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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 329 VI. Benjamin, d. s.p. John Dtjmaeesq, captain of the parish of S. Helier, 1669, and major E. Regiment, R.J.M., m. first, Elizabeth, dau;;hter of Nathaniel Le Q-oupil, and by her had issue, I. John. II. Abraham, m. Miss Jane Gruille, and had issue, 1. Abraham, m. Miss Elizabeth Fallot, and had a son, Abraham. 2. Abraham. 3. John. 1. Catherine, m. Peter Lisson, Esq., surgeon. 2. Jane, m. William Godfray, Esq. III. Edward. I. Elizabeth, d. s.p. He m. secondly, Miss Catherine Varin, and by her had issue, a daughter, II. Martha, m. Philip Chantelou. The eldest son, John Dumaeesq, major E..J.M., m. Henriette, only daughter and heiress of Messire Renay du Boiiays, Chevalier, Seigneur of Saugerre, Brittany, and had issue, I. John, baptised 12th January, 1686, at S. Helier's, Jersey, m. Miss Ann Horton, and was father of Augustus, captain 39th Foot, 1767, who m. Miss Horatia Elizabeth Bentley, and had issue, Augustus, b. in London, 1786, and Ann Horatia, b. at Southampton, Hants, 1798. II. Rene. III. Philip Amory, d. s.p. The 2nd son, Rene Dumaeesq, m. Miss Mary Margaret Poingdestre, and had issue, I. John, of whom presently. II. Rene, lost at sea. III. Elias. IV. Philip, d. young. John Dumaeesq, b. 1732; m. Rachel, second daughter and eventual co-heiress of Philip Bandinel, Seig. of Melesches, and d. at Southampton, having had issus, I. John, colonel in the army. II. Philip, president of the Council, and collector of H.M. Customs, Cape Breton, m. Miss Jerusha Perry, and had (with several other children, who settled in America), Pei-ry, lieutenant R.N., entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, on board the " Magicienne," in 1803. While in command of the " Paz," in 1811, on the North American station, he cap- tured the American vessels, the " Revenge," the " Montesquieu," and the "Massasoit." William Grant, H.M.C.S., m. Ann Woolward, daughter of John Henderson, Esq., and second cousin of the late Viscountess Nelson, and had a son, Jolin D'Auvergne, collector of H.M. Customs, Deal, co. Kent, who m. Miss Elizabeth Weed, and has issue, Herbert Nisbet and John D'Auvergne. III. Charles, lost at sea. I. Mary, m. F. Anley, Royal Marines. II. Esther, m. first, Mr. Grant; and secondly, W. Birch, Esq. of Wanstead, CO. Essex. III. Elizabeth, m. first, Philip Bandinel ; and secondly, Henry Wright, Esq., collector H.M. Customs, New Bruns- wick. The eldest son. Colonel John Dumaeesq, who is buried in Worcester Cathedral, served throughout the American war, and on account of his services rendered to the British Government during that war, his sons were educated at Great Marlow (Sandhiirst), and were given commissions in the army. By Anne Jones, his wife, he had issue, I. Henry, lieutenant-colonel H.M. army, and afterwards chief commissioner of the Australian Agricultural Company in New South Wales, was educated at the Royal Military College, and at the age of 16 joined the 9th Regiment ; " served in eight campaigns, of which six were in the Peninsula, one in Canada, and the last, that of Waterloo," as detailed in the official record of his services at the Horse Guards. After nine years' service he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, June, 1817. He was employed on the staff upwards of eighteen years, and out of twenty-six years' service, he was employed more than twenty-two abroad, and had been twice dangerously wounded. At the battle of Waterloo he was on the staff of Lieutenant-General Sir John Byng (afterwards Lord Strat- ford), and was shot through the lungs at Hougoumont, but being at the time charged with a message for the Duke, he, in spite of his wound, reached him, and delivered the de- spatch before he fell. This incident is graphically related by Scott, in Paul's Letters to his Kinsjolk ; and Colonel Dumaresq is also honourably men- tioned by Booth in his Anecdotes of the Field of Waterloo. Colonel Dumaresq retired from the army in 1834. He m. in 1828, Ehzabeth Sophia,* elder daughter of the Hon. Augustus Richard Butler - Danvers (formerly the Hon. Augustus Richard Butler, having assumed the additional surname and arms of Danvebs, on the 24th October, 1866, the precedence of an earl's daughter.
 * This lady was given, by royal licence,