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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 283 April, 1874. John Bulmer was the son of Ralph Bulmer, Esq., who was b. 1773; m. Jane Rippon (who was b. 1775, d. 5th June, 1851, aged 76, and. was buried at Hartlepool), and d. 1820. Captain G. E. Bulmer has issue, 1. Thornton Bulmer (Bulmer), b. 21st December, 1868; educated at Rugby and at Hertford College, Oxford. 2. George Edwards, b. 9th June, 1870 ; now studying for the army. 1. Frances Mary Thornton, b. 24th November, 1879. The Hon. George Thornton was formerly a custom-house and ship agent, and afterwards an import merchant, but has retired from business. He was for some years an alderman, and has been twice mayor of the city of Sydney ; was also member for that city in the Legislative Assembly, having been elected in 1858, and was at one time also member for the Western Goldfields. He has been mayor of WooUahra, and in 1877 was appointed to a seat in the Legislative Council ; has been a magistrate of the city of Sydney for many years ; was a commissioner for the New South Wales International Exhibi- tion for 1879, but was obliged to decline the offer of executive commissioner to the Philadelphia Exhibition. Mr. Thornton has visited England several times, and on returning from one of his visits he was wrecked off Pernambuco in the ship " Duncan Dunbar." On one occasion, when in England, he managed the agency of the New South Wales Government for more than a year. ILincaae. Samuel Thoknton, Esq. of Barnsley, co. York, England, woollen manufacturer, was the father of Samuel Thoenton, Esq., who was h. at Barnsley, co. York, emigrated from England in 1812, and arrived as one of the earliest emigrants in Sydney, New South Wales, a free immigrant, in 1814, and obtained grants of land from the Colonial government. He m. Sarah Madden (who was b. in London, and d. in 1827), and d. in 1842, leaving issue, the present Hon. GtEOege Thohnton. Crest used — Issuing out of a ducal coronet a lion's head. Residences — Sydney ; Longwood, Darling Point; and Llangollen, Summer Hill; all in New South Wales, Australia. gieilliams of ^afearafea. WILLIAMS, HON. HENRY, of Pakaraka, Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, Auckland, New Zealand, J.P. for the colony of New Zealand, member of the Legislative Council, and chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council, b. 10th November, 1823 ; m. 15th February, 1849, his cousin, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Rev. William Williams, D.C.L., first bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, and has had an only child. Maria Jane, d. 27th November, 1855. Hineage. This family is of Welsh origin. Thomas Williams, Esq., the son of Thomas Williams, Esq., was i. 1754, came to Nottingham, where he remained until his death in 1804. By Mary Marsh, his wife, who was b. in 1758, and d. in 1831, he had issue, 1. Thomas Sydney.