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See also

Family of James Arthur WILSON and Janet SHEDDEN

Husband: James Arthur WILSON (1766- )
Wife: Janet SHEDDEN (1759- )

Husband: James Arthur WILSON

Name: James Arthur WILSON
Sex: Male
Father: James WILSON ( - )
Mother: Margaret SIMSON ( - )
Birth 9 Feb 1766
Occupation Professor of Anatomy

Wife: Janet SHEDDEN

Name: Janet SHEDDEN
Sex: Female
Father: Robert SHEDDEN (1709-1759)
Mother: Margaret SIMSON ( - )
Birth 6 Apr 1759 Beith

Note on Husband: James Arthur WILSON

Date of birth from the Memoir of William Wilson

Note on Wife: Janet SHEDDEN

Birth from scotlandspeople OPR index

 

Information from The History of The County of Ayr.

Janet, married to James Scrimgeour, London, by which union there were four sons—James, Robert, William, and John; and three daughters—Margaret, Dorothea. and Jessie. Janet, married her cousin. Dr James Arthur Wilson, London, only son of James Wilson, who was Professor of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons in London for many years, and was acknowledged to be one of the first anatomist: of his time. He was son of Margaret Simson (Mrs Shedden), by her second husband, James Wilson, who was parochial schoolmaster of Beith, and afterwards resided in London.