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EURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY 709 ni. KliKa NctU-rville, w. J. .TonNSON, of WiuTi'Dstowii, CO. A[eatli, J. P. The eldest son, John NettrrtiliJ) Baekox, J.P., an officer of (lie army, vi. antl liatl issue, I. Artluir William Nettcrville, an odieer in the army, deceased. II. Cl.kii:1! CnAni.ES Nettkuville, (he subject of this memoir. III. Percy Edmund NetteiTille (Rer.), in holy orders of the church of Rome. IV. Netterville John, late Captain 5th Fusiliers, m. 5th September, 1865, Anns — Ermine on a saltier gules five annulets or. Cresf — A boar passant azure. Motto — Forluna juvat audaces. Residence— Kohian Street, Wellington, New Zealand Louisa, only daughter of Lieutenant- General Jolin Twiss, R.K.,and</. 2Sth October, 1893, leaving issue, 1. Netterville Guy, Lieutenant R..., h. 8th December, 1807. 1. Mabel Caroline. 2. Florence Kmily. 3. Kathleen Louisa. I. Clara, m. Richard Eatox, -LP. and R.M. II. Caroline. III. Amy. JHacticintlL JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONELL, of Greenfield, co. Glengarry, Canada, Q.C., Captain 59th Battalion, vStormont and Glengarry Militia, barrister-at-law, 1875, Queen's Counsel, 1890, h. 26th June, 18-51, in. Isabel, daughter of the Hon. Jobn Willougbby Cr.mvford, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, and Helen bis wife, daughter of the Hon. Livius Peters Sherwooh, justice of the Queen's Bench, of Upper Canada. ILiiuactc. This family descends through the Loch- garry branch, from John Macdonell, the brother of Ai.astair, of Glengarry, the bearer ot the Royal Standard at Killiccrankie, whose line became extinct in 18G8, and of Angus, of Scothouse, whose descendants now inherit the senior representation of the family. {See Bueke's Landed Gentri/, Macdonell of Glengnrrv, and Bukke's Extinct Feel-age, Macdonell and Akeass, B.) John Macdonell, who was third son of Reginald Macdonell of Scot us or Scot- house, and I'iora, his wife, daughter of Alex- ander MACLEOD of Drynoch, and younger brother Alastair Dhu, 13th Chief of Glen- garry, and Anocs Macdonell, from whom derives the present chief. {See j}. 658.) He m. first, a daughter of Hugh Macdonald, sou of Sir James Macdonald, Bart., ot Slate, and by her bad issue, a daughter. He »(. secondly, Margery, daughter of Cameeon of Duugallon, and had issue, two sons, I. Donald, of Lochgarry, who was ap- pointed lieutenant in Loudon's High- landers in 174.5, but joined Peince Charles Stuart and was lieutenant- colonel in the Glengarry Regiment under JLneas, the second son of Glen- garry. He escaped with Prince Charles after Culloden,* and became a Colonel in the Erench service. He was exempted by name from the Act of Indemnity in 1717, and remained till his dcatli, one of the most devoted and trusted adherents of the Stuarts, and with Cameron of Fassifern, Lord Elibank, and his brother Alexander Murray, was at the head of the desper- ateand futile effort made fortherestora- tion of that dynasty, and in which Eas- sifern was apjirehended and executed. II. Angus, of whom we treat. The second son, Angus Macdonell, of Greenfield, who was a major in the Glengarry Regiment at Culloden in 1746, m. first a daughter of Grant, of Thougliby, and sister of Colonel Hugh Grant, of Moy, H.E.I.C.S., whose mother was a daugViter of John, sixth laird of Glenmoriston, and grand-daughter of Sir Evven Cameron of Lochiel. lie m. secondly, a daughter of Mackenzie, of Eairburn, and was father of, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexandbe Mac- donell, t of Greenfield, Glengarry, Scotland, went to Canada in 1792, and commanded the

  • Those who accompanied Peince Chaeles in L'Heureux, when on 20th September,

1746, he took leave of the Highlands, were Cameeon of Lochiel, Macdonell of Lochgarry, John Roy Stuaet and Cameeon of Fassifern. They were joined by young Claneanald, Glenaladale, Macdonald of Dalety and his two brothers. t Regarding this gentleman, Mackenzie, in his Histvrij of llie Macdonalds, and Lords of