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 722 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. III. Joliannes, a dcputv commissarv-gcn- eral, i. 21st June, 1794., rf. 1867.' IV. Adam Gnbriol, b. lltli DecenibiT, 1795, ^^'ns cliiof clerk of the treasurer general's department of the colony, d. 18tli June, 1S28. V. Andries, h. liGth Febrnarv, 1707, an oflioer in tlie Customs. VI. Heudrik, h. 25tli September, 1802, d. 1806. VII. WiiLEU Anni': Janssens, of whom presently. viii. John Paseal Larkins, h. 20lli No- vember. 1805, was assistant eommissar^'- general, and d. 1877. I. Maria Jacoba, h. 18th August, 1798. II. Sara. Maria, h. 21st May, 1800. The seventh son, T'iT.LEM Axxic Jakssens be Sjiidt, of ATestbrooke, Rondebosch, near Cape Town, h. IStli June, 1801 ; entered the Cape Civil Ser- vice, July. 18j 9, was a junior elerk to the secre- tary of the Court of Apjieal ; became elerk in ofliee of inspeetorof lands and woods, October, 1820 ; chief clerk in surveyor-general's ofHee 1838 ; secretary of land board 1842 ; and twice had charge of this department ; appointed secretary of the Central Board of Roads 1818 ; and Under Colonial Secretary January, 1859 ; high sheriff 1802 ; and retired on pension as Under Colonial Secre- tary, 18th October, 1862. He represented the North Western Circle of the colony in the Cape Legislative Council (Upper House of Parliament) from 1869, imlil the dissolution of the sixth Parliament in 1883. Mr. do Sraidt, m. lotli May, 1827, Susau'ja Maria, dauglrterof Petrns Johannes Redelixghuys (whose g)-eat-grandfather Pierre de A'illiers, emigrated with his two brothers, Abraham and Jacques, to the Cape in 1689, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and by her, who d. 1873 had issue, I. ABBAnAM, the subject of this me- moir. II. AVilliam, sometime member of the House of Assembly and a justice of the peace, in. Jacoba, daughter of Hendrik DE Necker, and has issue, two sons and three diingliters. III. I'etrus Johannes, J. P., civil commis- sioner and magistrate, of Breda.s Dorp, Calvinia, and Naniaqualand, subse- quently chief clerk in the otlice of secretary of native affairs, in. Mary, daughter of Dr. II. Gird, and d. lllli April, 1892, leaving issue, two sons and ie daughters. IV. Adam Gabriel, who represented the district of Ondtshoorn in the Cape Parliament, late inspector of Public Works, now on pension, and a justice of the peace, in. Jolianna, daughter of P. IIaktzes^beeg, and has issue, two sons. V. John, engaged in mission work in Cape Colony, in. Anne, daughter of James Hitchcock. VI. Charles, attorney, notary and solicitor, practii^ing at Beaufort West, m. Mai'ia, granddaughter of Sir John Teuteb, chief justice of the colony, and has issue, one son and one daughter. VII. Heni'v, permanent secretary of the Colonial Otlice of the Cape of Good Hope, justice of the peace, director of the census of Cajje Colony, etc., etc. He m. September, 1878, Jessie, daugh- ter of the late Dr. Zacharias Herman, M.D., and has issue, two sons and three daughters. I. Johanna, in. Thomas Geddes Bain, civil engineer and chief geological and hydraulic surveyor of Cajje Colony. II. Maria, m. Charles VVaterjietee, government surveyor, Caiie of Good Hope, justice of the peace and some- time member of the House of Assembly of that colony. III. Catherine. IV. Susan. Willeui Anne Jansscns de Sniidt d. 10th March, 1885. Arms — Az. afess wavy arg. Creat — 'Five ostrich plumes, p^ir. Residence — Rondebosch, Cape Colony. Cluis — Civil Service, Cape Town, and Sussex county, Brighton, England. fL^olmcs. JOHN SAYRES FREDERIC HOLMES, of Mataliiwi, Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand, h. 39tti August, 18-52, m. lltb December, 1S78, Maude Julia, only child of Robert May Flamank, by Mary Julia Baeet, his wife, of Newton Abbott, South Devon, England, and has issue, I. Edward Carleton, b. 27th September, 1879. I. Constance Coote, h. lOtk April, 1883. II. Elizabeth Carleton, I. 24th July, 1893.