lU'UKKS COLONIAL flKNTllY. ■Vn.i.iA>r EsPEi-T, of Slaiuling Hall, llorls, Kiigland, vi. Ciiruliue Loui-»a, daughter of .Sir Francis Mari.to.v, and bad au only son. Pkter EsPKl'T, who served with liis regi- ment in Barbados, 1779-1782, in Marliiiicnic 1783-1785; and in San Domingo, as C'onimis- fary-Gencral to the Army of Ocenpation, until the eTacualiou of the liritish, when he ])roceoded to Jamaica and purchased estates there. He W(. 1775, Dorcas, daughter of Admiial C.^rtur, and </. 178(i, from the effects of a fall from his liorse, and was buried in Kingston juirish churchy ard, having hy her (who tn. scconiUy the Manpiis de la BocuEJAQrELiN, and rf. 2-lfh August, 1K17) Lad issue an only son, Major Wii.i.iam Fraxois Mari-ton EsPEUT, of Fairbnrn and Hope Hill. Jamaica, J. P.; major in the Jamaica Militia, and formerly Ensign 75lb Regiment, i. 177(1, in. 5lh April, 1SC4, Adele rcriue Josephine de Bressle, danghter of Baron Josejih DrEorRG, of France, and d. 11th July, 184(5, having by b(r, who d. in 1820, bad issue, I. "William James, i. 23rd March, 1808, d. s p. 2nd July, 1854. II. Louis, twins, d. in infancy, 4th III. Augustus, / and f^th June, 1810. K". Peter Alexander, of whom pre- sently. I. Louisa CbarlottcDorcas, J. 24th Septem- ber, 1806, III. first, Edward Haeriso??, of the United States of America, and fecondly, H. de Britton, of Virginia, U.S.A., and d. leaving issue by both linsbands. II. Caroline Louise, b. 25th January, 1814, m. Louis Honore DESGoriTES, and has issue. The fourth son. The Hon. Peter Alexander Espeft, of Dover and Leith Hall, Jamaica, C'ustos Rotu- loi'um of St. Thomas and a nu'mber of the House of Assembly in Jnniiiica, J. P., and captain of tlic Jamaica Militia, b. 23rd August, 1816; m. first, 21st July, 1837, Virginia Fairfax, only daughter of Colonel Kohert Munroc Uariuson, C'onsul-ficneral in Januiica for the United States of America, and by her, who was b. 28tb August, 1821, and </. 5th November, 1841, ho had ono daughter, I. Emma Christina, b. 8th May, 1S3S ; »». 10th .Vpril, 185G, Lieutenant- Colonel William Newcomen Watts, of the Royal Scots (Lothian Regi- ment), and d. 11th November, 1894, having by liim, who d. 1882, had issue, four sons ami two daughters. Mr. P. A. Kspput )M. secondly, 18th Sep- tember, 1842, Marianne Augusta, votuiger daughter of Dr. K. N. Bancroft,' F.R.S., M.D. (Camb.), Deputy Inspector-General of . ny Hospitals in Jamaica, an 1 d. 13tli -lune, 18(58, having by her, who wa-t h. 13th November, 1822, and d. 291 h May, ]S91, had issue, I. Williasi Bancroft, the suljeet of this memoir. II. Charles Allen, b. 21st May, 1845, d. 1850. Iir. Edward Maclicnzie Bancroft, i. 31st December. 1849, d. 6th August, 1SG7. IV. Augustus Charles Bancroft, b. 31st July, 1853. V. Hcni'y de Burgh Baucroft, b. 0th April,"l859. II. Ella Augusta Bancroft, b. 2nd May, 1852. III. Helen Bancroft, b. 19th June, 1855. IV. Henrietta Alice, b. 30th March, 1857, d. u,:m. 25th February, 1894. V. Julia Ursula, b. 17th Jlay. 1S61, m. 24th April, 1879, Captain John H. Tidal, R.N., and has issue, 1. Frank. 2. William. 3. Charles. 4. Edward. 1. Madeline. Ti. Edith Caroline, i 21th February, 1864. Tll. Pauline Charlotte, b. 3rd August, 18S7, d. 9th June, 1871. Arms — Az., three esontcheons two and one gu. the first charged with three lions pa.isntit in pale, the second irith as mani/ Catherine wheels, two and one, and the third with as many water bougets tiro nni! one, all arg. Crest — Beliceen two wings displayed an ostrich's head holding in the beat a horse-shoe. Motto — Absque deo nihil. Sesidences — Spring Garden, Buff Bay, P.O. and Greenwich, Cold Spring, P.O. Jamaica. Clubs— St. Stephen's and Savage, Loudon, S.W. ; and the Jamaica. IDuttoit. FRANK MacDERMOTT BUTTON, of 74, Lanon.ster Gafc, London, formei-ly oP Adelaide, South Aii.stralia ; h. l.jtli July, l.^^.V) ; educated at St. Peter's College, Adela MarlborougL College. VOL. II. I Illy. at Jli^rwyl, Switzerland was uhd at '^ .M
