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 770 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Be Casttlla. CHARLES HUBERT DE CASTELLA, of Fribourg, Switzerland, formerly of St. Hubert's, Lilydale, Victoria, Knight of the Legion of Honour, h. 1825, m. 1865, Alice France.s, only daughter of the Hon. R. P. Jexkins, M.L.C. (son of Robert Jenkins, of Arlingham, co. Gloucester) of Bamballa, New South Wales, by Louisa, his wife, daughter of Captain Patrick Plunkett, of the 80th Regiment, afterwards Police Magistrate at Gouiburn, New South Wales, and Frances Browne, his wife, of Oi-oghan (niece of Denis O'CouOK Don), and has had issue, I. Francois RonEitr, of Tougala, Victoria, h. at Melbourne 1867. II. Ernest Charles, b. 1869, d. at Midkiu station, Moree, New South Wales, 15th August, 1890, aged 21. III. Hubert Maximilian, h. 1873. IV. Jean Edouard, h. 1881. V. Claude Louis, b. 1886. I. Louise Madelaiue. II. Alice Marie, d. at her parents' residence, Fribourg, Switzerland, Gth February, 1891, aged 16 years. III. Nathalie Cceile. IV. Claire Caroline. V. Clotilde Elizabeth. This gentleman and his brother Paul will be remembered in Australia as having been amongst the pioneers of the Australian wine industry. Mr. Paul de Castella, in 1860, extended to one hundred aci'es the small first Victorian vineyard, planted in 1840, which he found on the Tering station, purchased by him in 1850 from Mr. William Ryrie. Mr. Charles Hubert de Castella, in 1862, planted the St. Hubert vineyard, which became famous especially by win- ning, in 1881, at the International Exhibition of Melbourne, the Grand Prix (a gold and silver trophy, valued at £1,000), offered by the Emperor William I of Germany for the best exhibit of colonial origin. Mr. Hubert de Castella published in 1860, in Hacliette's Bibliotlicque des Chemins de Fer, the first popular French book on Australia, entitled Les Squatters Australiens. He also published John Bull's Vineyard (Melbourne, 1886), and gave a lecture on Australian wine before the Royal Colonial Institute, London. He was a commissioner for Victoria, at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. ilincngc. The DE Castellas, a very ancient noble j Berlens, Villardin and Dellev. The de family of Fribourg, Switzerland, have fnr- Castellas of Gruyh-e possessed the two nislied a number of eminent men, members i first-n.amcd lordships, and to this branch the of the KOTcrnraent of tluit canton, ecclesias- tics, and distinguislicd oflicers, who flourished especially in tlic French service from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XA^III, and amongst whom were eleven generals and colonels of the Swiss Guard and thirteen Kniglits of DE Castellas, established in Australia, belong. The de Castellas of Berlens were particularly illustrious in France, where they were created by Louis XV, Counts de Cas- tella. This branch is now extinct in the male line, hut is represented in Australia hy St.' Louis. This family possessed the lord- ^ Chakles, Baeox de Fegelt («;. to Anne ships of Villardvolard", C'hatcl St. Denys, i Carbe-Eiddle), grandson of a daughter of