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 666 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Hincage. This family claims to he a branch of the clan TuRXBULL, interesting accounts of ■which may be found in Jeffrey's History and Anfiquities of Hoxhttrqhshire, in Ceaig-Bro'U'x's Sistory of ISell^irkshire^ c^c, and in Les £cossais en France H les Fram;ais en Ecosse. The immediate ances- tor, William TuEXBriL, of Galnshiels, eo. Eoxburgh, merchant, b. April, 1770, m. in 1791, Mary Doxaldson (A. 1768), and d. 25th May, 1831 (buried in Gralashiels church- yard), liaving by lier, tio d. IStli Febru- ary, 1808, and was buried in the same place, had issue, I. John, of whom presently. II. Walter, b. in Melro-^e Parish, 14th Jani.ary, baptised 30th March, 1794, ■went in early life to America, where he married, but d. s. p. at Hamilton, Livingstone, Michigan, U.S.A., 21st D( cember, 1862. III. William, b. in Melrose Parish, 19lh February, baptised 3rd April, 179G, d. untn. at Menslaus, near Jedburgh, N.E., 25th October, 1885. IV. George, b. in Melrose Parish, 13th November, 1798, went to America, 1832; III. Intb February, 1838, Isa- bella Dalgieish (b. 1807), and d. at Gait, in Canada, Slst May, 1861, leav- ing issue, 1. John. 2. "Robert, b. 21st April, 1839, m. at Orwell, 21st April, 1869, Per- milla SIM5I0X.S, and has issue, (o) Elgin Kobcrt. (a) Ida Bella. (b) Grace. (<■) Lillian. 3. William, b. 29th March, 1841, m. 13th January, IbOfi, Mary Anne Sharp, and lias issue, three sons and four daugliters. 4. George, b. 15th July, 1849. 1. Mary, b. 16th March, 1843. ■i". Kobert, b. in .Icb-ose Parish, 22nd April, 1801, d. in infancy. i. Thomas, b. in Melrose Parish, 13th October, 1805, baptised 11th May, 1806 ; m. Anne Eastox, and had a daughter, Anne, 4. 1841. He ivas a Arms — Argent gutte de poix, three bulls' heads erased sable, armed vert, each transfixed by a sword in pale points upwards proper, pommels and hilt or. Crest — In front of a bull's liead erased sable gutte d'eau, armed or, four annulets, arranged fesswise of the last. Motto — Fnrtuna favet audaci. Residence — Elibank, Wellington, New Zealand. Club — Wellington. surgeon and emigrated to America, with his wife and child in 1842, and d. at Hamilton, U}ij)er Canada, in September, lsl-9, of cholera, being predeceased by his wife, by a few ■weeks. Tii. Alexander, d. in infancy. I. Jean, b. in Melrose Parish, 14th January, baptised 30th March, 1794, d. in infancy. II. Mary, b. in Melrose Parish, 13th October, 1805, and d. in infancy. The eldest son, JoHX Turnbull, of Selkirk, and latterly of Glasgow, b. in Melrose Parish, Scotland, 26th February, baptised there 15th April, 1792, m. at Selkirk, 1817, Isabella, daughter of John Thorbuhx, of Juniper Bank, Inner Leithem, eo. Peebles, and Isabella Hous- BtiRGH, his ■wife, and d. in Glasgow, 30th July, 1866, having by her, who was b. 1786, and d. in Glasgow, 14th November, 1868, had issue, I. William, b. in Selkirk, 18th June, baptised 22nd July, 1818, who emi- grated to America 17th September, 1852, and d. s. p. at Amsterdam, New York, 5th February, 1808. II. John, b. at Selkirk 28th May, b.ip- tised 2nd July, 1821, d. unm. at Mens- laus, near Jedburgh, 15th September, 1890. III. Walter, the subject of this memoir. IV. Robert Thorburn, of 50, Golden Square, London, b. 9th May, 1829, m. 20th June, 1860, Joanna Robertson, and by her, who was b. 6th October, 1840, and d. in London, 7th July, 1881, has issue, 1. John, of Cromwell Avenue, Highgate, London, b. 19th November, 18S2, in. 27th June, ]8i0, "W'illiamina. daughter of John BATiBER, of Auchenhay, Kii'kcudbri gilt shire. 2. Thomas Dobsou, b. 15th August, 1879, d. 24th Julv, 1881. 1. Jane, b. 9th October, 1864. 2. Isabella, b. 8th November, 1865, d. in London, 18th July, 1892. I. Elizabeth, d. vnm. at Galashiels.