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 370 NOTES AND QUERIES. r 12 s. x. MAY is, of the Great Eastern and the Royal Charter steamers, the great fight between Sayers and Heenan, and whole reams more of good work which even I can't recollect. He goes out in the Great Eastern, which you did well not to wait for, and if he does not go down and perish midway will describe his voyage out and the fuss that is anticipated at New York, and then wait to re- ceive and accompany the Prince and record all your loyal effusions. . . . Can any reader supply the Christian name, dates, and any other biographical par- ticulars of this Mr. Woods ? E. ST. JOHN BROOKS. SPENCER SMITH. John Spencer Smith, British Ambassador at Constantinople in 1799 and British Minister at Stuttgart in 1804, brother of Admiral Sidney Smith, had two sons : William, born in 1 800, and Edward, born in 1802. The first became, so it is said, a sailor ; the second,- a Fellow of a Cambridge College, 1 ived with his father for some years at Caen, in France, where Spencer Smith died, June 5, 1845. It is said that Edward later became a clergyman of the Church of England. Could any reader give me any information about the two brothers and say if any re- presentatives of the family still exist ? RENE PUAUX. GILLMAN (OR GUILLIM) FAMILY. I am searching for the ancestry of John Gillman, who practised as a surgeon at Great Yar- mouth at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, who married, first, Elizabeth Bracey, by whom he had three children James (the surgeon of Highgate with whom Coleridge lived), and two daughters who left no issue ; and, secondly, Frances Keymer, by whom he had children but no further issue. The arms borne by John Gillman and his descendants are Sable a nag's head erased or between three dexter hands couped argent. Alexander W. Gillman, who wrote the ' History of the Gillman Family,' ap- pears to have been unable to find any record of the birth of John Gillman or of the origin of his arms. In Burke' s ' General Armory ' (1884), there is stated to be a family of Gillman at Foley, Co. Hereford, bearing these arms. I have so far been unable to find any place of the name of " Foley " in the county of Hereford, and the nearest I can get is " The Folley," a part of the parish of St. Weonards (which consists of only a few cottages and where the name is un- known) adjoining the parish of Langarron. In the church of Langarron there are memorials to several members of a Guillim family, who lived at Langstone Court until the middle of the eighteenth century, when the place was sold. There is no further trace of the family in the district. It is mentioned in a ' Display of Heraldry,' by John Guillim (6th ed., 1724). The arms of this family are Sable a horse's head or between three gauntlets argent, which is sufficiently similar to the arms I am searching for to render it possible that there may be some connexion between them. I think it may be assumed that " Gill- man " is not the original spelling and that the name is probably of Welsh origin. The earliest evidence of the use of the arms in my family is on a silver salver dated about 1776, and presented to James Gillman on his marriage in 1807. Can any reader tell me where the Foley referred to by Burke is, or give me any in- formation in aid of my search ? ARTHUR C. GILLMAN. HOLDERNESS : DERIVATION OF NAME. I should be glad to know the etymology of " Holderness," the name of a seigniory in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Isaac Taylor, in his ' Names and their Histories ' (1896, p. 147), states: The ness or promontory of Holderness is an obscure name ; the suggested etymologies from hoi, " hollow " or " flat," and from holt, 11 wood " or " forest," not being supported by the Domes- day form Heldrenesse (see Helder) or by the old Norse Hellomes. BERNARD HOBSON. DOODLES. The late Mr. C. Fox-Strang ways, in his Geological Survey memoir on ' The Geology of the Oolitic and Cretaceous Rocks South of Scarborough ' (2nd ed., 1904, p. 43), mentions that the cliffs at Carr Naze, Filey, have been worn back by the sea into several hollows or " doodles." I should be glad of information as to the origin of the word " doodle." The only use of the word that appears, so far as I can ascertain, to have a possible connexion with hollows at Carr Naze is " doodle -sack," meaning a bagpipe, which is certainly hollow. BERNARD HOBSON. REYNOLDS OF LOUGHACUR, Co. LEITRIM. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me if a pedigree of this family has ever been pub- lished ? O'Farrall's ' Linea Antiqua,' a MS. in Ulster's office, contains an extensive pedigree of the, Magrannel (anglice Reynolds