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 COEEIGENDA OF VOL. I. A Beckistt (|i. 1 I.')). — Ivilicl Boatriec Y-sobol. yoini^ost cliiii^litcr of tlu' lluii. A'. A. ('. a Jicckott, J.r., m. Kitli ,liuu-, 1891, t'lmi'It's Heni'j' Clioiiiicv, bari'istcr-at-law, of WaiTiniiubool. The lion. T. T. i Beckett, III. first, Eliza Stuckey (who <f. 1851, and secondly, Jane Stuckey, eoiisin of his first wife) and </. 1st July, 1892, leaving issue three sons and two daughters, of whom his eldest son, ITon. Thomas, iii. and has i^svu% Thomas Archibald; (iilbert; Dorolliy; and Edith. Albert, second son of Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, m. 1S6-1, Susannah Emily, daugh- ter of the late Benjamin Ecclcston. Agkew (p. 591).— The lion. James Will- son .Vgnew, was created K.C.M.tr., 1st Jan- uary, 1895. AlKINS (p, 200). — J. C. Aikins, eldest sou of J. A. M. Aikins, and grandson of the Hon. J. C. Aikins, rf. 1891. AncUEB (p. 188). — The eldest daughter of AV. II. 1). Archer, is Jo:m (Icrlrude C'lerke, and the second son of John Archer, by JIary Bazell, his wife, is Heniy Waldegrave. Wil- liam Archer, of Woolmers, Longford, had by JIartha Kcnsey, his wife, a fifth son, Daniel, II. D. of the "H.E.I.CS., a most talented surgeon, who d. at Khadakoor, India, Sth Sej)- tember, 1831. There is a monument to his memory erected at that )ilacc, and his elder brother William, was of Brickcndon, Sann- dridge, Muudeu, and Palmersfon, Tasmania. Bailiie (p. 152). — William, third and youngest sou of Thomas Baillie, of Ognoz, Toorak, iii. at St. John's Church, Toorak, 27th April, 1892, Mary (May), eldest daugh- ter of the Ecv. Walter Fellows, M.A., incum- bent of Toorak. B.MI.LIE (p. 182).— 'Ihe Hon. W. I). II. Bailhe's paternal grandniiithcr was Ihe daughter of Colonel Combv; (not Condier) of CO. Sussex, and it is claimeil that his maternal grandfather. Major Towiishend Monckton Hall, was lineally tloscendcd from Sir AVilliaui de Montalt Hall, of Skelton Castle, in York- shire, livijig temp. IIexky VIII. Bakeb (p. ICO).— Hon. C.M.G., J. P., isalsoM.A. K. C. Baker, B.vi.DWix (p. 29.')). — Captain Williaui Baldwin is now proprietor of the AVw Zea- land Times, and the Xew Zealand Mail. Bi.AXi.A-VD (p. 287). — In a pamphlet en- titled .i Jiiufiial of a Tom' of Dinroverif across the Bliie Mounfaiiis, iV..S'. /('., in the i/ear lSl,3. published in London, 1823, and reprinted in January, 1870, there is a copy of a letter from Mr. K. T. Blaxland's great grand-iuicle Ciregory Blaxlaud, Ow discoverer of the pass over the Blue Mountains (where now runs the zig-zag railway), dated London, lOth February, 1823, to the writer's luu-le, John Oxley I'arker, of Chelmsford, co. Essex, whose father was also nanu'tl John OxUiy I'arker. The aforesaid Gregory lilaxlami was /;. at Fordwich, near Canterbury, co. Kent, in 1779 (not 1771), and with his three brothers was educated at Kirig's College, Cauterbiry. His famous exjiedition started on Tuestlay, llth May, 1813, and returned ou Sunday, (itii June, following. The members comprising it, viz., Gregory Blaxlaud, William Charles W'entworth, and Lieutenant; William Lawsou, of the Royal A'eterau Company, were each rewarded with a grant of 1,000 acres of land. Gregory Blaxland's father John Blaxhind was a justice of the peace for F<^rdwich and Slurry, and lay rector of Newington luwt Sittingbourne, all co. Kent. Gregory's eldest brother, the Hon. John Blaxlaud, embarked for Syduey, 17th Jidy, 1806, with a large couvov, and arrived at Port Jackson, 3rd April," 1807. His brother Samuel Blax- laud was a rich merchant at Antwerp. Ho was taken prisoner by Napoleon and his proijcrly confiscated, and after having been in captivity for seven years eventually .-ue- ceeded in making his escape back to ICnglaud. Blytii (p. 40).— Sir Arthur Blyth d. at Eastbourne, co. Sussex, December, 189], and was buried there. BoxVTiio.v (p. 91). — lichard lionython, who acipiired the estate of Carclew, jt'fe iixorls, was the " second " sou of Simon Bonython. Thomas Bonython, d. at Lauu- ccston, Tasmania, 20th September, 189I-. Boyd (p. 209). — Lucy de Guzman, the ehler daughter of the late Captain John Theodore. three notilleatious of events which occurred while A'^ol. II. was going through the press, concerning families in the latter voluuic.
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