Memorandum regarding the Fairweathers of Menmuir Parish, Forfarshire, and others of the surname

parison of dates and other recorded names warrant the follow -
conclusions : —
James as the elder, and in virtue of the Wadset; no doubt
succeeded in the tenancy of Blairno, but we have no record
of his wife or children. John, the younger's, history is like-
wise obscure; but the sequence in dates goes to show that he
was the father of a second John, and of a second Hendrie ;
for in 1644, twenty years after the commencement of the
Session Book, (thirty-three years after the ' Wadset,') John
Fairvedder, of Blackball, and Hendrie Fairwedder, of Braco, are
ennumerated with seventeen other names on the roll of Elders.
The elderly Hendrie of 1612, could hardly have been the Kirk
Elder of 1644 ; and it is equally improbable the two Johns
were one and the same individual.
The Hendrie of Braco, moreover, had a son named ' Alex-
ander,' baptised 8th April, 1649, and figured as Kirk Treasurer
between 1668 and 1670,
The John of Blackhall, had a daughter named ' Janet,'
baptised 30th July, 1648, and in 1661, was deputed to act as
an Elder at a provincial Synod held at Forfar ; he was further
named as Kirk Treasurer in 1676.