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BUlUvK'S COLOiN'lAL (il'JNTKV G45 Hincnac The ancestors of this famUy were Hugue- nots, in Holland, who landed in N'ew Amsterdam (now New York), in May, 1647. There wiTe three brothers, Petrus, Italtliazar, uiid Nicholas ; one remained in New York, and became one of the most prominent men in that city ; one went to liaUimore, and his branch gave senators to that city for the last hundred years, and the other one went to Kngland, {^ivins; numerous soldiers of distinc- tion to that country, among them t'oi.oNEL .SAMfKi. Vetch Bayaud, and Colonel John 15AYAHP. who were brothiM's. Colonel Sasiukl Vetcu Bayard com- manded the 10-tth Ke;,'iraent, wliile the J)uke of Kent commanded in Halifax; he jn, 1778 (as his first wife) the ilauf;hter of Van Hobne, and d. in Nova Scotia, 1838. He had three sons, one a captain in the army, who was killed at Waterloo; anotlter, a captain in the English navy, who was murdered at Fordham, near New York city ; and the third, KoBERT Batard, Was a lieutenant in the British army at the age of 13, and was allowed to proceed with his studies at V^ind-*or, Nova Scotia, while his father's regiment was stationed at Halifax, Nova iScotia; he left the army and graduated in medicine, at the University of Edinburgh, in 1809, was D.C.L. of Windsor College, Nova Scotia, and for three jears professor of Obstetrics iu the University of New York. When the war of 1812 was declared agaiiist Great Britain, he was required to take the oath of allegiance or leave the country ; he chose the latter course, found his way to Portland, Maine, left that city and arrived at .St. John, New Brunswick, in May, 1813. From there he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he w. Frances Catherine, Arms — Sa. a chevron erm'nif in the base a Crest — A narjs head ppr. Motto — Sans penr et sons reproche. Residence — 197, Germain Street, St. John, New Brunswick, daughter of Commissary - General ISilhipp KouKUTSON (who was killed in the Colonial uar), and by her (who rf, 27th Marcli, 1875), had issvie, I. William:, the subject of this memoir. II. Robertson, m. Louisa, daughter of the Hon. Hugh Johnston, of New Brunswick, by whom he ha<l with tliree daughters, a son, Kegiiiald, Caplain East Kent Regi- ment (The Buffs), b. lull Sep- tember, i8c;o. III. Cluvles Robert, m. Anna Moore, daughter of Stephen Hoffman, and d 12tli November, 1871, having with three daughters, Iiad is^uc, a son, Robert Hoffman, h. 18.j(J. IV. Edwin, m. Sarali, daughter of Cap- tain Thontis Jonks, late 71th Regi- ment, and d. 1875, having had issue, two daughters, 1. Frances, m. Commander L. L. Bet AN, R.N. 2. EniUy Shortland, m. 19th No- vember, 1889, Stntirt Alfred Smith, of Red Hill, co. Surrey, son of Alfred Smith, R.A. I. Frances Catherine, m, Frederick .Augustus Wiggins, who d. 1887, and had issue, two sons and five daughters. II. Elizabeth, m. 181'5, George James Thomson, Q.C. of St. Stephen's, New Brunswick, and had issue, three dauglders, of whom Fannie, m. Ad- miral Harry Nicholson, of Rochester, another d, iintn,^ and the third resides al. Rochester. III. Catherine. Dr. Bayard rf. at St. John's, New Brunswick, 5th Juiie, 1S(J8. horse salient arg. Samcs. EDWIN MATTHEWS JAMES, M.R.C.S., L.S.A. (England), of Alcnston House, Melbourne, Victuriii, honorary surgeon and clinical lecturer at the Melbourne Hospital, member of the Government Board of Health of Victoria, and E.'c-President of tlic Medical Society, Melbourne, h. 19th May, 1829; m. 2nd June, 18G9, Annie Margaret, eldest daughter of John M.^THESON, of ilelbourne, banker, by Flora MacDonalu, his wife, and has issue, I. Elizabeth Flora Frances Hill, h. 4th February, 1875. II. Roma Mary Hill, 6. 8th September, 1876.