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12 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. England, b. at St. Kilda House, Wooloomooloo, Sydney, 3rd Nov., 1857 ; m. 16th March, 1878, Julia Grieve (6.1859), second daughter of Edward CoUing- wood, Esq., of Hyde Cliffe, Blackheath, co. Kent, England (who was b. 1824, and TO. Helen, daughter of Rev. James Macgowan, the author of numerous works) ; niece of William Collingwood, Esq. of Liverpool, co. Lancaster (who was i. 1819 ; m. Miss Marie Imhoff, and has issue, W. Gershoni Collingwood, Esq., M.A., of Windermere, co. Westmoreland, b. 1856, author of The Lime- stone Alps of Savoy, &c.) ; also niece of Cnthbert Collingwood, Esq. of Upper Norwood, CO. Surrey (who was h. 1826, author of Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Seas, &c.) ; granddaughter of Samuel Collingwood, Esq. of Blackheath (who was b. 1786, m. his cousin Frances, daughter of Samuel Collingwood, Esq., and d. 1852. She was b. 1789, and d. 1868) ; great granddaughter of William Collingwood, Esq. of Greenwich, co. Kent [who was b. 1756; m., first, Miss Ann Sophia Deedy(&. 1757, and d. s.p. 1785), and, secondly. Miss Mary Deedy (b. 1764, d. 1843) ; and d. 1827] ; and great great granddaughter of Samuel Collingwood, Esq. of Greenwich [who was b. 1730, m. Miss Mary Edwards (who d. 1798), and d. 1810], great great grandson of Ralph Collingwood, Esq., a descendant of Sir John Collingwood of Eslington, co. Northumberland (who d. 1550), from whom also was descended Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood, Admiral. Mr. H. S. Smith-Rewse has issue, a daughter, Ethel Helen Annie, b. 8th February, 1879. Henry Stinton Smith-Rewse, Esq., and his brothers Gilbert Flesher and Eustace Alfred, in compliance with a deed dated 20th June, 1888, obtained a Royal Licence, dated 9th April, 1889, authorising them and their issue to assume the surname of Rewse in addition to and after that of Smith, and to quarter the arms of Rewse. Heney Q-ilbert Smith, Esq., sometime of Fairliglit, Manly Beach, near Sjdney, New South Wales, and afterwards of Brighton, co. Sussex, England, sometime Member of the Legislative Assembly, and afterwards of the Legislative Council of the colony of New South Wales, fifth son of Thomas Smith, Esq., formerly of Houghton House, Great Houghton, co. Northampton, and afterwards of Manor House, Quinton, in the same county (vide Smith of G-oedon Brook), was b. at Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 15th February, 1802 ; emi- grated to New South Wales 1827 ; m., first, at St. Clement's, Hastings, 24th January, 1839, Eleanor, fifth daughter of the Rev. Webster Whistler, Rector of Hastings and Newtimber, co. Sussex, and sister of Penelope, wife of her husband's brother, Thomas Smith, Esq., formerly of Hornsey, co. Middlesex, and afterwards of Glenrock, Sydney, New South Wales. Mi's. Eleanor Smith (who was b. 1813) d. s.p. at Hastings, 11th October, 1839, aged 26. Mr. Smitli m. secondly, at Moreton Bay, Queensland, 11th November, 1856, Ann Margaret* (6. 1823, d. at Fairlight, Manly

  • She was entitled, by her descent through

heiresses, to quarter the arms of Thomas de Beach, 7th April, 1866), second daughter of the Rev. John Thomas, M.A., of Brockhill, parish of Shelsby Beauchamp, co. Worcester [who m. 1819, Mary (d. 1872), daughter and eventually heiress of Joseph Stinton, Esq., by Mary,' his wife, only child of Joseph Severne, Eso. of Munderfield Harold, Bromyard, oo. Hereford (b. 1741, d. 1805), by Mary, his wife (b. 1745, d. 1832), second daughter and co-heiress of Rowland Berkeley, Esq. of Cotheridge Court, co. Worcester, J. P. (who d. 1759), a descendant of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I., King of England] ; niece of Joseph Stinton, Esq. of Mvmderfield Harold, aforesaid, and Hampstead, co. Middlesex, J. P. and D.L. (who was b. 1795, and d. s.p. 1850) ; and granddaughter of John Thomas, Esq. of Brockhill, aforesaid, and by her had issue, I. Heney Stinton, of Manly and Wol- longong. II. Gilbert Flesher (Rev.), M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, rector Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, son of King Edward I. See Burke's Royal Families, ed. 1856.