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18 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ILmtagE. The ancestors of this family settled at Kington, Thornbury, co. Gloucester, Eng- land, a copyhold belonging to the Duie of Buckingham. The family, of -which there are still many branches existing, is one of the oldest in Gloucestershire, and has now been seated at Kington House for nearly five centuries. The Suffolk family of Thurston, like the Kentish line, is now extinct, and it is believed that these, the Thurstons, of Gloucestershire, are the only direct descendants of John Turstin, the branches of whose family in COS. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Kent called them- selves Turstin, Thurston, and Thruston, and in the western counties assumed the name of E.ICHAED TuBSTiN, lord of the manor of Chemingnarde, near Thornbury, Witelai Hun- dred, CO. Gloucester, a.d. 1399, came out of the south of Norfolk, where the family was numerous. He claimed a common origin with the Bassets, and acquired Chemingnarde from William and Maud Stafford. On his death, in 1413, the family appears to have broken up and to have found new homes at Wootton-under-Edge, Thornbury, and other places. His great grandson, EoBEET Thubstin, of Kington House, Thornbury, co. Gloucester, d. 1484, and was buried in the north chapel of Thornbury church. His grandson, EiCHAED Thurston, Esq. of Kington House, Thornbury, d. 1541, and was buried at Thornbury church, leaving a son, Thomas Thueston, Esq. of Kington House, m. 25th September, 1539, Alys Hicks, of Berkeley, and d. 2nd September, 1544, leaving a son, Geoege Thtjeston, Esq. of Kington House, b. 1540; m. Anne Thurner, of Thorn- bury, and d. in 1612, leaving a son, John Thueston, Esq. of Kington House, b. 1582 ; m. Agnes Tayer, or Thayer, of Thornbury, and d. in 1637, leaving a son, John Thueston, Esq. of Kington House, Thornbury, b. 1616 ; m. Margaret Thurner, and d. in 1658, leaving a son, Nathaniel Thueston, Esq. (so named after Nathaniel, son of John Thurston, of Hoxne Abbey, Suffolk) of Kington House, b. 1641 ; m. Margaret Mills, of Eorest of Dean, and d. in 1723, leaving a son, John Thueston, Esq. of Kington House, Thornbury, b. 1678 ; m. Ursula Parnell, of Thornbury, and d. in 1739. His third son, Samuel Thueston, Esq. of Kington House, m. Mary Lewis, of Nether Stowey, CO. Somerset, and was father of HoEATio Thuestok, Esq. of Kington House, b. 1757; m. 25th November, 1786, Elizabeth, daughter of Eear-Admiral Holmes, of H.M.S. " Cambridge " (who d. at Jamaica, 22nd December, 1761, after the capture of the French frigate " St. Anne," commanded by Captain D'Acquillor), and by her (who d. 1803) left at his decease, in 1835, a son, John Noel Thueston, Esq. of Bath, co. Somerset, and of Thornbury, co. Gloucester, b. 14th August, 1802 ; m. at St. James's church, Bath, 2nd February, 1830, Eliza West, of Bath (who was b. 5th August, 1807, ard d. 4th January, 1873), and d. 3rd March, 1846, having had issue, John Bates (Sir), K.C.M.G., F.E.G.S., F.L.S. Horatio, deceased. Henry, deceased. Anne. Eliza. Emily. Arms used — Sa. three bugle horns, stringed or garnished az. Crest — A stork arg.leggedaz. Residences — St. Helier's, Taviuni ; Thorn- bury, Viti Lpvu ; and Government House, Suva, all in Fiji. Clarfee xif 3S.tii3ertstooiDtr. CLARKE, HON. SIR WILLIAM JOHN, of Rupertswood, co. Bourke, in the colony of Victoria, Australia, Bart, (so created 29th December, 1882), LL.D., member of the Legislative Council of Victoria, 6. in Tasmania, 1831, m. first, 23rd November, 1860, Mary, second daughter of the late Hon. John Walker, member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of Tasmania, and by her (who d. 1871) has issue, I. RuPEKT TuKNER Haveelock, h. 16th March, 1865. II. Ernest Edward Dowling, R.N., I. 19th May, 1869. I. Alice Blanche, h. 4th August, 1862, to. 8th December, 1887, Chess- borough Falconer John Macdonald, Esq., of Wantabadgery, New South Wales, eldest son of 0. C. Macdonald, Esq., late 22nd Regiment.