Page:A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry Vol 1.djvu/33

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 13 of St. Margaret's and St. Peter's, South Elmham, co. Suffolk, England, and of Manly and Wollongong, aforesaid, h. at Manly Beach, near Sydney, 15th July, 1860, m. 4th August, 1886, Augusta (b. 1860), eldest daughter of the Rev. Eose Fuller Whistler, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, M.A., vicar of Ashburn- ham, Battle, co. Sussex, rural dean and J. P. (who ?». 1855, Augusta, daughter of James Watts, Esq., of Battle) ; grand- daughter of Edwai'd Webster Whistler, Esq. of Colchester, co. Essex (who was b. 1799, m. Mary Ann, daughter of John Alcock, Esq. of Sheen, co. Stafford, and d. 1879, his wife dying the same year) ; and great grand- daughter of the Bev. Webster Whis- tler, rector of Hastings and Newtimber, CO. Sussex, aforenamed ; and has issue, Henry Gilbert, h. 7th August, 1887, and Osyth Mary, b. 7th June, 1889. By Royal Licence, dated 9th April. 1889, the Rev. Gilbert Flesher Smith and his issue were authorised to assume the surname of Rewse in addition to and after that of Smith, and to quarter the arms of Revise, in compliance with a deed dated 20th June, 1888. III. Eustace Alfred, of Manly and Wollongong, Sydney, New South Wales, b. at Fairlight, Manly Beach, near Sydney, 15th April, 1863. By Royal Licence, dated 8th April, 1889, he and his issue were authorised to assume the surname of Rewse in addition to and after that of Smith, and to quarter the arras of Rewse, in compliance with a deed dated 20th June, 1888. Henry Gilbert Smith m. thirdly, at Bath, 1867, Anne Louise, eldest daughter of Edward Lloyd, Esq. of Limerick, Ireland, M.D., by Anne, his wife, only daughter of George Hodges, Esq. of Ballincollig, co. Cork, Ire- land ; and d. in London, 1st April, 1886, and was buried in St. Andrew's Churchyard, Hove, Brighton, co. Sussex. Arms — Quarterly: 1st and 4th, sa. a fesse dancettee erm., between three crescents or, for Rewse ; 2nd and 3rd, gu. aohev. cottised between three cinquefoils erm., all within a bordure engr. arg., for Smith. Crests — 1st, a demi lion ramp. erm. holding in its paws a branch of laurel slipped vert, for Rewse ; 2nd, in front of a talbot's head couped gu. a cinquefoil erm.betw. two trefoils slipped vert, for Smith. Residences — 18, Southwell-gardens, South Kensington, co. Middlesex, England ; and Biarritz, B. Py. Club — Conservative, London. Estates — Manly and Wollongong, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. MEIN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, Esq., M.D., J.P., of Falkenstein, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, and Moolpa, New South Wales, Australia, eldest son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Nicol Alexander Mein, of the 43rd (or Monmouthshire) Light Infantry, who was brother of Pulteney Mein, Esq., Surgeon, 73rd Regiment of Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Mein, of the 52nd (or Oxfordshire) Ligtt Infantry, C.B. Dr. Mein was h. in Dum- friesshire, Scotland, 27th December, 1822 ; took the degree of M.D. at the University of Edinburgh, 1845 ; emigrated to Australia, 1853 ; returned to England on the breaking out of the Crimean War, and offered his services as surgeon to proceed to the seat of operations, but these being declined, he returned to Australia in 1857, and, in partnership with his brother, purchased Moolpa Station, Murrumbidgee District, New South Wales, returned to England in 1861, and m. Jane Hetherington, daughter of the late Edmund Gibsone, Esq., C.E., of Penton House, co. Cumberland ; immediately after- wards returned to Moolpa, and was made a magistrate for the Territory of New South Wales ; continued pastoral pursuits, and subsequently purchased Boorooma, Warego, New South Wales, Gilmore and Herbert Downs, Queens- land, and Woodslee Downs and Turiroa, New Zealand. He has issue two sons and three daughters, I. Pulteney, I. 7th January, 1876. n. Douglas, h. 5th February, 1878.