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 iO BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. exhibitions held at Philadelphia, 1876 ; Paris, 1878 ; Sydney, 1879 ; and Calcutta, 1883-4, and was a member of the Executive Committee oq Imperial Federation, in 1884, and of the commission appointed to determine the proper methods to be adopted for Australian coastal defence. Ht'ncage. This family was formerly resident in Scot- land, at Loeh Craigs, near Steveuston, Ayr- sliire. John Aiexandee Watt, of Locti Craigs, m. Marion MoNTSOMEEiE, and left with other issue, a younger son, John Watt was b. at Loeh Craigs, afore- said, 19th March, 176-t; he afterwards trans- ferred liis residence to Kdiiiburgh, and be- came a burgess of that city, where, and also at Leith, he was successful in business and made a considerable fortune. He m. in 1799, Elizabeth Hamilton Anderson, and (/.at Edin- burgh, 1823, having by her, who d. 1S37, had issue, two sous, I. John, who s. by will to the gi-eater part of liis father's pro]5erty, and d. s. p. at New York in 1831. II. Alexandek Hamilton, of whom presently. His younger son, Alexandek Hamilton Watt, of Grange Road, Edinburgh, b. 14th July, 1800; m. Margaret, daughter of William Gilchrist, and sister of John Gilchrist, of Sydney, New South Wales (see p. 567), and by her, who d. 1832, had issue to survive childhood, an only son, I. John Brown, the subject of this memoir. He m. secondly, 1835, Mary Gumming, by whom he had issue, II. Charles, of Edinburgh, m. Margaret DoDDS, and has issue. Iir. Peter, J. P., of Goonal, in the Gwy- dir District, of N.S.W., m. Mai-y Bapte, and has issue. IV. Wdliam, of Hobart, Tasmania, m. Catherine Johnson. V. Walter Gumming, of Knellerpore, Sydney {Club — Union), b. in Scotland in 1846 ; emigrated to New Soutli Wales in 1863, and subsequently be- came a partner iu the firm of Gilchrist, Watt and Co. I. Mary, m. William J. Taylor, of Grange Road, Edinburgli. Mr. A. H. Watt d. 15th January, 1874. first, 1823^ Crest — On a dexter glove fessewise a falcon close in the beak a hood all ppr. Motto — Fide et fidueia. Hesidences — Eynesbury, Sydney, New South Wales, and Brunstath, Bournemouth, England. Clubs — Union and Australian, Sydney ; Reform and Oriental, London. Bt ^mtUt. ABRAHAM DE SMIDT, of Highstcad, Roudebosch, near Cape Town, late of De Groote Schuur, b. 30th May, 1829, m. first, in 18.53, Alice Cornelia, daughter of Johannes Hermanns Redelinghuys, and Susanna Maria OvERBEEK, his wifc, Only daughter of Captain Gerard Ewout Overbeek, formerly captain of the Dutch frigate " De Castor," Dutch Navy {see that family), and by her, who d. 1873, has issue, I. William, d. at De Groote Schuur, 1868. II. John Hermanns Redelinghuys, &. 8th December, 1865. III. Andries Abraham Muller, b. 31st May, 1868. I. Susan ]Iaria Mai'garet. II. Theodora Immens. He m. secondly, 7th April, 1875, Gertrude Hermina, youngest daughter of Jacobus Cliristoffel de Witte Overbeek, of Cathcart Villa, Cape Town (see that family) and has issue, IV. Leonard Ferdinand Philip, b. at Cathcart Villa, Cape Town, •27th May, 1880. V. Gerard Ewoud Overbeek, 6. at Highstcad, l&t June, 18£5.