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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 193 of the University of Adelaide, 1874 ; retarned to the South Australian Par- liament for the district of Sturt, 1875, and appointed attorney-general the same year; chief justice, 18th March, 1876; elected vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide, 28th April, 1876 ; administered the government of South Australia in 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1883 ; chancellor of the University of Adelaide, 1883. Chief Justice Way is unmarried. Hincage. This family was seated at Morchard Bishop, CO. Devon, England, where their names occur in the parish registers, since the latter part of the seventeenth century. Eev. James Way, of Adelaide, South Australia, Bible Christian minister, son of John and Elizabeth Way, was b. at Morchard Bishop, co. Devon, 17th June, 1804; entered ministry of the Bible Christian Church, 18th May, 1826 ; president of Bible Christian Conference, 1847 ; arrived in South Australia, 13th November, 1850; established the first Bible Christian societies in South Australia and Victoria, and was for many years their general superintendent in Australia. He m. at Eochester, co. Kent, England, in 1834, Jane (b. at Chatham, co. Kent, 21st August, 1811), second daughter of Edward Willis, Esq. of Chatham, co. Kent (who was the last of a long succession of small freeholders in co. Norfolk, but settled and married at Chatham), by Elizabeth, his wife, and d. at Noarlunga, South Australia, 14th August, 1884, having had, Samuel James (Hon.), chief justice of South Australia. Edward WilHs, L.R.C.P., of Adelaide, in. thrice, and has issue, 1. Inman ; 2. James ; 1. Bessy ; 2. Kate; 3. Grace; and 4. Marion, all unm. Elizabeth, m. Frederick Dewe Beach, Esq., and has issue, 1. Frederick James, »j. Sarali Long, and has issue ; 2. Sydney Edwin ; 3. Herbert Way ; 4. Frank; 1. Florence; 2. Jane, d.in infancy ; 3. Olive, d. in infancy. Jane Amelia, d. utim. Florence Ann, m. Allan Campbell, Esq., and has issue, 1. Allan ; 2. Archibald 3. James Way ; 4. Colin ; 5. Neil 6. Gordon Cathcart ; 1. Jeanie 2. Florence. Residence — Montefiore, Adelaide, South Australia. jntiit of BtlUbtlle. FLINT, HON. BILL A, of the city of Belleville, co. Hastings, province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, J. P., and a member of the Senate of Canada from May, 1867 ; first president of the Board of Police, Belleville, and mayor of that town in 1861, h. in Elizabethtown, co. Leeds, Ontario, 9th February, 1805; m. there, 10th September, 1827, Phebe Sawayer, second daughter of B. Clements, Esq. of Elizabethtov^n, aforesaid, but by her (who d. at Belleville, 2'±th May, 1886, and vpas buried in the cemetery near that city) had no issue. Hincagt. The great grandfather of the Hon. Billa Flint migrated from Flintshire, N. Wales, and settled in Connecticut, U.S.A., when a British province. His son subsequently started for Canada as a United Empire Loyalist, but was forced to settle down at Brandon, Vermont. He d. near the then village of Brandon, having had, amongst other issue, a son, Billa Flint, Esq. of Brockville, co. Leeds, Ontario, b. in Connecticut, U.S.A., before the Declaration of Independence, went to Canada in 1781 ; >». in 1 802, Phebe Wells, whose father came from the north of Ireland, and settled down in one of the eastern states. She was b. in Vermont, U.S.A., went ^a Canada about 1801, and d. in the State of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., aged 90 years. He d. in 1852, aged about 77 years, and had, amongst other issue, the present Hon. Billa Flint, only sur- viving child. Residence — City of Belleville, co. Hastings, province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada.