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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRT. 801 Ht'neage. The Scottish family of Stenhouse ie held to be identical with that of Stonhouse, of Radley, in Kent, and with that of Staunus, of Carlingford and Portarlington, in Ireland. The Stenhouses, of Comley Park, near Dun- fermline, Scotland, descend directly from Stanehouse, of Carbolzie, in Scotland (see Burke's Landed Oentry, Stannus OF Cae- lingfoed). In the American War of Independence, at least two scions of the stock suffered in the Royal cause — the one being Thomas Stannus, then M.P. for Portarlington, who was severely wounded while serving with the 22nd Regi- ment, and the other, Alexander Stenhouse, Esq., M.D., whose American estates were confiscated by the Republic at the close of the war. This Dr. Alexander Stenhouse was cousin-german to the present Mr. A. M. Stenhouse's grandfather. The British govern- ment rewarded his fidelity with a life pension. The deceased members of the Comley Park Stenhouses, are all, with one or two excep- tions, interred under the walls of the Old Abbey Church of Dunfermline, within a few feet of the tomb of King Robert Beuce, whose remains lie under the floor of the church. William Stanehottse, Esq. of Carbolzie, m. and had, amongst other issue, a younger son, Thomas Stanehouse, Esq., who had a son, Alexandeb Stanehouse, Esq., who wa8 father of James Stenhouse, Esq. of Fod and G-len- quhey. His eldest son was father of the above-mentioned Dr. Alexander Stenhouse, whose American estates were confiscated by the Republic at the close of the war. His younger son, William Stenhouse, Esq., M.D,, was father of James Stenhouse, Esq. of Comley Park (or, as it is now spelt. Comely Park), near Dunfermline, Scotland, M.D. (which estate he purchased about the middle of last cen- tury) ; m. and had twelve children, two of whom (a son and a daughter) d. in infancy, the others are as follow, viz. : — I. William, M.D. of the University of Edinburgh, R.N., s. his father in the Comley Park Estate. He served 20 years in the Royal Navy, and dis- tinguished himself on board H.M.S. " Revenge," at the Battle of Trafalgar. Tie d. unm. II. John, m. in 1807. III. James, M.D. of the University of Edinburgh, s. bis brother William in the Comley Park Estate. ly. Robert Talbot, of whom pre- sently. T, Alexander, M.D. of the University of Edinburgh, sometime surgeon in the East India army. I. Jane. II. Caledonia. III. Elizabeth. IT. Margaret. T. Lucy, m. Dr. Kinnis, staff-surgeon R.N., and survived him for many years. The fourth son, Robert Talbot Stenhouse, Esq. of Comley Park, Eifeshire, Scotland, *. his brother James in that estate, which was afterwards sold by his widow. He was some- time a lieutenant in the Fifeshire Yeomanry Cavalry, and afterwards controller of H.M. Customs in the Ionian Islands, b. at Comley Park House, 7th December, 1794; m., 1835, his cousin Rebecca, daughter of the late John Stenhouse, Esq. of Edinburgh, merchant, and d. 30th November, 1866, leaving by her (who was b. in Edinburgh, 1808, and is at present residing at Portobello, Scotland), a son, the present Anthont Maitland Sten- house, Esq. Arms used — -Arg., on a fesse sa., three falcons, rising, az., belled and jessed, a leopard's head cabossed, or, between two mullets of the field. Crest — A talbot's head couped ppr. gorged with a collar or, charged with five pellets, issunig out of the mouth a dove. Motto — Foi-tis et fidelis. Residences — Comox, British Columbia ; and Card, Fort Macleod, Alberta, both in the Dominion of Canada. ^taujjj&txin of Cpneshurp* S TAUGHT ON, SAMUEL THOMAS, Esq. of Eynesbury, Melton, Victoria, J. P., member of the Legislative Assembly for West Bourke, member Shire of Wyndham, h. 17th November, 1839 ; m. 23rd April, 1874, Eliza Mary, daughter of John Rout Hopkins, Esq. of Winchelsea, Victoria, by Eliza Anne, his wife, eldest daughter of George Armytage, Esq. of The Hermitage, Geelong, Victoria (see Armytage of Ingleby), and has issue, I. Samuel Thomas, j ^^.^^^ ^ ^^^^ December, 1876. II. Arthur John, J