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244 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY I. Stephen Henry, present owner of Ormley, Fingal, Tasmania, J. P. since 1872, b. 7th October, 1843; m. 6th March, 1867, Hannah Fletcher, and has issue, a daughter, II. Thomas William, h. 17th June, 1845; vi. 2nd July, 1868, Harriet Thompson, and has issue, two sons and one daughter. III. Charles Frederick Archibald, b. 23rd September, 1849; m. 10th January, 1873, Elizabeth Elliston, and has issue, six sons. IV. Francis Henry, b. 6th May, 1852 ; unm. I. Mary Elizabeth, m. 29th January, 1867, Thomas Spencer, Esq. II. Elizabeth Helen, m. 28th November, 1881, Edward 0. Cotton, Esq. of Glamorgan, Tasmania. Htncage. Tlie Grviebers are of German extraction. Three brothers emigrated from Frankfort in 1572, one settled in India, and d. s.p., one in Ireland, whose descendants are now extinct, and one in England, whose descendant, Stephen Henet Gbitebbe, Esq., was a captain in the E. I. Co.'s service, and was father of Stephen Heney Getjebek, Esq. of Brook- ley, CO. Kent, England, East India merchant of the City of London, and member of the Goldsmiths' Company; m. 3rd August, 1801, Mary, daughter of She d. 20th February, 1862. He d. 31st January, 1855, having had issue, I. Henry, m. Eliza Pierce, and d. leaving a daughter. II. Thomas, of Granville Park, Black- heath, CO. Kent, England, formerly practised as a solicitor; m. Emily Eowsell, and has issue, three daugh- ters. III. Charles Stephen (Rev.), B.A. Ox- ford, vicar of Hambridge, near Taun- ton, CO. Somerset, England, m. Cathe- rine Appold, and has issue, three sons and seven daughters. IV. Stephen Henet, now of Ormley, Fingal. I. Mary Anne, m. Hugh Pierce, Esq., and has issue, four sons and live daughters. Arms used — Per pale or and az., three roses counterchanged. Crest — A rose between two wings erect, each charged with a rose. Motto — Honor virtutis prcemium. Residence — Ormley, Fingal, Tasmania. ^state^Now owned by Mr. Stephen Henry Grueber, jun. — Ormley, situated between Fingal and Avoca, on the banks of the South Esk River, Tasmania (6,000 acres). Jforast ot ^tvtij. FORREST, HON. JOHN, C.M.G., J.P., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., of Hay- street, Perth, Western Australia, member of the Legislative Assembly for Bunbury, first colonial treasurer and premier, under responsible govern- ment, of Western Australia, and one of the representatives of that colony at the National Australasian Federal Convention, formerly commissioner of Crown Lands and surveyor-general of Western Australia, b. 22nd August, 1847 ; 7n. 29th February, 1876, Margaret Elvire, elder daughter of Edward Hamersley, Esq. of Pyrton, near Guildford, Western Australia, B.A. (Trinity College, Cambridge), brother of the late Hugh Hamersley, Esq. of Pyrton Manor, co. Oxford, England, J. P. and D.L., chairman of Quarter Sessions, and high sheriff, 1840 (see Hamersley article below), but by her has no issue. The Hon. John Forrest is an honorary fellow of the Italian Geo- graphical Society, honorary fellow of the Imperial Geographical Society of Vienna and St. Petersburg, knight of the Italian Crown. In 1865, he entered the Survey Department in Western Australia, and has commanded several exploring expeditions into the interior of Australia, including that