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262 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 1. Richard Harold, 2. John Macansh. 1. Rose Winifred. 2. Elizabeth Sarah Kathleen. 3. Muriel Mary. Ill Sarah Kate, b. 31st July, 1856; m. 6th July, 1883, Henry Francis Burton, Esq., and d. 5th July, 1885, leaving issue, a daughter, Sarah Kate. IV. Mary Cecilia, b. 28th Noveraber, 1865 ; unvi. V. Flora Juliet, b. 17th August, 1867. Mr. Macansh emigrated to New South Wales in 1838, with his mother, his only sister, and his younger brother, the only other member of the family was his elder brother, who, at that time, was an assistant-surgeon in the H.E.I. Company's Service in Bengal. Soon after his arrival in Sydney he obtained an appointment in the Bank of Australasia, and since 1840 has been engaged in farming and squatting pursuits in New South Wales and Queensland. In 1875 he purchased the Canning Downs Estate, comprising 66,000 acres, and then came to Queensland, and was called to the Legislative Council, April, 1886. Htncage. This family is of Scottish origin. Dk. John Macansh, who was surgeon on board Lord Colli (igwood's ship " Ville de Paris," was b. in Perthshire, Scotland, about the year 1777. After retiring from the navy he resided at Stirling, N.B. ; m. about 1811, Ann, third daughter of John White, Esq. of Esk Mills, Pennjouik, Scotland (who came from Yorkshire), by Ann Haig, his wife, and d. at Stirling, about the year 1830, having had by her (wlio was b. near Penny- cuik, Scotland, and d. 11th November, 1845, near Raymond Terrace, New South Wales) three sons and one daughter. The second son is the present Hon. John Donald Mac- ansh. Mesidence and Estate — Canning Downs, near the town of Warwick, co. Merivale, Darling Downs District, Queensland, Aus- tralia. %.^t of (©ala. LYNE, JOHN, Esq. of Gala, Cranbrook, Tasmania, J.P., member of Par- liament and warden of Glamorgan, Tasmania, b. 7th February, 1810 ; m. 21st June, 1843, Lilias Cross Carmichael, daughter of James and Martha Hume, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has issue, I. William John (Hon.), of Sydney, New South Wales, member of the Executive Council and of the House of Assembly, New South Wales, h. 6th April, 1844, at Apslawn, Great Swansport, Tasmania ; m. 27th June, 1870, Martha Coates, elder daughter of Edward Carr Shaw, Esq., formerly of Terenure, co. Dublin, Ireland, and after- wards of Red Banks, Glamorgan, Tasmania, J. P. for the territory (see Shaw of Hobart), and has issue, 1. John, b. 12th December, 1877. 1. Anne Fenton, b. 16th October, 1871. 2. Lilias Cross Carmichael Hume, b. 13th November, 1873. 3. Victoria Emma Shaw, b. 24th May, 1879. The Hor. W. J. Lyne was educated at Horton College, Ross, and at