sentences: Alexa M.Carter (1865-1953) of Edinburgh, states, "I do not know much of family affairs but my father, William Halliday Lidderdale (1815-1896) returning, somewhat peeved, from Lard Selkirk's (Dunbar James 1885) funeral quite clearly stated that the Isle passed from our family owing to the foreclosure of the wadset, this I believe".Her father also stated that his father, James Lidderdale (1786-1878), was too badly off to have joined with Captain William Robertson Lidderdale (1745-1814) of Gretna Hall, in going to law, she knowing Captain William had written to her grandfather James Lidderdale (1786-1878), he being a leading solicitor in Galloway.