is termed "spouse future" to Alexander, so that it was an ante-nuptial contract. Her Part III. dowry was 5,000 merks, which sum the husband is to bring up to 8,000 merks, to be Chap. II. invested in annual-rents out of lands in Forfar and Perth. Her advisers are Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer, Kut., one of the lords of session, and Mr. John Fletcher, advocate, both, no doubt, near relatives. She was just ten years younger than her husband, having been born in March 1620 (Bl. 9), and survived him many years till 1703-4, when she was laid by his side in the Howff of Dundee, the Mortcloth Dues recording the use of the cloth for " Lady Blackness, elder" at that time (D.M.D. 33). She is thus occasionally named as his relict after Sir Alexander's death, e.g., 17 May 1680, when her life-rent of a South Flukergait house is named (F.S. 67); 13 June 1683, when she assigns a debt due to her (D.Dec. 11); and 18 Nov. 1689, when she gets, as guyder, maintainer, and intertainer," a decree for maills due to Alexander, son of her late son Peter (D.B R. 486).

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By her Sir Alexander had issue ten sous and six daughters, of whom he has left an elaborate family register (Bl. 9), which is given at length and also in facsimile at pp. 9293 of vol. ii. The sons were,

1. Alexander Wedderburn, born in Dundee 26 Oct. 1639 (Bl. 9), but died before 2 May 1643, when his parents give the same name to another son (ib.).

2. John Wedderburn, born 12 Feb. 1641, his son and heir, afterwards Sir John Wedderburn first baronet of Blackness, whose male line became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third baronet, in 1723. See post, chap. iv.

3. James Wedderburn, born in Dundee 3 May 1642 (Bl. 9). He is called "second son of Sir Alexander Wedderburn of Blackness" in the (confirmed) will of his great great uncle James, the merchant (ante, p. 117), who leaves him a legacy of 1,000 merks (Br.T. 13), and he was living 29 Jan. 1647, when his mother, with his father's consent, ratifies a renunciation (8 Dec. 1646) of her life-rent in the Catchpoill or Ketchpull close in favour of James, their second son (D.B. R. 448) He died, however, before 8 Nov. 1649, when his parents give the same name to another son (Bl. 9).

4. Alexander Wedderburn, born in Dundee 2 May 1643 (Bl. 9), but died before 4 April 1648, when his parents so name another son (ib.).

5. Alexander Wedderburn, born at Dundee 4 April 1648 (Bl. 9), and baptized there April 13, but died before 23 Jan. 1658 (D.B. 4), when his parents so name another son (Bl. 9).

6. James Wedderburn, born 8 Nov. 1649, and ultimately second surviving son of his father, clerk of Dundee 1675-96, and father of Sir Alexander, who succeeded as fourth baronet of Blackness, on the death of his cousin, the third baronet, in 1723. See post, chap. v.

7. Peter Wedderburn, born 18 Sept. 1652, married and had issue, now extinct in male line. See post, chap. iii.

8. George Wedderburn, born 13 Sept. 1654, married and had issue, extinct in male line before 1707. See post, chap. iii.

9. Alexander Wedderburn, born 23 Jan. 1658, married and had issue three daughters. See post, chap. iii.

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Wedderburn, born 30 Oct. 1660, and "dyed that day without baptisme" (Bl. 9). 1 The marriage contract of Sir Alexander and his own register (Bl. 9) in which he speaks of "James Fletcher, provost, my father-in-law," as witness to the baptism of his first child, places the parentage of Matild Fletcher beyond all doubt. Douglas, however, followed by J. W. and others, wrongly describes her as the daughter of the abovenamed Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer, St. Vigean's, near Arbroath, the degree of whose relationship I have not ascertained. Perhaps the provost was a younger brother of Sir Andrew, who was eldest son to Robert Fletcher of Innerpeffer and Beucleo, co. Forfar, burgess of Dundee, and had by his wife (a Hay of Megginch) a son Robert, afterwards knighted, who was father to the famous Andrew Fletcher, Lord Saltoun. (See Nat. Dict. Biog., vol. xix., 8. Fletcher.) George Fletcher, provost of Dundee, who married in 1664 Agnes Campbell, relict of John Pitcairn, and had a son James Fletcher, was no doubt of the same family as Matild Fletcher, whose husband was an adviser to George Fletcher's marriage contract (R. A. D. 91). The birth dates of these children are taken from his register, and the dates of their baptisms from the Parish Register of Dundee, but as that record only begins in 1645 there is no entry in it of the baptism of the four eldest sons and two eldest daughters. It is clear, however, from the names of the witnesses given in their family register that they were born and baptized in Dundee. There is also a copy of Sir Alexander's register made by Alexander Scrymgeour-Wedderburn about 1799 (S.W. 419).

Part III.

Chap. II,

1

Of the daughters of Sir Alexander Wedderburn,

1. Margaret Wedderburn1 was born in Dundee 22 March 1638 (Bl. 9). She married at Dundee 28-30 August 1655 (by banns 30 June)" Patrick Kyd, younger of Craigie (Bl. 9; D.M. 5), the marriage contract being dated 15 Aug. (D.D 15). Her husband was the eldest son of Mr. James Kyd of Craigie, who granted, 15 Aug., a charter of Grange of Barrie and other lands to his son's wife, in implement of her marriage contract, sasine following 7 Sept., 8 Oct. (F.S. 29); and a third of Craigie was also settled on her, her husband, and their issue, subject to James Kyd's liferent by charter, dated 18 Nov. in the same year (F.S. 31). James Kyd died before 1662, and, 16 April 1663, his son Patrick got sasine of the third of Craigie1 as his heir (F.S. 35). Patrick and his wife are often named, e.g., 31 Dec. 1661 in an obligation by James Kyd to his younger sons, reciting the settlement of Grange of Barrie on Patrick Kyd and his heirs male (D.D. 15); 21 Dec. 1664, when she renounces to him her interest in Grange of Barrie (D.B.R. 475); 12 Jan. 1665, when he settles on her six ploughs of the lands of Craigie in life-rent (F.S. 46); 29 June 1666, when there is a charter in his favour (ib. 51); and 31 Aug. 1667, when he gets sasine of Grange of Barrie (D.P.B. 502; F.S. 52). They had a son, James Kyd, baptized in Dundee 16 April 1657 (D.B. orig. record s.d.) who died, however, before 15 May 1675, when it is clear that they were childless, as Patrick then resigned parts of Craigie to his brother William, subject to the life-rent of himself and his wife, to redemption "if Patrick ever have a son," and to certain charges if he have daughters. In event of his dying s.p. the lands are charged with substantial legacies to his brother-in-law, John Wedderburn of Blackness, and to Alexander of Kingennie. On this resignation William Kyd got a great seal charter (G.S.R. 126) followed by sasine 15 May 1675 (F.S. 63). I have not ascertained the date of Patrick's death. He was living in Feb. 1676, when he witnessed a sasine made on the marriage contract of his wife's sister Cecilia (G.R.S. 44), but died before 18 Nov. 1685, when his "relict" is one of the curators to the younger and orphan children of his brother and her sister, William Kyd and Jean Wedderburn (D.Dec. 16 and see D.Dec. 40). Her life-rent in Craigie is mentioned 20 May 1687, when her nephew, James Kyd, marries (S.W. 481), and she was a witness to the baptism of her niece, Margaret (daughter of her youngest brother, Alexander, post, p. 218) on 29 Oct. 1690 (D.B. 44). There are decrees for her, "relict of Patrick Kyd of Craigie," 3 July 1693, 20 Oct. 1694 (D.Dec. 21, 26), and she had an action ". one Davidson, 24 March 1699, and got a decree 31 May, on both which occasions she is called "Margaret Wedderburn, Lady Craigie, elder” in distinction from her namesake, the daughter of her brother James, who had married John Paterson of Craigie, co. Perth (D.B.R. 495; D. Dec. 39). There is also a discharge by her to her brother, Blackness, 21 July 1702 (D.D. 69). The latest

Synopsis of References :-S. W. 481; Bl. 9; D.P.B. 502; D.B.R. 475, 495; D.D. 15, 40, 69-70; D.Dec.
16, 21, 26, 39; G.S.R. 126; G.R.S. 44; F.S. 29, 31, 46, 51, 52, 63; D.M. 5 ; D.B. 44.
2 The Dundee Parish Register gives the date as Aug. 30; her father's register as Aug. 28.

3 The name of Kyd occurs early in the Dundee records, and is also early connected by marriage with that
of Wedderburn. Thus, Robert Kyd was in parliament for Dundee in 1357, and we have seen that
Robert Wedderburn, the grandfather of Kingennie, married Janet Kyd (ante, p. 94), and that
Alexander Kyd married Isobell, daughter of David Wedderburn of Craigie (ante, p. 58). There were,
I believe, ultimately two branches of the family, one in and near Dundee and the other at Arbroath,
for which John Kyd was member in 1678-86. As to the Kyds of Craigie I should not have gone into
their history had not I chanced to get into correspondence with Mr. James Findlay of Easterhill,
who provided me with a good deal of material in regard to the family, which was that of his
wife's maternal grandmother. Taking his information and some notes from the Dundee records,
etc., I am able to give, as authentic, the pedigree on page 213, although I cannot here go into
the proofs (see, however, vol. ii, Index, s. Kyd; and Wood's East Neuk of Fite). The connection by
marriage with the Findlays accounts for there being at Boturich, co. Dumbarton, in the possession of
Mr. R. E. Findlay, three portraits by Zoust, of Margaret Wedderburn, her sister Jean, and the latter's
husband, William Kyd of Woodhill. There is a tradition that one of these ladies, after failing to persuade
her husband to stay at home from the wars, succeeded at the last moment in preventing his departure
for the field by pouring a kettleful of boiling water into his boots as he was draining the stirrup cup
she had offered him. She is said to have thus saved both his property and his life. I have heard
this story made into an incident of the '15 or the '45, but this is impossible. Both Margaret and
Jean Wedderburn were dead before the '15.

Craigie, as we have seen, had belonged to David, James, and John Wedderburn from 1535 to 1594 (ante, pp. 56 seqq.), but had been alienated by the last of them to Scharp of Houstoun, and then passed to the Kyds (F.S. 35).

Pedigree of the Kyds of Craigie, circ. 1600-1826, showing the descents from
Jean Wedderburn and William Kyd.

Part III.
Chap. II.