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 36 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. UincacjE. The family of Tilley was originally seated in Devonshire, England. Two of the name came to America in the " Mayflower," and it is supposed that Sir S. L. Tilley is a descend- ant of one of these. It can, however, be affirmed with certainty that his ancestors came at an early period to America. His great grandfather, Samuel Tilley, Esq., came to New Briinswick, with other loyalists, in 1783, and became a grantee of the city of St. John, having been, before the Kevolution, a resident of Long Island, New York. Mr. Samuel Tilley's grandson, Thomas Morgan TiLLET, Esq. of Gage Town, Queen's County, New Brunswick, m. Anna Susan Hunt, daughter of William Foters, Esq. of Frede- ricton. New Brunswick, whose ancestors were residents of West Chester. New York, and also came to New Brunswick as loyalists in 1783. She d. at the age of 78 years, he also d. at the age of 78 years, and left a son. The Hon. Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, K.C.M.G., C.B., B.C. Crest used — The head of a hattle-axe issuing from the wreath ppr. Sesidences — Fredericton and St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada. )tafforti ot a.antist»otone. STAFFORD, SIR EDWARD WILLIAM, K.O.M.G. (1879), G.C.M.G. (1887), of Maine, co. Lontli, and Landsdowue, Christeliurcli, New Zealand, Prime Minister of New Zealand from June, 1856, to July, 1861, October, 1865, to June, 1869, and in 1872 ; member of the House of Repre- sentatives of New Zealand uninterruptedly from October, 1855 (at which time he was superintendent of the Province of Nelson), to March, 1878; and a commissioner for the Colonial Exhibition, 1886 ; b. 23rd April, 1820 ; m. first, 24th September, 1846, Emily Charlotte, only child of Colonel William Wake- field, by Emily Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Sir John Shelley Sidney, Bart., and sister of Philip Charles, first Lord de L'Isle and Dudley, but by her (who d. 18th April, 1857) bad no issue. He m. secondly, 5tb December, 1859, Mary, tbird daughter of Thomas Hougbton-Bartley, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, Speaker of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, and by ber had six children, I. Edwaed Tytler Stafford Howard, b. 24th May, 1860. II. Humphrey de Bohun Howard, b. 31st March, 1862. III. Berkeley Howard, b. 24th October, 1869. I. Anne Isabella. II. Mary Montgomerie. III. Edith Margaret. ILtnfaaf. The immediate ancestor of this family was, Hugh Staeford, who m. first, 4th July, 1746, Mary, daughter and heir of Edward Smith, Esq. of Maine, and by her had issue, I. Edward, his heir. II. William (Rev.), B.A., to. Hannah, widow of Brent Spencer, Esq. of Ballycastle, and d. s.p. III. Hugh, Lieutenant - General H.E.I.C.S., m. 1st, Thomasine, daugh- ter of Rev. H. Sullivan, of Clonakilty, CO, Cork, and by her had issue, 1. John, Major-General in H.M.'s service, m. Frances, daughter of Francis Whalley, of Winscombe Court and Norton Hall, Somerset, and Hinton House, Hants, and by her (who d. December, 1847) left issue at his decease, February, 1846, William Joseph Fitzmaurice, of Mount Edgcumbe, Surrey, C,B,, major-general Bengal Staff Corps (retired), m. 1852, Emily Mary, daughter of Major Gavin Young, judge-advocate-general of the Bengal army and by her has issue,