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 352 BUBKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Eight Hon. Sir Augustus William Frederick Loftus, P.O., G.C.B., governor of New South Wales 1879-85, and sometime ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg, and grandson of John, second Marquess of Ely, but by him (who was b. 6th July, 1851) has as yet no issue. Mr. Labertouche has resided in Melbourne for more than 36 years. Hi'neage. The ancestors of Mr. P. P. Labertouclie ■were, according to tradition, titled Huguenots, holding estates near Toulouse, and, continues the tradition, were forced to leave France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The name is believed to have then been De Laberatouche. Mr. Lahertouche's grand- father lived and died in the county of Wex- ford, Ireland, leaving a son, Abel Labketotjche, Esq. of Dublin, mer- chant and shipowner, who m. about 1817, Harriette Hodgkinson, daughter of the vice- provost of Trinity College, Dublin. She d. in 1838. He d. in 1858, having had issue, I. Abel William, of Dublin, notary pub- lic, m. Elizabeth Anne Moody, and has a daughter, Harriette. II. Petee PAri, now of Melbourne. III. George Evans, resident in New South Wales, ■unm. I. Maria, m. first, .James Williams, Esq. of Meath, Ireland, and by him has a daughter, Florence. She m. secondly, W. G. Kent, Esq. of Dublin, solicitor, but by him has no issvie. II. Sarah, m. Neal Browne, Esq. of Mayo, Ireland, and d. leaving issue, one son, Dodwell Francis, resident in Ceylon. III. Helen, m. Andrew Keid, Esq., and d. leaving one son, Alexander. IV. Kate, unm. V. Elizabeth Ann, mm. Residence — Melbourne, Victoria. iH(nti)tu oi WBooX^hxmu MINCHIN, EDWAED COEKEE, Esq. of Woodburn, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, h. 26th January, 1821 ; m. 25th March, 1845, Sarah Anne Birch, only child of William Henry Hutchinson, Esq. of Eockforest, co. Tipperary, Ireland, by Sarah Birch, his wife, and has issue, I. William, h. 26th March, 1846 ; m. Susan Longden, and has issue, seven sons and one daughter. II. John Birch, C.E., b. 2nd March, 1849; m. Lastenia del Pozo, and has issue, two sons and one daughter. I. Eebecca, b. September, 1847; m. her cousin, Johnstone Thomas Stoney, Esq. of Emell Castle, King's Co., Ireland, J. P., and by him (who d. 7th March, 1875) has issue, a daughter, Eebecca Sarah Minchin. When resident in Ireland, Mr. Minchin was a J.P. for co. Tipperary. He emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1852. The Eockforest Estate came to Mr. Minchin in right of his wife, but as the property was very heavily encumbered, it was sold during the famine years, 1847-52, and is now the property of Captain William Gibson, brother of Lord Ashbourne, the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Hmcagc. The Minchin family first settled in Ire- land, some centuries ago, at Ballinakill Castle, near Roscrea, co. Tipperary, where they held considerable estates. William Minchin, Esq., by his wife (who was a daughter of John Fitzgibbon, of Mount Shannon, co. Limerick, barrister-at- law and M.P., and sister of John, Earl of