WYNDHAM B. ROBERTSON.
Wyndham B. Robertson, youngest son of Hon. Wyndham Robertson,
governor of Virginia, 1836, married Florence Henderson in Lynchburg,
in 1871.
The following interesting pedigree of the descent of Rev. James Henderson,
grandfather of Mrs. Robertson, is furnished by Mr. Alexander
Brown, of Nelson, a relative of the family, to whom it was sent by
Michael-John Shaw-Stewart, after it had been verified by the late R. R.
Stodart, Lyon clerk in Edinburg.
Archibald Fleming, merchant in Glasgow, Scotland, married Elizabeth
Lennox. Their son, William Fleming, burgess of Glasgow and
clerk of the commissariat, married, and died September, 1636. His
son, Sir Archibald Fleming of Ferme Park and Catgill, advocate commissary
of Glasgow and Rector of the University, was created a baronet
in 1661, he married in 1637 Agnes, daughter and heir of David Gibson,
notary and burgess of Glasgow, died January, 1662. His son, Sir
William Fleming, second baronet, also commissary, married Margaret,
daughter of Archibald Stewart, of Scotland; he died in February, 1707.
His son, Sir Archibald Fleming, third baronet, married in 1692, Elizabeth,
eldest daughter of Sir George Hamilton, baronet of Binny; died
April 14, 1714, leaving issue two sons, and ten daughters. One of
these daughters married Lord Elphinstone's eldest son, but died without
issue, another married Mr. Maschet; a third married a Mr. Henderson,
and their son is Rev. James Henderson, who came to Virginia,
the grandfather of Mrs. Robertson. Margaret, wife of the first Sir
William Fleming, was the daughter of Archibald Stewart, who was the
second son of Sir Archibald Stewart, Knight, of Blackhall (by his first
wife, Margaret, daughter of Bryce Blair). Sir Archibald descended
from Robert III of Scotland, and was ancestor of the present Sir
Michael-Robert Shaw-Stewart, baronet of Greenock and Blackhall, M.
P. for Renfrewshire, etc. Rev. James Henderson was long an honored
professor at William and Mary College, his first wife Miss Blair, his
second, Mrs. Hosbourger,
nee Peter. The living children of Wyndham
B. Robertson and wife are four: Eliza Holcombe, Wyndham Bolling,
Mary Smith, and Walter Henderson, and they have buried three, William,
Chas. Edward and John Rolfe. It will be seen these children are,
on the maternal side, of descent from Robert III of Scotland, on their
father's side they descend from King Duncan; while, as an eminent
writer has said, "We must not forget the royal blood of the Princess
Pocahontas." (See pp. 171-5, Volume I, Virginia and Virginians, for
the records of Mr. Robertson's family.)
