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 138 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. itaitilep ot ifeillsitrt. LAIDLEY, HON. WILLIAM GEORGE, of Hillside, Edgecliffe-road, Woollahra, Sydney, New South "Wales, member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, h. 1833 ; m. 18th April, 1854, Jane E. P., eldest daughter of John Atkinson, Esq. of Launceston, Tasmania, and has had issue, I. William Sydney, b. 22nd March, 1855 ; d. 24th May, 1855. II. Shepheard E., b. 25th March, 1861 ; m. 6th January, 1886, Ethe^, daughter of David Moore, Esq. of Melbourne, Victoria, and has issue, a son. III. Reginald William, b. 7th May, 1863. IV. Norman Wyld, b. 15th February, 1867. V. Consett, b. 7th November, 1868. I. Emily Jane, b. 6th July, 1856 ; m. 30th March, 1881, George Montagu Merivale, Esq., son of John Merivale, Esq., late registrar of the Court of Chancery, London, and has issue, one son and one daughter. II. Melanie Sophia, b. 10th November, 1858 ; d. 15th January, 1869. III. Mabel, b. 12th May, 1870. IV. Mildred Mary Innes, b. 26th February, 1873 ; d. 14th July, 1878. HintaQE. The family surname was originally Laidlaw, but it was changed by the present Hon. W. Gr. Laidley's grandfather, or great grand- father, to the present mode of spelling. James Laidlet, Esq. of Rosebank, Sydney, New South Wales, late Deputy Commissary General, was b. in Perthshire, Scotland, 1786, entered the Commissariat Department (in which were also three of his brothers, all now deceased), and served under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War. He subsequently served in the West Indies, Canada, Mauritius, and New South Whales, arriving in the last-mentioned colony in 1827, as head of the Commissariat Depart- ment in the Imperial service, a post which he had previously filled in Mauritius. He m. at Barbadoes, W^est Indies, Miss Eliza Jane Shepheard (who was b. in Herefordshire, and d. in 1861), and d. in Svdnej', 30th August, 1835, aged 49 years, having had issue, William Geoege (Hon.), of Hillside. James Turquand, to. Mary Weston, and d. 1874-, leaving issue one son and one daughter. Theresa Shepheard, m. 1841, Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, Esq., who was b. at Bolton, CO. Lancaster, England, 23rd December, 1816, and arrived in Sydney, in 1838, where he subsequently ob- tained great notoriety. She d. in 1869, leaving issue five sous and two daugh- ters, and he m. 2ndly, Miss Macaulay, and d. 9th May, 1878 (when a statue was erected to his memory in Mac- quarie-place, Sydney), leaving issue by his second wife two sons. Elizabeth Carter, m. J. S. Mitchell, Esq. of Etham, Darling Point, Sydney, and d. 1868, leaving issue three sons and five daughters. Maria, m. 1846, Hon. Henry Mort, M.L.C. (younger brother of the above- mentioned Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, Esq.), who was b. at Willow Field, near Bolton, co. Lancaster, 31st De- cember, 1818; educated at Manches- ter, and emigrated to New South Wales in 1840, where he was identified with his brother in many of his under- takings. He was for some lime a member of the Legislative Assembly, and in 1879 was appointed a life member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. He is a director of the Liverpool. London, and Globe Fire and Life Insurance Company, the Alliance Marine, Mercantile Bank, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, the Australasian Investment Company, and the Sydney Meat Preserving Company, of which he was one of the originators. Mrs. Maria Mort d. in July. 1873, leaving issue three sous and three daughtci's,