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 202 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. January, 1845 ; m. Lillias Waldie Wyndholm, and has issue, one son and a daughter. II. James Stuart, of Awa Moa, Oamaru, Otago, h. 14th July, 1847 ; m. Kate, daughter of. . . Miller, Esq. of Edinburgh, and has three sons. III. Mathew Stuart, h. 4th October, 1855, unm. I. Elizabeth, h. 14th April, 1842 ; m. D. S. Warren, Esq., late of Melbourne, deceased, and has one son and four daughters. II. Isabella, i. 1st April, 1846 ; m. the Hon. George MacLean, M.L.C., J.P., of Dunedin, and has one son and fire daughters. III. Annie Julia, h. 7th February, 1852 ; m. John White, Esq. of Dunedin, solicitor, and has four sons and two daughters. IV. Kate McLean, h. 17th July, 1858, unm. In the early days of the colony the Hon. M. Holmes was a member of the Provincial Council of Southland, and afterwards of the Provincial Council of Otago. ILxwtm. The family of Holmes came from the West of England and settled principally in Down, Tyrone, and Londonderry, in Ireland, durinff the plantation of Ulster, in the reign of James I. Others of the name came from the Lowlands of Scotland, and settled in Cavan, Longford, and Antrim. Tlie immediate ancestors of the Hon. Mathew Holmes were farmers residing at Strabane, in Ireland, for about 150 years. The Hon. Mathew Holmes was the last of that par- ticular branch, and, about fifteen j'ears ago, he sold his interest in the last farm held by the family in Tyrone. James Holmes, Esq. of Ballycolinan, Strabane, Ireland, m. Elizabeth Watson, who d. about 1843. He d. about 1818, leaving a son, Mathew, of whom we treat. Residences — Hawkestone House, Welling- ton ; Cintra, Dunedin ; Awa Moa, Oamaru ; Castlerock, Lvimsden; and Manipora, South- land, all in New Zealand. Proper/i/— At Av/a, Moa, Castlerock, Mani- pora, Cintra, and Wellington, New Zealand, and in Victoria, Australia. iHtCItlait oi ffeopttotlL MC/^LELAN, HON. ABNER REID, of Riverside, Hopewell, Albert co., V_y New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, member of the Senate, com- missioner of the Civil Court, and auditor of county accounts, b. at Riverside, Hopewell, 3rd January, 1830; educated at Hopewell; was a member of the Government of New Brunswick as chief commissioner of Public Works, from April, 1886, until the Union; called to the Senate by royal proclamation in May, 1867. He m. at Harvey, Albert co., October, 1876, Anna Bathsheba, eldest daughter of the late William James Raid, Esq., collector of customs at the port of Harvey, Albert co.. New Brunswick. Irineage. This family is supposed to have been originally seated at Ross-shire, Scotland. Petee McClelan, Esq., emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to Londonderry, Nova Scotia, and was one of the pioneers in the location and settlement of Londonderry, Col- chester CO., Nova Scotia, where he continued to reside. By. . McElmen, his wife (whose parents immigrated to Nova Scotia from Londonderry, Ireland), he had issue, Peter, of whom jiresently. William, d. young. David, of Londonderry, Nova Scotia (where the name ia spelt McLelan), was grandfatlier of the present Hon. Archibald Woodbury McLelan, for-