The Enfield Rifle, whose introduction to India sparked the Indian Mutiny of 1857, in which John Wedderburn, his wife, and his children were killed.
John Wedderburn, Born 1825
KILLED WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE INDIAN MUTINY
John Wedderburn was born in Bombay in 1825, the son of a Scot who was working in India as a civil servant. John Wedderburn was educated at Loretto School, the Edinburgh Academy and at Haileybury, from which he entered the Bengal Civil Service. He married in January 1856, at S. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, Alice Bell, daughter of Dandisson Coates Bell of the Bombay Medical Board and Jane Smyttan, Alice Bell had been born in Bombay, India, in 1833. They had a son, John James Wedderburn, born at Edinburgh in November 1856. The family returned to Hissar, India in the spring of 1857. Soon after their return both parents and their child were killed in the Indian mutiny on 29th May 1857. They were buried at Hissar with other victims. At the time of their deaths John Wedderburn was 32, his wife Alice was 24 and their son was one year old.
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Source: Compiled from internet sources in 2021 by Alexander Reid.
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Wedderburn, David. Born 1835. (360 pages). Traveller, diarist and Liberal MP.
Wedderburn, William. Born 1838. (192 pages). Liberal MP and campaigner for Indian self rule.
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His great grandfather: Wedderburn, John. Born 1729. (11 pages). Jamaica plantation owner.
His great great grandfather: Wedderburn, John. Born 1700. (8 pages). Country gentleman and rebel, executed in 1746.