
Peter Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy ‘of Ruthven’ (formerly ‘Islabank’)], 3rd [but 2nd surv.] S.
of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. 23/9/1781. (His baptism appears in the OPR on 16/10/1781 but the parents’ names are not shown.) - “Peter was bred to the sea and sailed for some time in the ‘Arniston’, a vessel belonging to John Wedderburn of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica (b. 1743 - he later became senior partner of ‘Wedderburn & Co.’ in Leadenhall Street, London), and engaged in the West Indian Trade. In 1797, however, he entered the sea-service of the East India Company, and made six voyages (in one of which he went to China as Captain of the ‘Camden’), but retired from the Company’s service in August 1810”. [Peter was mid-shipman on a 6-month voyage to St. Petersburg & 4th mate on the “Coutts” 1799/1800, 3rd mate & 2nd mate on the “Glatton”, 1801-1805, and Captain of the “Arniston” 1805-06 - including the voyage to China from Portsmouth on 11/5/1806, returning to ‘Lower Hope’ on 6/1/1808. (Catalogue of E. India Co.’s Ships’ Journals & Logs, pub. 1999)] - Peter m. Anna Ogilvy in 1811. [See details of Ogilvys in ‘Camnowed.doc’ - and extract from “Strathmore Past and Present” in ‘Book.doc’ in ‘Scotwed’.] - (Peter & Anna had 5 sons & 3 daughters.) - On the death, in 1918, of Sir William Wedderburn (b. 1738), 4th Bt. of Balindean - the last male descendant of James Wedderburn of Inveresk’s elder brother, Sir John W. of Balindean (b. 1729) - Peter & Anna’s grandson, John Andrew Wedderburn-Ogilvy (b. 1866), succeeded him as 5th Bt. of Balindean. - Anna died at Ruthven in May 1853 and Peter died there on 30/3/1873, aged 91. (W.B. p. 311)
1782
James Wedderburn, e.s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], bap. 6/1/1782 at Inchture. “James was at one time in Jamaica but returned in 1809. - He left England in 1814 & died unm. on 20/7/1815 at Tarbes in the south of France”. (W.B. p. 294) - [James left a Will (q.v.).]
1782 James Stewart, only s. of Dr. Robert Stewart & Katharine Wedderburn [b. 1750, m. 1781, d. 1793], was b. & bap. on 13/1/1782 at Dundee. He died unm. on 30/4/1839, aged 57. (W.B. p. 324) - [James was ‘weak-minded’ and after his father’s death, in Sep. 1804, ‘Interdictors’ were appointed to manage James’s affairs. (See his father’s Will & related letters.)]
1782
Margaret Wederburn (sic), 3rd d. of John W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1748] & Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil [m. 1771], bap. 17/2/1782 at Meigle. Margaret m. Alexander Kaye (Merchant in Dundee) in 1806 (q.v.) - “She died on 10/1/1821, having had issue four sons who all died before 1813. I do not know if she had any other children”. (W.B. p. 224, footnote²)
1782
Mary Ann Wedderburn, [?3rd] d. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imbrie [m. 1776], was b. c1782. Mary Ann m. Dr. John Robertson at Edinburgh in 1821 (q.v.). - Mary Ann Wedderburn, widow of Dr. John Robertson and daughter of Charles Wedderburn & Elizabeth Imbrie, died at Edinburgh on 21/12/1862, aged 60”. (W.B. p. 224)
1782
Mary Wedderburn, [?5th] d. of Thomas W. [unidentified - but perhaps the Thomas who had several children by Elizabeth Younger (m. not found)?], was bap. on 26/5/1782 at Hutton [W. of Berwick-on-Tweed].
1782
John Wedderburn [b. 1743, 2nd s. of Thomas W. [‘of Cantra’ (Inverness), b. 1710, & Katharine Dunbar] m. Mary Wisdom Bedward [b. 1/6/1764, at Ridgeland, co. Cornwall, Jamaica, daughter & 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 daus.: Elizabeth Susanna (bap. 1785 in Jamaica - but see entry in 1773); 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. (See W.B. p. 351)]
1782
James Wedderburn [Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1816-1823], 4th & youngest [but 3rd surv.] s. of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabella Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. on 12/11/1782 at Inveresk (Midlothian) & bap. there on 8/12/1782. - “James became a member of the Faculty of Advocates. He was appointed Advocate Depute and held this post until March 1811, when he was appointed sheriff depute for co. Peebles”. - He m. Isabella Clerk in 1813 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 3 daughters.] - “James resigned as sheriff depute of co. Peebles on being appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1816, but his career was cut short by his early death”. - He died on 7/11/1822 at St. Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, while visiting his sister Jean (Lady Selkirk), and was there buried. (W.B. p. 313) - His widow Isabella died in 1865.
1783
Janet Wedderburn [b. 1747, 3rd & ygst. d. of Robert W., Merchant in Dundee (b. 1709), & Rachel Thomson (m. c1743)] m. George Bruce on 19/4/1783 at Culross.
1783
Maria Wedderburn, e.d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], was b. 18/9/1783 at Inchture. Maria & her sister Susan lived at Inveresk Lodge, which their brother [Col.] Alexander W. (b. 1791) bought for them from their cousin Andrew W. (b. 1779), in 1808. (Andrew had inherited it on his father’s death in 1807.) - Maria died unm. at Inveresk on 12/4/1858, aged 74, a few days after the death of her (half) brother, Sir David W., 1st Bt. of Balindean. (W.B. p. 295)
1784
David Graham [afterwards Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’], 3rd s. of James Graham [b. 1741, ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’, Angus, d. 1792] & Elizabeth Wedderburn [b. 1746, e.d. of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)], was b. in 1784. - David Graham, ‘s. of James Graham of Balmuir’, was apprenticed to James Graham on 4/11/1800. (Ironmongers’ Company records) - In 1829, on the death of his uncle Charles W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1748), David succeeded to Pearsie as heir of entail and took the surname ‘Wedderburn’. - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), David Wedderburn, Independent, ‘aged 55’ (‘b. Scotland’), was living at Upper Woburn Place, St. Pancras, Middlx., with Robert Graham, Independent, ‘aged 30’; David Graham, Independent ‘aged 25’ (both ‘b. in the county’); & his brother John Graham (afterwards Wedderburn), Independent, ‘aged 50’ (‘b. Scotland’). - David Wedderburn died unm. on 25/12/1858 and was succeeded by his brother John Graham (b. 1787, q.v.). - (W.B. p. 324)
1784
Peter Wedderburn [unidentified] was b. c1784. - He became a Coachman & m. Agnes Walker in 1804 at Uphall [Strathbrock]. - They had (at least) 2 sons & 5 daughters. - Peter Weatherburn (sic), Coachman, of Canongate, Edinburgh, died on 16/12/1825, aged 41. (Canongate Parish Burials) - Agnes Wedderburn died a widow at 30b, Lawnmarket, St. Giles, Edinburgh, on 20/4/1861, aged 82. (Her daughter Jessie was present. - Edin. Reg. House)
1785
Susan Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], bap. 18/1/1785 at Inchture. Susan & her sister Maria lived at Inveresk Lodge, which their brother [Col.] Alexander W. (b. 1791) bought for them from their cousin Andrew W. (b. 1779), in 1808. (Andrew had inherited it on his father’s death in 1807.) - Susan died unm. at Inveresk on 3/2/1840. (W.B. p. 295)
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 John W. (b. 1743 at Forres, Morayshire) & (?)Mary Wisdom Bedward (m. 1780 in Jamaica). - [A note, in John’s writing, in a Prayer Book given to him by his father Thomas, shows “E.S.W. born 31st December 1773 half-past 9 o’Clock at Night”. (The full names of John & Mary’s next 3 children follow.) - 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. (W.B. pp. 346-47)
1785
David Wedderburn [Webster, from 1789, b. 1757, ygst. s. of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. Elizabeth Read [only d. of Alexander Read of Logie, Angus, & Ann Fletcher (d. of Robert Fletcher of Ballinschoe & Elizabeth Lyon)] on 26/12/1785 at Dundee. - [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)] - David had gone to London in 1772 (not ‘about 1780’, as it says in the W.B.) to work for his step-uncles, the Webster brothers, in their ‘East & West India House’ at 35 Leadenhall St., London. - He completed his 5-year apprenticeship as a Clerk in September 1787. [See a number of letters written by David, in the Dundee City Archives.] - David & 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). - [The children were known at first as Webster-Wedderburns but later as Wedderburn-Websters.] - On 3/2/1789, James Graham (b. 1774), ‘s. of James Graham’ (husband of David’s e. sister Elizabeth), 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.’. - 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, and was buried at Bath Abbey. - [From that time, 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. (W.B. pp. 329-30) - Elizabeth died on 9/9/1857 at Carbat House, Broughty Ferry.
1786
Jean Wedderburn, @ [younger] d. of James W. [‘of Inveresk’, b. 1730] & Isabel [sic] Blackburn [m. 1774], was b. 3/5/1786 at Inveresk & bap. 4/6/1786 at Inveresk with Mussel-burgh. Jean m. Thomas ‘Douglas or Hamilton’, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1807 (q.v.). - [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 the 6th Earl of Selkirk. (He married but died ‘s.p.’ in 1885.) - Jean, Couness of Selkirk, died at St. Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 10/6/1871. (W.B. pp. 307-08)
1786
Isabella Wedderburn [‘Isobel’, b. 1753, 3rd & ygst. d. of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. James Stormonth on 2/6/1786 at Dundee. ( - Also shown on same date at Airlie. - ) - Isabella & the Rev. James Stormonth of Kinclune had one son & 6 daughters. In 1813 the son, Alexander (b. 1790), m. his first cousin Elizabeth Stewart (b. 1786, ygst. d. of Isabella’s sister Katharine, b. 1750, & her husband, Dr. Robert Stewart). - The Maclagan-Wedderburn family ‘of Pearsie’ are descended from this marriage, through Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814, elder d. of Alexander Stormonth & Elizabeth Stewart), who m. the Rev. James Maclagan in 1834. (W.B. p. 324)
1786
Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], was b. 8/6/1786 at Inchture. Louisa m. General Sir John Hope, G.C.B., in 1803 (q.v.). - (Sir John was created Lord Nidry of Nidry in 1814 & in 1816 succeeded his half-brother as 4th Earl of Hopetoun). - [Louisa’s sister Anne (b. 1788) m. Sir John Hope, 11th Bt. of Craighall, in 1805 (q.v.).] - (Louisa & Sir John had 9 sons & 2 daughters.)
1787
Charles Wedderburn [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1748, 3rd (but 2nd surv.) s. of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. i) Anne Read [d. of Charles’s first cousin, the late Capt. John Read of Cairney or Hill-Bank, Angus (2nd s. of Alexr. Read of Torbeg & Elizabeth Wedderburn, b. 1699, m. 1715) & Ann Guthrie of Clepington] on 4/9/1787 at Kingoldrum. ( - Also shown on 11/9/1787 at Dundee - & W.B. pp. 325-26 & p. 262, footnote²) - Charles m. ii) in 1797, Eliza Rattray, but had no issue by either marriage. - Charles died at Pearsie on 15/2/1829, aged 80, leaving a Will (q.v.). - His nephew David Graham (b. 1784, 3rd s. of Charles’ eldest sister Elizabeth, b. 1746, & James Graham of Meathie) was the heir of entail and succeeded Charles at Pearsie, adding the surname ‘Wedderburn’ to Graham. (On David’s death, in 1858, his brother John, b. 1787, succeeded him at Pearsie. (W.B. p. 324)
1787
John Graham [afterwards Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’], 4th & ygst. s. of James Graham [b. 1741, ‘of Meathie & Balmuir’, Angus, d. 1792] & Elizabeth Wedderburn [b. 1746, e.d. of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)], was b. in 1787. - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), John Graham, Independent, ‘aged 50’ (‘b. Scotland’), was living at Upper Woburn Place, St. Pancras, Middlx., with Robert Graham, Independent, ‘aged 30’; David Graham, Independent ‘aged 25’ (both ‘b. in the county’); David Wedderburn (b. Graham 1784, q.v.), Independent, ‘aged 55’ (‘b. Scotland’); & 2 Female Servants. - On the death, unm., in 1858, of his brother David (who had succeeded Charles W., b. 1748, at ‘Pearsie’ on Charles’s death in 1829), John succeeded him at Pearsie, as heir of entail, and added the surname ‘Wedderburn’. - John died unm. at Dundee in 1870, aged 85, and was succeeded by Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814, q.v.), who had m. the Rev. James Maclagan in 1834, and who then added the surname Wedderburn to Maclagan. - The Maclagan-Wedderburns are descended from Katharine. (W.B. pp. 324 & 327)
1787
Thomas Wedderburn, [?e.] s. of Thomas W. (‘who is said to have lived in Ayr’) & Jane Gavelston [‘d. of Mary Gavelston, heiress of an estate nr. Berwick-on-Tweed’] was b. c1787 at Norham, Northumberland. - In “The Wedderburns in Glasgow & later in Edinburgh” (W.B. pp. 495-96), ‘A.W.’ suggests that Thomas (senior) “may be a descendant of a Thomas W. who m. Jean Ker at Glasgow and had a son William bap. on 26/6/1735 at Glasgow, and probably other issue”. Thomas is said to have had two brothers, one of whom, David, was killed out hunting, while the other (William?) is reported to have settled at Montrose or Arbroath. [See m. of Thomas & Jean Ker on 7/2/1734.] - Thomas (junior), ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’, became a Coachman. - ‘A.W.’ states: “Thomas m. Jane Cockburn, daughter of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---, and died in Glasgow where he is buried in the Southern Necropolis”. (Dates of m. & death are not given & the information about Thomas’s death is incorrect, as it appears to be their son Thomas who died and was buried in Scotland.) Thomas Wedderburn ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ m. Jane Cockburn at Lamberton Toll c1806 (q.v.).. - They had 6 sons & 3 daughters: Thomas (b. c1807); David (b. 1809); Peter (b. 1811); twins Andrew (b. 1815) & John (d. 1816); Frances (‘Fanny’, bap. 1817); another John (b. 1821); & Jane (b. 1827) - all except the eldest son were bap. in Northumberland , but some of the details given on W.B. pp. 495-496 (supplied by a son-in-law of one of Thomas & Jane’s daughters) are misleading. [See details under m. in 1806.] - Jane Weatherburn, ‘wife of a labourer’, died at 102 Graeme St., Glasgow, on 23/8/1860, aged 83. - Andrew Wedderburn, son, was present. (Death cert. via Gayle W. in NZ) - Jane was buried in the Southern Necropolis, Glasgow. (W.B. 495). - Thomas Weatherburn died at Seghill, Northumberland, on 24/4/1861, aged 74. - John Richardson was in attendance. (Death cert. - Deaths’ Index Tynemouth 10b 123) - [N.B. A Thomas Weatherburn was a witness at the m. of a George Cockburn to Mary Carr at St. Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 31/7/1768. - He was also a witness at the m. of a William Carr to Catherine Cooper there on 28/4/1772. (The surname ‘Ker’ is often spelt ‘Carr’ in Northumberland - and ‘Wedderburn’ as ‘Weatherburn’. - It seems possible that this Thomas is Thomas’s father, and that the Thomas who m. Jean Ker in 1734 was his grandfather.)] 1788 Anne Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. d. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], bap. 14/2/1788 at Inchture. (W.B. p. 296) - Anne m. Sir John Hope, 11th Bt. of Craighall, co. Fife, and also of Pinkie, in 1805 (q.v.). - [In 1803, Anne’s sister Louisa had m. General Sir John Hope, G.C.B. - afterwards 4th Earl of Hopetoun.] (Anne & Sir John had 8 sons & 2 daughters.)
1788
Ann Wederburn (sic), 4th & ygst. d. of John W. [Tenant-Farmer at Camno, b. 1748] & Agnes [‘or Ann’] Neill [m. 1771], bap. 8/3/1788 at Meigle. [Acc. to the W.B., Ann was b. at Meigle on 6/3/1788 & bap. on 14/3/1788.) - Ann Wedderburn died unm. on 18/5/1802. (W.B. p. 224)
1789
John Wedderburn [2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858], 2nd s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] 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 surv. child of William Milburn, of the East India Company) in Bombay on 7/9/1822 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 5 daughters, of whom 3 sons & 4 daughters survived infancy. Their 2nd but e. surv. s., John, b. 1825, was killed, with his wife and child, in the Indian Mutiny of 1857.] - 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, without 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 with his wife Henrietta Louisa, Proprietors Wife, aged 57 (‘b. London , Middlx.’), 2 unmarried daughters, Margaret, aged 32 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’), Louisa Jane, aged 18 (‘b. Scotland’), & 8 Servants. - The following year, on 2/7/1862, Sir John died at 4, Chichester Terrace, Brighton (where he had been visiting a friend, Mr. George Ashburner, one of the executors of his Will. - See ‘Ashburner.doc’) - He was succeeded as 3rd Bt. of Balindean by his 3rd s., David (b. 1835, at Bombay), who d. 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 with her son David, Baronet, Member of Parliament, unm. aged 35; daughters Elizabeth, unm. aged 44, & Margaret, unm. aged 42; a Visitor, Claudius William Bell, East India Civil Service, unm. aged 34 (all ‘b. Bombay, East Indies’), & 5 Servants. (The Gardener & his wife and children were living at Meredith Cottage.) - Henrietta Wedderburn died at Kensington, London, on 7/4/1881, aged 77, and was buried at Tibberton, Gloucestershire. (W.B. p. 299)
1790
John Wedderburn, [?e.] s. of John W. [unidentified] & Margaret Sutherland [m. not found], bap. 24/7/1790 at Falkirk, Stirling. (OPR
Also an entry of bap. of John Wodderburn (sic) - same parents - on 2/5/1790, with another entry on 1/8/1790, & the baptism of (?)another son named John shown on 3/6/1792.)
1790
Jean Wedderburn [b. 1772, e.d. of John W., Tenant-farmer at Camno (b. 1748), & Agnes Neill (m. 1771)] m. John Wilson on 18/8/1790 at Dundee. - On W.B. p. 224, Jean is said to have m. John, a Shipmaster in Dundee, ‘clandestinely’. - They had 2 sons & 2 daughters: Duncan Wilson, bap. 9-14 Oct 1792 (to whom Helen Duncan, ‘great-grandmother’, was name-mother. - Was she from Aberdeen? See m. in 1745); Jean Wilson, b. 22/6/1794; Elizabeth Wilson, b. 11/8/1796; & John Wilson, b. 16/6/1798 (to whom John Wedderburn, ‘grandfather’ was name-father). - Jean’s only brother, Robert (b. 1778), had a son, Robert Neil W. (b. 1831, q.v.), who succeeded his father as tenant farmer at Camno in 1855. - Robert m. Elizabeth Hood Wilson (dau. of John Wilson & Isabella Hood), in 1867. (W.B. p. 225) - [Elizabeth Hood Wilson’s father John is Jean Wedderburn’s & John Wilson’s son John, b. 1798. - John Wilson & Isabella Hood’s m. is shown on W.B. Vol. II, p. 600.]
1791 Alexander Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. s. of Sir John W. [‘of Balindean’, b. 1729] by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas [m. 1780], was b. 18/6/1791 at Inchture. (Perth IGI) - “Alexander entered the army as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards in 1807 and in 1809 embarked for Walcheren as aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law, the Hon. Sir John Hope…. He left the service in 1838, having obtained the rank of colonel”. - In 1808, Alexander purchased ‘Inveresk Lodge’ from his cousin Andrew W. (b. 1779) - who had inherited it on his father’s death in 1807 - for his two unm. sisters, Maria (b. 1783) & Susan (b. 1785), to live there. [See his Will.] - He m. Elizabeth Julia Stratton (3rd d. of John Stratton of Farthinghoe Lodge, Brackley, Northants) in 1836 in Rome - with another ceremony, by licence, at St. Luke’s, Chelsea, Middlx. (Pallot’s Marriage Index ) - [They had no issue.] - Alexander 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. (W.B. p. 295, & footnote 4)
1792
John Wedderburn, [?2nd] s. of John W. [unidentified] & Margaret Sutherland [m. not found], bap. 3/6/1792 at Falkirk, Stirling. [A son named John who was bap. in 1790 had presumably died.]
1793
Christian Wedderburn $ [‘residenter in Dalry’, (?e.)d. of James W., Gardener in the parish of Newhills, nr. Aberdeen] m. John Brand [Baxter in Portsburgh] on 2/3/1793 at St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 506) - [John Wedderburn (b. 1780), who died at 1 Prince’s Place, Duke Street, St. James, Westminster, on 24th Nov. 1846, aged 66, left £50 each in his Will to the daughters of his late sister Christian Brand. (See ‘Inchmarlo.doc’ for corrections to the account of Christian’s father, James W. ‘of Inchmarlo’ & his wife Isobel Forbes, and their offspring on W.B. pp. 479 & 485,)]
1793
Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755 - Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811 - 4th & ygst. but ultimately only surv. s. of David Scrymgeour of Birkhill & Katharine W. (m. 1739)] m. Mary Turner Maitland [b. 24/10/1768, e.d. of Capt. the Hon. Frederick Lewis Maitland, R.N., sixth s. of Charles, 6th Earl of Lauderdale] on 5/4/1793 at Edinburgh. (W.B. p. 182) - Henry & Mary had 4 sons & 8 daughters, of whom only one of the sons (the youngest, Frederick, b. 1808) survived, and only one of the daughters (the 7th, Mathilda, b. 1803) had surviving issue. (Mathilda m. Captain Robert Matthew Isacke at Birkhill on 15/9/1829 (q.v.). - Frederick (b. 1808) was m. twice (or perhaps three times). - On the death of his brother Alexander S-W in 1811, Henry inherited the Wedderburn estates and became the de jure 7th Earl of Dundee. - Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn died at Edinburgh on 20/12/1841 & his widow Mary died at Balmerino on 21/10/1851. (W.B. pp. 180-82) - [In his Will written on 6/10/1790, James Wedderburn (b. 1755), who died in Jamaica on 17/7/1793, bequeathed to his cousin Henry Scrymgeour, Planter in the parish of Hanover, “£1000 to his Eldest son of the present marriage and £500 to the Eldest Daughter, £1000, his Gold Watch Chain and Seals and a Mourning Ring to the value of 100 pounds Sterling….”. (There is no record of Henry having been married before in Jamaica.)]
1793
Catharine Wedderburn [b. 1776, 2nd d. of John W., Tenant-farmer in Camno (b. 1748) & Agnes Neil (m. 1771)] m. i) James Waddle [Brewer in Dundee] on 11/7/1793 at Dundee. - ( - but shown in the Scottish OPR as m. of Catherine W. & James Waddel (sic), on 22/6/1793.) - They had 4 children who, acc. to relative Mrs. Jane Smart (who gave ‘A.W.’ the info. for the account of the family in the W.B.),‘all died before 1806’. - Catherine m. ii) in 1803, William Cowborough, Shipmaster, of Falkirk. (W.B. p. 224) - [Between 1809 & 10, a George Waddell (b. 1788, d. 1833) was surgeon on the “Arniston”, a ship belonging to ‘Spring Garden’ John W. - see entry for Katharine’s father, b. 1748.]
1793
Robert Wedderburn, [?ygst] s. of Charles W. [bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire - Gardener in Alloa & later a Manufacturer in Perth] & Elizabeth Imrie [m. 1776], bap. 10/11/1793 at Perth. [This son of Charles & Elizabeth is not mentioned (by name) on W.B. p. 223. - He may be one of the several children who are said to have died young.]
1794
Margaret Louisa Scrymgeour [twin with Catherine, below - “her birth reg.at St. Andrew’s Church, Edinburgh”], e.d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793] was b. 21/1/1794 at Edinburgh. - Margaret m. Alexander Smith, W.S., in 1842 (q.v.). - [They had no issue.] - Alexander died on 3/8/1868 & Margaret died at St. Andrew’s, Edinburgh, on 10/1/1876, aged 82. (W.B. p. 181)
1794
Catherine Scrymgeour [twin with Margaret Louisa, above - “her birth reg.at St. Andrew’s Church, Edinburgh”], 2nd d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793] was b. 22/1/1794 at Edinburgh. - Catherine m. Captain Robert Cathcart, R.N., in 1814 (q.v.). - [They had no issue.] - Capt. Cathcart died in Nov. 1833 & Catharine Scrymgeour Cathcart died at 41 Grange Rd., Edinburgh, on 12/4/1880, aged 86, and was buried at Pitcairlie. (W.B. p. 181 & Death cert.)
1794
Janet Wedderburn or Elliott, @[‘relict of Joseph Elliot, late painter in Edinburgh (m. 1775), of Old Kirk parish, ‘natural daughter of Sir John Halket Wedderburn (sic), Baronet] m. John McGlashan [writer, Old Kirk parish] on 20/6/1794 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 500 , where footnote³ refers to m. in 1798)
1795
Elizabeth Wedderburn Scrymgeour, 3rd d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793] was b. 19/2/1795 at Edinburgh. (“Her birth reg.at St. Andrew’s Church, Edinburgh”.) - Elizabeth died unm. at Macao, China, on 23/8/1838, and was buried on 24 Aug. in the English burying ground there by the chaplain of H.M.S. “Wellesley”. (Doctors’ Commons Burials, ii., p. 529 - W.B. p. 181)
1795
Ann Wedderburn was buried at Dundee 4/12/1795. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497 - where it says:‘See ante, p. 383, note 3’. - There, ‘AW.’ suggests that Ann may be the ygst. d. of Charles W. of Gosford & his wife Mary Wardlaw (m. c1719), “who was bap. on 17/10/1730 and died unmarried”.]
1796
Esther Wedderburn, d. of Eleanor Gardiner by Charles Wedderburn [unidentified - but see 1799 below], bap. 5/5/1796 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 5)
1796
Eliza and James Wedderburn, ‘children of colour’ [unidentified], bap. 7/6/1796 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1796
Jannette Scrymgeour, 4th d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 5/8/1796 at Ramornie, Fifeshire. (“Her birth reg. at Kettle Church, Fifeshire”.) - “Jannette resided for many years at Nairn, co. Inverness”. (W.B. p. 181) - In the 1841 Census, Jannette Widderburn (sic), ‘aged 40’ (‘b. Scotland’), was staying with her married sister Matilda Isacke, ‘aged 33’ (b. 1803, m. 1829), & her husband Robert Isacke, Independent, ‘aged 35’, & their (then) 2 children, at North Foreland Lodge, St. Peter, Ramsgate, Kent. - In the 1881 Census, Jannette S-W, aged 84, ‘Living on Interests’, was a Boarder at the home of Helen I. Menzies, widow, Annuitant, of 10 Cumming Street, Nairn. - Jannette S-W died on 4/2/1883, at Birkhill House, Fife. (Confirmation of her Will was granted to Henry S-W, her nephew & executor nominate in her Will, dated 26/8/1875 and registered in the Fife commissariot 17/3/1883. - L.W. 48, W.B. Vol. II, p. 521)
1796
Mary Wedderburn, ‘person of colour, adult’ [unidentified], bap. 26/8/1796 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1797
Robert Wedderburn, infant son of James W. [unidentified] & --- Wedderburn, bap. 21/7/1797 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1797
Charles Wedderburn [‘of Pearsie’, b. 1748, 3rd (but 2nd surv.) s. of Robert W. of Pearsie (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. ii) Elizabeth Rattray [d. of David Rattray, M.D., of Coventry, Warwickshire, & niece of Col. Wm. Rattray of Downie Park, Angus] on 5/12/1797 at Monifieth. ( - Also shown on 30/11/1797) - [Charles had no issue by either of his wives.] - Charles died at Pearsie on 15/2/1829, aged 80, leaving a Will (q.v.). - His nephew, David Graham (b. 1784, 3rd s. of Charles’s sister Elizabeth (b. 1746) & her husband James Graham (of Meathie & Balmuir) succeeded to Pearsie and added the surname ‘Wedderburn’ to Graham. [When David died, unm., in 1858, his younger brother John Graham (b. 1787) inherited Pearsie. John Graham-Wedderburn died, also unm., in 1870, and was succeeded by Katharine Stormonth (b. 1814), the elder of the two daughters of Alexander Stormonth of Kinclune (b. 1790, s. of Charles’s sister Isobel & the Rev. Jame Stormonth) & his wife Elizabeth Stewart (b. 1786, d. of Charles’s sister Katharine & her husband Robert Stewart), who was thus the granddaughter of two of Robert W. of Pearsie & Isobel Edward’s daughters .- Katharine Stormonth had m., in 1834, the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. (who died on 29/10/1852), by whom she had 6 sons & 4 daus. - On succeeding to Pearsie, Katharine and her surviving seven children assumed the surname ‘Wedderburn’ in addition to Maclagan. (W.B. pp. 325-28)
1798
John Wedderburn [afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’], younger s. of John W. [b. 1743 at Forres, co. Elgin, afterwards of “Spring Garden”, Jamaica, & from 1789 a partner in “Wedderburn, Webster & Co.” - the family’s ‘East & West India House’ in Leadenhall St., London] & Mary Wisdom Bedward [m. 1782 in Jamaica], b. 8/1/1798 at Clapham, Surrey. “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). - John m. Lady Helen Ogilvy [ygst. d. of 5th (or 7th) Earl of Airlie] in 1823 (q.v.). - Alexander Wedderburn, Q.C. (b. 1854), the author of the ‘Wedderburn Book’, published in 1898, was their grandson. - In 1824, John published a ‘Genealogical Account of the Wedderburn family’- which his grandson found was ‘full of errors’ (hence his own, extensively researched, compilation). - John & Lady Helen had 3 sons born in Surrey before they moving to Auchterhouse, Forfarshire, in 1826, where their only daughter was born. - John died at Auchterhouse on 2/4/1839. Lady Helen died on 27/4/1868 at Rosebank, Roslin, & was buried at Roslin Chapel. (W.B. pp. 347-48)
1798
Mary Turner Scrymgeour, 5th d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793] was b. 6/3/1798 at Ramornie, Fifeshire. (“Her birth reg. at Kettle Church, Fifeshire”.) - Mary m. Thomas Smith (Physician General in the East India Company’s service) in 1843 (q.v.). - [They had no issue.] - Thomas predeceased his wife, who afterwards lived at West Grange, Edinburgh. - Mary died on 25/3/1887, aged 89, and was buried at Edinburgh.
(W.B. p. 181)
1798
Elizabeth Dickinson Wedderburn [unidentified], b. 21/5/1798 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1798
Wedderburn Laurie [‘in Lady Yester’s parish, d. of the deceased William Laurie belonging to the excise, Edinburgh’] m. John Richardson [Mason, of the same parish], on 11/6/1798 at Edinburgh Parish. (W.B. Vol. II, p. 500) - [In footnote³, ‘A.W.’ states that he has no record of a Laurie-Wedderburn marriage and he was ‘ inclined to think that the Alexander W., commissioner for excise, may have stood godfather to the child of one of his subordinates’. - In footnote¹, W.B. p. 495, he states that he thinks that this is not now tenable, as Alexander. W., commissioner for excise, died in 1729-30. - He has since come across the m. of John Wedderburn & Jean Laurie (15/12/1670, above) and says that this may account for the name.]
1798
Margaret Wadderburn (sic), [Margaret Wedderburn b. c1780, 2nd d. of Charles W., bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire, afterwards a Manufacturer in Perth, & Elizabeth Imrie (m. 1776)] m. George Nicoll on 20/10/1798 at Meigle. - See ref. to ‘George Nicholl of the Island of Jamaica’ in entry re marriage of Charles W’s brother John (b. 1748) to Agnes Neil in 1771. - Margaret & George Nicol (sic) had 3 sons baptised at Dundee: James Nichol (b. 10/1/1811, bap. 25/1/1811); Peter Nicol (b. 29/7/1812, bap. 31/7/1812; & Henry Nicol (b. 3/2/1814, bap. 18/2/1814). - On 4/7/1834, the eldest son, James Wedderburn Nicol, a Post Office employee, was convicted at Edinburgh Court of Judiciary of the theft of a £50 note. On 15/3/1834 he was sentenced to transportation for life and was put aboard the “Norfolk” but transferred to the “Lady Kennaway” at Cork, in September 1834, for transportation to Van Diemens Land. - Peter R.W. Nicol, in e-mail messages to Peter Garwood on 8 & 9 Nov. 2002, wrote that “a large Nicol family living in Brisbane, is descended from Peter Nicol, the son of George Nicol and Margaret Wedderburn. Peter was born in Dundee in 1812 and arrived in Moreton Bay (Brisbane) in 1840 where he held the position of ‘Druggist & Overseer’ of the Military Hospital. He married the granddaughter of Cpl. John Gowen of the Royal Marines who arrived in Australia in 1788 on board the “Siries”, the Flag Ship of the First Fleet, so all the ‘Wedderburn Nicol family in Australia are FIRST FLEETERS’. Peter’s younger brother also went to Australia and obtained 27,000 acres 150 m. west of Brisbane, and called the sheep station ‘Ballendean’, after the Wedderburn estate at Inchture, Perthshire. It is now the centre of a wine district in Southern Queensland. - John Nicol, the father or grandfather of George Nicol, seems to have been in Lord Ogilvy’s regt. in the ’45 - as was John Wedderburn ‘of Balindean’, Scotland (b. 1729, q.v.). - John Nicol was imprisoned for his part in the ’45.
1798
John Wedderburn, ‘s. of John W.’ [sic], ‘was b. about 1798 in Dunbar’. (W.B. p. 497) - See John Wedderburn, [elder] s. of James W. [unidentified] & Isabella (or Isabel) Little [m. 1805], bap. 20/12/1806.
1799
Charles Wedderburn, ‘a person of colour’ [unidentified - but see Esther W. 1796, above], was buried on 18/4/1799 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1799
John Wedderburn esqr [b. 1776 at Inveresk, Midlothian, e.s. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) & Isabella Blackburn (m. 1774)] was buried on 21/5/1799 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1799
David Scrymgeour, e.s. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793] was b. 17/8/1799 at Gayfield Place, Edinburgh. (“His birth reg. in the West Church, parish of St. Cuthbert”.) - David died on 9/4/1804 at Ely, Fifeshire. (W.B. p. 181)
1800
Sholto Charlotte Halkett [b. 1774, 6th d. of Sir John W-Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’ (b. 1720), 4th Bt. of Gosford, & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton (m. 1762)] m. i) Lt.-Col. James Pringle [s. of Robert Pringle of Edgefield, a lord of session], afterwards General Sir James Pringle, in the East India Company’s service, on 5/4/1800 at Edinburgh. - They had 3 daughters: Mary (who m. Charles Heard Beague, R.E., of Somerset, and had an only child, Charlotte Mary, who m. her mother’s first cousin, John Thomas Douglas Halkett - see 1816); Charlotte (who m. Admiral Trotter of Porchester Terrace, London), & Elizabeth (who m. Captain O’Halloran of Leamington). - Lady Pringle m. ii) on 4/12/1818, Stewart Boone Inglis. (They had no issue). - She died on 8/10/1853, aged 79. (W.B. p. 389)
1800
Margaretta Wedderburn, ‘a child of colour’ [unidentified], bap. 10/4/1800 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6) - [See entry under 1811 re book of volume of verse by Margaretta Wedderburn, published in Edinburgh.]
1800
John Wedderburn, ‘a child of colour’ [unidentified], bap. 12/5/1800 in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. (Debrett’s researchers’ doc. 3, p. 6)
1800
David Wedderburn [b. 1775, 1st Bt. of Balindean from 1803, e. (surv.) s. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) & his 1st wife, Margaret Ogilvy (m. 1764)] m. Margaret Brown [2nd d. of George Brown of Ellistoun, Roxborough, & his wife Maria - sister of David’s step-mother, Alicia Dundas] on 1/9/1800 at Inchture. (Also shown on 2/9/1800 at Comrie.) - Immediately following his father’s death, in 1803, David was created a baronet. (The Blackness baronetcy had become extinct on the execution of his grandfather, Sir John W., the 5th Bt.) - David & Margaret had two sons: John James (b. 16/10/1802 in London), who died at Brighton, Sussex, on 11/10/1810, & George (b. 16/11/1804), who died at Brompton, Middlx., on 23/5/1823. (They are buried at Glynde, Sussex, in the churchyard next to the seat of the Hampden family, their mother’s sister Maria having m., as his second wife, the then 2nd Viscount Hampden.) - In 1805, Sir David became M.P. for the Perth burghs, which he represented until 1818. He sold Balindean in 1819-20 (to a Mr. Trotter from Edinburgh, for £67,000), and in 1823 he was appointed Postmaster-General for Scotland, which post he held until 1831. After the sale of Balindean, he & his wife lived for a time at Luffness, near Aberlady, before moving to ‘Rosebank’, near Roslin, Midlothian. Margaret died there on 14/2/1845 and was buried at Inveresk. - After his wife’s death, Sir David moved to the house of his unmarried sister Maria at Inveresk, where he died on 7/4/1858 and was buried with his wife. - His half-brother John (b. 1789) succeeded him as 2nd Bt. of Balindean. (W.B. pp. 296-97)
1801
Isabella Scrymgeour, 6th d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 16/3/1799 at Gayfield Place, Edinburgh. [“The date of her birth given in her uncle Alexander’s bond of provision in 1803 is 19 April”.] - Isabella died on 18/4/1826 at Edinburgh. (W.B. p. 181)
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) - See David’s Will - written & signed on 10/2/1801 and proved at London on 16/5/1801 (mentioned on W.B. p. 442). - [David’s cousin John Wedderburn (b. 1743 in Forres, Morayshire), late of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica, from then until his death in 1820 was the senior partner of ‘Wedderburn, Webster & Co.’ in Leadenhall St.] - In June 1802, David’s widow m. Robert Douglas (s. of William Douglas of Brigton, co. Angus, & Elizabeth Graham) at Langham, Suffolk. (W.B. p. 329, footnote 6.) - [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 - presumably David’s former home. (MWE)]
1801
Gray Wedderburn McIndoe, @ s. of Alexander McIndoe & Jean Alexander [who must be a dau. of Gray Wedderburn who m. John Alexander at Glasgow in 1767 (q.v.)] was b. 19/4/1801 at Kirkland, Stirling.
1802
Mary Ann Wedderburn [b. 1782, 3rd d. of Charles W., bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire, by now a Manufacturer in Perth, & Elizabeth Imbrie (m. 1776)] m. John Robertson on 11/7/1821 at St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. Mary Ann, ‘widow of Dr. John Robertson’, died at Edinburgh on 21/12/1862, aged 60. (W.B. p. 224)
1802
Hennrietta (sic) Wedderburn [unidentified] m. James Turnbull on 4/1/1802 at Dunfermline. [‘Hennrietta’ is no doubt the same person as the Henrietta in the next entry (q.v.) but her husband’s Christian name must surely be wrong in one of the entries? (Presumably banns were called at both Dunfermline & Edinburgh? (MWE)]
1802
Henrietta Wedderburn $ m. Thomas Turnbull on 4/1/1802 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. [See preceding entry.]
1802
Peter Halkett [b. 1765, Admiral Sir Peter Halkett, 6th Bt. of Gosford in 1837] 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] on 14/10/1802 at Edinburgh. - “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: John (b. 1805); Jane Margaret (b. 1806) & Mary Emily (b. 1811). - Their granddaughter (e.d. of Jane Margaret & 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). 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, Peter succeeded him as 6th Bt. of Gosford. - Elizabeth died on 26/4/1814 at Clifton & 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, [Sir] John Halkett (b. 1805, q.v.). (W.B. pp. 389-90)
1803 Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn [b. 1786, 3rd d. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780)] m. [as his 2nd wife] General Sir John Hope, G.C.B [s. of John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun by his 2nd wife, Jane Oliphant (d. of Robert Oliphany of Rossie, PMG for Scotland)] on 9/2/1803 at Balindean. Inchture - Also entered on 7/2/1803 as ‘Louisa Dorothea @ relative James Hope’.) - [Louisa’s sister Anne (b. 1788) m. Sir John Hope, 11th Bt. of Craighall, in 1805 (q.v.)] - General Sir John Hope was created Lord Nidry of Nidry, co. Linlithgow, in 1814 and, in 1816, on the death of his half-brother James, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun, he succeeded him as 4th Earl of Hopetoun. - The General & Louisa had 9 sons & 2 daughters. (See Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Linlithgow) - The Earl died in Paris on 27/8/1823, aged 57. - Louisa, Countess of Hopetoun, died on 16/7/1836 at Leamington, Warwickshire. (W.B. p. 296, & footnote 7)
1803
Margaret Wedderburn [b. 1772, elder d. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 1st wife, Margaret Ogilvy (m. 1769)] m. Philip Dundas [4th & ygst. s. of Robert Dundas of Arniston, M.P., Lord President of the Court of Session] on 5/5/1803 at Inchture. [They were m. at Balindean, where Margaret’s father died 6 weeks later.] - They had 2 sons: Robert Adam Dundas, M.P. for Ipswich & later for Edinburgh,‘who assumed the name of Nisbet-Hamilton’. [Robert m. Lady Mary Bruce, e.d. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Elgin, in 1828. - On succeeding to the estates of Bloxham & Alford in Lincolnshire, & to Belhaven & Dirleton in E. Lothian, Lady Mary ‘assumed the names of Christopher Nisbet Hamilton’. She & Robert had an only child, Mary Constance Georgiana Christopher Nisbet-Hamilton, who succeeded to the estates of Winton & Pencaitland in 1885 & m. Henry Thomas Ogilvy, 2nd s. of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Bt. of Inverquharity, in 1888 (‘Nisbet of that Ilk’, p. 48, & Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy of Inverquharity)] and Philip Dundas, Col. of the Guards (who m. Lady Jane Charteris, d. of Francis, 7th Earl of Wemyss, & d.s.p. in 1870). - Margaret died at Penang on 7/11/1806 & her widower, Philip Dundas, Governor of Prince of Wales Island, died on board the ‘Belliqueux’ in the Bay of Bengal on 8/4/1807. (W.B. pp. 293-94)
1803
Mathilda Scrymgeour, 7th d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & 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, in 1829 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 2 daughters. (See W.B. p. 182, footnote¹)] Mathilda died on 3-4/12/1864 at North Foreland Lodge, Broadstairs, Kent, and is buried at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, Kent. - Capt. Isacke died at North Foreland Lodge on 6/3/1896. (W.B. p. 182)
1803
Catharine Wedderburn [b. 1776, 2nd d. of John W., Tenant-farmer at Camno (b. 1748), & Agnes or Ann Neil (m. 1771)] m. ii) William Cowbrough on 6/5/1803 at Dundee. - William Cowborough (sic) was a Shipmaster of Falkirk. - ‘They had issue’. (W.B. p. 224) - [Catherine m. i) James Waddle or Waddel on 11/7/1793 (q.v.).]
1804 Peter Wedderburn [Coachman, b. c1784 - unidentified] m. Agnes Walker [‘d. of John Walker’] on 15/4/1804 at Uphall [Strathbrock]. They had (at least) 2 sons & 5 daughters: Mary (bap. 1806); Mary Anne (bap. 1809); Peter (bap. 1811, who enlisted in the 54th Regt. in Aug. 1828, stating that he was aged 21 - see his ‘Soldier’s Documents’); John (bap. 1814, who m. Elizabeth Campbell in 1853); Agnes (bap. 1817, who m. Alexander Hastie in 1845); Jessie (bap. as ‘Janet’ in 1820, who m. Andrew Whellans in 1866. - ‘A.W.’ states that Jessie’s father’s name ‘was wrongly given as John Wedderburn’); & Isabella (b. 1824/25, who died on 20/10/1825, aged 10mths.). - Peter Weatherburn (sic), Coachman, of Canongate, Edinburgh, died on 16/12/1825, aged 41. (Canongate Parish Burials) - Agnes Wedderburn died a widow at 30b Lawnmarket, St. Giles, Edinburgh, on 20/4/1861, aged 82. (Her daughter Jessie was present. - Edin. Reg. House) - (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 498)
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], was b. 15/1/1805. - John became a naval Commander. - He m. Amelia Hood Conway (d. of General Conway of H.M. 53rd Regiment) on 8/4/1831 at Catherington Church, Hants. [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters] - On Sir Peter’s death, in 1839, John succeeded him as 7th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir John Halkett died at Southampton on 4/8/1847, aged 42, and was succeeded by his eldest, and ultimately only surviving, son (Peter) Arthur Halkett (b. 1834).Lady Halkett died at Ryde, Isle of Wight, in 1880. (W.B. p. 390)
1805
Anne Wedderburn [b. 1788, 4th & ygst. d. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780)] m. Sir John Hope, 11th Bt. of Craighall, Fife, and also of Pinkie, co. Midlothian, on 17/6/1805 at Balindean [parish of Inchture, Perth]. - [In 1803, Anne’s sister Louisa had m. General Sir John Hope, G.C.B. - afterwards 4th Earl of Hopetoun.] Anne & Sir John had 8 sons & 2 daughters. (See Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Hope of Craighall) - Sir John died on 5/5/1853. - Lady Anne Hope died at her London residence, 67, Cadogan Court, S.W., on 17/3/1867. - She was buried at Inveresk. (W.B. p. 296& footnote¹)
1805
Jean Wedderburn [b. 1773, 2nd d. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) & his 1st wife, Margaret Ogilvy (m. 1769)] m. John Hope Oliphant [2nd s. of Robert Oliphant of Rossie, PMG for Scotland - see m. of Louisa Dorothea W., 1803] at Prince of Wales Island, ‘towards the end of 1805’. (John was second in council in Prince of Wales Island.) - Jean & John had one daughter, Jean Oliphant (who in 1828 m. Sir James Ramsay, 8th Bt. of Banff, & d.s.p. 2/6/1842). - John Hope Oliphant died at Penang in 1807, aged 34. - Jean Oliphant died in Edinburgh on 24/1/1861. (W.B. p. 294)
1805
James Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Isabella Little on 6/12/1805 at Dunbar. (Also entered in OPR as James ‘Watherburn’ m. Isobel Little on 15/11/05.) - James & Isabella (or Isabel) Wedderburn had 2 sons: John (bap. 1806, afterwards Cloth Merchant in Dunbar, d. 1848) & James (bap. 1808).
1805
Alexander Scrymgeour, 2nd s. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 16/12/1805 at Duke Street, Edinburgh. - Alexander died on 16/2/1806. (W.B. p. 181)
1806
Thomas Wedderburn ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ [Coachman, b. c1787 (q.v.)] m. Jane Cockburn [dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---] at Lamberton Toll, Northumberland, c1806. - They had 6 sons & 3 daughters, but the details given under the heading “The Wedderburns of Glasgow & Edinburgh” on W.B. pp. 495-96 (supplied by a son-in-law of one of Thomas & Jane’s daughters) are misleading. It states that their children were: Thomas, “who resided in Edinburgh & is there buried….”. [See Thomas Wedderburn, b. c1807, who m. Margaret Brown & died in Scotland, probably between 1851 & 1855]; David, “who died unm. in Newcastle”. [See David, bap. 1809 (‘of Castle Ward, Brenkley, Northumberland’, who m. Sarah Cook in 1834 & had a large family! - W.B. p. 502)]; Peter, “who lived in Edinburgh & died there on 13/4/1873, aged 61 (sic). He m. twice.” [See Peter, bap. 1811, who m. i) Catherine McDonald in 1831 & ii) Rosina Johnston in 1872. He died in Edinburgh in 1878.]; Andrew, “a Coach builder in Edinburgh, who m. Jean Davidson & died in Edinburgh on 6/7/1865, aged 50”. [See Andrew, bap. 1815]; John [twin with Andrew. (This John, bap. 1815, who died at Berwick on Tweed in 1816, is not shown in the W.B.)]; Fanny, “who m. in Newcastle”. [See Frances, bap. 1817, who m. John Richardson at Newcastle in 1839]; Dorothy, “who m. Joseph Allen & was living in 1896 in the USA”. [Not so - Dorothy m. in Glasgow in 1845 & d. at New Brunswick, Canada, in 1879. - See Dorothy bap. 1819]; John, “living in Glasgow, b. 1823, d. 1879. He m. twice.” [See John, bap. 1821, who m. i) Ann Libsit in 1849, & ii) Margaret Kirkwood in 1856]; & Jane, “who m. James Allen (brother of her sister Dorothy’s husband Joseph) & died in Glasgow in 1890”. [See Jane b. c1827. - Jane & James Allan m. in 1845 & had a large family, including a daughter Jane who m. John Grieve in 1866. - It was John Grieve, living in 1896 at 9 Wilton Drive, Glasgow, who gave ‘A.W.’ the mis-information about the family.] - In the 1841 Census, Thomas, a Coachman aged 53 (‘b. England’), was living at 112 High Street, College parish, Glasgow, with Jane, ‘aged 60’ (‘b. England’); Dorothy, a Shoe Binder aged 21 (‘b. England’); John, a Plane Maker J. (?Journeyman) - (‘b. England’); & Jane, a Straw Hat Maker aged 13 (‘b. Lanarkshire’). - In the 1851 Census, Thomas Weatherburn, an Ag. Lab., aged 64 (‘b. Norham’), was living with Jane, ‘aged 70’ (‘b. Spittle’ - sic), at 23 Waterloo Place, Cowpen, Northumberland. - Jane Weatherburn, ‘wife of a labourer’, died at 102 Graeme St., Glasgow, on 23/8/1860, aged 83. - Andrew Wedderburn, son, was present.- Jane was buried in the Southern Necropolis, Glasgow. (W.B. 495). - In the 1861 Census, Thomas Wedderburn, a retired Coachman ‘aged 77’ (‘b. Norham’) was living in the parish of Earsdon, Seghill, Northumberland, with his daughter Frances Richardson aged 43 (‘b. Berwick’), her husband John Richardson, a Blacksmith aged 44 (‘b. Spittal’), & their 8 children. - Thomas Weatherburn, Coachman, died at Seghill, Northumberland, on 24/4/1861, aged 74. - John Richardson was in attendance. (Death cert. - Deaths’ Index Tynemouth 10b 123)
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 Margaret 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), died at Barham Wood in 1846. (W.B. p. 389)]
1806
Mary Wedderburn, e.d. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], bap. 20/6/1806 at Edinburgh. – [Mary probably died before 1809, when another daughter named Mary Anne was born.]
1806
Margaret Wedderburn [b. 1782, 3rd d. of John W., Tenant-farmer at Camno (b. 1748), & Agnes ‘or Ann’ Neil (m. 1771)] m. Alexander Kay on 5/7/1806 at Meigle. - ‘A.W.’ writes: “Margaret died on 10/1/1821, having had issue four sons who all died before 1813. I do not know if she had any other children”. (W.B. p. 224, footnote²) - [“Alexander Kay was b. 12/5/1779 at Meigle. He went to Dundee in 1806 and began business as a grocer & spirit merchant in the Overgait, where he later built the Albion Hotel on the site. He was admitted a burgess of Dundee on 21 Aug. 1828 ‘for having paid to the Town Treasurer during the year from Martinmas, 1805, to Martinmas, 1806, the sum of £2: 15s. 6½d for the privilege of trading within the burgh during his lifetime, and for now having paid £10 stg. to Patrick Hunter Thoms, Town Chamberlain, Dundee’. He was elected as Merchant councillor under the Poll Warrant of 1831…and in 1833 was chosen Provost and was re-elected until 1839, when he was returned as Common Councillor at the election. In 1841 he was again appointed Provost. - Alexander Kay died on 7/8/1861, aged 82. (“Roll of Eminent Burgesses of Dundee”, p. 264, by A.H. Millar, pub. 1897.)]
1806
John Wedderburn, [elder] s. of James W. [unidentified] & Isabella (or Isabel) Little [m. 1805], bap. 20/12/1806 at Dunbar. [In Misc. Refs. (Scottish) Records (W.B. p. 497), John Wedderburn, ‘s. of John [sic] Wedderburn, is said to have been his father’s only child and to have been born in Dunbar about 1798, died in 1848 and was buried in Dunbar’. - “He is, I suppose”, says ‘A.W.’, “the John Wedderburn, shopman in Dalkeith, who was returned heir general to his uncle, John Wedderburn at Belhaven, nr. Dunbar [unidentified], on 20/10/1828…..] - John Wedderburn m. Mary Heggie at Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1841 (q.v.). - They had a son James Heggie, bap. at Dunbar on 12/9/1842 (q.v.). - John Wedderburn, Cloth Merchant in Dunbar, died on 20/11/1848, leaving a Will (q.v.).
1807
Alexander Scrymgeour, 3rd s. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 3/1/1807 at Duke Street, Edinburgh. - Alexander died at Abercomby Place, Edinburgh, on 7/2/1820. (W.B. p. 181)
1807
Elizabeth Wedderburn [? bap. 1774 or 1775] m. John Cormack on 20/6/1807 at Coldingham. Elizabeth Wedderburn, wife of John Cormick (sic), was buried at Coldingham on 3/11/1829, aged 56’.
1807
Jean Wedderburn $ [b. 1786, only surv. d. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) & Isabella Blackburn ‘or Colvile’ (m. 1774)] m. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk [youngest but, by 1799 - when he succeeded his father - only surviving son of Dunbar, 4th Earl of Selkirk] on 21/11/1807 at Inveresk with Musselburgh. ( Also shown as ‘m. Thomas Hamilton or Douglas’.) - They had a son & 2 daughters. - When the Earl died at Pau, in the south of France, in 1820, he was succeeded by his son, Dunbar James (b. 1809), who became 6th Earl of Selkirk. (He married but died ‘s.p.’ in 1885.) - The elder daughter m. Loftus Wigram (afterwards Fitzwigram) but died s.p. in 1863. The younger daughter, Lady Isabella Helen, m. in 1841, her second cousin the Hon. Charles Hope (3rd s. of John, 4th Earl of Hopetoun & Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, m. 1803 - W.B. p. 295). Jean, Countess of Selkirk, died at St. Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 10/6/1871, aged 85. (W.B. pp. 307-08, & footnote¹)
1807 Thomas Wedderburn, [e.] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. c1807. - Acc. to ‘A.W.’, on W.B. p. 495, “Thomas resided in Edinburgh and is there buried…..”. - Thomas Wedderburn m. Margaret Brown (m. not found). - They had a son & a daughter: Thomas (b. c1835, q.v.); & Janet (b. c1839, q.v., who m. David Ferguson). - In the 1851 Census, Thomas Wedderburn, a Cabman aged 37 (‘b. Berwick on Tweed’), was living at 273 Canongate with his wife Margaret, a Dressmaker aged 37 (‘b. B-on-T’); Thomas, aged 16 (b. c1835); Janet, aged 12 (b. c1839); & cousin Janet Wedderburn [unidentified], a Gen. Servant aged 15 (all ‘b. Canongate’). - [Even though the age ‘37’ is not right for a birth-year of 1807, this appears to be the right Thomas.] - In the W.B. it says that Thomas ‘died before 30/3/1869’. - Thomas probably died between 1851 & 1855 (when Scottish records were first kept) as his mother Jane, who died in 1860, is said to have been buried in the Southern Necropolis with with her husband Thomas, but he died at Seghill, Northumberland, on 24/4/1861. [It seems likely, therefore, that Jane was buried with her son Thomas.]. - Thomas’s widow Margaret Brown m. ii) Alexander Cheyne on 30/3/1869’. - She died a widow at Canongate, Edinburgh, on 21 Aug. 1887, aged 69.
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 at 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 - but, acc. to the Midlothian IGI, 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 m. in 1852.) - 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. - He was de jure 8th Earl of Dundee. - Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour-W. died at Birkhill on 16/8/1874, and was buried at Balmerino. (W.B. pp. 182-83) - His eldest son, Henry (b. 1840, q.v.) succeeded to the Wedderburn estates and was de jure 9th Earl of Dundee. [The family’s Scottish titles were restored to Henry’s son Henry James (b. 1902, q.v.).] - Frederick Lewis S-W’s 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. (Wills & Admons. Index)
1808
James Wedderburn, [younger] s. of James W. [unidentified] & Isabella (or Isabel) Little [m. 1805], bap. 8/7/1808 at Dunbar [East Lothian].
1809
Mary Anne Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1865], bap. 1/1/1809 at Linlithgow. [She may be the Mary Ann W. who m. William Coughlan at Canongate, Edinburgh, on 26/7/1833 (q.v.).]
1809
David Wedderburn, [2nd] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 11/11/1809 & bap. ‘the same month’ at Spittal United Presbyterian Church, in the parish of Tweedmouth. - In “The Wedderburns at Brenkley and Tynemouth” (W.B. p. 502), David, ‘of Brenkley, Castle Ward, Northumberland’, ‘A.W.’ states that David was b. ‘about 1808-15’. - In a footnote, he writes: “His parentage is not ascertained, but a Thomas Wedderburn who died at Seghill in 1861 aged 76, may well be his father”. [Thomas’s death was reg. at Tynemouth in the June qtr. of 1861 aged 74. (Deaths’ Index 10b 123)] - In the account of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (W.B. p. 495), David is said to have ‘died unmarried in Newcastle’ - but David Wedderburn m. Sarah Cook [d. of Thomas Cook] at Morpeth on 13/2/1834. (Morpeth Marriage Reg.) - Acc. to the W.B., David & Sarah had 3 sons & 2 daughters but they appear to have had 9 children. ] - David, a Horsekeeper, died at Morpeth on 9/10/1847, aged 37. (Deaths’ Index 25 247) - David’s widow Sarah m. ii) in 1857, John Swan, at Horton [nr. Wooler]. - (W.B. pp. 502-03)
1809
Euphemia Scrymgeour, 8th & ygst. d. of Henry Scrymgeour [b. 1755, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn from 1811] & Mary Turner Maitland [m. 1793], was b. 28/12/1809 at Edinburgh. - Euphemia m. [as his second wife] John Scott, M.D., & F.R.C.S. Edinr. (Physician to the E. India Co.), on 20/1/1848, at St. Peter’s Church, Thanet, Kent. (Indexes also show m. on 8/1/1848, at Balmerino, Fife.) - “They had an only child who died shortly after its birth”. - Euphemia’s husband predeceased her. She died at Angles, East Sheen, Surrey, on 3/2/1881. (W.B. p. 182)
1810
Catherine Georgina Wedderburn [b. 1791 in London, 3rd d. of John W. (b. 1743 in Forres, co. Elgin, afterwards of “Spring Garden”, Jamaica, & by now the senior partner in ‘Wedderburn & Co.’ in Leadenhall St., London) & Mary Wisdom Bedward (m. 1782 in Jamaica.)] m. Patrick Stirling [e.s. of John Stirling of Kippendavie, Perth] on 13/2/1810 at Dunblane. (The m. took place at Marylebone Parish Church, London. - W.B. p. 347) - [Patrick & ‘Georgina’ had 2 sons & a daughter, Mary (who succeeded her younger brother Patrick). The elder son, John (b. at Tunbridge Wells on 19/8/1811), ‘afterwards of Kippendavie’, m. in 1839, his first cousin, Katharine Mary Wellings (b. 27/12/1818 in London, died 28/6/1879 - only child of Georgina’s sister Mary & her husband, the Rev. John Wellings, chaplain to the Countess of Selkirk.) - The younger son, Patrick (b. 19/8/1813 at Edinburgh, ‘afterwards of Blackgrange & Gogar’) died unm. in 1839.] - Patrick Stirling died at Hastings, Sussex, in 1816 & Catherine Georgina died at South Eaton Place, SW London, on 13/6/1863, aged 72, and was buried at St. Mary’s, Dunblane. (W.B. p. 347, & footnote³)
1811
Margaretta Wedderburn [unidentified] is the authoress of a small volume of verse published in Edinburgh in 1811, entited “Mary, Queen of Scots, An Historical Poem, with other Miscellaneous Pieces”. - ‘A copy of this book in the British Museum bears a pencil note by the authoress dated 24/6/1813, at 9, Catharine Street, Pimlico, bequeathing it to a Mr. Tasse…...There is a portrait of her, painted by Miss Munro, and engraved by R. Scott, as a frontispiece to the volume……. (Misc. Refs. Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497) - [See baptism of a Margaretta Wedderburn, in Jamaica, in 1800.]
1811
Peter Wedderburn, elder s. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], bap. 31/3/1811 at Linlithgow.
When he enlisted as a Private in the 54th Regt. of Foot at Edinburgh on 25/2/1828 (stating that he was ‘aged 21’ and ‘making his mark’) Peter, like his father, was a Coachman. - He was 5 ft. 8ins. tall, with brown hair, grey eyes & a fresh complexion. - From 1834-41 he was stationed with the regiment in Bermuda, then moved with them to Canada. On 10/4/1842, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Peter volunteered to transfer to the Royal Canadian Rifles Regt. & served with them until 21/5/1851, when he was found (at Niagara) to be suffering from chronic bronchitis. He was discharged from the service at Chatham, because of disability, on 21/9/1851 ‘aged 43’ - his conduct described as ‘good’ - apart from 2 weeks (19 April-9 May 1833) ‘imprisoned for interfering with a corporal’s duty’. - His service (excluding this 2 weeks!) totalled 23 years 176 days. (‘Soldier’s Documents’ - WO 97 1194 - in the National Archives at Kew.)
1811
Peter Wedderburn [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy ‘of Ruthven’ in 1826, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ (b. 1730) & Isabella Blackburn ‘or Colvile’ (m. 1774)] m. Anna Ogilvy [b. 6/4/1778, heiress of her father, James Ogilvy of ‘Ruthven’ - named ‘Islabank’ in his time] on 19/4/1811 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. [“Islabank was bought by James’s father Thomas Ogilvy, whose father, also Thomas, was clergyman of Cupar, in Angus, before the Revolution in 1688. - He m. Elizabeth, d. of Henry Smith of Camno, co. Perth. - Thomas Ogilvy, jnr., m. his cousin Anne (d. to James Smith of Camno) and James Ogilvy ‘of Coull’ - thereafter Islabank or Ruthven - was the issue of this marriage”.] - Peter & Anna had 5 sons & 3 daughters: James James (b. 1812, d. 1819); Jean (b. 1813); Thomas (b. 1814); Peter (b. 1815); Isabella (b. 1817); John Andrew (b. 1818); James (b. 1820); & Anna (b. 1822). - “On the death of Anna’s father, in 1826, Peter ‘assumed the additional name of Ogilvy, and added the armorial bearings of Ogilvy of Ruthven to his own”. (W.B. p. 311, & footnote³) - Anna died at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’] in May 1853 and Peter died there on 30/3/1873, aged 91. [On the death of Sir William Wedderburn (b. 1838, d. 1918), 4th Bt. of Balindean, Peter & Anna’s grandson, John Andrew Wedderburn-Ogilvy (b. 1866), became the 5th Bt. of Balindean. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn)]
1811
Peter Wedderburn, [3rd] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 24/5/1811 & bap. 9/6/1811 at Spittal United Presbyterian, as ‘s. of Thomas & Jane Wedderburn of Berwick on Tweed’. (Spittal Bapt. Register - In “The Wedderburns in Glasgow & later in Edinburgh” (W.B. pp. 495-96), ‘A.W.’ states that Peter was ‘b. 1817’. (The year 1817 is presumably based on Peter’s age at death but, in view of the date of his first marriage, he was no doubt 66 when he died, not 61.) - “Peter became a Blacksmith”. He m. i) Catherine McDonald in Edinburgh in 1832. - They had 3 sons & 2 daughters. - [See details under m. in 1832.] - Catherine died at Edinburgh on 28/7/1867, aged 56, & Peter m. ii) Rosina Johnstone (née Bowie) at South Leith in 1872. (Another source shows the y.o.m. as 1873.) - Peter Wedderburn, then a Mechanical Engineer (Journeyman), died at 3 Upper Greenside, Edinburgh, on 13/4/1878, ‘aged 61’. - His widow Rosina Wedderburn died at Edinburgh in 1890. (W.B. p. 496)
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. - She 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. (W.B. p. 390)
1812 James James Wedderburn, e.s. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 4/3/1812 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - [“James James W. was b. 4/2/1812 at Edinburgh”.] - He died on 13/9/1819 at Ruthven & is there buried. (W.B. p. 311)
1813
Henrietta Wedderburn [bap. 1776 at Banchory Ternan, Kincardineshire, 4th d. of James W. ‘of Inchmarlo’ & Isobel Forbes (m. 1766 at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire)] m. John Black on 11/6/1813 at Dunfermline. [Henrietta is a sister of Christian W., who m. John Brand at Edinburgh in 1793 (q.v.).]
1813
Jean Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], e.d. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 8/7/1813 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - In 1898, Jean Wedderburn-Ogilvy was living at Linton Rectory, Skipton, Yorks. (W.B. p. 312)
1813
James Wedderburn $ [b. 1782, afterwards Solicitor-General for Scotland, 4th but 3rd surv. s. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’ & Isabella Blackburn ‘or Colvile’ (m. 1774)] m. Isabella Clerk [d. of James Clerk, 3rd s. of Sir George Clerk Maxwell, Bt. of Penicuik, co. Midlothian & Middlebie, co. Dumfries] on 27/10/1813 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. ( Also ‘of Penicuik, Edinburgh’, m. 28/10/1813 @ spouse: Isabella Clerk.) - James & Isabella had 4 sons & 3 daughters: James (b. 1814); Janet Isabella (b. 1815); George (b. 1817); Jean (b. 1818); John (b. 1820); Andrew; & Jemima (b. 1823). - “James was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1816 but his career was cut short when he died on 7/11/1822 at St. Mary’s Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, while visiting his sister, Lady Selkirk. (“The descent of his wife Isabella embodies a royal lineage”. - W.B. p. 313, & footnote³) - (W.B. pp. 312-13)
1814
James Wedderburn, e.s. of James W. [b. 1782, Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1816] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 23/9/1814 at Edinburgh. - “James studied medicine. He left Edinburgh in 1834-5 to enter the Army as assistant surgeon to the Coldstream Guards & went to Canada 1838. He transferred to the Scots Greys but resigned owing to failure of health”. – In the 1841 Census, --- Wedderburn, an army officer on half-pay, ‘aged 25’ (‘not b. in the county’), was living with a number of other Army & Navy officers (pensioners & H.P.) in King Street, St. James, Westminster. - In the 1851 Census, James Wedderburn, late surgeon
Scots Greys aged 38 [sic], (‘b. Edinburgh’), was a lodger at 118 Jermyn St., London. James died, unm., at 39 Craven St., London on or about 17/7/1863”. (Deaths’ Index St. Martin 1a 246) - Probate was granted to his next-of-kin, George Wedderburn, brother, W.S., of 25 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. - Scottish Confirmation sealed 27/10/1863. (W.B. p. 313)
1814
Thomas Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 2nd [but e. surv.] s. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 6/10/1814 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - “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”. - He m. Lady Henrietta Louisa Fermor (ygr. d. of Thomas William, 4th Earl of Pomfret, and sister of George William Richard, the 5th and last Earl) on 7/8/1856 at Northampton. - Lady Henrietta died in France in 1888. - In 1898 Col. Thomas Wedderburn-Ogilvy was living at 23 Grafton St., Westminster. He was then heir presumptive to the Balindean baronetcy (W.B. p. 311) but died on 12/10/1899, leaving no issue. [His younger brother, John Andrew (b. 1818), then became the heir presumptive, but he died in 1906, when Sir William Wedderburn, 4th Bt. of Balindean was still living, so it was John Andrew’s 3rd (but by then eldest surviving son), also John Andrew (b. 1866) who, on Sir William’s death in 1918, without male issue, succeeded him as 5th Bt. of Balindean. - He reversed the surnames and became ‘Ogilvy-Wedderburn’. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn)]
1814 Katharine Stormonth [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’], elder d. of Alexander Stormonth [‘of Kinclune’, b. 1790] & Elizabeth Stewart [his cousin, b. 1786, m. 1813 - a granddaughter of two of the daughters of Robert W. of ‘Pearsie’ (b. 1708) & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] was b. 1/11/1814 at Dundee. - Katharine m. the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D., in 1834. (They had 6 ‘Maclagan’ sons & 4 daughters.) - On the death of her cousin, John Graham-Wedderburn of Pearsie (b. 1787), unm., in 1870 (he had succeeded to ‘Pearsie’ on the death of his brother David Graham-W., unm., in 1858), Katharine, as the heir of tailzie, ‘assumed the name and arms of Wedderburn in accordance with the provisions of the entail’. - She and her surviving children added the name to Maclagan, ‘hence the various members of the Maclagan-Wedderburn family”. (W.B. p. 327) - In the 1881 Census, Katherine Wedderburn, Landed Proprietor aged 66 (‘b. Dundee’), was living at 44 Heriot Row, St. Stephen’s, Edinburgh, with her unm. daughters Isabella, aged 33, & Mary, aged 28, and her unm. son Joseph, a Writer to the Signet, aged 26 (all ‘b. Aberdeen’). - Katharine died on 25/4/1891, aged 76, and was succeeded at ‘Pearsie’ by her 2nd son, Dr. Alexander Stormonth Maclagan-Wedderburn (b. 1840, q.v.).
1814
Catherine Scrymgeour Wedderburn [b. 1794, 2nd d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1793)] m. Captain Robert Cathcart, R.N., ‘of Carbieson and Pitscarlie, co. Fife’, on 6/12/1814 at Newburgh. They had no issue. - Captain Cathcart died in Nov. 1833 & Catharine Scrymgeour Cathcart died at 41 Grange Rd., Edinburgh, on 12/4/1880, aged 86, and was buried at Pitcairlie. (W.B. p. 181 & Death cert)
1814
Alexander Halkett [Sir Alexander Halkett, KC.H., in 1837, b. c1776, 5th s. of Sir John W-Halkett, 4th Bt. of Gosford, & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton] m. Georgiana Sproule [d. of George Sproule, captain in the 16th Regt., and, later, Surveyor-General of the province of New Brunswick] ‘about 1814’. - They had 4 sons & a daughter: George Alexander (b. 1815); twins Charles & Henry (b. 1817); Mary Anna (b. 1818, m. 1848, q.v.); & John Peter (b. c1819-20). - Sir Alexander died at Edinburgh on 24/8/1851, aged 78, and was buried in the Dean Cemetery there. - Georgiana died at Morningside, Edinburgh, on 17/2/1874, and was buried with her husband. (W.B. pp. 393-94)
1814
John Wedderburn, younger s. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825 - unidentified], & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], bap. 31/12/1814 at Linlithgow. John [a Poulterer] m. Elizabeth Campbell at Edinburgh in 1853 (q.v.). - John Wedderburn died at 75, Canongate, Edinburgh, on 10/3/1861, aged 46, & Elizabeth died in Edinburgh in 1892, aged 85. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 498)
Andrew Wedderburn [twin with John below], [4th] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 9/5/1815 & bap. 27/5/1815 at Berwick High Meeting House [Hide Hill Episcopal Church], as ‘s. of Thomas Wedderburn and his wife in Berwick’. - In “The Wedderburns in Glasgow & later in Edinburgh” (W.B. pp. 495-96), ‘A.W.’ states that Andrew Wedderburn, Coach Builder, m. Jean Davidson at Edinburgh in Jan. 1836”. - AndrewWedderburn, Coach Builder, m. Jean Davidson at Edinburgh on 28/12/1835 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons: Thomas (b. 1836, q.v.) & William (b. 1839, q.v.).] - In the 1841 Census, Andrew Weatherburn (sic), a Painter(?) aged 25, was lodging at Spittal, Berwickshire, with M. Rutherford. - His sons, Thomas ‘Widerburn’, aged 4, & William ‘Widerburn’, aged 2, were living at 2 Brown Street, St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, with their grandmother, Jean Davidson (née Paul), a Green Grocer, aged 55, & their uncle (Jean’s son) Willliam M. Davidson, aged 20, a Confectioner Journeyman (all ‘b. Midlothian’). - In the 1861 Census, Andrew, a Coach Painter aged 45 (‘b. England’), was living with Elizabeth, aged 58 (‘b. Edinburgh), at 44 Bridge Street, Glasgow. - “Andrew died at Edinburgh on 6/7/1865, aged 50, & was buried in the Grange Cemetery there”. - In footnote² (W.B. p. 496), ‘A.W.’ states: “The entry of Andrew’s death names Elizabeth Wate as his wife”. (The death cert. shows: “Andrew Wedderburn, Coach painter, married to Elizabeth Watt, died at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh - usual address 140 Pleasance, Edinburgh - Elizabeth Wedderburn, widow, present”.) - Elizabeth Wedderburn, ‘widow of Andrew W., Coach Painter’, & daughter of Walter Watt, Poughman (deceased) & Agnes Watt (née Ferguson), died at No. 2 Merchant St., Edinburgh, on 31/12/1874, aged 70. (Her sister-in-law, Helen Watt, née Currie, was the ‘informant’ and ‘made her mark’.) - Elizabeth Watt was not Andrew’s wife, however! - In the 1881 Census, Jean ‘Weaderton’, a widow aged 70, was living at 30 Earl Grey St., St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, with her son Thomas, a widower aged 43, Optician Master, & her brother, William Davidson, Confectioner, a widower aged 66, and William’s son & daughter. - Jean Wedderburn died at 6 Lauriston Gardens on 1883, aged 72. - On her death cert., Jean is shown as “widow of Andrew Wedderburn, Coach Painter”. - Her son Thomas was the ‘informant’.
1815
John Wedderburn [twin with Andrew above], [5th] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 9/5/1815 & bap. 27/5/1815 at Berwick High Meeting House [Hide Hill Episcopal Church], as ‘s. of Thomas Wedderburn and his wife in Berwick’. - John Weatherburn [sic] ‘of Bridge St., Berwick’ died on 3/1/1816, aged 8 months, & was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, on 7/1/1816. [This John is not shown in the W.B. but another son named John who was bap. in 1821 (q.v.) is shown as ‘b. 1823’ .]
1815
George Alexander Halkett, e.s. of Alexander H. [b. 1776, Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H., in 1837] & Georgiana Sproule [m. c1814] was b. in 1815. - He died at Caen in France on 10/2/1825, aged 10. (W.B. p. 394)
1815
John Halkett [b. 1768 (said to be) 3rd s. of Sir John W-Halkett ‘of Pifirrane’ (b. 1720), 4th Bt. of Gosford, & his 2nd wife, Mary Hamilton (m. 1762)] m. ii) on 6/7/1815, at Sydenham, Kent, 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. (Jean Wedderburn, b. 1768, d. of James W. ‘of Inveresk’, m. Katharine’s brother Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1807).] - They had 5 sons: John Thomas Douglas (b. 1816); Dunbar Stewart (b. 1817); Charles (b. 1818); Henry (b. 1819); & Peter Alexander (b. 1820). - 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
Janet Isabella Wedderburn, e.d. of James W. [b. 1782, Solicitor-General for Scotland from 1816] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 2/10/1815 at Edinburgh. - She m. James Hay McKenzie, W.S. [3rd s. of Colin McKenzie of Portmore, co. Peebles] in 1838 (q.v.). - [They had 2 sons & 4 daughters.] - Janet died of consumption at Silverknow, nr. Cramond, Midlothian, on her return from Madeira in 1852, & was buried at Edinburgh. (W.B. p. 314)
1816
Peter Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 3rd s. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 8/1/1816 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - Peter W-Ogilvy died unm. in India in 1847. - “He is named in the Will of Charles W. of Pearsie’s in 1829”. (W.B. p. 311, & footnote 5)
1817
Isabella Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 2nd d. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 4/2/1817 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - Isabella died unm. at Bedford on 14/4/1884. (W.B. p. 312, & Deaths’ Index 3b 194)
1817
George Wedderburn, 2nd s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782,] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 25/3/1817 at Edinburgh. - “George was admitted a Writer to the Signet in 1840 and practised in Edinburgh at India Place & Ainslie Place”. - He died unm. on 1/5/1865 in Edinburgh, and is buried in the Dean Cemetery. (W.B. p. 313)
1817
Frances Wedderburn, [e.] d. of Thomas W. [Coachman,‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn - ?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 12/6/1817 & bap. 29/6/1817 at Berwick High Meeting House [Hide Hill Episcopal Church]. - - In “The Wedderburns in Glasgow & later in Edinburgh” (W.B. p. 496), ‘A.W.’ states: “Fanny married in Newcastle” - and, in Misc. Notes (W.B. p. 504), it shows: “Frances Wedderburn, daughter of Thomas Wedderburn, m. John Richardson at Newcastle July 1837” (sic). - Frances Wedderburn m. John Richardson at Newcastle in 1839. - In the 1861 Census, Frances Richardson, aged 43 (‘b. Berwick’), was living in the parish of Earsdon, Seghill, with her husband John, a Blacksmith aged 44 (‘b. Spittal’), their 8 children, & Frances’s father Thomas, retired Coachman ‘aged 77’. - [On W.B. p. 495 it shows that Fanny’s father Thomas died in Glasgow, ‘where he is buried in the Southern Necropolis’, and that his wife Jane died in Glasgow on 23 Aug. 1860 ‘and is buried with her husband’ - but Fanny’s father Thomas died at Seghill on 24/4/1861 (Death cert. - Deaths’ Index Tynemouth 10b 123), and as her mother died in 1860 before her father, she was probably buried with her son Thomas (see 1807).]
1817
Charles Halkett [twin with Henry below], 2nd s. of Alexander H. [b. 1776, Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H., in 1837] & Georgiana Sproule [m. c1814] was b. in 1817. - “Charles was a captain in the army. He m. a French lady (whose name his niece could not recall) but by her had no issue”. - He died in Paris on 9/2/1887, aged 70. (W.B. p. 394)
1817
Henry Halkett [twin with Charles, above], 3rd s. of Alexander H. [b. 1776, Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H., in 1837] & Georgiana Sproule [m. c1814] was b. in 1817. - “Henry was a captain in the army [like his twin brother]. - He died unm., at Faversham, Kent, on 13/10/1891 and is there buried”. (W.B. p. 194)
1817
Agnes Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], was b. 9/9/1817 at Linlithgow. Agnes m. Alexander Hastie in 1845 & died in Edinburgh in 1888, aged 69 (sic). - (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 498)
1818
John Andrew Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 4th s. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 20/7/1818 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - “John entered the Army in 1837 but retired in March 1838 and subsequently became a major in the Perth Militia. He spent some time in Australia and later on was resident in St. Andrew’s, Fife, and on the continent. - He m. Jessie Stewart Gray [elder d. of James Coutts Crawford Gray, H.E.I.C.S., 4th s. to Charles Gray of Carse Gray, co. Forfar] in 1860. [They had 7 sons &4 daughters.] - In 1898, John was living at Woodside, Bathford, Bath, Somerset. (W.B. p. 312) - On the death of his elder brother Thomas (b. 1814) in 1899, without issue, John Andrew became the heir presumptive to the Balindean baronetcy but he died in 1906, during the lifetime of the 4th Bt., so it was his 3rd (but by then e. surviving) son, John Andrew (b. 1866 – afterwards Ogilvy-Wedderburn), who succeeded Sir William as 5th Bt. of Balindean in 1918. - John Andrew Wedderburn-Ogilvy died on 17/9/1906 & his widow Jessie died on 7/5/1912. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn)
1818
Jean Wedderburn, 2nd d. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 7/8/1818 at Edinburgh. - [Jean was bap. at Edinburgh on 19/9/1823. Jean m. Peter Blackburn ‘of Killearn’ in 1838. (Her sister Jemima, b. 1823, m. Peter’s brother, Hugh Blackburn, in 1849.) “Peter Blackburn died on 20/5/1860, leaving 8 sons & 5 daughters”. (See W.B. p. 314 for details.) - Jean died on 8/5/1897 at Killearn, Stirling. (W.B. p. 314)
1818
Mary Anna Halkett, only d. of Alexander H. [b. 1776, Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H., in 1837] & Georgiana Sproule [m. c1814] was b. 26/10/1818. - Mary Anna m. Alexander Leith of Freefield & Glenkindie, Aberdeen, at Edinburgh in 1848 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 394)
1818
Elizabeth Wedderburn [unidentified - ?Elizabeth Dickinson W., b. 21/5/1798 in Jamaica - or perhaps a d. of Charles W., ‘Manufacturer in Perth’ (bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire), & Elizabeth Imrie (m. 1776)] m. William MacEwen on 13/11/1818 at Perth.
1819
Dorothy Wedderburn, [2nd] d. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 11/8/1819 & bap. 22/8/1821 at Berwick High Meeting House [Hide Hill Episcopal Church], as ‘d. of Thomas Wedderburn and his wife in Berwick’. - In the 1841 Census, Dorothy Wedderburn, a Shoe Binder aged 21 (‘b. England’), was living with her parents & 2 younger siblings at 112 High Street, College parish, Glasgow. - She m. Joseph Allan at Gorbals, Lanarkshire, in 1845 (q.v.). - [They (apparently) had 5 sons & 4 daughters. Some were b. in Glasgow & others in Canada.] - [Dorothy’s sister Jane (b. c1827) m. Joseph’s brother James Allan in Glasgow in 1844.] - On W.B. p. 496 it is stated that in 1896 Dorothy was living in Boston, U.S.A, but this is incorrect: Dorothy Allen, wife of Joseph Allen, native of Glasgow, Scotland, died at St. John, New Brunswick, on 1/3/1879, ‘aged 54’.
1819
Ann Neil Wedderburn, e.d. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778], was b. at Camno in 1819 (W.B. p. 225) & bap. as Anne Wedderburn on 23/4/1820 at Meigle. [Robert m. Barbara Hay in 1828 (q.v.).] - Ann m. Alexander Marshall Brodie in 1841. - She died at Savannah, USA, in 1844. (W.B. p. 224)
1820 Maryann Wedderburn [unidentified] m. George Dickson on 12/6/1820 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh.
1820
Janet Wedderburn, 4th d. of Peter W. [Coachman, b.c 1784, d. 1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], bap. 22/7/1820 at Linlithgow. [“Jessie was present at her mother Agnes’s death on 20/4/1861”. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 498)] - Jessie m. Andrew Whellans at Edinburgh in 1866 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 498) - She may be the ‘Jessie Wedderburn’ who died at Cavers (2m. NE of Hawick) in 1900, ‘aged 78’.
1820
John Wedderburn, 3rd s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 5/12/1820 in Edinburgh. - [John was bap. at Edinburgh on 7/8/1823. ] - “John 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. He m. i) Matilda Costello in 1846, in Bengal. - In the 1871 Census, Lt.-Col. John Wedderburn, Bengal Staff Coy, on Furlough, aged 50 (‘b. Edinburgh’), & his wife Matilda, aged 48 (‘b. London’), were Boarders at 271 Mace St., Hackney, Middlx. - Matilda Wedderburn died in 1874 at 99 Earl’s Court Road, Kensington, Middlx. - John m. ii) Margaret Panton, in 1875, at South Hampstead, London. - John died ‘s.p.’ on 4/1/1879 at 21 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Middlesex. (W.B. p. 313, & footnote 4) - His Will was proved in London on 25/1/1879. - Personal Estate valued at ‘under £1500’ - Resworn Feb. 1879 as ‘under £4000’. - In the 1881 Census, John’s widow Margaret, aged 29 (‘b. Surrey’), was living at 19 Haverstock Hill. - Margaret Wedderburn died at Watford in the Sept. qtr. of 1928, aged 77. (Deaths’ Index 3a 702)
1820
James Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 5th s. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 4/8/1820 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - - “James entered the Army as ensign in lieu of his brother, John Andrew, in 1838 and was lieut.-col. in the Perthshire Rifle Volunteers, and a J.P. for the counties of Perth and Forfar”. - He m. Catherine Lilian Harriet Ramsay in 1856, ‘but by her, who survived him, had no issue’. - James died in Rome on 28/1/1893. (W.B. p. 312) - Catherine Lilias Ogilvy-Wedderburn died at Kensington in the Dec. qtr. of 1909, unm. aged 73. (Deaths’ Index 1a 120)
1821
John Wedderburn, [6th & ygst.] s. of Thomas W. [Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.)] & Jane Cockburn [m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll - dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. 4/6/1821 & bap. on 15/6/1821 at Berwick High Meeting House (Hide Hill Episopal Church), as ‘s. of Thomas Wedderburn, Mail Coachman, & his wife Jane in Berwick’. - [Acc. to W.B. p. 496, John, was ‘b. 1823’.] - In the 1841 Census, John, a Plane Maker J. [?Journeyman], was living with his parents & 2 sisters at High St., College parish, Glasgow. - John m. Ann Libsit at Gorbals on 23/7/1849 (q.v.). [They had a daughter Elizabeth (b. 1849) & a son Thomas (b. 1850).] - Ann died between 1851 & 1856 (her death not found) & John m. ii) Margaret Kirkwood in 1856 (q.v.). In the 1861 Census, John Wedderburn, Plane Maker aged 38 (‘b. Berwick on Tweed’), was living at Bread St., Cullen Glasgow, Scotland, with Margaret, aged 40, Elizabeth, aged 11 (both ‘b. Glasgow Lanark’); Thomas, aged 10 (‘b. England’); & Margaret’s father, Alexander Kirkwood, Weaver, a widower aged 77 (‘b. Glasgow’). - “John died in 1879”. (W.B. p. 496) - [Is he the John Wedderburn, railway employee, who died at South Shields, Durham, in June 1879, ‘aged 54’? ] - In the 1881 Census, Margaret Wedderburn, a Housemaid, a widow aged 62 (‘b. Glasgow’), was an inmate in the Barnhill Poorhouse, Barnhill, nr. Glasgow. - Margaret died at Denniston, Glasgow, on 17/12/1892, aged 78. (W.B. p. 496)
1821
Andrew Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Maxwell], 4th & ygst. [but 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. (OPR) - In the 1841 Census, Andrew, ‘aged 18’ (‘b. Scotland’), was a student at the East India College, Great Amwell, Herts. - “Andrew entered the Madras Civil Service in 1842, where he continued for 36 years”. - He m. Joanna Keir in 1847 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 2 daughters.] - “In 1879, he succeeded his cousin, James Clerk-Maxwell, in the estate of Middlebie, Dumfries & Glenlair, Kircudbrightshire, and took the name and arms of Maxwell of Middlebie & Glenlair in addition to his own. Andrew died at Bath on 12/5/1896 and was buried at Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire. - 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. (W.B. pp. 313 & 314-16) - Joanna Wedderburn-Maxwell died at Headington [Oxford] in the Sept. qtr. of 1917, aged 91. (Deaths’ Index 3a 882)
1821
Mary Ann Wedderburn [b. 1782, (?3rd) d. of Charles W., Manufacturer in Perth (bap. 1741 at Dyce, Aberdeenshire) & Elizabeth Imrie (m. 1776)] m. John Robertson on 11/7/1821 at St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. Mary Ann, ‘widow of Dr. John Robertson’, died at Edinburgh on 21/12/1862, aged 60. (W.B. p. 224)
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. - They had 4 sons & 5 daughters: Alicia Henrietta (b. 1823); John (b. 1825, who was killed, with his wife and child, in the Indian Mutiny of 1857); Elizabeth (b. 1827); Margaret (b. 1828); William (b. & d. 1830); Mary Ann (b. 1832, d. 1833); David (b. 1835); another William (b. 1838) & Louisa Jane (b. 1842). - 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, Gloucs., with Henrietta Louisa, Proprietors wife, aged 57 (‘b. London Middlx.’); Margaret, unm. aged 32 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’); Louisa Jane, unm. aged 18 (‘b. Scotland’); & 8 Servants. - Sir John died on 2/7/1862 at 4, Chichester Terrace, Brighton (where he had been visiting a friend, Mr. George Ashburner, one of the executors of his Will - see ‘Ashburner.doc’), and was succeeded as 3rd Bt. of Balindean by his 3rd s., David (b. 1835, at Bombay), who d. 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 1881 Census, Sir John’s widow, Henrietta, aged 76 (‘b. London’), was a Visitor at the home of Mary, Lady Hope, widow, Earl’s daughter, 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), 7 Ovington Gardens, Kensington, London. - Henrietta died there on 7/4/1881, aged 77, and was buried at Tibberton, Gloucestershire. (W.B. p. 299)
1822
Anna Wedderburn [afterwards Wedderburn-Ogilvy], 3rd & ygst. d. of Peter W. [b. 1781, Wedderburn-Ogilvy from 1826] & Anna Ogilvy [m. 1811], bap. 25/10/1822 at Ruthven [formerly ‘Islabank’]. - ( & W.B. p. 312)
1822
Hellen Wedderburn [unidentified] m. John Leitch on 6/12/1822 at Kilmany.
1823
John Wedderburn [b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey , afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’, Forfarshire, younger s. of John W. (b. 1743 at Forres, co. Elgin) & Mary Wisdom Bedward (m. 1782 in Jamaica)] m. Lady Helen Ogilvy [youngest d. of Walter, 5th - or 7th - Earl of Airlie] on 27/4/1823 at Airlie Castle. - [In footnote 5 on W.B. p. 182, it shows, incorrectly, that John W. of Auchterhouse m. Lady Helen in 1797, and on p. 348 it shows the date as 30/4/1823.] - On his father’s death, in 1820, John had inherited the Prospect estate in Jamaica and he was for a time a partner in “Wedderburn & Co.”, the family’s ‘East & West India House’ in Leadenhall Street, London. - From 1821-26 he was secretary to the Highland Society of London. After their marriage, John & Lady Helen lived at Beddington, Surrey, and, in 1824, John published his “Genealogical Account of the Wedderburn family”. (His grandson, ‘A.W.’ - author of the ‘Wedderburn Book’ pub. in 1898 - subsequently found John’s account to be ‘full of errors’.) - John & Lady Helen had 3 sons & a daughter: John Walter (b. 1824 at Bedington); James Alexander (b. there 1825); David Ogilvy (b. there 1826); & Helen (b. 1830 at Auchterhouse - where the family had moved to in 1826). - John died at Auchterhouse on 2/4/1839 and was buried in the churchyard there. - Lady Helen (whose eldest sister, Lady Margaret Ogilvy, was the mother of the Hon. Helen Arbuthnott, who, in 1839, m. Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour-W., b. 1808) died at Rosebank, Roslin, on 27/4/1868 & was buried at Roslin Chapel. (W.B. pp. 347-48)
1823
John Wedderburn, b. 5/12/1820 (q.v.), 3rd s. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was bap. at Edinburgh on 7/8/1823 and two of his sisters, Jean, b. 7/8/1818 (q.v.) & Jemima, b. 1/5/1823 (see next entry), were bap. there on 19/9/1823.
1823
Jemima Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. d. of James W. [Solicitor-General for Scotland, b. 1782] & Isabella Clerk [m. 1813], was b. 1/5/1823 at 31 Heriot Row, Edinburgh (3 months after her father’s death) & bap. 19/9/1823. - Jemima m. Hugh Blackburn (younger brother of her sister Jean’s husband, Peter) in 1849 (q.v.). - Jemima Blackburn became a highly regarded artist and illustrator. (W.B. p. 314) - [See “Jemima, The Memoirs of a Victorian Artist”, published by Cannongate in 1988.)] - Jemima died at Arisaig in 1909, aged 86.
1823
Margaret Wetherburn (sic) [unidentified] m. Alexander Dickson on 22/6/1823 at St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh.
1823
Alicia Henrietta Wedderburn, e.d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay), was b. 20/8/1823 at Bombay. - Alicia m. her cousin, Lt.-Col. (afterwards General) Sir William Hope, Bt., in 1862 (q.v.). - They had no issue & were living in 1898 at Pinkie. (W.B. p. 300) - Alicia Henrietta Wedderburn or Hope died at 9 Albert Hall Mansions, London, on 19/6/1901. - Her Will sealed at London on 16/8/1901. Confirmation of Sir William Wedderburn, Bt. (First Avenue House Wills Index)
1824
John Walter Wedderburn, e.s. of John W. [afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey] & Lady Helen Ogilvie [m. 1823], was b. 20/7/1824 at Beddington, Surrey, & bap. there 5/8/1824. - “John entered the army & was a captain in the 42nd Highlanders (the Black Watch). He served in the West Indies and elsewhere…. and after his retirement he was subsequently major & lieut-col. in the Royal Perthshire Militia”. - He m. Margaret Ann Whaite at Castle Eden, Durham, in 1854. [They had 2 sons & a daughter.] - On leaving the army John resided at his mother’s house, Rosebank, near Roslin, but after her death (in 1868), moved to Liberton House, nr. Edinburgh, where he lived until 1878, when he purchased ‘Marfield’, at Blairgowrie, Perth, where he died on 20/7/1879, aged 55. - His widow Margaret was living at Marfield in 1898. (W.B. pp. 349-50)
1825
Isabella Wedderburn, 5th & ygst. d. of Peter W. [Coachman, b. c1784, d.1825 - unidentified] & Agnes Walker [m. 1804, d. 1861], was b. in 1824/25. - Isabella Wetherburn (sic) died on 20/10/1825 (q.v.), aged 10 mths.
1825
John Wedderburn, e.s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1779, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay], was b. 9/5/1825 in Bombay. - “John entered the Bombay Civil Service”. - He m. Alice Bell in 1856 (at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh). - They had a son, John James, b. 15/11/1856 at Edinburgh. - “Both parents and child were killed in the Indian Mutiny, 29/5/1957, and were buried at Hissar with the other victims”. (W.B. p. 299) - [In a “List of Inscriptions of Christian Tombs or Monuments in the Punjab……possessing Historical, or Archealogical Interest …”, compiled by Miles Irving, I.C.S., late Exhibitioner of Balliol, at Lahore, Punjab, in 1910, it shows that on a Monument to the Victims of the 1857 Mutiny near the Church at Hissar, the inscription reads: 1) “Sacred to the memory of The Europeans Murdered at Hissar and Hansee. John Wedderburn Esquire Collector and Magistrate Mrs. Alice Wedderburn, and infant son……”. On graves in the Churchyard, Hissar, is recorded: 29th May 1857. John Wedderburn, Alice Wedderburn. John James Wedderburn. In memory of John Wedderburn of the Bengal Civil Service aged 32 years Alice his wife aged 23 years and John James their infant son aged 6 months who fell victims near this spot to the mutiny at Hissar on the 29th May 1857: “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” 1st Thess IV Chap 14 Verse.]
1825
Anne Wetherburn [unidentified] m. William Henderson on 23/7/1825 at Whithorn [Wigtonshire].
1825
James Alexander Wedderburn, 2nd s. of John W. [afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823], 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. - [They had 2 sons & 2 daughters.] - James died at Chingleput, India, on 19/5/1854 - 2½ months before the birth of his younger (but only surviving) son Alexander (b. 1854, in London), who is the author of “The Wedderburn Book”, pub. 1898. (W.B. pp. 350-51)
1825
John Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Margaret Gillies on 20/10/1825 at Coldingham.
1825
Isabella Wetherburn [sic - Isabella Wedderburn, b. 1824/5, 5th & ygst d. of Peter Wetherburn & Agnes Walker (m. 1804)], of 61 Canongate, Edinburgh, dtr. of Peter Weatherburn, Coachman, died of Croup on 20/10/1825, aged 10 mths. Interred 22/10/1025, Westside Close, South of the Coachmans ground and 6 feet from the walk’. (Canongate Parish Burials, Edinburgh.)
1825
Peter Weatherburn, 41, of Canongate, Coachman, died 16/12/1825 of Deline, interred 19/2/1825, New South Ground, 5 Row, and 27 feet from South Walk. -[He is Peter Wedderburn, b. c1784 (unidentified), who m. Agnes Walker at Uphall in 1804 (q.v.).]
1826
David Ogilvy Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. s. of John W. [afterwards ‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823], bap. 1/8/1826 at Beddington, Surrey. “David was b. 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”. (W.B. pp. 348-49, where there is a description of David, and an account of how he came by his death.)
1826
Grizel Wedderburn $ [unidentified] m. John Raeburn on 2/9/1826 at Canongate, Edinburgh.
1826
Elizabeth Wedderburn [unidentified] m. John Simpson on 30/9/1826 at Perth.
1827
Jane Wedderburn, [3rd & ygst.] d. of Thomas W. [‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ - see 1787] & his wife Jane [Cockburn (?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll), dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---], was b. c1827. – In the 1841 Census, Jane, a Straw Hat Maker aged 13 (b. Lanarkshire), was living with her parents & 2 siblings at High St., College parish, Glasgow. - Jane m. James Allan at Gorbals, Lanarkshire, in 1844 (q.v.). - [Jane’s sister Dorothy (b. c1823) m. James’s brother Joseph Allan in 1845 (q.v.).] - “Jane had a daughter Jane who m. John Grieve” (in 1866). - [It was John Grieve who gave ‘A.W.’ the (inaccurate!) information about Jane’s ancestry which appears on W.B. pp. 495-98.] – Jane Allen died at 6 James Street, Glasgow, in 1890, aged 63. (W.B. p. 496)
1827
Elizabeth Wedderburn, 2nd d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay), was b. 7/2/1827 at Woodgreen, Bombay. - In the 1861 Census, Elizabeth, unm. ‘aged 32’ (‘b. Bombay, India’), ‘daughter of Sir John Wedderburn, Bt.’, was one of a number of Visitors staying at Hardwicke Court, Gloucestershire, the home of Granville Berwick (?)Leyland Baker, Land Owner, aged 53 (‘b. Hardwicke, Gloucs.’). - In the 1871 Census, Elizabeth, unm. aged 44, was living at ‘Meredith’, Tibberton, Gloucs., with her mother, Henrietta L. Wedderburn, Baronet’s widow, Landowner, aged 67 (‘b. Bow, London’), her sister Margaret, unm. aged 42, ‘Visitor’ Claudius William Bell, of the East India Civil Service, aged 34 (all ‘b. Bombay East Indies’), & 5 Servants. - “Elizabeth died unm. at Prospect Place, Harrogate, Yorks., on 26/8/1876, and was buried at Tibberton, Gloucestershire”. (W.B. p. 300) - [Admon. with Will of her estate was granted on 11/11/1876. - Estate in the UK ‘Under £4000’. (Wills & Admons.’ Index)]
Robert Wedderburn [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] m. Barbara Hay [d. of Robert Hay & Catherine Ogilvy] on 12/4/1828 at Meigle. Robert & Barbara are said to have ‘had issue’, 2 sons & 4 daughters: Ann Neil (b. 1819, q.v.); Catherine Cowborough (b. 1827); Robert Neil (b. 1831); Jane Wilson (b. 1833); John Wilson (b. 1834); & Margaret Wilson (b. 1838). - Robert died at Meigle on 24/20/1855 & Barbara died on 7/11/1860, aged 60. (W.B. p. 224)
1828
Margaret Wedderburn, 3rd d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay], was b. 10/5/1828 at Woodgreen, Bombay. In the 1861 Census, Margaret, unm. aged 32, was living with her parents & sister Lousia Jane, aged 18, at Merwdith Cottage, Tibberton, Gloucestershire. - Margaret died unm. at San Remo on 2/2/1874. (W.B. p. 300 & GRO Consular Deaths, Ref. 5 1112)
1828 Agnes Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Joseph Miller on 28/11/1828 at Dundee.
1828
Catharine Wedderburn, 2nd d. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] & Barbara Hay [m. 1828], bap. 8/9/1828 at Meigle. (Perth IGI) - [Catherine Cowborough W. was b. in 1827.] - Catherine m. James Lowden in 1855. - (They had a son, John Wedderburn Lowden who m. Mary Ann Smith in 1881). - In 1891 Catherine was living at 45 Priory Place, Perth. (W.B. p. 225) - [John Wedderburn Louden (sic) died on 20/7/1906, aged 53, & Catherine W. Louden died on 29/5/1913, aged 82. (“Dovea St. Michael’s Church of Ireland Parish of Loughmore and Castleiny Couty Tipperary”. )
1828
John Wedderburn ‘shopman in Dalkeith’ was returned heir general to his uncle, John Wedderburn at Belhaven, near Dunbar [unidentified] on 20/10/1828. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497) - [John is thought to be the John W. (bap. 1806), “said to have been his father’s only child”, who m. Mary ‘Heyrie’ (Heggie) at Kirkcaldy on 31/10/1841 (q.v.).]
1829
Matilda Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [b. 1803, 7th d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1799)] m. Capt. Robert Matthew Isacke ‘in the naval service of the East India Company’ on 11/9/1829 at Birkhill (Balmerino). - (W.B. p. 182 - but acc. to Kent IGI, Matilda & Robert were m. St. Peter’s Church, Isle of Thanet, on 20/1/1829). - [Robert Matthew Isacke (b. 20//3/1803) was the elder s. of Capt. Matthew Isacke (b. 1767, 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. (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. [ Details from W.B. p. 182, footnote¹ & Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Chesshyre (‘formerly Isacke of North Foreland Lodge’.] - Matilda died at North Foreland Lodge, Broadstairs, Kent, on 3-4/12/1864 - Capt. Robert Matthew Isacke died there on 6/3/1896. - Both are buried at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet. (W.B. p. 182)
1829
Elizabeth Wedderburn [‘wife of John Cormick’ (Cormack, m. 1807)] was buried on 3/11/1829 at Coldingham [Berwickshire].
1830
James Weddleburn, s. of James Weddleburn [unidentified], bap. 25/4/1830 at Dumfries.
1830
Helen Georgina Elizabeth Wedderburn, only d. of John W. [‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1798 at Clapham, Surrey] & Lady Helen Ogilvy [m. 1823], bap. 30/4/1830 at Auchterhouse. - - [Helen was b. at Auchterhouse on 9/3/1830.] - She m. Andrew Webster at Dunblane in 1871 (q.v.). - “They had no issue”. (W.B. p. 349)
1830 William Wedderburn, 2nd s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1779, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay], was b. 19/5/1830 at Woodgreen, Bombay. - William died on 24/5/1830. (W.B. p. 300)
1830
Blair Wedderburn [unidentified] was one of the councillors of the maltmen in Dundee between 1830-37. (From the Angus Almanack, ‘J.W’s’ MS.) - (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497)
1831
John Halkett [b. 1805, Sir John Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839, 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 2 daughters & 3 sons: Katharine Halkett (b. 1832, d. 1843); Peter Arthur Halkett (b. 1834); Amelia Halkett (b. c1836); George Halkett (b. 1839); & 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. (W.B. p. 390)
1831
Jean Wedderburn $ [unidentified] m. George White on 19/4/1831 at Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh.
1831
Ann Weatherburn [unidentified] m. Walter Thompson on 14/5/1831 at Mordington.
1831
Robert Neill Wedderburn, elder s. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] & Barbara Hay [m. 1828], bap. 24/10/1831 at Meigle. Robert was b. at Camno. - He succeeded his father as tenant farmer there in 1855. - He m. Elizabeth Hood Wilson [d. of his father’s sister Jean’s son, John Wilson (b. 1798), & Isabella Hood] at Dundee in 1867. [They had no issue.] - Robert died on 15/5/1873 and was buried at Meigle. (W.B. p. 225) - Elizabeth Hood Wedderburn m. ii) at Meigle, in 1874, Thomas Alexander.
1832
James Wedderburn in Dundee, circ. 1832: “The property formerly belonging to him on the south side of Commissioner Street advertised for sale. Particulars from James Stevens, John Philips, Crieff, or J.A. Campbell, C.S. Edin.” - (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497)
1832
Katherine Halkett, [?elder] d. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831] was b. in 1832. - She died at Pitfirrane, Fife, on 27/1/1843, aged 11, & is buried at Dunfermline Abbey. (W.B. p. 390)
1832
Mary Anne Wedderburn, 4th d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay], was b. 6/11/1832 at Neelgherry Hills. “Mary Anne died in India in August 1833”. (W.B. p. 300)
1832
Peter Wedderburn $ [Blacksmith, b. 1811, 3rd s. of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ - see 1787) &Jane Cockburn (?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll)] m. i) Catherine McDonald [d. of Duncan McDonald] on 31/12/1832 at Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. They had 3 sons & 2 daughters: Thomas (b. 1833); Charles (b. 1835); Catherine (b. c1837); Peter (b. 1839/40 - in the 1851 Census he was aged 11); & Jane (b. 1842). - Catherine died at Edinburgh on 28/7/1867, aged 56. - Peter m. ii) Rosina Johnstone (née Bowie), at South Leith on 31/12/1872. (The W.B. shows the y.o.m. as 1873.) - Peter Wedderburn, then a Mechanical Engineer (Journeyman), died at 3 Upper Greenside, Edinburgh on 13/4/1878, ‘aged 61’. - [Acc. to Peter’s age at death he was b. c1817 but (particularly in view of the date of his first marriage) he must have been 66 when he died, not 61 and this age is a mistranscription. (MWE)] - His widow Rosina died at Edinburgh in 1890. (W.B. p. 496)
1833
Jane Wilson Wedderburn, 3rd d. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] & Barbara Hay [m. 1828], was b. 17/3/1833 (W.B. p. 225) & bap. 10/4/1833 at Meigle. Jane m. James Smart of Meigle in 1860 (q.v.). - [It was Mrs. Smart who provided ‘A.W.’ with the details of her father’s and her grandfather’s family for his account in the W.B.] - Jane Wilson Smart died at St. Ann’s, Meethill, Alyth, Perthshire, on 10/5/1897.
1833
Mary Ann Wedderburn $ [probably Mary Anne W. bap. 1809 at Linlithgow, 2nd d. of Peter W. (Coachman, b. c1784, d. 1825) & Agnes Walker (m. 1804)] m. William Coughlan on 26/7/1833 at Canongate, Edinburgh.
1833
Thomas Wedderburn, e.s. of Peter W. [Blacksmith, b. 1811 (q.v.)] & Catherine McDonald [m. 1832], bap. 1/12/1833 at Canongate, Edinburgh. [Thomas is not shown in the W.B.] - In the 1881 Census, Thomas, a Book Binder, unm. aged 47, was a Lodger at the home of Alexander McNair, a Printer Machine Man, aged 37 (‘b. Edinburgh’), & his wife & 5 children, at 3 Windmill Lane, St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. - In the 1891 Census, Thomas, aged 58, was living in Newington reg. district, Edinburgh.- Thomas ‘formerly a Labourer’ died at Craigleith Poorhouse, Edinburgh, on 12/12/1905, ‘aged 64’ (he was 72)! -
1834
Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814, Maclagan-Wedderburn from 1870, elder d. of Alexander Stormonth of Kinclune & Elizabeth Stewart (and consequently a granddaughter of two of the daughters of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’, b. 1708, & Isobel Edward (m. 1738)] m. the Rev. Rev. James Maclagan, D.D., on 3/3/1834 at Broughty Ferry. -They had 6 sons & 4 daughters: Elizabeth Maclagan (b. 1835); James Stuart Maclagan (b. 1836, d. 1855); Katharine Ann Maclagan (b. 1839); Alexander Stormonth Maclagan (b. 1840); Patrick Dugald Maclagan (b. 1842, d. 1854); John Maclagan (b. 1844); Laurence Craigie Maclagan (b. 1846); Isabella Stormonth Maclagan (b. 1848); Joseph Robert Maclagan (b. 1850); & Mary Christian Foote Maclagan (b. 1852). - On the death of her cousin, John Graham-Wedderburn of Pearsie (b. 1787), unm., in 1870 (he had succeeded to ‘Pearsie’ on the death of his brother David Graham-W., unm., in 1858), Katharine, as the heir of tailzie, ‘assumed the name and arms of Wedderburn in accordance with the provisions of the entail’. - She and her surviving children then added the Wedderburn name to Maclagan. - In the 1881 Census, Katharine, a Landed Proprietor, widow aged 66 (‘b. Dundee’), was living at 44 Heriot Row, St. Stephens, Edinburgh, with two unm. daughters, an unm. son and a domestic servant. - Katharine died at 3 Glencairn Crescent, Edinburgh, on 25/4/1891, and is buried in the Dean Cemetery there. - She was succeeded at ‘Pearsie’ by her 2nd (but eldest surv.) son, Alexander Stormonth Maclagan-Wedderburn (b. 1840, q.v.). - (W.B. p. 327)
1834
Peter Arthur Halkett [afterwards Sir Arthur Halkett, 8th (and last) Bt. of Gosford in 1847], eldest (& ultimately only surviving) s. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831 in Hampshire], was b. 1/5/1834. - “He entered the army and served throughout the Crimean War, carrying the colours of his regiment at the battle of Alma”. - On the death of his father, in 1847, Arthur succeeded him as 8th Bt. of Gosford. - Sir Arthur m. his cousin Eliza Anna Hill [e.d. of Capt. Richard Kirwan Hill & Jane Margaret Halkett - b. 1806, e.d. of Sir Peter Halkett, 6th Bt. of Gosford, & Elizabeth Todd] in 1856 (q.v.). - They had a son & 5 daughters. The daughters - none of whom married - were b. at Dunfermline. - The son, Wedderburn Conway Halkett (b. 1857), m. Jessie Elizabeth Lemprière in 1881 but he died in 1885. [His 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, aged 69, and is buried in Dunfermline Abbey. - His only son & his grandson having predeceased him, the baronetcy of Gosford became extinct. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage) - Sir Arthur’s widow, Eliza Anna, died on 3/1/1931, aged 93. - She was buried with her husband in Dunfermline Abbey. (‘Halkett-Wedderburn Ancestral Bloodline’, p. 41)
1835
Thomas Wedderburn, s. of Thomas W. [Cabman (b. c1807, q.v.)] & Margaret Brown [m. not found - but she m. ii) Alexander Cheyne in 1860, q.v.], was b. in 1834/35 in Edinburgh. In the 1851 Census, Thomas, a Type Founder aged 16 (‘b. Canongate’), was living with his parents (both ‘b. B-on-Tweed’); his sister Janet aged 12, & (their father’s) cousin Janet Wedderburn, aged 15 [unidentified], at 273 Canongate, Edinburgh. - [Thomas may be the ‘unidentified’ Thomas Wedderburn (‘b. Edinburgh’) who died in the General Prison at Perth on 30/5/1855, aged 19. (Acc. to Misc. Notes, Scottish Records, on W.B. p. 498, Thomas’s mother’s name is given as ‘Elizabeth’ but the entry in the Deaths’ register shows only one parent’s name, ‘E.’ Wedderburn, & that Thomas, ‘b. in Edinburgh’, died of consumption.)]
1835
John Wilson Wedderburn, younger s. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] & Barbara Hay [m. 1828], bap. 19/1/1835 at Meigle. [John was b. at Camno.] - John started practise as a solicitor to the Supreme Court in Scotland but died unm. at Tillicoultry on 7/11/1868, aged 33. (W.B. p. 225)
1835
Elizabeth Maclagan [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn], e.d. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 11/4/1835 at Kinfauns, Perth. - Elizabeth m. David Shier, M.D. (of the Government Medical Service, Demerara), in 1882 (q.v.). - David d.s.p. & in 1898 Elizabeth was living at Exmouth, Devon. (W.B. p. 328) - “Elizabeth McLagan Wedderburn or Shier died on 5/1/1914”. [Admon. of her estate was granted to Joseph Robert M-W, W.S., Laurence Craigie M-W & Ernest M-W, W.S.
1835
Charles Wedderburn, 2nd s. of Peter W. [Blacksmith, b. 1811 (q.v.)] & Catherine McDonald [m. 1832], bap. 24/5/1835 at Canongate, Edinburgh.
1835
Andrew Wedderburn $ [Coach builder, b. 1815, 4th s. of Thomas W., Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (see 1784) & Jane Cockburn (?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll)] m. Jean Davidson [d. of William Davidson of Edinburgh & his wife, Jean Paul] on 28/12/1835 at Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. Andrew & Jean had 2 sons: Thomas (b. 1836, q.v.) & William (b. 1839, q.v.). - In the 1841 Census (in which adults’ ages were ‘rounded down’ to the nearest 5 years), Andrew Weatherburn (sic) aged 25 (Painter), was lodging at Spittal, Berwickshire, with ‘M. Rutherford’. - Their 2 sons, Thomas ‘Widerburn’, aged 4, & William ‘Widerburn’, aged 2, were living with their grandmother, Jean Davidson, a Green Grocer aged 55, & Jean’s son Willliam M. Davidson, a Confectioner Journeyman, aged 20 (all ‘b. Midlothian’), at 2 Brown Street, St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. - In the 1861 Census, Andrew, a Coach Painter aged 45 (‘b. England’), was living with Elizabeth, aged 58 (‘b. Edinburgh), at 44 Bridge Street, Glasgow. - “Andrew died at Edinburgh on 6/7/1865, aged 50, & was buried in the Grange Cemetery there. (In footnote² on W.B. p. 496, ‘A.W.’ states: “The entry of Andrew’s death names Elizabeth Wate (sic) as his wife”. (The death cert. shows: “Andrew Wedderburn, Coach painter, married to Elizabeth Watt, died at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh - usual address 140 Pleasance, Edinburgh - Elizabeth Wedderburn, widow, present”.) - Elizabeth Wedderburn, ‘widow of Andrew W., Coach Painter’, & daughter of Walter Watt, Poughman (deceased) & Agnes Watt (née Ferguson), died at No. 2 Merchant St., Edinburgh, on 31/12/1874, aged 70. (Her sister-in-law, Helen Watt, née Currie, was the ‘informant’ and ‘made her mark’.) - Elizabeth Watt was not Andrew’s wife, however, as, in the 1881 Census, Jean ‘Weaderton’, a widow aged 70, was living at 30 Earl Grey St., St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, with her son Thomas, a widower aged 43, Optician Master, & her brother, William Davidson, Confectioner, a widower aged 66, and William’s son & daughter. - Jean Weatherburn died at 6 Lauriston Gardens on 1883, aged 72. - On her death cert., Jean is shown as “widow of Andrew Wedderburn, Coach Painter”. - Her son Thomas was the ‘informant’.
1835
David Wedderburn [3rd Bt. of Balindean in 1862], 3rd [but elder surv.] s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1779, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay), was b. 20/12/1835 at Woodgreen, Bombay, & bap. 8/2/1836 at Christ Church, Byculla. - “His biography has been so fully written by his sister, Mrs. Percival (Louisa Jane, b. 1842) that only a very brief account of his career need be given here…”. (See ‘Life of Sir D. Wedderburn’, Kegan, Paul & Co., 1884.) - [Margaret Agnes Colvile (b. 1829) - a d. of Andrew Colvile - m. Charles Kegan Paul in London in 1856. ] - “David was called to the Scotch Bar in Dec. 1861 and a year later succeeded his father as 3rd Bt. of Balindean…. He owned Inveresk Lodge, and was thus a J.P. for Midlothian, but leased the house to his eldest sister and her husband, who resided there until 1892. - On the death of his mother he succeeded to ‘Meredith’ in Gloucestershire. (He was captain of the 3rd Btn. of the Gloucestershire Militia.) - In the 1881 Census, Sir David Wetherburn (sic), Baronet, M.P., aged 45 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’), is described as ‘Renter of Chambers’ at the Reform Club, St. James, Westminster, London. - He died, unm., on 18/9/1882, at Inveresk Lodge, and was buried in the churchyard at Inveresk. - He was succeeded as 4th Bt. of Balindean by his brother William (b. 1838). - (W.B. pp. 300-01)
1836
Amelia Halkett, [?younger] d. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, 7th Bt. of Gosford in 1839] & Amelia Hood Conway [m. 1831], was b. c1836 at Halifax, N. America. - In the 1851 Census, Amelia, 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’). - “She was living unm. in 1898”. (W.B. p. 390)
1836
Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour Wedderburn @ m. Caroline Mallet Mytton on 27/3/1836 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh. [This marriage is not shown in the W.B. although the entry must refer to Frederick Lewis S-W (b. 1808). - [On W.B. p. 182, it says only that Frederick m. i) Hon. Helen Arbuthnott on 26/4/1839 (q.v.) & ii) Selina Mary Garth on 31/8/1852 (q.v.).]
1836
James Stuart Maclagan, e.s. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 11/11/1836 at Kinfauns, Perth. - James died on 18/9/1855. - “He never bore the name Wedderburn, his mother not succeeding to Pearsie until after his death”. (W.B. p. 327)
1836
Thomas Wedderburn, elder s. of Andrew W. [Coach builder, b. 1815] & Jean Davidson [m. 1835], bap. 13/11/1836 at Canongate, Edinburgh. (OPR) - “Thomas became a partner in the firm of Adie and Wedderburn, opticians, of Edinburgh. - He m. Jane Brown Baptie on 4/7/1867 (q.v.). - [They had a d., Jane Brown W., b. 1868, who is said to have died ‘aged 14’, but the OPR shows her death in 1869, aged 2.] - Jane Brown Wedderburn died in 1870, aged 30. - In the 1881 Census, Thomas ‘Weaderton’, a widower aged 43, Optician Master, was living at 30 Earl Grey St., St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, with his mother Jean ‘Weaderton’, a widow aged 70, his uncle William Davidson, a widower aged 66,and William’s two children. -Thomas died at 6, Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh, on 9/8/1886, aged 49, and is buried in the Dean Cemetery there. (W.B. p. 496)
1837
Catharine Wedderburn, elder d. of Peter W. [Blacksmith (b. 1811, q.v.)] & Catharine McDonald [m. 1832] was b. c1837. - “Catharine ‘aged 21’ m. Adam Watson at Edinburgh on 10/12/1858, the entry wrongly giving her mother’s name as Margaret”. (W.B. p. 496)
1838
William Wedderburn [4th Bt. of Balindean in 1882], 4th & ygst. [but younger surv.] s. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822, in Bombay], was b. 25/3/1838 at 2 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh, & bap. 9/5/1838 at Inveresk Lodge, Midlothian. – [A William Wedderburn, aged 13 (b. Edinburgh, Scotland’), was a pupil at a small school in Potter Street, Worksop, Nottinham, in 1851.] - “In 1859 William was placed third in the open competition for the Indian Civil Service [‘The Heaven Born’, acc. to M.M. Kaye!] and went out to Bombay in Nov. 1860. 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. [They had 2 daughters.] - 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, aged 27 (‘b. Henson, Somerset’), and Dorothy, aged 1 (b. 1879 at Poona, India. - Their younger daughter, Margaret Grizelda, was born in London in 1884 .) - On the death of William’s brother Sir David, unm., on 18/9/1882, William succeeded him as 4th Bt. of Balindean. - ‘A.W.’ states: “Sir William is the only male descendant in the male line of his grandfather, Sir John Wedderburn the 6th Bt. of Blackness. He is the representative of James Wedderburn, who died 1627, and also the male heir of Alexander Wedderburn (died 1535) and his wife Janet Myln, and their eldest son, Alexander, 1st of Kingennie”. (W.B. pp. 301-02) - Sir William retired from the Indian Civil Service and left India in May 1887 to live at Meredith, nr. Tibberton, Gloucestershire (“which his wife had inherited from a maternal uncle of that name”. - W.B. p. 299). - In March 1893 Sir William was elected as Liberal M.P. for Banffshire, in a by-election, being returned again at the general election in 1895. - 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-O, b. 23/9/1781 - a grandson of James Wedderburn-Colvile of Inveresk, b. 1730, died 1807). - Colonel Wedderburn-Ogilvy, however, died on 12/10/1899, leaving no issue, so his younger brother, John Andrew W-Ogilvy (b. 2/7/1818), became the heir presumptive. He died on 17/9/1906 and it was his 3rd 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. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn)
1838 Janet Isabella Wedderburn $ [b. 1815, e.d. of James W., Solicitor-Gen. for Scotland (b. 1782), & Isabella Clerk (m. 1813)] m. James Hay Mackenzie, W.S. [b. 1810, 3rd s. of Colin McKenzie of Portmore, co. Peebles] on 10/4/1838 at Edinburgh. [Janet & her younger sister Jean were m. in a joint ceremony.] - Janet & James had 2 sons & 4 daughters: Colin Mackenzie (b. 1841, d. 1882); Isabella Mackenzie (b. 1844, who m. General Kirkland, who died in 1896); Louisa Helen Mackenzie (b. 1847); Anna Christina Mackenzie (b. 1850, who m. E.M. Bannerman; George Mackenzie (b. 1851) & Jean Charlotte Mackenzie (b. 1852). - Janet died of consumption at Silverknow, nr. Cramond, Midlothian, on her return from Madeira in 1852 and was buried at Edinbugh. - James Hay Mackenzie m. ii) Selina Jane Norton, widow of Donald Hume Macleod, & died at Edinburgh on 16/2/1865. (W.B. p. 314, footnote²)
1838
Jane Wedderburn $ [Jean W., b. 1818, 2nd d. of James W., Solicitor-Gen. for Scotland (b. 1782), &Isabella Clerk (m. 1813)] m. Peter Blackburn, of Killearn, Stirling - then in the 2nd Life-Guards & later M.P. for Stirling and (1859) lord of the treasury [e.s. of John Blackburn & Rebecca Gillies] on 10/4/1838 at Edinburgh. They had 8 sons & 5 daughters. (Details on W.B. p. 314) - [Jean’s younger sister Jemima (b. 1823) married Peter’s younger brother, Hugh Blackburn, in 1849 (q.v.).] - Peter died on 20/5/1870 & Jean died in 1879.
1838
Margaret Wilson Wedderburn, 4th & ygst. d. of Robert W. [Tenant-farmer at Camno, b. 1778] & Barbara Hay [m. 1828], was b. at Camno on 9/9/1838 (W.B. p. 225) & bap. 22/10/1838 at Meigle. Acc. to the W.B., Margaret m. Charles Lowden (brother of her sister Catherine’s husband James Lowden) of ‘Rosetoun’, Athy, co. Kildare, Ireland, in 1864 (q.v.) but another source shows her husband’s Christian name as Philip.
1839
Janet Weatherburn, d. of Thomas W. [Cabman (b. c1807, q.v.)] & Margaret Brown [m. not found], was b. in 1838/39 at Edinburgh. - In the 1851 Census, Janet, aged 12 (‘b. Canon-gate’), was living with her parents (both ‘b. B-on-Tweed’); her brother Thomas, aged 16, & (their father’s) cousin, also named Janet Wedderburn, aged 15, at 273 Canongate, Edinburgh. - - Janet m. David Ferguson (m. not found) - They had (at least) 2 daughters & a son: Isabella Ferguson Wedderburn (‘dau. of Janet Wedderburn’), bap. 21/2/1864 at Edinburgh; & Margaret Wedderburn (‘dau. of Janet Wedderburn’), bap. there on 22/7/1868. She died the same year. (W.B. p. 497, footnote¹); & George Ferguson. - Janet Ferguson, widow of David Ferguson, Type-founder (& ‘d. of --- Weatherburn & Margaret Cheyne, née Brown’), died at 21 Simon Square, Newington, Edinburgh, on 1/12/1896, aged 53 (sic). - George Ferguson, Son, of 2 Elliot Street, the informant, ‘made his mark ’. (Death entry, Scottish Records)
1839 William [Davidson] Wedderburn, younger s. of Andrew W. [Coach builder, b. 1815] & Jean Davidson, was b. 13/3/1839 at Glasgow. - William became a Coach-builder. - He m. Isabella Black at Edinburgh in 1863 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 5 daughters.] - (W.B. p. 496) - William Davidson Wedderburn died at St. George, Edinburgh, in 1909, aged 70.
1839
Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [b. 1808] m. the Hon. Helen Arbuthnot [5th d. of John, 8th Viscount Arbuthnot, & Lady Margaret Ogilvie (e.d. of Walter, 7th Earl of Airlie] on 26/4/1839 at Balmerino. ( W.B. p. 182 - at Birkhill.) - [In the W.B. this is said to be Frederick’s first marriage but see m. of Frederick Lewis S-W to Carolyne Mallet Mytton in 1836.] - Frederick & Helen had a s. Henry (b. 1840) but Helen died 5 days after his birth. - Frederick m. [?iii], in 1852, Selina Mary Garth. (By her, he had 2 more sons & 3 daughters.) - [In 1823, John W. ‘of Auchterhouse’, b. 1798 (grandfather of ‘A.W.’, author of the W.B.), the younger son of John W. of ‘Spring Garden’, Jamaica (b. 1743 at Forres, co. Elgin - see above), m. Lady Helen Ogilvie, the youngest sister of the Hon. Helen’s mother, Lady Margaret Ogilvie. (W.B. pp. 182 & 348) - Lady Margaret is shown as ‘dau. of Walter, 7th Earl of Airlie’, & Lady Helen as ‘dau. of Walter 5th Earl of Airlie’, but the Earls are one & the same person. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage. - Dundee)]
1839
Katharine Ann Maclagan, 2nd d. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn’of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 21/6/1839 at Kinfauns, Perth. - Katharine m. the Rev. D.M. Macalister at Aberdeen in 1864. - “They had 8 children of whom 6 were alive in 1898, when the family was living in Edinburgh”. - Having m. before 1870, Katharine never bore the name of Wedderburn. (W.B. p. 328)
1839
Dorothy Weatherburn [b. 1814, e.d. of Henry Wedderburn & Agnes Milvin (‘m. 1796’ )] m. John Spence on 3/6/1839 at Edrom. - “Dorothy Weatherburn of the parish of Norham m. John Spence without banns at Lamberton Hall on 3/6/1839. Confirmed by the session 29th Sept. following’. - Dorothy Spence, ‘d. of Henry Wedderburn, Fisherman (dec’d), & Agnes Melville (sic - dec’d), wife of John Spence, Roadman, died at Allanton, Edrom, Berwick, on 28/5/1874, aged 60.
1839
George Wedderburn $ [unidentified] m. Jane Scott on 26/7/1839 at St. Cuthbert’s (‘Blotter’?), Edinburgh. [George is probably George Wedderburn, Pauper, a widower, who died in St. Cuthbert’s Poorhouse, St. George, Edinburgh, on 29/12/1869, aged 58. (Death entry, Scotlands People)]
1839
Frances Wedderburn [‘Fanny’] - [b. 1817, e.d. of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (see 1784) & Jane Cockburn (?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll), dau. of David Cockburn of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his wife Dorothy ---] m. John Richardson on 27/7/1839 at All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne. [On W.B. p. 496, under “The Wedderburns in Glasggow & Later in Edinburgh”, it shows only that “Fanny m. in Newcastle” but in ‘Misc. Notes’ on W.B. p. 504 it shows: “Frances Wedderburn, d. of Thomas W., m. at Newcastle, July 1737 (sic), John Richardson”.] - ‘Fanny’ & John had 8 children. - In the 1861 Census, Frances Richardson, aged 43 (‘b. Berwick’), was living in the parish of Earsdon, Seghill, with her husband John, a Blacksmith aged 44 (‘b. Spittal’), their 8 children, & Frances’s father Thomas, a retired Coachman ‘aged 77’. - On W.B. p. 495 it shows that Fanny’s father Thomas died in Glasgow, ‘where he is buried in the Southern Necropolis’, and that his wife Jane died in Glasgow on 23 Aug. 1860 ‘and is buried with her husband’. - [Thomas died at Seghill in the June qtr. of 1861, aged 76 (his death was reg. at Tynemouth, Deaths’ Index 10b 123), so Jane died before her husband and it is probably her son Thomas (see 1807) who was buried at Glasgow as his widow remarried in 1860.
1839 Col. Alexander Wedderburn (b. 1791, 3rd & ygst. s. of Sir John W. ‘of Balindean’ (b. 1729) by his 2nd wife, Alicia Dundas (m. 1780)] died in Glasgow on 30/7/1839 & was buried in Inveresk Kirkyard. [See his Will - which shows that in 1808 Alexander purchased ‘Inveresk Lodge’ from his cousin Andrew W. (b. 1779) - who had inherited it on his father’s death in 1807 - for his two unm. sisters, Maria (b. 1783) & Susan (b. 1785), to live there.] - Col. Wedderburn’s widow, Elizabeth Julia (née Stratton, m. 1836 in Rome), 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. (W.B. p. 295, & footnote 4)
1839
George Halkett, 2nd s. of [Sir] John Halkett [b. 1805, 7th Bt. of Gosford in Oct. 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. (W.B. p. 390)
1839
Janet Weddelbor (sic) [unidentified] m. William Miller on 9/9/1839 at St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. ( Also entered as Janet ‘Weddellor’) - [Is she a Wedderburn?]
1840
Peter Wedderburn, 3rd & ygst. s. of Peter W. [Blacksmith, b. 1811] & Catherine McDonald [m. 1832], was b. 1839/40. - In the 1851 Census at Canongate, Edinburgh, Peter was 11. - [He may be the Peter Wedderburn, ‘aged 24’ (‘b. Scotland’), who, in the 1861 Census, was a Soldier stationed at the Royal Engineer Establishment, Brompton Barracks, Gillingham, Kent. (RG9/480 Folio ??, p. 28)]
1840
Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, only s. of Frederick Lewis S-W [b. 1808] by his [2nd] wife, the Hon. Helen Arbuthnot [m. 1839], bap. 22/5/1840 at Balmerino. - [Henry was b. 18/4/1840 at Balgarvie, Fife. - His mother died there 5 days later, on 23/4/1840, and was buried at Balmerino.] - Frederick m. iii) (see m. of Frederick Lewis S-W to Carolyne Mallet Mytton in 1836), Selina Mary Garth in 1852 (q.v.). - [They had 2 more sons & 3 daughters.] - “Henry was educated at Harrow, after which he joined the 17th Leicestershire regiment in March 1858. - In the 1861 Census, Henry was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Btn. 17th Regt. of Foot, at Shorncliffe Camp. Cheriton, Kent. - He was a captain in 1867 but sold out in 1868. He m. Juliana Braddell in 1869” (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & 6 daughters.] - On his father’s death, in 1874, Henry succeeded to the estates of Wedderburn & Birkhill (W.B. p. 182) and was de jure 9th Earl of Dundee. - At the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902, Henry bore the Standard of Scotland as the Hereditary Standard-Bearer of Scotland. -Henry S-W died on 1/2/1914. (Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Dundee)
1840
Alexander Stormonth Maclagan [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn], 2nd [but e. surv.] s. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburno ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 21/9/1840 at Kinfauns, Perth. - Alexander (a great-grandson of two of the daughters of Robert W. ‘of Pearsie’ & Isobel Edward, m. 1738) became a doctor of medicine and J.P. in Forfar. - He m. Anne Ogilvie in 1865 (q.v.). - [They had 8 sons & 6 daughters.] - (W.B. p. 328) - In the 1881 Census, Alexander was living at 71 East High Street, Forfar, with his wife Ann (sic), & their (then) 3 sons & 3 daughters. - In the 1891 Census, he was still living in Forfar with ‘Annie’ and 5 sons & 4 daughters. - As Alexander’s elder brother (James Stuart Maclagan, b. 1836) had died in 1855, it was Alexander who succeeded to the estate of Pearsie on his mother’s death, on 25/4/1891. (W.B. pp. 327-28) - Alexander died at Edinburgh on 15/5/1907. - Scottish Confirmation of his Will (by George Ogilvie, solicitor, Lawrence Craigie Maclagan Wedderburn, M.D., Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn, law apprentice, & Joseph Robert Maclagan Wedderburn, writer to the Signet) was sealed in London on 9/7/1907- Dr. Maclagan-Wedderburn was succeeded at Pearsie by his 4th (but then e. surv.) son George (b. 1875), who later went to Australia. - [In March 1950 the entail of the estate was broken and Pearsie was sold to Earl Granville (whose wife, Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon, was a sister of the Queen Mother). - In July 1977 the estate was again sold and was bought by the Earl of Inchcape (family name MacKay). In 1986 the Earl sold it to ‘a Continental buyer’. (‘The Field’, 18th Oct. 1986.)]
1841
Ann Wedderburn [b. 1819] m. Alex Marshall Brodie on 31/7/1841 at Coupar Angus. - [Ann Neil W. is said in the W.B. to be the e.d. of Robert W. (b. 1778) & Barbara Hay, but she was born nine years before Robert m. Barbara in 1828, and eight years before the first of Robert & Barbara’s children. - Ann and Alexander are said to have gone to Savannah, USA, where a daughter, Sarah Ann Brodie, was b. 5/11/1842.] - ‘Ann died in 1844 and was buried at Savannah’. (W.B. p. 225)
1841
John Wedderburn [bap. 1806 at Dunbar] m. Mary Heggie on 31/10/1841 at Abbotshall. (Another entry gives date as 1/11/1841.) - In the W.B. it shows that John m. Mary Heyrie but the correct name is Heggie. (MWE) - [The mother of Robert Philp of Kirkcaldy, Fife, was ‘Alison Heggie or Heaggie’, d. of James Heaggie, merchant of Kinglassie. - Robert Philp was a wealthy master-weaver in Kirkcaldy, Fife, who was said to have had large investments in Jamaica! (See his biography, “Robert Philp 1751-1828”, by A.B. MacPhedran, pub. 1991 by the Kirkcaldy Civic Society.)] - ‘A.W.’ states: “He is, I suppose the John Wedderburn ‘shopman in Dalkeith’ who was returned heir general to his uncle, John Wedderburn at Belhaven, near Dunbar [unidentified], 20 Oct. 1828. - John became a Cloth Merchant in Dunbar. - He & Mary had a son James Heggie W., b. 12/9/1842 at Dunbar. - John Wedderburn died there on 11/11/1848 (q.v.). - (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497) - John left a Will (q.v.).
1842
Jane Wedderburn, younger d. of Peter W. [Blacksmith, b. 1811] & Catharine McDonald [m. 1832], was b. c1842. - Jane, aged 19, m. James Hamilton in Edinburgh in 1861 & died there 2/9/1872. (W.B. p. 496)
1842
Margaret Louisa Scrymgeour-W. [b. 1794, e.d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1893)] m. Alexander Smith, W.S. [s. of Thomas Smith, one of the principal Clerks of the Bills] on 25/7/1842 at Balmerino. “Alexander Smith was the widower of Mary Christie. He and Margaret had no issue”. - Alexander Smith died on 3/8/1868 & Margaret died at St. Andrew’s, Edinburgh, on 10/1/1876, aged 81. (W.B. p. 181)
1842
Patrick Dugald Maclagan, 3rd s. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 31/7/1842 at Kinfauns, Perth. - He died at Glendoick on 19/7/1854 and is buried at Kinfauns. - “He never bore the name Wedderburn, his mother not succeeding to Pearsie until after his death”. (W.B. p. 327)
1842
James Heggie Wedderburn, only s. of John W. [bap. c1798] & Mary Heggie [m. 1841], bap. 12/9/1842 at Dunbar. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 497) - [See biography re Robert Philp of Kirkcaldy, referred to under John W., 1841, above.] - “James was a farmer in Fife until 1878 but later (1886) went out to Africa.” - He m. Eliza Graham Fyffe Dochard (dau. of Peter Dochard of Cabbage Hall) at Cabbage Hall, Leslie, Fife, in 1865 (q.v.). - [They had a son & a daughter.] - In the 1881 Census, James & Elizabeth & their 2 children were living at 35 South Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh. - Between 1886 & 1891 Eliza was living at 16 Marchmont Road, and then at Braid Crescent, Edinburgh”. (W.B. p. 497)
1842
Louisa Jane Wedderburn, 5th & ygst. d. of [Sir] John W. [b. 1789, 2nd Bt. of Balindean in 1858] & Henrietta Louisa Milburn [m. 1822 at Bombay], was b. 16/9/1842 at Keith House, Haddington, & bap. there 20/12/1842. - In the 1861 Census, Louisa Jane, aged 18, was living with her parents, her unm. sister Margaret, aged 32 (‘b. Bombay, East Indies’); & 8 Servants, at Meredith Cottage, Tibberton, Gloucs. - Louisa m. Edward Hope Percival of the Indian Civil Service (and afterwards of Kimsbury House, Gloucester), at Tibberton House, Gloucester, on 7/1/1869. [They had 4 sons & a daughter. - Louisa wrote a ‘Life’ of her brother, Sir David W.
(b. 1836 - who succeeded their brother John as 3rd Bt. of Balindean in 1862 & died in 1882.) - Louisa Percival died at 13 Kensington Park Gardens, London, on 27/4/1895. (W.B. p. 300)
1843
Mary Turner Scrymgeour Wedderburn [b. 1798, 5th d. of Henry S-W (b. 1755) & Mary Turner Maitland (m. 1793)] m. Thomas Smith on 25/7/1843 at Balmerino. “Thomas Smith was Physician General in the East India Company’s service. He predeceased his wife, who afterwards lived at West Grange, Edinburgh. - They had no children”. - Mary died on 25/3/1887, and was buried at Edinburgh. (W.B. p. 181) - [Confirmation of the Edinburgh commissariot, 13/4/1887, of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn & Birkhill, co. Fife, the nephew, & William Duncan, solicitor, as executors, granted 22/4/1887. -
‘London Will No. 53’ - (W.B. Vol. II, p. 522)]
1844
Jane Wedderburn [b. c1827 (3rd & ygst.) d. of Thomas W., Coachman, ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.) & Jane Cockburn (m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll)] m. James Allan at Gorbals, Lanarkshire, on 21/1/1844. - “Jane had a daughter who m. John Grieve, and was living at 9 Wilton Drive, Glasgow, in 1896”. (W.B. p. 496) - [Jane Allan, aged 18, m. John Grieve, Metal Merchant, aged 22, at 82 Houston St., Glasgow, on 1/3/1866. - It was John Grieve who gave ‘A.W.’ the (rather sketchy) information about his wife’s ancestry.] - James & Jane Allan apparently had (at least) 6 daughters and (perhaps) 2 sons: Jane Cockburn Allan (b. 14/5/1847, bap. 4/7/1847 at Gorbals, who m. John Grieve in 1866 and had a large family); James Allan (b. c1845 ‘in Glasgow’); (?)Thomas Allan (bap. 7/10/1850 at Barony - who may be Jane’s sister Dorothy’s son); Elizabeth Allan (bap. 1852 at Gorbals); Christina Blackhall Allan (bap. 1856 at Blythswood - a John & Christina Allan had a son James bap. on 4/6/1850 at Gorbals); Mitchellina Fanny Allan (bap. 26/4/1863 at Tradeston - a George Allan & Isabella Mitchell had a s. Archibald bap. 11/8/1862 at Blythswood - Mitchellina had a s. Andrew Wedderburn, b. 1887 at Helensburgh, Dumbarton, & m. James Cameron, a Licensed Grocer, at Kinning Park, Glasgow, in 1897); Fanny Wedderburn Allan (bap. 14/10/1865 at Tradeston, who m. John MacDonald Jack at Gorbals, Glasgow, in 1889); & Euphemia Allan (b. & d. at Tradeston, 1871). - In the 1881 Census, James Allan, a Wood Carver (Master) aged 60 (‘b. Edinburgh’), was living at Clynder Grove Cottage, Old Kilpatrick, Dumbarton, with Jane age 57 (‘b. Edinburgh’); James, a Wood Carver (Master) unm. aged 36; Mitchellina, aged 17; & Fanny aged 15 (all ‘b. Glasgow’). - Jane Allan (wife of James Allan, Carver & Gilder, & dau. of Thomas Wedderburn & Jane Cockburn) died at 6 James Street, Glasgow, in 1890, aged 63. (W.B. p. 496) -
Jane Wedderburn died at Kinning Park, Glasgow, in 1890, aged 63.] - [Jane’s sister Dorothy m. James Allan’s brother Joseph Allan in 1845 (q.v.).]
1844
John Maclagan [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn], 4th s. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814, Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 20/8/1844 at Pitlowie, Perthshire. - John m. Helen Forrest on 25/8/1881 at Montreal. - They had 5 sons & 2 daughters: James (b. 1882); Alexander Stormonth (b. 1884); John (b. 1886); a daughter (b. & d. 1898); David Shier (b. 1889); Helen (b. 1891) & Laurence (b. 1894). - In 1898 they were living at Roden, Manitoba, Canada. (W.B. pp. 327-28)
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. - He died on 11/12/1853, aged 9, and was buried at Kensal Green, London. (W.B. p. 390)
1845
Agnes Wedderburn $ [b. 1817, 3rd d. of Peter W., Coachman (b. c1784, d. 1825) & Agnes Walker (m. 1804, d. 1861)] m. Alexander Hastie on 19/8/1845 at Saint Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. (Misc. Refs., Scottish Records, W.B. p. 498) - Agnes died in Edinburgh in 1888, aged 69 (sic). - (W.B. p. 498)
1845
William Wedderburn $ [unidentified] m. Janet Sinclair Smith on 29/8/1845 at Canongate, Edinburgh. - Janet would seem to be the Janet Smith, daughter of Alexander Smith, Mason (deceased), & (?)Susan Smith (née Rattray, deceased), ‘wife of a shoemaker’, who died at Edinburgh on 31/12/1858, aged 47.
1845
Dorothy Wedderburn [b. 1819 (2nd) d. of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787) & Jane Cockburn (m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll)] m. Joseph Allan on 16/11/1845 at Gorbals, Lanarkshire. (OPR Register) - Their children (apparently) were: Jane Ann Allan (bap. 5/10/1848 at Gorbals); (?)Thomas Allan (bap. 7/10/1850 at Barony, who may be Dorothy’s sister Jane’s son); Dorothy Allan (b. 5/6/1855 at Paradise Row, Portland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia - bap. 26/9/1855); Joseph Allen (who d. at 3 Acadia St. Portland, N.B. on 13/10/1868, aged 13); James Allen (who d. there on 13/9/1867, aged 10 yrs 6mths); Mitchell Gilfillan Allan (b. 11/10/1859 at Portland, N.B. - bap. 2/11/1859); Andrew (b. c1863); Robert (b. c1867) & another Dorothy (b. c1868). - On W.B. p. 496 it is stated that in 1896 Dorothy was living in Boston, U.S.A. but Dorothy Allen, wife of Joseph Allen, native of Glasgow, Scotland, died at St. John, New Brunswick, on 1/3/1879, ‘aged 54’. - (Info. from Nova Scotia Daily Telegraph & Morning News, via Gayle W. in NZ, 3/9/2004 & further info. from Bruce Campbell in NS via Gayle 13/9/2004) - [Dorothy’s sister Jane, b. c1827, m. Joseph Allan’s brother James Allan in 1844, q.v.]
1846
John Wedderburn [unidentified] m. Elizabeth Hill on 5/4/1846 at Barony. [See entry re death of Sir John Halkett in 1847. - Is there a connection? (MWE)]
1846
John Wedderburn [b. 1821, 6th & ygst. s. of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (see 1784) &Jane Cockburn (?m. 1804 - 1816 at Lamberton Toll)] m. ii) Margaret Kirkwood at Glasgow High Church on 15/4/1846 but in 1856 (q.v.), acc. to W.B. p. 496. John m. i) Ann Libsit (or ‘Lipswick’) in 1849 (q.v.).]
1846
John Wedderburn $ [unidentified] m. Helen Borthwick on 31/5/1846 at Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh.
1846
Laurence Craigie Maclagan [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn], 5th s. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 6/9/1846 at Aberdeen. - Laurence became the Minister at Madderty, by Crieff, Perthshire. - He m. his cousin Gertrude Elizabeth Maxwell in 1880 (q.v.). - [They had 4 sons & a daughter.] - (W.B. p. 328) - Gertrude died at Madderty in 1903, aged 48 & Laurence m. ii) at Chorley, Lancs., in 1905. - Laurence died between 1925 & 1932.
1847
Sir John Halkett ‘of Pitfirrane’, 7th Bt. of Gosford [b. 1805], ‘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.). - (W.B. p. 390)
1847
Andrew Wedderburn $ [b. 1821, Wedderburn-Maxwell from 1879, 4th & ygst. s. of James W., Solr.-Gen. for Scotland, & Isabella Clerk (m. 1813)] m. Joanna Keir [2nd d. of James Keir, M.D.] on 14/9/1847, at the Episcopal Chapel in Edinburgh. “Andrew entered the Madras Civil Service in 1842, where he continued for 36 years”. - He & Joanna had 4 sons & 2 daughters: James Andrew Colvile (b. 1849); Harry George (b. 1850); Alice (b. 1853); twins, Francis Edward Keir & Mary (b. 1857, on board ship) & Charles Alexander (b. 1858). - “In 1879 Andrew succeeded his cousin, James Clerk-Maxwell, in the estate of Middlebie, Dumfries & Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire, and took the name and arms of ‘Maxwell of Middlebie & Glenlair’ in addition to his own”. - He died at Bath on 12/5/1896, and is buried at Corsock, Kirkcudbrightshire. – “In 1898 his widow Joanna was living at Oxford”. (W.B. p. 316) - Joanna Wedderburn-Maxwell died at Headington [Oxford] in the Sept. qtr. of 1917, aged 91. (Deaths’ Index 3a 882) - [Is there a connection between this family and a Francis Henry W. (b. c1866) who m. Mary Hunter at Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, in 1898 (q.v.)? - Francis Henry was the s. of an ‘unidentified’ William Henry W., Army Captain, & Maria Bartlett W. (née Adams - their m. not found, so perhaps they m. in India?). - Alexander & Joanna’s youngest son, Charles Alexander, was bap. at Lochgilphead in 1858. (MWE)]
1848
Euphemia Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [b. 1809, 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., Edin. [Physician to the E. India Co.] on 8/1/1848 at Balmerino. (Source suggests m. on 20/1/1848, at St. Peter’s Church, Thanet.) - “Euphemia & her husband lived in Stratton St., London. An only child of the marriage died soon after birth”. - After her husband’s death, Euphemia lived at ‘Angles’, East Sheen, Surrey, where she died on 3/2/1881. (W.B. p. 182)
1848
Isabella Stormonth Maclagan [afterwards Maclagan-Wedderburn], 3rd d. of Katharine Stormonth [b. 1814 - Maclagan-Wedderburn ‘of Pearsie’ from 1870] & the Rev. James Maclagan, D.D. [m. 1834], was b. 8/9/1848 at Aberdeen. (W.B. p. 328) - In the 1881 Census, Isabella, unm. aged 33, was living with her widowed mother & sister Mary at 44 Heriot Row, Edinburgh. - In the 1891 Census, Isabella, aged 42, was living with her mother & sister in Edinburgh. - Her mother died in April 1891 but, in 1898, Isabella was still unm. and living in Edinburgh with Mary. - Isabella Stormonth Maclagan-Wedderburn, spinster, died on 10/10/1939 at Corriehead, Kirriemuir. - Confirmation of her Will, presented by Ernest-Maclagan-W., deputy keeper of the Signet; Ernest Alexander Maclagan-W. & John Ogilvie Maclagan-W., Writers to the Signet, was Sealed in London on 28/11/1939.
1848
Mary Anna Halkett [b. 1818, only d. of Sir Alexander Halkett, K.C.H. (b. 1776) & Georgiana Sproule (m. c1814)] m. Alexander Leith, of Freefield & Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire, in 1848 at Edinburgh. - They had a daughter, Georgiana Leith, who in 1896 was living unm. at Freefield. - In a footnote to the brief account of Sir Alexander Halkett “whose descent in the male line is now extinct”, ‘A.W.’ states: “This account has been submitted to Miss Georgiana Leith, only grandchild of Sir Alexander Halkett and to her mother, Mrs. Leith, and, while unable to go into much detail, they are clear that Charles Halkett was the only one of Sir Alexander’s sons who married, and that he had no children. Mrs. K.E. Halkett is also clear as to this state of things”. (W.B. p. 394)
1848
John Wedderburn [Cloth Merchant, bap. 1806, (elder) s. of James W. (?b. 1781) & Isabella Little (m. 1805), & (?widower) of Mary Heggie (m. 1841] died at Dunbar, Fife, on 20/11/1848, leaving a Will (q.v.). - [His only son James Heggie Wedderburn (b. 1842), was the beneficiary of his Estate, valued at between £5,000 & £6,000.]
1849 Helen Wedderburn [unidentified], ‘aged 42’, was living in Stirling in the 1891 Census [i.e. b. c1849].
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. - “James was educated at Glenalmond & Sandhurst before entering the army where he served in various regiments in India before retiring as a major in 1890. - 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. - [Cecilia Reed, a widow aged 65, Annuitant (‘B. Subject, b. Mauritius’), and Cecilia’s Grandson, John Hesse a Scholar aged 9 (‘b. Scotland’), were fellow lodgers.] - In the 1891 Census, James, a retired army major aged 42 (‘b. Cuddapah, Madras’) was living at Oxmead, Norfolk.] - James m. Helen Mary Faussett-Osborne at Hartlip, Kent, in Oct. 1891 (q.v.). - [They had 3 sons & 2 daughters.] - “On the death of his father in 1896, James succeeded to the Glenlair estate in Kirkcudbrightshire, when he assumed the additional name of Maxwell” (W.B. p. 317) - James A.C. Wedderburn-Maxwell died at Paddington [Middlx.] in the March qtr. of 1918, aged 68. (Deaths’ Index 1a 10 ) - His widow Helen M.G. Wedderburn died at Aldershot Hants.] on 20/7/1946, aged 90. (Deaths’ Index 6b 17 - & Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage – Ogilvy-Wedderburn)
1849
Jemima Wedderburn $ [b. 1823, 3rd & ygst. d. of James W., Solicitor-General for Scotland (b. 1782), & Isabella Clerk (m. 1813)] m. Hugh Blackburn, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge [s. of John Blackburn & Rebecca Gillies & younger brother of her sister Jean’s husband, Peter Blackburn, whose eld. brother was Baron Blackburn of Killearn] on 12/6/1849 at Edinburgh. - “Jemima was a highly-regarded painter and book illustrator”. (See “Jemima”, a biography subtitled “The paintings and Memoirs of a Victorian Lady” - edited and with an Introduction by Robert Fairley, pub. by ‘Cannongate’ in 1988 - which includes pictures of many of Jemima’s paintings.) Jemima & Hugh had 3 sons & a daughter: William (b. 1850, called to the Bar in 1877); Hugh (b. 1856, a Major in the Buffs, retired 1897); Alan (b. 1865) & Margaret. (W.B. p. 314) - Jemima Blackburn died at Arisaig in 1909.
1849
John Wedderburn [b. 1821, 6th & ygst. s. of Thomas W. ‘of Berwick & Edinburgh’ (b. c1787, q.v.) & Jane Cockburn (m. c1806 at Lamberton Toll)] m. Ann Libsit at Gorbals on 23/7/1849. [On W.B. p. 496 ‘A.W.’s states: “John lived in Glasgow. He m. i) Ann Lipswick (sic). - They had a dau. Elizabeth, who m., aged 40, Matthew Deans in 1889, & a son John”.] - They actually had a daughter Elizabeth (b. 1849 at Glasgow) & a son Thomas (b. 1850 at Killingworth, Northumberland). - [In ‘Misc. Notes’ (W.B. p. 504), it shows that Thomas, ‘s. of John Wedderburn & Mary Ann Lipsit’, died in 1850 at Killingworth, Tynemouth, but Thomas’s birth cert. shows that Thomas, ‘s. of John Wedderburn, Joiner, & Ann Lipsit’, was born at Killingworth on 22/11/1850. - In the 1851 Census, John Wedderburn, a Joiner aged 28 (‘b. Berwick’), was living in Killingworth Village, parish of Longbenton, Northumberland, with Ann, aged 28 (‘b Ireland’); Elizabeth, aged 2 (‘b. Glasgow’); & Thomas, aged 4 mths. (‘b. Killingworth’). - Ann died between 1851 & 1856. (Her death not found.) - John m. ii) Margaret Kirkwood in 1856 (q.v.).
1849
Elizabeth Wedderburn, d. of John W. [b. 1821] & Ann Libsit [m. 1849, d. 1851-56], was b. in 1849. - In the 1851 Census, Elizabeth, aged 2 (‘b. Glasgow’), was living with her parents, John, a Joiner ‘aged 28’ (‘b. Berwick’) & Ann, aged 28 (‘b. Ireland’); & her brother Thomas, aged 4 mths. (‘b. Killingworth’), in Killingworth Village, parish of Longbenton, Northumber-land. - In the 1861 Census, Elizabeth, aged 11 (‘b. Glasgow Lanark’); was living with her father John Wedderburn, a Plane Maker aged 38 (‘b. Berwick on Tweed’); her stepmother Margaret aged 40 (‘b. Glasgow’); her brother Thomas, aged 10 (‘b. England’), & her stepmother’s father, Alexander Kirkwood, Weaver, a widower aged 77 (‘b. Glasgow’), at Bread St., Cullen, Glasgow. - Elizabeth m. Matthew Deans at Glasgow in 1889 (q.v.). - (W.B. p. 496 & Marriage entry - Elizabeth’s mother’s surname given as ‘Lipswick’.)