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THE WEDDERBURN BOOK.
Part in. Helen Wedderburn, baptized at the church of S. Edmund, King and Martyr, Lombard
Chap. in. Street, 1 30 March 1747. She is named G Dec. 1757, 12 Dec. 1758, 25, 31 May
1763 (D.P.B. 592-93 ; D.D. 126 ; R A.D 592) as her father's only child, and as
one of the ultimate heirs of the cros« dwelling in Dundee, which she and her aunt
Katharine sold 23 June 1767 (D.D. 129).
She married at Edinburgh, in the Canongate, 22 March 1774, Dr. James Finlay
of Bogside, near Glasgow (Can.M. 6), and died 25 Nov. 1786 (Scot's Mag., p. 622)
having had issue two sons and several daughters. 2 It was in favour of her children
that their great aunt, Katharine Wedderburn (Mrs. Higginson), made her will in
Dec. 1786 and Aug. 1795 (D.D. 147).
Pedigree showing descent from Alexander Wedderburn and Grizell Watson, 1702 — 1795.
Alexander Wedderburn, bailie=pGrizell Watson, d. of Thomas
of Dundee, b. 1678, d. 1734. j Watson of Grange of Barrie,
| m. 1702, d. 17S6.
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Peter Wed- Alexander Wed-=f Marion Stuart, John Wed- 1. Katharine, b. 2. Elizabeth, b. 1705, d..
derburn, b. derburn.b 1711,
1706, d. d. 1750 ?
young.
dau. of John derburn, b.
Stuart of Inver- 171*2, d.
ness. 1737-50 ?
s.p.
1703, d, 1795? unm. 1759-63.
m. John Hig- —
giuson and had 3. Margaret, b. 1714, d.
a son, John. young.
Helen Wedderburn. =j=Dr. James Finlay of Bogside,
b. 1747, d. 1786. ' | near Glasgow.
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(Alexander av.d Marion Finlay,
and other issite toko d. unm.)
4. Grizell, d. unm. 1753-5?.
5. Clementina, d. unm,
1758.
1 The registers of this church, 1670 — 1S12, have been transcribed by William Brigg, M.A., and
privately printed for the transcriber, 1892. The entry of Helen Wedderburn's baptism is among
them — " Hellen, daughter of Alexander and Marion Wedderburn." The notice of her death in the
Scot's Magazine wrongly gives her age as 36, instead of 39.
- I had some correspondence in 1891 with her grandson, Mr. Edward Bullock Finlay of Avebury, Calne,
co. W ilts, who said that his grandfather was long resident in Jamaica and had also been guardian to
his wife, Helen Wedderburn. He sent me the following account of her children. Their names were: —
Alexander, James (d. unm. at sea 1815), Marion, Elizabeth (d. 1S60), Helen (d. 1847), Sophia (d. 1837),
and Margaret (d. 1870). Of these only Alexander and Marion married. The son, Alexander (b. 177S,
and d. 1836) was married (i. ) 1810 to Justina Camilla Wynne, whod. s.p. 1816, and (ii ) 1825 to Lucy
Anne Jones, by whom (d. 1856) he had issue two sous — James, d. young, 1834, and Mr. E. B. Finlay, my
correspondent. In a letter, 2 Nov. 1891, he writes, ''Helen Finlay, my father's mother, was a Wedder-
burn. I have two portraits of her and one of her mother. One of Helen is in oils by an unknown artist,
taken at the age of 14 or 15. Another is a beautiful portrait in pastels, a;t. 23 or so, in the attitude of
singing from a music book, by Miss Read (post, chap. vi.). A family tradition says that George III. wished
a copy, but the lady refused to make one for a Hanoverian usurper. The one of the mother may be a
Komney. She was a Stuart." Mr. Finlay's list of Helen's daughters does not quite accord with
that given in the will of their great aunt (D.D. 147), as he gives one Sophia not named in the will,
and omits two, Hester and Catharine, who are there named. The one married daughter, Marion
Finlay, married James Connell of Glasgow, and had issue, besides a son. John Conned (d. unm. 1875),
and five other children (d. young), three daughters, Helen, Madeline, aud Marion, of whom Helen (d.
1889) married Capt. Granville Sharp (d. 1840), and had issue two sons and two daughters ; wlrile
Marion (d. 1846) m. David Glas Sandeman of Glasgow, and had issue a son, John Glas Sandeman,
and three daughters, one of whom, Marian (m. Henry Glassford Bell, advocate, and sheriff principal
of Lanarkshire, 1867-74). has given me ?ome of the information on which this note is based.