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Hezekiah, just as Abe, Ike, and Jake re- present Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I have found no such combinations as Ben Jonson's Win-the-Fight and Zeal-of- the-Land. They probably died out at an early date. I am not even sure that any of them crossed the Atlantic.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, N.W.

" NAUSCOPY. " (See ante, p. 217.) Further information about Bottineau is given in vol. iii. of R.Montgomery Martin's " British and Colonial Library " (London, 1836). The author knew the old man personally in Mauritius, and he and his brother officers frequently saw him

" in his ancient dress (somewhat like our Green- wich pensioners) ride on his stout mule down to the wharf to inform the port officer what vessels were in (his) sight " (p. 295).

He is, however, mistaken about the old man's name (M. Fillifay). It is interesting to learn that he had a pupil, a lady on the island. L. L. K.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

DUCHESSES WHO HAVE MARRIED COM- MONERS. Several of these marriages took place in the eighteenth century.

Isabella Montagu, widow of William, second Duke of Manchester, married Edward Hussey, afterwards Earl of Beaulieu, in 1743.

Elizabeth Spencer, widow of James, fourth Duke of Hamilton, married Hon. Richard Savage Nassau in 1751.

Catherine Gordon, widow of Cosmo George, third Duke of Gordon, married Staats Long Morris in 1756.

Emelia Lennox, widow of James, first Duke of Leinster, married William Ogilvie in 1775.

Does this exhaust the list ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

FALCONER : ST. DUNSTAN-IN-THE-WEST. John Falconer was buried at St. Dunstan-in- the-West, Fleet Street, in the year 1699.

The following is a copy of the entry of his burial in the Church Register :

" 1699. May 12. John Ffaulconer out of Chancery Lane in the Lower Ground."

I have made a search at St. Dunstan's, without success, for a monumental in- scription to John Falconer, from whom I

am descended. Assuming that a monument or tombstone was erected to his memory, and with a view of tracing the same should it have been preserved I should be glad to know what was " the Lower Ground " referred to in the above entry of burial.

In December, 1829, the old church of St. Dunstan was pulled down, and re-erected thirty feet back from its former site. Some of the monuments in the present church appear to have been removed from the old church. Indeed, on a tablet at the foot of the monument to Sir Richard Hoare (d. 1754) preserved in the present church, it is expressly stated that that monument " was removed from the ancient church of this parish, A.D. 1832 " the year in which the present church was consecrated.

In Seymour's ' History of London,' vol. L bk. iii. pp. 770-76, there is a list (copied from Stowe, 1720 edition) of the monuments pre- served in the ancient church of St. Dunstan. No monument to John Falconer is recorded in that list.

Beneath the present church there is a crypt divided into vaults in which, with the rector's kind permission, I have made a search for a monument to John Falconer, but without success. Here there are pre- served some thirty monuments and tomb- stones. The earliest is one ' erected to Henry Axe, who died in 1699 the year of John Falconer's decease. It was apparently removed from the old church, for it is given in Stowe's list (see Seymour, p. 775).

In Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, there is a small strip of ground in which there are preserved a number of tombstones, have not had an opportunity of examining these. I understand that they were removed from the old churchyard of St. Dunstan s. Is that the case ? Have the inscriptions on these tombstones been recorded ?

St. John's Wood.

THUNDER FAMILY. This family has been a long time living in Ireland, especially in North County Dublin. Could any one offer a suggestion as to where the Thunders originally came from, and whether they were natives of Ireland 1

In the Record Office I can trace them back to the reign of Elizabeth. One Alex- ander Thunder (or " Thonder ")had a holding called " Mochelocott " in County Dublin,; also his grandson Nicholas owned the same place, and lived in Lusk, County Dublin, Later on there was one Francis Thunder (my namesake), merchant, Dublin, who had