sentences:  As then head of the family this was his right in Scots law, instead he purchased Castle Milk, now owned by the head of the Jardines, as well as buying Estates in Yorkshire and Berwick.This was not the first Lidderdale ‘of means’ to not seek to redeem the wadset, as James Lidderdale (1670-1708), son of Thomas Lidderdale (1630-1687), saw in his son, Thomas (born c1690).Like many other Lidderdales, Young Thomas in the West Indies, making a fortune, on what is called a Spanish voyage, did not direct the freeing of the Isle, with his money, though he may have died intestate, his money going to his sister.