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14 BUEKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. I. Beatrice Helena, m. James Cox, Esq., M.D., of Collins-street, Melbourne, and has issue one son, Frank Elton, h. 2nd January, 1887. II. Augusta Nicola, m. 25th April, 1888, Stuart Brownrigg Leishman, Esq. of Lome, Queensland. III. Annie Mary Agnes, unm. Arms — Az. on a fesse embattled erm. between six cross orosslets fitches or, a tiger's head affrontee vert, striped and crowned with an eastern crown gold, between two eagles displayed of the last a canton of the second, thereon pendent from a ribband gu. a repre- sentation of the medal struck to commemorate the capture of Seringapatam, encircled by the word " Seeingapatam" in letters of gold. Crest — Out of a mural crown or a dexter hand issuant charged with a human eye ppr., surmounting three swords, one in pale and two in saltire, also ppr. pomels and hilts gold, the upper parts of the blades encircled by a wreath of laurel vert. The above coat of arms was granted to Pulteney Mein, Surgeon of the 73rd Eesiment of Foot, and his younger brother, Niool Alexander Mein, Lieutenant- Colonel 43rd (or Mon- mouthshire) Light Infantry, tlie father of Dr. Mein, whose imcle, William Mein, Lieu- tenant-Colonel of the 52nd (or Oxfordshire) Light Infantry, C.B., was granted the same arms and crest, with the canton in the arms charged with the representation of the gold medal conferred upon the said Lieutenant- Colonel William Mein for his services in the action at the river Nive, encircled by the word " NiVE " in letters of gold, pendent from a ribband gu. fimbriated az., in lieu of the medal before described. Residences — (town) Falkenstein, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria; (country) Moolpa, New South Wales, Australia. Clubs — Melbourne and Australian. jHtHellar of ^tratl)feellar, Crojittin, antr I.eraflS> MCTT^ELLAR, THOMAS, Esq. of Strathkellar and Croxton, Hamil- ■ ton, Victoria, and of Lerags, Oban, Ai^gyll, Scotland, J. P. in Victoria, and late member of the Legislative Council of Victoria, h. 15th June, 1819, m. at Geelong, Victoria, 20th December, 1849, Catherine, second daughter of the late John McColl, Esq. of Mingary, co. Argyll, Scot- land, by Jean, his wife, daughter of Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Lerags, Oban, CO. Argyll, which lady was directly descended through the family of Campbell, of Lochnell (see Duke of Argyll, in Burke's Peerage, and Campbell op LoCHNBLL, in Burke's Landed Gentry), from Colin, third Earl of Argyll, and his wife Lady Jane Gordon, daughter of the third Earl of Huntley, and has issue, I. John, of Tarrone, Victoria, h. 28th October, 1850 ; m. at Christ Church, Warrnambool, 1st June, 1875, Edith, youngest daughter of the late William Rutledge, Esq. of Farnham Park, Warrnambool, cos. Villiers and Heytesbury, Victoria (see Rutledge of Werrongguet), J. P., member of the Legislative Assembly, and one of the earliest and best known of the pioneers of the colony of Victoria, by Eliza, his wife, daughter of Richard Kirk, Esq. of Sydney, New South Wales, and d. at Saltram, Torquay, 6th August, 1885, aged 34, leaving issue, 1 Neville Thomas, I. 22nd March, 187G. 2 Ian Kirk, h. 1st December, 1880. 3 Alan Campbell, h. 25th July, 1882. 4 Eric Rutledge, h. 8th May, 1884. 5 John, h. 28th September, 1885.