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 FUIRKKS COLOXlAl- (n-:NTm'. 419 Anfln' fie la Cour'swill is ilatcci 3'lth August, 16G1. His son, Paul de i,a Corn, slvlcd .Seignciir de la Ganliolle, m. 22ii(l Novcmlior, Ki-l'i, C'laucic, daugliter of Jleui'i cle VissKC, Sieiir de Pra- dines, d. in the camp before Lerida, in 1646, leaving a son, Charles de la Coir, Seigneur de la Bii- li^I■e, m. 7th November, ItitM, Fran<;oisc, (lauKblor of Ktienne i>e QrATiiEFAOEs, of Hreau, near Aulas, from which family was descended the eminent Kreiich nalurnlist, now deceased. Charles and liis uncle, I'ierre de la O.ardiolle, obtained 27th September, 11)80, a judgment, coufirmed by Louis XIV, declaring theiu to be of noble birth. They li:id to furnish proofs that the family had been noble for two hundred years. The original judgment is :;t Moutpellicr in the Archives of the Department of Uerault, feerie B., Eegister No. 50, iol. 143. Cliarles and his uncle were members of the General Assembly of the Relormed Cliurchis of the Cevennes, at Cologuac, in 1GH3, but on the revocation of the Kdict, of Nantes, the former abjured, and having taken part against his former co-religionists in the war of the Caniisards. was shot by an assassin, 22ud April, 1704, near his house at Aulas. His uncle Pierre fled soon after the revoca- tion of the Edict, to England, and d. in London s. p. 3rd October, 1705, having m. .Susauue DE EoussET. Charles at hi.s decease left four sous, I. Paul, i. Sth October, 1G67, Lieutenant in Marton's Eegimeut, Iti'JG, fought under William 111 in Ireland and the Netherlands, went oit to the Mediterranean in Sir Cloudesley Shovel's Fleet in 1703, and took part in an attempt to communicate with the persecuted Cevennois who were in arms. He was Captain in Colonel Dalzell's regiment, 1709, serving with it and being wounded at Tortosa in Spain. He retired as a Major with a pension, and d. unm. 1736. II. Pierre, of whom presently. III. Fram-ois, h. 1672, a French officer, highly distinguished himself, and was killed at the siege of Turin in August, 1706. iv. Charles, b. 10/6, d. at the siege of Mantua in 1702. He and his brother had fought under Marshal Villray, in the regiment of Brisse. The second son, PiEiiRE DE LA CouR, b. in France, 29th June, 16G9, was the first English member of the family, being naturalized by Act of Parliament, 1701. He fought under Wil- liam III, in Ireland and the Netherlands, and was Ensign in Marton's Ecgiment, and in 1703 he was chosen by the Duke of Scliombcrg as a Cornet in his proposed regi- ment of Dragoons, for service in Portugal, which was partially raised and then counter- manded by Queen Anne's Govcrrnnent. In 1705, he obtained a Commission now in pos- session of his descendants, signed by Anne and Ruvigny, Earl of Gallway, llie famous Huguenot General, as Captain in Viscount Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot, with which he served in Spain, also another in the same officer's regiment of Dragoons, dated 1715-16. He m. at .St. Bcnet's, Paul's Wharf, 3rd February, 170S, Marque Frauc;oise KKVXM'u.of a Hugui - not family, and d. (will i>roved 1746) leaving by her, who d. 17-18, with other issue, two sous, I. P.vrL; of whom presently. II. Peter, b. 30th May, 'l725. Major 92ud Keginient, (/. ««/«. 4th Juue, 180a. The elder son, Paulde L.vuillikre, b. 15th .Tune, 1715; a letter of his father's dated 8th January, 1745, mentions that he harl been for a time a colonist at Cliarleston, Carolina, luid been prisoner of war at Barcelona, and had visited his cousin in the old family home in the Cevennes. He m. in London, 5th March, 1753, Martha BHroriKHK, who survived till 1818, and d. leaving with several other chil- dren, a son, Peter db Labillierk, 6. 25th July, 17G6, m 31st August, 1793, Susanna BoAKK, and d. in Victoria 24th F'cbruarv, 1847, having by her (who d. 28th November, 1837), had witii other issue, none of whom mari'icd, a son, Charles Edgar de Labilliehk. m. at St. Mark's, Dublin, 4lh July, 1839, Hannah, daughter of John Hamilton Balle, whose father, Captain Samuel Balle, R.N., was a junior officer in the " Monmouth," in the famous sea-fight of 1758, when she captured the " Fondroyant." They went to Australia, accompanied by his father in " the West- minster," the second ship that ever sailed direct to Port Phillip from England, and arrived there in December, 1839. He bought the sheep station called " Lovely Banks," but changed its name to " Yallock Vale." It was on the Parwan Creek, about ten miles from Bacchus' Marsh and Ballan, and be- longed to Messrs. Hawkey, and had, since the foundation of Port Philli)) settlement in 1835, IukI two owners. Captain Blackncy and .James Simpson, the first ])oIiee nuigistrale ap])oiuted to Melbourne. Charles Edgar de Labilliere was made a magistrate of New- South Wales, when Victoria was only the Port Phillip District of that colony, and was present, when Mr. Latrobe was sworn as its first Governor, also at the dinner given to him on that occasion at the Melbourne Club, of which Mr. C. E. de Labilliere was for many years a member. He was, for some time before the appointment of a paitl nuigis- trate. Chairman of the Bench at Bacchus Marsh, and was returning officer for the West Bourke, at the first General IClcction, mider responsible Government iu 1856. In 1859 he sold the sheep run at Yallock Vaie and the land he had purchased there, and re- turnetl to Englaml, for a tinu', travelling about, and finally settled in London, where he d. 2nd November, 1870, Icaviug by his wife, whorf. 23i'd October, 1880, an only child, Francis Peter de Lauillh'ike, the sub- ject of this memoir. 2 K 2