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

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I fix the death of John, of Blackhall, about 1676 ; because
he then ceased to be mentioned in the Session Book ; and, as
other entries show, about that time was succeeded in the
tenancy of Blackhall by James Don, who had married his
daughter Isabel, in whom the life rent of the farm was
vested.)
From various records it is very probable the Fairweathers
of Blairno, Lethnot, were offshoots of the Menmuir stock, which
at the beginning of the seventeenth century were fairly numer-
ous in the parish ; for, contemporary with John of Blackhall
and Hendrie of Blaco, there were others of the name, un-
traced and unidentified, as shown in the following entries in
the Session Book:
John Fairvedder, of Brathinch, had a daughter baptised
Magdalene, 2nd September, 1648. John Fairvedder, at Cross-
bank, Balnamoon, 1644 ; David Fairvedder, 1643 ; both received
donations. The Bairns of James Fairvedder, 1668, and of
Thomas Fairvedder, June 1672, being in necessitous circum-
stances, received allowances of meal.
In September, 1678, it is recorded that one Robert Murray
had to do penance before the Kirk Session for ' Slandering '