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Name

Katharine Wedderburn

Brief Biography

1750 - 1793, British / Scottish

Description

Katharine Wedderburn was possibly the wearer of items in Glasgow Museums' dress collection. She was born in 1750, the second daughter of Robert Wedderburn of Persie (1708–86) and his wife Isobel Edward (1718–88), and baptized on 28 May at Kingoldrum. She married Dr Robert Stewart, a Dundee physician, in about 1780. The couple had a son and three daughters; James born in Dundee in 1782, twins Isobel and Margaret, born on 8 October 1783, and Elizabeth, born on 11 January 1786 (who married her cousin, Alexander Stormonth, son of her maternal aunt, Isobel Wedderburn). Katharine died in December 1793 and was buried in Dundee.