Howff Memorial 725

Inscription.

Inscription on original monument.

Conditur Hoc Tumulo Alexander Wedderburn Dominus De Easter Powrie, Famille Su æ Princeps, Nuperrime Huic Urbi Præfectus, Ejuusdem Ad Parliamentum Primum Supremi Domini Nostri Regis Caroli II. Delegatus. Orbiit I Die Aprilis Anno Domini 1638 ætatis 66. Hic Etiam Conquiescunt Ossa Elizabeth Æ Ramsay Illius Primi Amoris Uxoris Filliæ Uniæ Joannis Ramsay Fratris Domini De Murie Hujusque Urbis Olim Prætoris, Quæ Obiit 2 Die Mensis Aprilis 1643 ætatis 22

Under this tomb is interred Alexander Wedderburne, Lord (or Baron) of Easter Pourie, Chief of his family, formerly Provost of this city, and its Delegate (or representative) to the first Parliament of our Sovereign Lord King Charles II. He died 9th April A.D. 1683 aged 68. Here also rest the bones of Elizabeth Ramsay, the wife of his firt love, only daughter of John Ramsay, brother of the Lord of Murie, formerly Baillie of this city, who died 2nd April 1643, aged 22.

Source: The Book of the Howff, ©Libraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is
reproduced with kind permission.

Rebuilt monument inscription.

( West Panel)
HERE REST
MANY OF THE HOUSE OF
WEDDERBURN
LONG EMINENT IN THIS BURGH
AMONG THEM THOSE
NAMED ON THIS MONUMENT
WHICH THEIR DESCENDANTS
RESTORED AND REBUILT
1893.

(South Panel)
NON DEGENER
ALEXANDER WEDDERBURN town clerk, 1557, D. 1585.
His son ALEXANDER op kyngany, B. 1561. D. 1626.
His son ALEXANDER, B. 1583. D. 1637.
M. 1612 MAGDALEN SCRYMGEOUR
THEIR SON ALEXANDER OF EASTER POWRIE SOMETIME PROVOST B. 1615 D. 1683
His son ALEXANDER B. 1643, D. 1692.
AND HIS SON
ALEXANDER of Wedderburn B. 1666, D. 1713
WHOSE SOLE SURVIVING CHILD
GRIZEL WEDDERBURN OF WEDDERBURN
B. 1705. D. 1778.

(North Panel)
JAMES second son to ALEXANDER of Kyngany
B. 1589 D. 1627
M. MARGARET GOLDMAN
Their son SIR ALEXANDER of Blackness KNt B. 1610, D. 1676.
M. MATILDA FLETCHER
Their sons JOHN, first baronet of Blackness, B. 1641 D. 1707
And JAMES B. 1649 D. 1696.
M. ELIZABETH DAVIDSON
Their son SIR ALEXANDER fourth baronet B. 1675. D. 1744
M. KATHARIN SCOTT
And their second son ROBERT of pearsie B. 1708. D. 1786
AQUILA NON CAPTAT MUSCAS

(East Panel)
LADY MARGARET OGILVY
B. 1748 D. 1775.
FIRST WIFE OF
SIR JOHN WEDDERBURN
OF BALINDEAN
SIXTH BARONET, B. 1729, D. 1803.
Son of SIR JOHN,
B. 1704. D. on KENNINGTON COMMON, 1746.
PRO REGE ET PATRIA.

Burial-place of the Wedderburn family, including the Wedderburns of Croft, of Pearsie, of Easter Powrie, and of Ballindean. The principal monument is the upright one with the centre shaft, erected in honour of Lady Margaret, daughter of David, Lord Ogilvie, and sister to David, Earl of Airlie. She was the mother of Sir David Wedderburn, Bart. On the west side of the pedestal a beautifully executed marble tablet by Schumacher, the tutor of the Celebrated Nollekens.