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 IJFRKE'S rOLOXIAL GHXTRY 821 1886-7, andlninister of jiublio instruc- tion iu 1889. lie was uiiuistcr of edu- cation from Oetober, 1801, and aeted as colonial secretary in 1802. He ni. 1863, Emily, only daughter of Thomas J. Hawkins, of Walmcr, and has issue, four sous and five ilaughters. III. George Roxburgh, )«. Evelyn Uar- aiy, and has issue, two sons and two daughters. IV. Herbert Coclirane, m. Emily ScTTOK, and has issue, three sons and four daughters. V. Albert Bruce, m. Alice McIntosh, and has issue, two sons and three daughters. VI. Walter Sydney, m. Louisa MuNiiO, and has issue, three sons and four daughters. Eesitlence — Cangour.'i, Dathurst, Address — 6, Roekuall Crescent, VII. Horace Melbourne, m. Amy KniQut and has issue, two sons and one daugh- ter. VIII. Norman Lachhin, «/. Louisa RoisiiVSON, and has issue, one son and two daughters. I. Charlotte Elizabeth Mary, »i. John Eydo Mannixo, and has issue, four sons and six daughters. II. Charlotte Augusta Ann, m. William Colburn Mayne, and has issue, two sons and throe daughters. III. Sarah raulinc, m. Thonuis Henry Furuival Giuffix, and has issue, four sons and one daughter. IV. Clara Hay, m. William C. Siiahlaxd, and has issue, one son and four daugh- ters. New South W'ales. Potts Point, Sydney. mtw. THE LATE MAJOR WILLIAM HENRY ODELL, of Rookwood, Fredericton, New Brunswick, h. at Fredericton, 6th Jlay, 1852 ; entered Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1869, from which he was gazetted to a commi.ssion in the 52nd Light Infantry 30th December, 1871 ; promoted captain 11th March, 1S82, major, 16th March, 1892. He served in South Africa, receiving the South African medal and clasp for 1879, and was mentioned in despatches. He d. s. p. 1894. Ittufaar. The Odell family in England is an ancient one, having been founded there by Walter Flaxdeensis, who came over with the Conqueror in 1066, and, as his share of the spoils of conquest, received, among other states, that of WadehuU or WahuU (now Odell) in Bedfordshire. From this posses- sion, which lie made his principal stronghold, W^altcr Flandrensis acquired the title of Baron de AVahuU, and became the progenitor of a noble family of that name who were, for many generations, summoned to Parlia- ment by the King {see Bueke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage). The orthography of the name has gradually changed, however, from dc WahuU to Wodhull, Woodhull, Wodell, Odell, etc. In a pedigree of the family in the Visitation of Northampton in 1618, we find mention of " Nicolas Woodhidl alias Odell," and in All Saints Church at MoUington, Oxfordshire, may be seen a mural tablet erected in 1656, to the memory of : " Mrs. Elizabeth Woodhull, late wife of Eiehard Woodhull, alias Odell, Esq." The alternate use of the two names Woodhull and Odell is also found in the earlier records of the American family, a petition in UJtiS by the second son of William Odell, the founder of the family in America, being signed "William Woodhull." William Oeei.l, the founder of the family in America, emigrated to New England as early as 1639, iu company with the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who was rector of the parish of Odell in Bedfordshu-c in l(i20, and allied to the Odell family through his marriage with Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Cubt- WOOD. Mr. Odell settled at Concord, Massachusetts, but removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1644, where he became the owner of a large estate. He d. in 1676, leaving a will, recorded at Fairfield the same year. He had issue, three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, John Odell, of Fairfield, was made free- man in 1664, by the General Assembly ; inl666, in behalf of his father, he joineil with l'"rancis Hall in a deed of partition ; in 1673 and 1682 he received grants of land from the town of l'"airfield ; in 1707, he made a will, appointing his wife, Mary, executrix. He had issue, two soils and three daughters. The eldest son, Ension Samuel Odell, of Stratfield, was h. 16th March, 1677; in 1700, he received deed of lands from his father; in 1722, was commissioned ensign by the General Assem- bly; in 1727, his estate was administered on, withinventory, meulioniug his widow Deborah.