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214 THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part in. mention of her is in a discharge by Mr. John Paterson of Craigie to Sir Alexander,
Chap. 11. second baronet of Blackness (as heir of his father), who was assignee of a bond given
4 May 1704 by Margaret Wedderburn, relict of Patrick Kyd of Craigie, to Margaret,
second daughter of James Wedderburu, clerk, and wife of the said John Paterson,
and to Margaret, Jean, and Agnes Paterson, his daughters (D.D. 70). Margaret
Wedderburn was thus living in 1704, but died before 3 June 1706.
2. Jean "Wedderburn. 1 born 15 Jan. 1645 (Bl. 9). She married at Dundee, 26 Nov.
1663, William Kyd? afterwards of Woodhill and Craigie, brother of her sister
Margaret's husband, Patrick (Bl. 9 ; D.M. 8), the marriage contract, signed by her
and her father (see facsimile, vol. ii., opp. p. 97), being dated "28 Oct. preceding
(Bl. 16). Her tocher was eight thousand merks, and her husband, then underage,
becomes bound to settle on her an annuity of one thousand merks and the life-rent
of a South Seagait land (D.P.B. 491). 3 He got sasine of Woodhill 1 Sept. 1671
(D.P.B. 516), and later, as we have seen, through the failure of the issue of his
brother Patrick, got a Great Seal charter of Craigie 15 May 1675 (G.S.R. 126 ;
F.S. 63). I have not ascertained the exact date of either Jean Wedderburn's or
her husband's death, but he seems to have died before 20 Aug. 1676 (D.D. 23),
and she was dead before 16 Feb. 1685, when her brother named a daughter "efter
my deceast sister Lady Woodhill " (Bl. 10). Her husband is also named as dead
18 Nov. in that year, when two of his children, Peter (or Patrick) and Margaret
choose their curators (D.Dec. 16).
They had had issue three sons and three daughters, all of whom were baptized
at Dundee, viz., James, 12 March 1666; Alexander, 20 April 1668; Patrick,
25 July 1670; Matilda, 20 March 1667; Margaret, 22 July 1669; and Jean,
9 Nov. 1671 {Dim. Par. Reg., s.dd. orig. record), of whom only three, James (R.D.
216), Patrick (D.D. 40), and Margaret seem to have survived their parents.
3. Helen Wedderburn, born 2 March 1646 (Bl. 9), and baptized in Dundee 7 March
(D.B. 2). She was twice married, viz., (i.) On 28 June 1665 to David Dickson,
second son of John Dickson of Heartree (Bl. 16 a), co. Peebles (Bl. 9). The
marriage contract, dated 13 May 1665, is referred to in a discharge to Sir Alexander
by him and his curators — for he was under age — for two thousand of Helen's nine
thousand merks tocher, dated 18 Nov. 1665 (Bl. 15, 16 a). Of this marriage there
was (besides, perhaps, other issue) a son, John Dickson of Heartree, who had a suit
v. his curators, John Wedderburn of Blackness, John Wedderburn of Gosford, and
George Wedderburn in Edinburgh, 8 June 1681, in which his mother's life-rent is
named (RAD. 102). (ii.) At Edinburgh, 20 Feb. 1379, by Mr. Annand, Dean, to
Thomas Milne of Muirtoun (Ed.M. 9). The marriage contract (Bl. 16 a) is dated
the same day, and is signed by the spouses, her brother George, her uncle Sir Peter,
as consenting parties and as witnesses, by Sir Peter's three sons and her nephew
Alexander (afterwards second baronet of Blackness), then nine years of age (see
facsimiles of the signatures, vol. ii., opp. p. 97). By this marriage she had issue,
including a son, Thomas Milne, baptized in Dundee, 9 May 1684 (D.B., s.d. orig.
record). I have not ascertained the date of her death.
4. Grizell Wedderburn, born 8 Feb. 1647 (Bl. 9), and baptized at Dundee 1 March
(D.B. 3). She married, 20 Dec. 1665, her second cousin, Alexander Wedderburn,
fourth of Kingennie. An account of them and of their children has thus been
already given, ante, pp. 159 seqq. She died 1685-86, and was buried in Dundee
(D.M.D. 16).
5. Cecilia Wedderburn, born 27 Jan. 1651 (Bl. 9), and baptized in Dundee 2 Feb.
(D.B. 6). She married at Dundee, 28 Oct. 1675 (by banns 8 Oct.), William
Bailiie (D.M. 12j, 4 eldest son of William Baillie of Littlegill, in the parish of
Ilartsyde, co. Lanark. Her marriage contract was dated at " the Mott," 14 Oct.
1675, the lands of Littlegill being by it charged in her favour with an annual-rent
of 1,200 merks, of which she got sasine in Feb. 1676 (G.S R. 44). Her husband is
1 Synopsis of Keferences :— S.W. 346 : Bl. 9, 10, 16 ; D.P.B. 491, 516 ; D.D. 23, 24 ; D.Dec. 16 ; G.S.R.
126 ; F.S. 63 ; R.D. 216; D.M. 8. See also as to her portrait, ante, p. 212, n. 3.
- He whs admitted a burgess of Dundee 22 Sept. 1660 (S.W. 346).
;1 He is named in this entry as brother's son of William Kyd, son of Patrick Kyd of Grange of Barrie.
4 My note of this entry gives his name as James, but if correctly extracted, this is an error, as he is
always called William elsewhere. See above.