Page:A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry Vol 2.djvu/39

 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ■121 Fcdoration Convention, licld in Sydnc)- in 18tU. kni-hthood 2otli May, 1892. Hu received tlic iionovir of ILincnac TnoMAS Abbott m. IGtli October, 1803, Eleanor KiNGsiiiLi. (wiio d. tit Sydney, 28th Soptoniber, 1873), and d. at Sydney 9th May, 1854'. His sou, John Kingsmill Abbott, of Glengai-ry, Wingen, New Soutli Wales, m. Frances Amanda Brady, and if. during his father's lifetime, lltli November, IS-lf, leaving issue, I. JosEBH Palmer (Hon. Sir), Spealier Sesidence — Tarella, St. Leonard: Club — Union. of tbp IjCgislativc Assembly of New South AValcs. II. illinui Kdward. in. Thonuis Kiiigsniill, in. Marion LvniAito, and il. f'Ah Aiigiist, 1891, leaving issue two sons and one daughter. IV. John llenrv, d. num. 2i:d I'Vbruarv, 1868. I. Lydia, m. J. J. SliAW, who d. leaving one son, John Abbott Kingsmill. Sydney, New South Wales. HON. JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, M.A., LL.M. Cambridge, of Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Chancellor of the University of Otago, h. 19th September, 1837; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1859, M.A. 18(32, LL.M. 18C8) ; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, November, 1859 ; ari-ived in New Zealand in 1851 ; district land registrar, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1871-72 ; registrar-general of land under the Land Transfer Act, 1872-75 ; and appointed puisne judge of the supreme court of New Zealand, March, 1875; m. first 26th July, 1861, Caroline Helen, daughter of the late Thomas Sanctuabt, of Horsham, Sussex, England, ajid by hei' (who d. 20th June, 1875) has bad issue, I. Joshua Sancwary, b. Sth March, 1870. II. Beauclerc, b. 23rd February, 1872. III. Norman, 6. 30th March, 1873, IF. Cecil, b. 30th January, 1875. I. Helen Lucy^ b. lOtb December, 1865. If. Lilian, d. in infancy. III. Mary, b. 13th March, 1SG9. He m. secondly, 15tk February, 1877, Amelia Durant, daughter of Thomas AVesley Jago, of Dunedin, New Zealand, and liy her has is.sue, IV. Theodora, b. 1st January, 1878. V. Constance, b. 9th January, 1879. VI. Gwenda, h. lltli July, 1880. ILmcngc. The must remote ancestor of this family that can be traced with certainty is John Williams of C'oale, in the parish of Eanip- ton, CO. Oxford, and formerly of Aston, in the same parish, who was living 1642. There were, howevei', persons of the name of Wil- liams living iji the pari.-h of Bampton, in the rvigli of Elizabktii, as appeals from the records of the Consistory Court, at Oxford. The family tradition is that (hey eumc from the county of Brecon, and settled ui Oxford- shire, luiviug been driven from W'ides by religious persecution. If this is true il would ])robubly refer to some earlier period than