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concerning members of my family, which I am desirous of putting right, in addition to making an inquiry in the columns

Mr. John Stubbs (my maternal grand- father), originally of Press, co. Salop, and afterwards of High Holborn and Brighton (goldsmith), who was one of the contributors to a fund for defraying the expenses of the Rev. Charles Wesley's funeral, was twice married. His first wife not second, as stated in the above-mentioned work was a Miss Millicent Reynolds, of Peckleton, co. Lei- cester. The marriage was solemnized at Peckleton parish church in June, 1785, the original licence for the marriage being still in my possession. There were five children of this marriage, viz., Mary Ann (who died under two years of age), John, William, Millicent, and a second Mary Ann. Mrs. Millicent Stubbs died 13 March, 1794, and her youngest child two days after.

John Stubbs's second wife was a Miss Sarah Nolloth (not a " Miss Reynolds," as stated by the author). She was a sister of John Nolloth, Esq, of Carnberwell or Peck- ham. He held an important position in the Admiralty in connexion with Portsmouth Dockyard. The second marriage took place in March, 1795, as appears by one of several entries in my grandfather's Bible, also in my possession. This book was one of numerous exhibits to an affidavit of Sarah Stubbs (the elder) sworn before Lord Henley on 16 April, 1835, in a suit for the administration of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Ives, of Lambton Hall, Middlesex. She was a sister of John Stubbs. The costs in Stubbs v. Sargon were so enormous that Lord Brougham brought a Bill into Parliament to amend the law, and thus prevent a similar misfortune in the future. There were nine children of the second marriage, viz., Charles Nolloth, Sarah, Thomas (who died in infancy), George, Ann, another Thomas, William, Henry Ovendon, and Joshua. Ann married my father, Richard Ormond Birch, solicitor, of Marylebone. My own name is John Henry Basil Stubbs Birch ; but finding it most inconvenient to sign four Christian names (except in legal documents), I have for years past adopted only two.

There is also another error in the before- mentioned work, in the copy of the inscrip- tion on tomb 97 in the City-Road Chapel. A Mrs. Largon is stated to have been a niece of my great-aunt, Mrs. Ives. It should have been Mrs. Sargon. I may mention that Mrs. Ives used to entertain large gatherings of Wes- leyan ministers and others at Lambton Hall.

Can any reader of 'X. & Q.' kindly inform me if any descendants of the first marriage of John Stubbs are now living ?

J. BASIL BIRCH.

51, Tynemouth Road, South Tottenham, N.

POLYNESIAN ISLANDS. Mr. Ralph Thomas, in his 'Swimming, 1 p. 98, says: "Capt. Cook tells us that there were no animals in the Polynesian islands, and yet the natives were swimmers."

I should be obliged if one of your readers would give the title and page of the book in which this passage occurs. It is somewhat curious that Mr. Thomas, who quotes an authority for almost every statement, does not for this one. EDWIN WALL.

WELDS OF WILLEY PARK, SALOP. Eliza- beth, daughter and sole heiress of George Weld, of Willey Park, married Brooke Forester, of Dothill, Salop. Their son George, "Squire Forester," died without issue, and left the double property to George, afterwards Lord Forester, his nephew, who is now represented by the Weld-Foresters. The additional name of Weld was taken by the Foresters on account of the property. Who are now the representatives of the Welds of Willey Park, Salop 1 B. W.

Fort Aguatus, N.B.

"POUR."

(10 th S. v. 261.)

ASSONANCE may account for some of the rimes in which pour has a share, but it is at the same time noteworthy how readily certain poets allow the word to have the sound of power. It is this value which is given to it in 'Hudibras,' I. iii. 935, where Trulla's satellites press forward to wreak vengeance,

Which now they were about to pour Upon him in a wooden show'r. Cowper, translating Milton's * Death of Damon,' says that Thyrsis awakened the echoes all day with his lamentations,

nor even ceased to pour

His lonely sorrows at the midnight hour.

Burns and the Scottish poets generally

are, perhaps, not infallible guides on a point

of English pronunciation, and with regard

to pour in particular they had the vernacular

practice to influence their decision. Poor

was and is the prevalent sound given to pour

in the Scottish Lowlands, although power is

sometimes assigned as a value, marking a