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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 573 EDWARD STAGE SYMONDS, C.i[.G., of Tiitclo, Kcw, Melbourne, Victoria, formerly uiuler-treaburer of the colony of Victoria, b. at Gosport, CO. Southampton, ir>th July, 1816; m. first, 1838, Emily, daughter of the late John Mudio Wilson, of Sydney, New South Wales, and by her has issue, I. Edwauu CllATKK, .l.P. for Victoria (since ifarcb, 188S), comptroller of the money order and savings bank branch of the Victorian postal department, to which ollice he was appointed in September, 1888, having entered the service of the Government of Victoria in the Audit office in February, 1852; appointed receiver and pay- master of the Treasury in Melbourne, 1893 ; h. in Sydney, New South Wales, 1838; m. 1863, Martha Hoddi.not, who d. leaving issue, three sons and three daughters. II. Charles Arthur, b. 1848; m. 1876, Alice Weetman, and has issue, one daughter. III. Samuel, 6. 18.50; m. 1878, Jane IIartrick, and has issue, four sous and one daughter. IV. James Melville, b. 1854; m. first, 1879, Caroline Weetman, and has issue, two sons; he m. secondly, Blanche Rossiter. I. Mary White, b. 1841. II. Frances Rowena, b. 1844; m. 1881, Henry J. Leplasteier, and has issue, a daughter. III. Eliza Bell, &. 1852. IV. Elizabeth Stace, b. 1857. V. Emily Suzette, b. 1858, d. unm. Mr. Symonds 7)i. secondly, 1879, Annie Augusta, daughter of the late Mansell Allez, of Guernsey, and by her has had issue, a daughter, VI. Elsie Grace, d. u?im. He VI. thirdly, 16th February, 1882, Edith, daughter of the late John RiCKAEDS, of Sydney. He went to Australia in 1836, and arrived in Sydney in December of that year. Entering the service of the Government of Victoria in 1852, he became in the same year commissioner of Crown lands ; and was subsequently appointed senior commissioner in charge of financial operations at the goldfields, 1853; was gold-receiver at Melbourne from 1855 to 1857; and under-treasnrer of Victoria, from 1857 to 1887, when he retired on a pension, having been created C.M.G. in 1886. Hiiifngc. pAnrEi, Symonds, surgeon E.N., who 1 1. Eliznbotli Bell, h. 1819, deceased, resided at Buckland, Dover, CO. Kent, «■. 1808, I 2. Mary Kliza. A. 18.52 and rf. 1818 (liis wife, Mary, 8urvi ing till 1872), liaving had issue, I. Samuel, b. 1811, rf. 1821. II. James White, Commiinder K.N., h. 1814, m. 12th JuMe, 1818, Klizabelh Samuel, dau>;hlcr of San Uel I'EM, and <l. ard Apii', It?!"-, 1 a»ing itMii-, 3. Louisa Kraiikland, b. 1855. lir. KijWAiii) Stack, t'.M.Gr., of Tn- telo, Kew, MoUiourne, the subject of this memoir. IV. Charles Hunt, commissioner of audit, Vietori;-, //. 1H18, w. firsi.lSH, EUeu runi:, liy whom he had io.*uc.