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CHRISTOPHER WEDDERBURN IN SOUTH AFRICA. 511
Christopher Wedderburn, married about 1799, Ann Quail, o£ Ulverstone, and by her had the five Part VI.
children who went out with him to Africa, viz. : — Chap. V.
1. William "Wedderburn. See post, Sub-sect. fa).
2. George Wedderburn. See post, Sub-sect. (6).
and
1. Ann, born 180S, died 1839, married George Duflield, co. York, and had issue three sons and three
daughters.
2. Elizabeth, born 1812, died unmarried 1838. Buried at Bathurst.
3. Hester, born 1814, married 1841, Richard Crouch of Grahamstown, and had issue three sons ; — ■
Sub -sect. (a). — William Wedderburn and his descendants.
William Wedderburn (eldest sou of Christopher Wedderburn) was born in Manchester in 1800,
and died in South Africa 1869. He was admitted a pupil at the Manchester Grammar School 5 June 1811,
being described as '• the son of Christopher Wedderburn, tailor, Manchester," 3 and emigrated to South
Africa with his father. He married Martha Patrick, daughter of Benjamin Patrick of Peterborough,
co. Leicester, and by her had issue three eons and two daughters : —
1. William Wedderburn, born in Jan. 1830. See below.
2. John Wedderburn," born 3 Jan. 1832 ; married 1853 Elizabeth Croft, relict of Frederick Slicot,
killed in the Kaffir war of 1S51, and by ber has issue three daughters : — (a) Gertrude, born
1858, married Christopher Shaw Webb, liviug in Grahamstown (1891), and has three sous and one
daughter ; (b) Edith Jane, born 1863, married William Bowes, now of Middlebury, Cape Colony,
and has one son ; and (c) Evelyna Martha, born , married William Clarice, now living at
Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, and has one son.
3. Christopher Wedderburn, born 12 Sept. 1834, married Julia Willmore, daughter of Gregory
Willmore, but has no issue. Now living at Parkasbad, Cape Colony,
and
1. Sara Ann, born 3 Aug. 1828, married Long, and has issue.
2. Hester Susanna, boru 13 Jan. 1849, married Morgan, and has issue.
William Wedderburn, born 19 Jan. 1830. He served in the Kaffir wars of 1846 and 1851 ; went
to Australia in 1852, and, after being in the Gold mounted police force there, returned to South Africa in
I 1854. His name was given to the town of Wedderburn (140 m. N.W. of Melbourne) by the then governor,
Sir Charles Latrobe. He married, 18 June 1849, Miriam "Whiting', daughter of Richard Whiting of
Moultin. co. Northampton, England, and has had seven sous and three daughters : —
1. William Richard Whiting Wedderburn (of Kokstadt, Cape Colony), born 27 Aug. 1852 ;
married 1881 Leonora Eales, daughter of Robert Eales, and by her had issue a son, Herbert
Sivewright, born March 1888, and three daughters.
2. Alexander John Ennis "Wedderburn (of Bloemfoutein, Orange Free State), born 5 July 1855 ;
married 1876 Susanna Alice Canood, and has issue four sons — (a) William du Barry, born
1 1 July 1882 ; (i) Alexander, born 6 July 1887 ; (c) Percy, born 11 June 1889 ; (d) Christo-
pher Charles, born 15 March 1891 — and four daughters.
3. Frederick Maclean Wedderburn, born 17 Jan. 1861, died at Grahamstown, 1862.
4. Christopher Raymond Wedderburn, born 25 July, 1862. Living (1891), at Vereeniging,
Transvaal ; unmarried.
5. George Benjamin Wedderburn, born 24 May, 1864. Now (1891) at Grahamstown, married
4 Feb. 1890, Charlotte Emma Frank, and has issue a son, Graham, born 8 March, 1891.
6. Charles Thomas Croft Wedderburn, born 6 Nov. 1866. Living (unmarried) at Bloemfontein,
1891.
7. Percy Douglas Wedderburn, born 17 Jan. 1870. Living (1891) unmarried, at Queenstown,
Cape Colony,
and
1. Frances Miriam, born 22 March 1S50, married R. Brooks (from Devonshire). Living (1891) at
Barbertou, Transvaal. Has no living issue.
2. Julia Marian, born 6 July 1857, married 13 Dec. 1879, Samuel David Canood, and has issue.
Now (1891) living at Grahamstown.
3. Florence Nightingale, born 12 Oct. 1858, uumarried. Living (1891) at Grahamstown.
Manchester as a coachman, who died there about 1825, and is buried in S. John's churchyard,
Deansgate. His wife, Ann — , died at 23, Dumville Street, Manchester, in 1S47, aged 70, having had
issue two sons; 1, John, married Mary Walthur and died s.p. at Altrincham, co. Cheshire, 24 Aug. 1814,
tet. 46 ; 2, Adam, tailor in Manchester, born 1810, died there, 29 Sept. 1848, married, but
s.p.; and two daughters; 1, Harriett, born 1S20, died May 18S4, having married at Manchester
Cathedral, 5 Dec. 1859, George Kershaio, a tailor in Manchester, and by him had two sons, James (or
John) and William, and a daughter. 2. Matilda, born 1817-18, married at Manchester Cathedral,
24 Dec. 1838, to William Warren, and living (1891) at Eagleville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Mrs. Warren can give but few details. She says that her father had a brother John, who went to Africa
in 1820 as a missionary and had a family of seven children. Her grandparents, she says, came from
Aberdeen. The two sons of Harriett Wedderburn and George Kershaw were in 1891 engaged as
travelling comedians, playing under the assumed name of Wedderburn. It is from them and their
aunt, Mrs. Warren, that I get this account of Adam Wedderburn.
1 Admission Register of the Manchester Grammar School (Chetham Soe. Publ.), ed. J. F. Smith 1S74,
vol. iii., p. 72.
2 I presume him to be the person of his name mentioned in the reports as taking part in Dr. Jameson's
raid in January 1896,