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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. JULY 26, MIS.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED : 2. GILBERT FLEMMING (11 S. vii. 470). Gilbert Fane Fleming was the elder son of Gilbert Fleming of the Middle Temple by Katherine, his first wife (surname un- known).

His parents were residing in the island of Antigua in 1720-23, when their two daughters Were there baptized. Katherine must have died soon after her son's birth, for the father remarried at St. Paul's Cathe- dral, on 21 November, 1732, Anne, widow of Col. Chas. Mathew of St. Christopher. He again went out to the West Indies, having been appointed in 1733 Lieu- tenant -Governor of St. Christopher and Lieutenant -General of the Leeward Islands. He returned to England in 1757 in bad health, dying in 1762.

Gilbert Fane the son was probably a god- son of the Hon. Henry Fane, an intimate friend of Governor Fleming. He married on 14 January. 1754, at St. George's, Hano- ver Square, Lady Camilla Bennet, daughter of Charles, second Earl of Tankerville, by whom he had two daughters. In 1762 he succeeded to the extensive estates his father had acquired in the West Indies, and died in Wimpole Street on 26 December, 1776. A tablet to his memory may be seen in Marylebone Old Church. The Governor was fourteenth son of John Fleming of Diddlebury in Shropshire. He named one of his sugar plantations in St. Christopher " Shadwell," after his brother's estate in the parish of Clun. V. L. OLIVER.

[H. A. F., who refers to Mr. V. L. OLIVER'S 1 History of the Island of Antigua,' also thanked for reply.]

ANDREW OR GEORGE MELLY (11 S. vii. 509). In reply to the inquiry respecting the Melly family of Liverpool, I would refer your correspondent to a book pub- lished' at Coventry in 1889, entitled 'Me- moirs of Charles Pierre Melly,' edited by his son E. F. Melly, which, besides contain- ing many interesting notes regarding the family, has also at the end a genealogical tree which, I think, clears up all the diffi- culties mentioned.

From this book I gather that Andre Melly was born in Geneva, 12 May, 1802; that in ] 828 he married Ellen Greg, daughter of Samuel Greg of Quarry Bank, Wilmslow, Cheshire ; and that their family consisted of tw r o sons, Charles Pierre and George, born respectively in 1829 and 1830, and one daughter, Louisa, born in 1832.

The whole family were travelling together at the time of Andre Melly's death, which

took place eight or nine days after leaving Berber, whilst on the way to Korosko. In consequence of his illness they had pitched their tent on the banks of the Nile, near the village of Gagee, and there Andre died in the early morning of 19 January, 1851. At noon the two sons laid their father in a deep grave in the native cemetery of Gagee. The camel -drivers and Bedouins and the servants who had borne him to the spot from his tent stood around, and the elder son, Charles Pierre, read the burial service.

The book goes on to say that Capt. Petherick took out and erected a tablet entrusted to him by the family. Later on, Abbas Pasha caused a mosque with a fountain to be built over the tomb and a well to be dug in memory of the white traveller. In the disturbances which took place after- wards, it was reported that these memorials had been partially destroyed, and " General Earle, an old friend of Charles Pierre Melly, promised to visit the tomb on his way to Berber in command of a body of British troops. He fell at the battle of Kirbekan, 10 February, 1885, a few miles north of the Arab burial -place, whilst nobly leading his troops to victory, and the two fellow-towns- men thus rest near together in that distant land."

I may add that the author of ' Lettres de Nubie ' was the Andre Melly mentioned above. T. H. ARKLE.

deaths :
 * The Annual Register,' 1851, states under

"January 19th. At Gagee, Nubia, aged 48, while returning from an expedition to the junction of the Blue and White Nile, Mr. Andrew Melly, t he entomologist." A HAYLER.

South Norwood, S.E.

GUNDRADA DE WARENNE (US. VJi. 509).

The Cluni charters are now preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris. Those relating to English foundations were printed by Sir George Duckett, in two large octavo volumes, at Lewes in 1888. The publica- tion was limited to subscribers. The charter of William the Conqueror of the Manor of Walton is not included. The work contains the original foundation - charter of Lewes, with the confirmation of the Conqueror, but without words describing Gundreda as his daughter. Of this M. L. Delisle sent a copy, made with his own hand, to Sir George in 1885, which the latter printed and circulated privately. Sir George strongly maintained the view of Gundreda's ducal parentage, and in 1878 and 1883 published pamphlets of