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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 265 ILi'ncngc. This family resided at Polmont, Stirling- shire, Scotland, near the seat of Sir Tliomas Learmonth, of Ercildoune, of whose family it ia believed to be a cadet branch. The grand- father of the present Peter Learmonth, Esq., followed the occupation of a farmer and grazier at Polmont, whence his son, John Lbakmonth, Esq., removed into Edinburgh, and m. there, 16th April, 180Y, Margaret Watson, who d. at Melbourne, Victoria, 21st October, 1872, leaving issue, I. Alexander, of Australia, m. a daughter of General Hanbury Williams, of Monmouthshire, Wales, and had issue, three sons and two daughters. II. William, of Ettrick, Hoywood, in the colony of Victoria, father of John Ealston Learmonth, Esq. of Euraer- alla West, Macarthur, Victoria. (See next article.^ III. James Allan, of Australia, m. a daugliter of Mr. Holdrich, of Hobart, Tasmania, and d. s.p. IV. Petes, of Prestonliolme. Mr. John Learmonth d. at Edinburgh, 6th July, 1863. Crest used— A rose slipped ppr. Motto — Spero. Residence — Prestonholme, Hamilton, Vic- toria, Australia. ^.tavmonti) of eumtvaUa SWtsit. LEARMONTH, JOHN RALSTON, Esq. of Eumeralla West, Macarthur, Victoria, Australia, J.P., &. 2nd June, 1838 ; m. 27th. April, 1875, Mary Jane Marshall, daughter of the Rev. John Fulford, of Melbourne, Victoria (whose family formerly resided in Devonshire, England), by Sarah, his wife, and has issue, I. Noel Fulford, I. 22nd February, 1880. II. Cecil John, h. 11th July, 1883. I. Bessie Dorothea Letitia, h. 17th January, 1882. II. Violet Mary, h. 29th July, 1887. HfnEagc. William Leaemonth, Esq. of Ettrick, Hey wood, Victoria, Australia, J. P., who was the second son of John Leaemonth, Esq. of Edinburgh (see Leaemonth op Peeston- holme), by Margaret Watson, his wife, was b. in Stirlingshire, Scotland ; emigrated to Tasmania in 1834, and engaged in sheep- farming; went to Victoria in 1844, and became a squatter. Shortly after the discovery of the goldfields he joined the late Stephen George Henty in a large mercantile business in Portland, leaving his station in charge of a manager. Mr. William Learmonth after- wards purchased the Taliara Station, on the Wannon River, where he resided until he sold it to the late Mr. Archibald Johnson, and then went to Ettrick. Mr. Learmonth was several times mayor of Portland, during his residence in that town. He wag also a member of the first Eoad Board, and was for many years president of the shire of Portland, of which he was a councillor at the time of his death. He m. in April, 1837, Mary, daughter of Robert Ralston, Esq. (who was a native of Wigtonshire, Scotland, and in 1819 emigrated, with all his family, in a ship of his own, bringing horses and cattle out with him, to Tasmania, where he followed the occupation of a pastoralist and farmer), by Elizabeth Brice, his wife, and had issue, of whom survive, I. John Ralston, of Eumeralla West. II. Edward Bruce, ?». 26th March, 1881, Eliza Wilhelmina Colvin Clark, and has issue, Audrey, b. 1886. I. Amy Agnes, b. 19th September, 1856 ; unm. Mr. William Learmonth, d. 7th July, 1889, aged 74, and was buried in the private cemetery on the Ettrick Estate, on the banks of the Darlot Creek. Crest and Motto used — Same as preceding article. Residence — Eumeralla West, Macarthur, Victoria, Australia. Estate — Ellangowan, near Heywood, Vic- toria.