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 664 BURKE'S COLONIAL (IKNTRY. IV. Basil Loc-kliiirt, />. at Ercildoun, Victoria, ISth Marcb, 18G7. I. Louisa Harriett, b. at P]rcildoun, Victoria, 27th January, 1859. II. Bertlia Christian, b. at Ercildoun, Victoria, 20th August, 1863, m. 21st Juno, 1S83, Rev. John Farquhar Macuae. He m. secondly, 16th May, 1879, Jane Florence Harriet, daughter of Lestock Reid, of the Bombay Civil Service, and by her has further issue, V. Hugo, b. in London, England, 25th March, 1880. Ti. Ralph, 6. at Parkhall, N.B., 16th February, 1883. in. Mary, &. 8th August, 1881. IV. Caroline Jane, b. 22nd December, 1884. Mr. Thomas Livingstone-Learmouth, one of the pioneers of colonisation in Australia, left Tasmania accompanied by his brother Somerville, in 1837 and landed at Port Philip Bay, when Melbourne, now a very large city, was only a claster of tents, with one wooden cottage, occu])ied by Captain Lons- dale, the newly appointed Governor. After landing where the town of Geelong now stands, the two brothers gradually explored the country, pushed into the interior and reached the high peak (not far from the site of Ballarat, where the rich gold diggings were discovered in 1851), which they called Ercildoun in memory of an old keep on the Scottish border, associated with their family history. The Ei'cildoun property, on which they estab- lished a station, was afterwards sold to Sir Samuel Wilson. Mr. Thomas Livingstone-Learmonth, who was for some time member of the Tipper Hoase in Victoria, left that colony in 1858, and retui'ned home to Scotland, where he now resides, though he still owns some large sheep runs on the Murrumbidgee River, in New South Wales. Hincage. Ihis family, "vvhicli represents in the female line a branch of the Livingstones, whose titles and estates were forfeited in the Rebel- lion of 1745, appears to have been settled in Stirlingshire for several hundred years. The family estates are now for the most part in the hands of Mr. Thomas Livingstone-Lear- month. Thomas Leaemonih, of Laurence Park, Stirling, N.B., emigrated from Scotland and settled in Tasmania about 1S35. Soon after- wards the neighbouring colony of Victoria was founded, and thither his sons migrated in 1837. He m. Christian, daughter of Donald, and d. 8th February, 18fi9, having by her (who d. in Tasmania, March, 1843) had issue, I. Thomas Livingstone, the subject of this memoir. II. John, b. 1812; m. 1837, Anne Alicia, daughter of John MAcWniHTER.M.D., of Edinburgh, and d. 1871, leaving issue, 1. John Franklin, b. 1837 ; d. 1875. 2. Thomas, A. 1840. 3. Arthur Cotton, b. 18.52. 1. Harriett, b. 1839. 2. Alicia MacWhirter, b. 1841. 3. Christian, h. 1843. 4. Elizabeth Reid, b. 1847. 5. Anne Somerville, b. 1849. 6. Mary Georgina, b. 1855. III. Somerville, the plaintiff in the celebrated case concerning the owner- ship of the Egerton Mine, near Bal- larat, b. 1819; m. 18G0, Maria Kather- ine, daughter of Lestock Reid, of the Bombay Civil Service, aud d. 1878, leaving issue, 1. Somerville Reid, of Highfield, Waterlooville, C'osham, Hants, b. 24th November, 1861; m. 1886, Isabel, daughter of S. Tkavers, of Hobart, Tasmania, and has issue, (1) Alison Winifred, b. 1889. (2) Somerville James, b. 1892. (3) A son, i. 14th October, 1S94. 2. Cecil James Reid, b. 5th Feb- ruary, 1868. 3. Lestock Frederick Reid, i. 28th August, 1872. 1. Alice Julia Reid, b. 1865. 2. Winifred Josephine Reid, b. 1870. IT. Andrew James, b. 1826; m. 1869,