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68 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
P &rt '• , date. The Dundee Records contain no reference to any children or descendants of
ap ' ' his, and he no doubt d.s.p.
The daughter of Robert Wedderburn and Janet Froster was
Elizabeth Wedderburn 1 [1492? — 1572], who married four times, viz. : —
i. Alexander Lovell. The date of this marriage is not known, but it was before
1521, in which year (5 Nov.) she, as wife of Alexander Ogilvy, is named as " mother
of James Lovell, son and heir of the late Alexander Lovell, in regard to the
"airschip" of her son (D.B.R. 11). In the following year, 5 Feb. 1522, she, "wife
of Alexander Ogilvy and relict of Alexander Lovell," consents to the inventory of
the airschip goods of her son James Lovell, while her brother James Wedderburn
is surety for her delivery up of the same to the minor at his majority (ib. 16). Later
on, 23 Feb. 1532, her said son gives hersasine anew of a North Marketgait life-rent
(D.F.B. 44), so that he was then probably of age, in which case her first marriage
must have been in 1510, and her own birth date as early asl492. Other references
to her and this son will be found D.P.B. 133, D.B R. 149, &c.
ii. Alexander Ogilvy, provost of Dundee. This marriage took place before
5 Nov. 1521 (D.B.R. 11). She is named as Ogilvy's wife 25 Dec. 1530, when
Thomas Carale resigns a North Chakkeraw land in her favour (D.P. B. 34), but was
again a widow before 13 Oct. 1531 (ib. 41). She was probably still a widow
3 June 1 534. when there is record of Elizabeth Wedderburn (not designed) obtaining
a license from Alexander Fife to build her mansion contiguous to Fife's wall (ib. 51 c).
iii. Archibald Campbell of Murthlie. It does not appear how soon after
1530-31 this marriage took place, but she was again a widow before 10 April 1545,
when John Campbell, as brother and heir of the late Archibald, sued her for the
writs of Murthlie (R.A.D. 9). There were other differences between them, all of which
were the subject of a settlement 10 April 1546, when there is registered a contract,
15 March 1545-46, between Elizabeth Wedderburn, relict and executrix of the late
Archibald Campbell (and now spouse of Patrick Lyoun), and John Campbell to settle
their differences (ib. 10). Whether this agreement was carried out seems doubtful,
as 14 March 1547 she and her husband, Patrick Lyoun, got a decree v. John Campbell
for suspension of letters by him for non-implement of their agreement (ib. 13). 2
iv. Patrick Lyoun, burgess of Dundee. This marriage probably took place
1545-46. It was certainly before 30 Jan. 1547, when there is a gift under the Privy
Seal to Patrick Lyoun and Elizabeth Wedderburn, his wife, and the survivor of
them, of all the Queen's customs on all goods belonging to them imported at Dundee
(R.P.S. 17). She is named as Lyoun 's wife 26 March 1552, when a sum of money is
arrested in her hands (D.B.R. 84) ; 18 May 1553 (ib. 43 b) ; 14 June 1558, when
Alexander Green is decreed to deliver to her " ane double ducat : ' (D.B.R. 80) ;
and 16 Nov. 1558, when there is registered a tack, dated 27 Aug. 1550, of a
quarter of the lands of Grange of Kyntreith, made by the Abbot of Cupar to her
and her husband (D.B.R. 84, and Reg. Cupar Abbey, n. 83). The date of Lyoun's
death is not ascertained, but it was before 12 JSov. 1566, when Elizabeth is named
as his relict (D.P.B. 133), and was probably before 6 March in that year, when her
son James Lovell, appears as her procurator in an action v. James Wedderburn, in
which Lyoun is not mentioned as a party (D.B.R. 149). She was living Jan. -April
1569. when an action hy David Scrymgeour in Mylnhoill v. her, "relict of Patrick
Lyoun," is mentioned (ib. 172), and she is also referred to as still alive 6 Dec.
1571, but died before 21 March 1572 (D.P.B. vol. 242, fol. 32, 41). 3 Her lands in
Argylegait and Flukergait are often named after her death as once belonging to
her or her grandson, Mr. John Lovell, e.g., in the rent-roll from which extracts
are given in the account of the " Lockit Buik " (vol. ii., p. 199 note) ; 2 April 1582
(D.P.B. 223c); 13 Oct. 15S7, the North Flukergait lands of Mr. John Lovell,
grandson of the late Elizabeth Wedderburn, relict of Patrick Lyoun (ib. 268) ;
' Synopsis of References:— D.P.B. 34, 41, 44, 51 c, 109, 121 c, 133, 223 c, 268, 485, 508, 565 ; D.B.R. 11, 16,
28 c, 34, 43 J, 80, 84, 136, 149, 160, 172, 175 a; R.P.S. 17 ; R.A.D. 9, 10, 13.
2 These entries make it clear that the wife of Patrick Lyoun was the widow of Archibald Campbell, while
another entry, 12 Nov. 1566, when Elizabeth Wedderburn, relict of Patrick Lyoun, resigns land to
her son James Lovell (D.P.B. 133), is conclusive proof of the identity of the wife of Patrick Lyoun
and the mother of James Lovell, so that the chain of evidence to prove the four marriages of
Elizabeth Wedderburn is complete.
3 See orig. records. I have omitted to note these two references in vol. ii.