BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 391 WlLllAM CruElE, Esq. of Howford, Sel- kirkshire, Srotland, m. about, 1810, Ileuri- etta, sister of Andrew Lang, Esq. of Selkirk, and of William Lang, Esq. of Edinburgh, Scotland, and d. in 1830, having had b}' lier (who d. about 1850), I. Andrew, h. 6th November, 1812, m. Isabella Hardie Denholm, and has five sons and three daughters. II. John Lang, of whom we treat. III. William, b. 23rd February, 1820, d. 1825. IV. George, b. 31 st December, 1822, m. in Austraha, Miss Harriet Glascot, and has three sons and three daughters. I. Jean, b. 14th May, 1811, m. William Scott, Esq. of Ladhope, Yarrow, Scot- land, and has two sons and one daugh- ter. II. Henrietta, b. 10th October, 1815, m.. in Australia, Leonard Salmon Lowe, Esq., and has issue, a daughter, Mary. Arms used — Gu., a sallire, arg.y a rose in chief of the last, barbed and seeded vert. Crest — A cock gu. Motto — Audax at vigi- lans. Residences — (Country) — Larra, Titanga, both CO. Hampden. (Town) — Eildon, Grey- street, St. Kilda, Victoria. JEstaies — Larra and Titanga, both co. Hampden, Victoria. ^tarsott xif Hilmanp ^arfe anU Craicjtllatftit* PEARSON, HON. WILLIAM, of Kilmany Park, Sale, Taojil co., and of Craigellachie, St. Kilda, both in Victoria, J. P., was for twelve years a member of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, and is now a member of the Legislative Council of that colony ; h. at Hilton, parish of Kilmany, Fifeshire, Scotland, 20th September, 1818 ; was educated at Polmont and Edinburgh High School ; emigrated to Victoria, arriving in Hobson's Bay in 1841 ; m, at Sale, Tanjil co., 4th August, 1859, Eliza Laura, daughter of H, J. Travers, Esq., formerly in the Hon. E.I.Co.'s Civil Service, and has had issue, I. Hugh, h. at Kilmany Park, 22nd June, 1860; d. 27th November, 1874. II. Henry Travers, &, at Kilmany Park, 19th July, 1861 ; d. 17th March, 1880. III. William, h. at Kilmany Park, 25th June, 1864; m. 2nd July, 1887, Sophie Emily Gooch. IV. John Benward, h. at Kilmany Park, 9th December, 1866. v. Alexander Buchanan, h. at Kilmany Park, 13th September, 1869. I. Helen, h. at Kilmany Park, 21st September, 1871. II. Laura Margaret, h. at Kilmany Park, 14th Mai'ch, 1874. Htncage. The old Scottish family of Peeson of LocHLANDS, PiEESON of the baroiiy of Bal- MADIES, Forfarshire, and Peabson of the barony of Xippenboss, Dunblane, Perth- shire, of which the Hon. William Pearson is head, appears under various spellings, in some of the earliest oiEcial records of Scot- land. This family is described as then " ancient," in 1684, by John Ochterlony of The Guynd, in his Account of the Shire of Forfar.* In the Ragman KoU — the sealed instru- ment of fealty subscribed by the rei^resenta- tives of Scotland, to Edwaed I, of England, in his ofBce as arbitrator between Bruce and Baliol — Wautier Pieressone (del Counte de
- See Macfarlane MSS., Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh. — Spott. Misc., p. 343. Berewyk) signs as landowner in Berwickshire, 2Sth August, 1296. In a safe conduct granted by Edward III, of England, signed by the king at Westminster, 11th June, 1369, David Perisone, " mercator de Scotia," is permitted to pass through England, " cum quatuor sociis equitibus." Six others, named in the same document, have passes for two mounted companions each. The safe conduct provides against the exjjort of bows and arrows to the prejudice of England. From 1372 to 1390, David Perisone, and his brothers, Alexander and John, were comptroUei-s of the customs of North Berwick, Dumfries, and Haddington. In the Close Eolls, 20 Ric. II, 27th June, 1396, " The king (Richard II) commands his cousin, Henry Percy, Earl of North-
