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152 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part ii. 1. Alexander Wedderburn, who succeeded his father in Kingennie and Easter
Chap. IV. Powrie. See post, p. 157.
2. John "Wedderburn [1642—1648], first named 7 March 1642 in the above-
mentioned settlement on him by his mother of a North Marketgait land (D.P.B.
467), and also, 1643, in the will of her father (S.W. 286) and the letters of horning
in regard to his estate (ib. 288). He died in or before 1648, when ( 1 6 Oct. ) his elder
brother Alexander is entered as his heir in the North Marketgait land (D.P.B. 474),
which (19 Aug.) he had disponed it to Thomas Scott (D.D. 13). 1
The daughter,
Maidelene Wedderburn, who was born about 1640-41, is named with her brother
in the above-mentioned will and in the letters of horning of 1643 (S.W. 286, 288).
She married in July 1659 (the marriage contract, which describes her as her
father's eldest daughter, being dated 4 July) her cousin, John Scrymgeour of
Kirktoun of Erlistradichtie (S.W. 330), who, 1 1 July, settled the life-rent of Kirktoun
on her as his future spouse (ib. 331). Exactly a year later, 4, 11 July, her
husband discharged her father of her tocher of 7,000 merks (S.W. 343), and she
got sasine of the said life-rent (S.W. 332). Of this marriage there was issue born
1661-69, of whom an account will be given post, chap, v., when I come to deal with
the Scrymgeour- Wedderburns of Wedderburn, who are descended of this marriage
and took up the representation of her father as heirs of line in 1778. I have not
ascertained the date of her death, but as she is not named in her father's will
(ante, p. 151), and her son Alexander Scrymgeour is so named, she probably died
before its date (Nov. 1682).
ii. About 29 Dec. 1643, the date of the contract (S.W. 289), to Margaret
Fotheringhame, 2 eldest daughter of John Fotheringhame, brother of the late Thomas
Fotheringhame of Powrie. By her, the date of whose death is not fixed, Kingennie had
issue a son and daughter. The son,
David Wedderburn, was baptized in Dundee 22 Dec. 1645 (D.B. 1), but died, no
doubt, in infancy, as he is never again named, and, further, his younger half-brother
Peter is frequently spoken of as the one half-brother of their father's eldest son, and
also, as the second son of Easter Powrie, both in 1679 (F.S. 66), and later (D.C.
98; D.Dec. 100; F.S. 117);
while the daughter,
. Wedderburn 3 (for her name is not recorded) died 1658-59, and was buried in
Dundee, the Mortcloth Dues recording the use of the cloth for " Alexander
Wedderburn of Kingennie, his daughter," between Martinmas 1658 and Whitsuntide
1659 (D.M.D. 3).
iii. At Dundee, May-June 1 660, to Margaret Milne, relict of Major Robert Lindsay, 4
and daughter to Alexander Milne, burgess of Dundee and Elgin. The marriage contract,
Letters of homing by Kingennie's three children as John Ramsay's oyes, and by him Kingennie himself,
as their tutor, v. Gilbert Monorgund, are recorded 21 Nov. 1643 (ii. 288), while a procuratory of the
late Elizabeth Ramsay is mentioned 15 May 1648 (ib. 297). She is also named as deceased in con-
nection with her son John, 16 Oct. 1648 (D.P.B. 474), and her son Alexander, 10 Dec. 1665 (S.W.
377) and 17 Jan. 1666 (F.S. 49).
1 This disposition is not registered till 11 May 1665 (when the property is spoken of as in West Marketgait,
and the date given as 19 Aug. 1648), so that it had preceded the retour, which may have been obtained
to make good the title of Kingennie to dispone it (D.D. 13).
" J.W. and Douglas both make this union with Margaret Fotheringhame the first marriage of Kingennie ;
the latter stating that there were two sons of the marriage, while J.W., after following Douglas, in
his printed memoir, says in his MS. that there were two daughters. But they give no authority for
these statements, and are clearly wrong as to, this being his first marriage, as the date of the marriage
contract and the words on Kingennie's tomb describing Elizabeth Ramsay as " primi anion's uxor "
show. Moreover, they both make Maidelene Wedderburn, who m. John Scrymgeour, a daughter of
the third marriage of Kingennie, whereas her parentage is quite clear (S.W. 286, 288), and even were
it not Kingennie's third marriage took place in 1660, and Maidelene was herself married in 1659 !
3 Thus Maidelene is called her father's eldest (not only) daughter in July 1659 (S.W. 330), although this
half-sister was then dead.
* Her marriage contract with Rootmaister Robert Lindsay is dated at Dundee 26 Nov. 1647 and describes
her as daughter to Alexander Milne, one of the bailies of Dundee (Bl.P. 25). Her mother was
Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Andrew Fletcher of Dundee ; while her father's parents were Thomas
Milne and Margaret Spalding. See the pedigree of the Mylnes of Mylnefield in The King's Master
Masons by the Rev. J. Mylne, 1894. Margaret had a sister Janet who left a legacy to Easter Powrie
in trust for the poor of Dundee (D.C. 81).