Alexander Wedderburn

Probably brother of John Wedderburn of Spring Garden. He was the eldest son of Thomas Wedderburn of Cantra and cousin of John Wedderburn of Balindean (q.v.) and James Wedderburn Colville (q.v.). Travelled to Jamaica in the spring of 1760 and died unmarried on Blue Castle estate a decade later. His cousins were also based in Westmoreland and were acting as Attorneys by the late 1760s, it is thus possible that one represents the Messrs Wedderburn referenced below.

Alexander Wedderburn filed Crop Accounts for Carawina [1] (Westmoreland, Jamaica) in 1762, on behalf of the heirs of Joseph Williams Esq. (q.v.).

In 1766 Alexander Wedderburn filed Crop Accounts on the instruction of attorneys Messrs Wedderburn, Fairholme & Malcolm for Dundee Pen (Hanover, Jamaica), on behalf of James Kerr Esq. (q.v.). Wedderburn listed as Overseer.

Alexander Wedderburn, The Wedderburn Book: a history of the Wedderburns in the counties of Berwick and Forfar, designed of Wedderburn, Kingennie, Easter Powrie, Blackness, Balindean and Gosford, 1296-1896 (Published privately, 1898), p. 342.