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 BURKE'S COLOXIAI. CllXTRY 569 HARRY NEWTOX rilllilJPS WOLLASTON", of Tooralc, Melbourne, /-. in "Western Australia, IVtli .Tannary, 1846, m. 12th May, 1868, Mary Annie, daughter of John IIakkeh, of Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, and Mary Ramsden, his wife, and niece of the late Hon. George Harkku, treasurer of Victoria, and of W. Haukek, of Harefield, Yorks, formerly M.P. for the West Riding of tint county, and by her has issue, I. Henry Newton Spencer, h. in Williamstown, Victoria, 12Lli October, 1875. I. Wiuifi-ed Mary. II. Susannah Ramsden. III. Dorothea. Dr. H. N. P. Wollaston entered the Civil Service of the colony, after passing the examination, on 1st July, 1863, promoted to the fourth class 1st January, 1867 ; to the third in 1882; to the second in 1888 ; to the first in 1890; and in 1891, to the 1st division of the Public Service as the Permanent Head of the Department of Trade and Customs. He is a justice of the peace, a barrister-at-law (1885), LL.B. (with honours) Melbourne Unive-sity (1884), LL.M. (1886) LL.D. (1890). Ur. Wollaston is standint^ counsel to the Marine Board of Victoria. An interesting account of this ancient family was written in October, 1753, by William Wollaston, of B'inborougb. The document, still in the possession of the family, states :— " It appears by a very great number of deeds that the fanuly of Wollas- ton were numerous before, and iu the reign of ICdwaed III, at Wollaston, iu Stafford- shire. They were then lords of the manor, and were called Henry, William, Thomas de Wollaston. In all these deeds or most of them, the name is spelt as we now spell our name. In 1327, the family were settled at Wollaston in Staffordshire. In 1.377, they sold the Manor of Wollaston* to the Aston familv, and then dispersed about the country ; some "went to Trescott, some to Pcrton, in the parish of Tetteuhall, in St.affonlshire, of which last we are descended. A gift of loaves of bread every Sunday to the poor of tliat parish, is still given by William Wollas- ton, of Shenton. Now I suppose they were no longer called ' de Wollaston,' but ' Wollaston,' without the ' de.' They were gentlemen always living upon their estates, seemingly with the same disposition and char- acter as at present, without ambition, so as to make much noise in the world, or to mucli enlarge their fortunes, until the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, 155-*, when Henry ILincngc. Wollaston, one of the younger brothers of the family, the great grandfather of William Wollaston, at Perton, was ssnt to London, and there, by the woollen trade, and living to the age of 93, he became very rich. His money he laid out in the purchase of the very "estates which are now iu the family, first iu Staffordshire, the county in which he was born, and in which his ancestors had always lived, by purchasing Oneott Hall, where he resided; then in the hi gi ining of James I's time, 1603, he re-pun ha ed the manor and estate of WoUasliii], of Sir Edward Aston, in whose family it had been ever since the sale in RiciiAun TI (1377), which estate with the others in Staffordshire, Leicestershire,t and Derbysljire, purchased likewise about the same time, and those in Suffolk, purchased since, are now in William Wollaston, of 81. J.uues' Square, the heir male of the first purchaser, and 1 brlieve of the family in general. Sir John AVoUaston, well known in the Civil Wars, being then Lord Mavor of London, was the said Henry's younger brother's son." Thomas Wollastox, of Perton in Staf- fordshire, a person of rank and inllucucc, in the reign of Henhy VII, had a grant from the crown of the olllce of Keeper of the Out- woods of Lyndridgc, which beheld until 1523. t In 1625, Willian Wollaston, of Oucott, bought Shenton of Sir Bichard Molyneux. The house was built in 1629.
 * The Manor of Wollaston, when sold to Lord .Vston, 1377, was valued at £51 2s. Srf.