Introd. on the border, and a list of miscellaneous references from Scottish records, conclude this chapter of the work. The Wedderburns The Wedderburns in Africa. I have then collected together my notes on a few English families of the name. These are, principally, a very large one in the county of Northumberland, originally at Allerdean, but since spreading to Horncliffe and Newcastle. There are other smaller families elsewhere in the same county, and I find traces of the name in Lancashire. A numerous modern family in the south of England descend from a Robert Wedderburn, who assumed the name and came over from Jamaica to this country early in this century. An Alexander Wedderburn, who long resided at Exeter, is said to have come from Berwick; his line is extinct. In this division also I have added a list of stray references to individuals. The accounts of three families in South Africa, in Canada, and in the United States conclude the volume. Of these, the first is one which was originally connected with Manchester, and which (tradition has it) was, in common with many of the inhabitants of that city, on the side of Prince Charles Edward in the '45. It also owned a small estate called Lindale, in co. Cumberland. One of its number, Christopher Wedderburn, emigrated to South Africa in 1820, and from him descend the family of his name which have ever since been settled there. A second family is descended from an Alexander Wedderburn from Aberdeen, who was born at the beginning of this century. He emigrated to S. John's, New Brunswick, Canada (where he was emigration agent to the British Government), married, and had issue an only son William (born 1834), who went to the Canadian bar, and has had a distinguished career as advocate, politician, and judge. The last of the three families is one in the United States, with the head of which J.W. had some correspondence in 1822-23. The original ancestor of this family was a Scottish emigrant, David Wedderburn, who went out to Virginia in 1720-30. J.W. erroneously assumed him to be a son of Peter Wedderburn and Catharine Man (ante, p. lxiii), who had, however, no son of the name. The parentage of this David is thus unknown, and the American family cannot at present be claimed as a junior branch of the Forfarshire house. In Canada. In the United The contents of this volume have now been passed in review. Much has of course been omitted, of detail, of complete documents, and of laboured proof. For all these the reader must refer to the following pages, in which I have endeavoured to set down nothing, which cannot be established by the body of evidence contained in the second volume of the work. My aim throughout has been to be accurate and true. So far from seeking to present an account flattering at the cost of fact, I have in some cases swept away vague pretensions hitherto advanced. No fiction is, I think, needed to support either the antiquity of the name or the worthiness of many of those who have borne it. In the spirit of the mottoes of the house I have disdained to catch flies, content to be able to present the record of a family, the sons of which in the past have been most of them useful members of the community in which they lived, many of them helpful servants of country and king, and have thus handed down to us in the present the desire to maintain the honour of an undegenerate race. Conclusion. PART I. EARLY HISTORY OF THE FAMILY IN DUNDEE. AN ACCOUNT OF ITS DIFFERENT BRANCHES, ANTECEDENT AND COLLATERAL TO THAT OF KINGENNIE. B CONTENTS OF PART I. CHAPTER I.-JAMES WEDDERBURN IN DUNDEE, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. Sect. i. James Wedderburn (m. Janet Barry). His sons James, John, Robert, Henry, and Gilbert, and his daughter Elizabeth; with an account of the descendants of his two youngest sons, showing their male line to be extinct. Sect. ii. His three eldest sons, authors of The Gude and Godlie Ballates, and their share in the reformation of the Scottish church. His second son, John Wedderburn, in England. Sect. iii-His third son, Robert Wedderburn, Vicar of Dundee. His claim to the authorship of The Complaynt of Scotland. His descendants in Dundee and at Burntisland. His male line extinct. -- Sect. iv. His eldest son, James Wedderburn, and his descendants in Dundee and in Moravia. His grandson, John Wedderburn (m. Margaret Lindsay), and his two sons (a) John Wedderburn, protomedicus in Moravia, and his descendants there; (b) James Wedderburn, Bishop of Dunblane. CHAPTER II.-WALTER WEDDERBURN IN DUNDEE, AND HIS DESCENDANTS THERE, AND IN FIFE. His son David Wedderburn in Welgait, father of Alexander Wedderburn of Pittormie, burgess of Cupar. William Wedderburn, minister at Pittenweem and in Dundee. James Wedderburn, minister of Moonzie, and his son James, also minister there. Andrew Wedderburn, minister at Liff, and Alexander Wedderburn, minister at Forgan and later at Kilmarnock, co. Ayr. CHAPTER III.-David WedderbURN IN THE MURRAYGAIT OF DUNDEE AND HIS DESCENDANTS. His son David Wedderburn of Craigie (m. Helen Lawson) and his two sons, James and William, with an account of their families. Their male lines extinct. CHAPTER IV. ROBERT WEDDERBURN (M. JANET FROSTER) AND HIS FAMILY, OTHER THAN HIS SON ROBERT, PROGENITOR OF THE FAMILY OF KINGENNIE. (See Part II.) With an account of the descendants of two of their sous : (i) James Wedderburn (m. Janet Logan); (ii) Alexander Wedderburn, elder (m. Isobell Anderson), father of Richard Wedderburn of Elsignor in Denmark, and Patrick Wedderburn of Dundee. CHAPTER V.-NOTICES OF VARIOUS PERSONS, CHIEFLY IN DUNDEE, UNIDENTIFIED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. |