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 242 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. the Peninsular War, and was present at the Battle of Waterloo. For his services he re- ceived the medal for Vittoria and the clasp for St. Sebastian, and had the highest creden- tials from the Duke of Cambridge, through the Duke of Wellington. Thomas Walker and his brother officer, Thomas Cordeaux, were chosen, out of all the commissariat, to go out to New South Wales and inspect the commissariat, which was at that time in a very bad state. He was deputy-assistant com- missary-general, and went to New South Wales in Governor Macquarie's time. On retiring from the service he settled in Tas- mania, where he lived for about forty years. He m. Anna Elizabeth, second daughter of the Hon. John Blaxland, formerly of Newing- ton Hall, CO. Kent, England, and afterwards of Newington, Parramatta River, New South Wales, sometime member of the Legislative Council of that colony, the head of the Blax- land house (see Blaxland of Foedv^ioh), by Harriott, his second wife, only daughter of John Louis de Marquet, of Calcutta, for- merly an officer in the Garde du Corps of Louis XYI, and by her (who was 5. at New- ington Hall, CO. Kent, England, 8th Decem- ber, 1804, and d. 20th December, 1889) had issue, I. Frederick Thomas, I. 11th May, 1827, at Rhodes, Concord, New Sovith Wales, and baptised at St. John's Church, Parramatta, New South Wales, unm. II. Aethue George, now of Addington, Eyde, near Sydney. III. John Rhodes, 5. 8th May, 1839, at Rhodes, Tasmania ; baptised at Christ Church, Longford, Tasmania, unm. IV. Harold de Broke, h. 18th December, 1843, at Rhodes, Tasmania ; baptised at Christ Church, Longford, iinm. I. Harriott Mary, h. 29th October, 1823, at Rhodes, Concord, and baptised at St. John's Church, Parramatta ; m. at Longford, Tasmania, 1st June, 1854, as his first wife, the Hon. James Nor- ton, of Ecclesbourne, Double Bay, near Sydney, and of Euchoi'a, Springwood, Blue Mountains, near Sydney, New South Wales, member of the Legis- lative Council of that colony, trustee of the Free Public Library, Sydney, and of the Australian Museum, Sydney, fellow of St. Paul's College, within the University of Sydney, and university solicitor (see Norton of Eocles- BOUENE AND Etjchoea), and d. at Ecclesbourne, 12th September, 1860, and was buried in Sydney, having had issue one son and three daughters. II. Gertrude Jane, h. 11th January, 1826, at Rliodes, Concord, m. 21st March, 1860, as his first wife, William Norton, Esq., barrister-at-law (who was h. 25th December, 1830, and re-m. Mrs. Douglas, by whom he had no issue), brother of the aforementioned Hon. James Norton, and d. 6th August, 1862, having had a daughter, Gertrude, who d. young. III. Anna Frances, h. 21st June, 1830, at Rhodes, Concord, unm. IV. Louisa Eliza, h. 23rd February, 1832, at Rhodes, Tasmania, tinm. T. Selina Rhodia, b. 30th August, 1833, at Rhodes, Tasmania, d. young. Tl. Marion Laura, b. 11th July, 1835, at Rhodes, Tasmania, m. 3rd May, 1888, the Rev. Charles F. Garnsey, of Christ- church, Sydney. VII. Ellen Blaxland, b. 11th July, 1837, d. in infancy. VIII. Alice Octavia, b. 16th March, 1841, at Rhodes, Tasmania, uiun. IX. Adela Russell, b. 22nd February, 1847, at Rhodes, Tasmania, m. 27th July, 1870, George Coleridge Nixon, Esq., son of the Right Rev. Dr. Francis Russell Nixon, first Anglican Bishop of Tasmania. Thomas Walker d. at Rhodes, Tasmania, 12th April, 1861. Arms used — Arg. a chev. between three crescents az. Crest — A greyhound pass. Motto — Fideliter et alacriter. Residence — Addington, Ryde, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. DIXON, MARMADUKE, Esq. of Eyrewell Park, West Eyreton, Canter- bury, New Zealand, J.P., I. 1828 ; m. 1859, Eliza Agnes, daughter of the Rev. James Suttel Wood, of Wood Hall, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, rector of Cranfield, Bedfordshire (by Catherine Mary Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Roger Darvall, Esq., son of Joseph Darvall, Esq., governor of Bencoolen, in the H. E. I. Co.'s service), who was the son of John Rider Wood, Esq. (by Ann, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Cautley, vicar of Ouseburn, co. York), and grandson of Richard Wood, Esq. (who m. in 1729, Elizabeth, daughter of Ottiwell Rider, Esq. of Bolton Castle, Wensleydale, co. York), and by her has had issue (besides a son, d. young).