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 506 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. JHcDobjalL ARCHIBALD McDOWALL, of Brisbane, Queensland, surveyor-general of Queensland, 6. in Victoria, 2nd December, 1841 ; m. firstly, 26th May, 1871, Annie, daugliter of Thomas Coutts, by Maria Bi.oodsworth, his wife, and by her (who d. IStli April, 1878) has had issue, I. Archibald Bankton, 6. at West Street, Toowoomba, 7th July, 1872. II. St. Andi'pw William Logan, h. at Maryborough, Queensland, 30th November, 1875. I. Annie, h. at Churchill Street, Maryborough, 10th April, 1878 ; d. at Hobart, Tasmania, 1st March, 1879. lie m. secondly, 2nd June, 1880, Ada Sarah, daughter of Thomas Coutts, and sister to his first wife, and by her has issue, III. Valentine, h. at Waratah, Maryborough, 14th February, 1881. Mr. McDowall, who was educated at Hobart and Campbelltown, Tasmania, entered the Queensland government service in May, 1862, as staff surveyor ; acted as staff surveyor and commissioner of Crown lands in the Maranoa, Warrego, and Kennedy districts until the end of 1869, when he was appointed commissioner of Crown lands and district surveyor of Darling Downs; district survej-or of the Maryborough and Wide Bay district, from 1875 to 1885 ; dis- trict surveyor at Toowoomba and inspector of surveys, from 1885 to 1891, in which year he succeeded Mr. W. M. Davidson as surveyor general of Queensland. Hincactr. This is a branch of the ancient family of McDowAT.L, of Lognn, co. Wigton, Scotland. Pathick McDowall, of Edinburgh, banker, living in 1G05, was father of, James McDowall, of Canonmills, who, in the entail of the estate of Bankton, in East Lothian, and certain other property, executed in 1756, is a nomination substitute, and is therein stated to be Li.i'd BanVton's cousin (Kay's Fort raits; 1837, vol. i, pp. 225, 226). His son, Archibald McDowall, of North Bridge, who figures in Kay's Portraits, Tras the first to commence the manufacture of cloth in Scotland. He was for many years a leading member of the Edinburgh Town Council, which he entered in 1775, was several times in the magistracy, and, before his retirement, was ofpcred the provost's chair, which he declined. He was h. in 1743; m. a near relation of his brother-in-law, the Eev. Dr. John Macfablajj, minister of the Canongate Church, and d. December, 181C, leaving six sons, two of whom obtained appointments in the Hon. E. 1. Co.'s service, viz., Eobert (Colonel) and William; two others entered into mercantile pursuits, and the youngest son, Charles, became a writer to the signet. Colonel Robert McDowall, who spent nearly thirty years in India, was present at the siege of Seringapatam and at the captiu'e of Tavoy and Merqni. of which he was appointed governor, and was subsequently killed in Bcsidence — Brisbane, Queensland. Clubs — Queensland and Johnsonian, in Bri action. The other son, who went to India, William, after being about twenty years in t'ne Madras Medical Establishment, retui-ncd to Edinburgh, where he took up his residence at Bellevue Crescent. Mr. Archibald Mc- Dowall's eldest son, Akchibald McDowall, of Logan, Both- well, Tasmania, m. 1814, Jean Begbie. Both d. at Logan, and their son, Akchibald McDowall, of Logan, Both- well, Tasmania, has been a territorial magi- strate of that colony for the last forty years, and has been warden, or chief magistrate, of BothweU for nearly thirly years. He >». 8th Eebruarv, 1841, Charlotte Gill, and has had I. Akchibald, Queensland, memoir. II. James Gill III. W^illiam, Surveyor-General of the subject of this deceased. of Lake Lucy, North Queensland, grazier. IV. Frederick, of Logan, Bothwell. v. Robert Grant, staff suiveyor, Darling Downs, Queensland. I. Charlotte Jane, m. George Ibbott, a landowner in Tasmania. II. Eva Marion. III. Emma Eugenie, m. the Very Ecv. Thomas Davenport Warner, rural dean, Toowoomba, Queensland. IV. Lizzie Keid. sbanc; The Downs, in Toowoomba.