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236 BURKE'S COLOXIAL GEIS'TRY. II. Elizabetti Alice, h. 16th. November, 1851 ; m. the Right Rev. Llewellyn Jones, Bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda, of St. John's, New- foundland ; and Bermuda. III. Mary Lavinia, h. 13th September, 1862. ILineanE. This family is of Scottish origin. About the middle of the 17th century several members of the family settled in London- derry, Ireland, where they remained till about the middle of the 18th century. Some of these went to America and settled temporarily in Londonderry, New Hampton, from which place four brothers of the name went to Nova Scotia, and settled in Truro in 17fi2. David Archibald, the eldest of these brothers, was b. in 1717. In 1766 he became the first member of the township of Truro, in the General Assembly of that province, and in after years the seat was held by his son, Samuel; his grandson, Samuel Greorge William; and his great grandson, Charles Dickson (whose brothers were the late Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald, K.C.M.G., British consul-general at New York, and the late Sir Thomas Dickson Archibald, knight, of Bickley, co. Kent, England, a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, England, and after- wards of the Court of Common Pleas. David Archibald's great great grandson is the pre- sent Charles William Archibald, of Eusland Hall, Ulverston, CO. Lancaster, England, J. P., member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, eldest son of the above-mentioned Charles Dickson Archibald). He m. in 1741, Rachel, daughter of James Duncan, Esq. of Haverhill, Massachusetts,New England. His descendants, and those of his brothers, are now very numerous. They are to be found in every county of Nova Scotia, every province of the Dominion, and in almost every state of the Union. One of David Archibald's brothers. SAMTJEL,had a son, James Aechibald, who, in 1796, was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Colchester, in Nova Scotia, which office he held till his death in 1828. He left numerous issue, amongst whom was SAMrEL Archibald, Esq., who was b. at Truro, 14th October, 1784 ; was a justice of the peace for over forty years ; m. 19th February, 1807, his cousin, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Matthew Archibald, Esq. (who was also a representative of Truro for some years in the Municipal Assembly, and a son and a grandson of his in after years represented the county of Colchester in that Assembly), a brother of the above-mentioned James, his father, and by her (who was b. in 1786, and d. 3rd April, 1846) left, at his decease, 10th April, 1864, the present HoK. SlE Adams Geoege Aechibald. Arms (granted to the descendants of Sir Thomas Dickson Archibald, knight, judge of the Court of Q,ueen's Bench, son of the Hon. Samuel George Archibald, master of the rolls. Nova Scotia) — Arg. on a bend az., be- tween two estoiles of the last, three crescents of the first, all within a bordure invected sa., charged with three mullets or. Crest — A palm branch slipped in bend ppr., in front thereof a mount vert, thereon an estoile or. Motto — Palma non sine pulvere. Residences (Town) — 61, 'Holies-street, Halifax ; (country) The Cottage, Truro, Nova Scotia, Dominion of Canada. Clnb — Halifax. ^arfetr tyt ^ntl). PARKER, STEPHEN HENRY, Esq. of Karrakalta House, Perth, "Western Australia, barrister-at-law, member of the Legislative Assembly for York, and formerly member of the Legislative Council for the city of Perth, h. at York, Western Australia, 7th November, 1846 ; m. at Perth, 27th July, 1872, Amey Katharine, daughter of the Hon. George Walpole Leake, Q.C., member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, and sometime acting- chief justice, Perth, and has issue, I. Francis Maitland Wyborn, h. 1876. II. Harold Wyborn, h. 1880. iTi. Hubert Stanley, h. 1888. IV. Ronald Wyborn, h. 1886. I. Rose Elizabeth, h. 1873. II. Mabel Constance, h. 1875. III. Ethel, h. 1878. IV. Hilda Amey, h. 1879.