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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 195 Hinenge. The Pefcerswalds were originally a noble family of Silesia, where they resided at the castle of Peterswaldau, in the district of Eeichenbaoh, governed by Arnold von Peters-' wald in 1322. The family, which was very wealthy in the first half of the seventeenth century, had come into Franken, Southern Grerniany, and had been admitted in the knights canton of Rhon Werra. Brandies of the family went subsequently to Sweden, Hanover, &o. Carl Friedrich von Peters- wald, royal master of the horse of Great Britain and Brunswick Luneburg, &c., in 1752, son of Maximilian von Peterswald, by his wife, Elizabeth von Kussow on the Hardt, in his will, dated 1752, made his heir the eldest son of his sister, Helene Juliane von Peterswald (who was b. 1680, and m. 1700), by her husband, Friedrich Wilhelm, ii von Eickstedt, on condition that he took the additional surname and arms of von Peters- wald. Wilhelm von Peterswald left Germany for political reasons about the year 1770, and settled in Exeter, co. Devon, where he m. and had two sons, William and John, who emigrated to Jamaica, West Indies, where they possessed an estate named Petersfield, St. Mary, and were successful as planters. The latter, John, d. s.p. 20th November, 1814, at Jamaica, aged 38 years, and the former, William Peterswald, Esq., sometime colonel of the St. Mary's 1st Eegimeut (West Indies), m. at Kingston, Jamaica, 23rd June, 1823, Jean, daughter of Captain Walter Gray, of the Sutherland Fencibles, by Eliza, his wife, daughter of Sir Arthur Nicolson, of Lochend, Shetland, Bart., and d. at Liverpool, 25th August, 1848, aged 72, leaving by her (who was h. 6th November, 1790, and d. at Adelaide, 1868, aged 78) an only child, the present William John Peterswald, Esq. Arms — Or. on a fesse sa. a boar's head fessewise erased pointing towards the sinister. Crest — Out of a ducal coronet two elepliants' trunks erect. Residence — St. Heliers, Adelaide, South Australia. PLAYPORD, HON. THOMAS, of Drysdale, Norton's Suminit, South Australia, M.P., J.P., premier and treasurer in the South Australian Ministry, h. 26th November, 1837 ; m. 1860, Mary Jane, eldest daughter of the late Rev. William Kinsman, and has issue, I. Thomas, h. 23rd April, 1861. II. Edward Copley, h. 22nd March, 1864 ; m. 1888, Emily Welbourne, and has issue, a daughter. III. John Tomlinson, h. 11th October, 1869. IV. Charles Loyd, h. 2nd November, 1871. V. Frank Elliot, I. 10th October, 1876. I. Mary Annie, m. 1886, the Rev. J. Sexton. II. Eliza, m. 1888, J. H. Tuck, Esq. III. Harriet Alice. IV. Jane Pei-ry. V. Mabel. He held office as commissioner of ci'own lands and immigration at various periods between 2nd February, 1876, and 24th June, 1881 ; was commissioner of public VForks from 16th June, 1884, to 4th February, 1885 ; and again commissioner of crown lands and immigration, 4th February, 1885, to 16th June, 1885. Hi'neagc. Thomas Platford was h. near Doncastei", CO. York, England. He m. Miss Mary Tomlinson (who d. aged 84 years), and lived and d. a faimer at Barnby Dunn, about seven miles from Doncaster, aged 84 years. His eldest son, Thomas Platford, h. in 1785, enlisted at the age of 16 in the 2nd regiment of Life