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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTEY. 241 New South Wales ; m. 19th January, 1854, Lachlina Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. Thomas Scott, R.N., and granddaughter of Lieutenant Thomas Davey, governor of Tasmania, and has issue, I. Arthur Ernest Scott, b. at Rhodes, Tasmania, 30th November, 1854. II. Herbert Travers, b. 1st September, 1856, at Rhodes ; m. Mary Cleve- land, third daughter of Thomas Scott, Esq. of Newcastle, and has one son, Norman Francis. III. Percy Ehrensward, b. at Rhodes, 11th June, 1858. IV. Ross Lewin Blaxland, of Iveridge, Tasmania, on which estate he was b., 1859. V. Lachlan Scott, b. at Iveridge, Tasmania, July, 1860. Mr. Walker m. secondly, 3rd June, 1889, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Blaxland, Esq. of Cleves, Parramatta River, who was fourth son of Gregory Blaxland, Esq., discoverer of the famous pass in the Blue Mountains (see Blaxland of Foedwich). Hineage. John Walkek, Esq. of Headingley, near Leeda, and of Gawthorp Hall, near Bingley, both CO. York, barrister-at-law, son of Joseph and Mart Walkeb, of Wortley, in the parish of Leeds, was b. 24th August, 1754, appointed recorder of Leeds by Queen Anne, and took the usual oath on the 29th March, 1711 ; in. first, at St. Peter-at- Arches, Lincoln, 4th May, 1780, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Field, Esq., formerly of Hunslet, Leeds, and afterwards of Norton, co. Lincoln, and by her (who d. 11th May, 1781) had issue, a daugh- ter, Elizabeth Field, h. 30th April, 1781, d. August following, and was buried at All Hallows, Barking, Tower-street, London. He m. secondly, at St. Peter's Church, Leeds, 16th May, 1786, Mary, sister of Mrs. English (wife of Dr. English, of Hampton Court, physician to King Geob.ge III), and daughter of John Eogerson, Esq. of Leeds, CO. York, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of .. . Brooke, Esq. of Rhodes Hall, near Leeds, co. York, whose ancestors, the De Brokes, were of Norman origin. Mrs. Mary Walker owned the greater part of Leeds. She had issue, I. John, merchant in the South Sea trade, and a captain in the militia, b. 13th May, 1787, baptised at St. Dionis Backchurch, Lime-street, London. II. Edward Brooke, b. 2nd May, 1789, baptised at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, co. Middlesex; m. Elizabeth, daughter of William Stanford, Esq. of the island of Malta, and had issue, 1. Edward Brooke Evans, went to Tasmania when a boy ; m. Rose, daughter of Walter Powell, Esq., and had two sons and two daugh- ters. 1. Elizabeth Stanford, m. Henry Searle, Esq., and has two daugh- ters : Ellen, TO. Dean Kirby, and Mary Rogerson, mmot. III. Thomas, of whom presently. IV. Abraham, b. 24th October, 1797, bap- tised at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, went, when a young man, to Tasmania ; m. Jane, daughter of Captain Welsh, and had issue, several sons (two only of whom survived) and two daughters, 1. Mary, m. 12th February, 1862, as his first wife, Albert Norton, Esq. (5. 1st January, 1836, m. secondly, Harriet Deacon, and by her has issue, one son, Albert James), sixth son of the Hon. James Norton, of Elswick, near Sydney, New South Wales, solicitor, mem- ber of the Legislative Council of N.S.W., and brother of the present Hon. James Norton, of Eccles- bourne and Euchora, nenr Sydney {see that family'). She d. in giving birth to an infant, which also died. 2. Ellen, m. Douglas Gadsden, Esq., but has no issue. I. Mary, b. 7th November, 1793, baptised at St. Dunstan's, Stepney. II. Elizabeth Ann, b. 6th January, 1795, baptised at St. Dunstan's, Stepney. The third son, Thomas Walkee, Esq. of Rhodes, Concord, on the Parramatta River, New South Wales, and of Rhodes, on the South Esk River, and Iveridge, both in Tasmania, deputy-assistant commissary-general of New South Wales, b. in Yorkshire, 3rd December, 1791 ; baptised at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, co. Middlesex, entered the army of the Duke of Wellington before he was eighteen years of age ; was attached to his staff, and also to the 16th Light Hussars (afterwards the 16th Light Dragoons), being in the commissariat ; went all through B