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

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Note by the Author. — There is the strongest probability that
the brothers Fairweather mentioned on the monument, with
their sisters, married to James Don and Alexander Smith, were
sons and daughters of -John Fairvedder, in Blackhall, who him-
self was son of John second son of Hendrie of Blairno, as
appears from the following sequence of dates :- — If John of
Blackhall was born, say in 1610, he would only have been 66
when last mentioned in the Session Book, 1676 ; he had a
child baptised in 1648 ; and, if the oldest Fairweather, men-
tioned on the monument had been born, say in 1650, then he
would only have been about 70 when his son succeeded him
in Little Cruick in 1719 ; while John's youngest daughter,
' Keatren,' wife of Alexander Smith, born 1662, died 1702,
would, had she lived, been only 57 in 1719.
(Note by the Editor. — I have already expressed dissent from
these conclusions of the Author; on account of the impossibility
of fitting them into the contemporary Don record, which is
as follows :
James Don, second son of Thomas of Dalbog, was about
20 years of age in 1672, when, as recorded on the Edzell
tombstone, his father died.