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 24 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ■ conped ppr. haltered or. This singular crest is supposed to have been borne on the helmets •of the master sergeants in their perambula- tions through the Peke-hills and the forests of Leek and MacclesSeld, to the terror of the numerous gangs of banditti which infested in former times those wild districts. There is in .the possession of the Capesthorne family a long and very ancient roll, containing the names of the master robbers who were taken and beheaded in the times of Koran, Roger, and Thomas de Davenport, and of their com- panions. Motto — Tu ne cede malis. Residence — Beaumont, near Adelaide, South Australia. JSotofeer of Craisiehurn. BOWKER, HON. ROBERT MITFORD, of Craigiebam, Somerset East, Cape Colony, member of the Legislative Couneil, Cape Colony, 6. near Ayjuer, co. Dorset, England, lOth August, 1810; m. at Glenavon, Somerset East, Cape Colony, 19th December, 1838, Sarah Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Robert Hart, Esq., of Glenavon, aforesaid, and by her (who d. 25th August, 1875, and was buried at Craigieburn) has had issue, I. James Frederick Fleischier, of Glenavon, aforesaid, K there ; m. Josephine Smuts, of Capetown. II. Robert Mitford, jun., h. at Craigieburn, 16th May, 1848 ; to. at Graaff Reinet, Agnes Bohun, and has issue, one son and five daughters. III. Septimus Bourchier, h. at Craigieburn, 27th March, 1850 ; m. Catherine Horney, but has no issue. IV. William Henry, h. at Glenavon, 25th November, 1851 ; m. Helena Stayman, and has issue, four sons. V. Robert Hart, &. at Craigieburn, 6th June, 1853; to. Emily Brooke, and has issue, three sons and one daughter. VI. Oliver Osbaldeston, h. at Somerset East, 29th September, 1857; unm. TH. Miles Edgerton, h. at Somerset East, 14th June, 1860 ; unm, I. Anna Maria, h. at Glenavon, 18th January, 1840 ; d. unm. 28th February, 1875. II. Ellen Tamplin, h. at Thorn Kloof, 19th March, 1841 ; to. Robert Hart, Esq., of Ailsa, Cathcart District, who d. having had issue, two sons and three daughters. III. Ann Stretch, h. at Glenavon, 7th February, 1843; m. James Scott Pringle, Esq. of Bavians River, and has issue. IV. Effie Mitford, h. at Glenavon, 7th June, 1846 ; m. John "Ward Stevens, Esq. of Cradock, and has issue, four sons. V. Sarah Elizabeth, h. at Somerset East, 24th January, 1856 ; to. John Mitford Bowker, Esq., and has issue, six daughters. Hineage. This family is believed to be identical with that of Bourchier. Mr. Bowker's ancestor, according to tradition, having lost all his estates, through adherence to the Pretender, Charles Stuaet, was compelled to change Ills name from Bourchier to Bowker. The Anglo-Norman family of Bourchier is of great antiquity. They are frequently men- tioned in English history. One of the family is famous as having been the patron of Caxton, the printer, and an Archbishop Bourchier, who was killed at the battle of Barnet, is in- terred at Westminster Abbey. Thomas Bowkeb, Esq., left co. Westmore- land to settle in Northumberland. He was father of several children, amongst whom were Benjamin and Miles ; the latter gentleman. Miles Bowkeb, Esq., who moved from