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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 383 Htneage. About the middle of last century William Dickey, Esq., the grandfather of the present Hon. Eobert Barry Dickey, with several brothers and sisters, emigrated from Dun- more, CO. Antrim, in the north of Ireland, to Nova Scotia, as did also his wife, with her father, Robert McGowan, Esq. By her ho had, amongst other issue (whose descendants are now to be found in King's and Colchester COS., Nova Scotia, &c.), a son, KoBEKT McGowAN DiCKEY, Esq. of Am- herst, Nova Scotia, who was h. 17th Septem- ber, l78-t; was M.P. for Cumberland co. from 1836 to 1851; m. 22nd April, 1806, Eleanor, daughter of Major Thomas Chap- man, whose ancestors resided in the vicinity of Whitby, co. York, England, and after- wards formed part of a large party of emi- grants from Yorkshire to the head of the Bay of Fundy, where their descendants abound, and also in the adjoining oount-y of Westmoreland. Mr. Dickey d. l-lth Janu- ary, 1854, having had, by his said wife (who was h. 29th November, 1790, and d. 3rd March, 18i8), the present Hon. Eobeet Baery Dickey. Residence — Grrove Cottage, Amherst, Cum- berland, Nova Scotia, Canada. Won ^tieglit^ of 3Brtsl)ane. yON QTIEGLITZ, EDGAR BOYNE, Esq. of Wambo, Brisbane, kJ/ Queensland, h. 1st July, 1846 ; m. Eleanor Beatrice Thomson, and has issue. I. Edgar Walter Thomson, b. 19th February, 1882. II. Francis Lewis Altmor, b. 10th September, 1883. III. Leslie Oscar, b. 16th March, 1887. I. Constance Birrah Beatrice, b. 8th December, 1885. Htntacte. The nobility of the Holy Koman Empire ■was conferred on the ancient and distin- guished family of Stieglitz by patent from Joseph II, Emperor of Germany and Austria, bearing date, at Vienna, 15th De- cember, 1765. The family, connected in ancient times with the civil and military service of Saxony, was originally from Bo- hemia, where, among the archives of the city of Pilsen, it is recorded that, during many centuries, several members were raised to the first dignities of the State, and one especially, named Bartholomaeus, was, by His Imperial Majesty Kudolph II, favoured with par- ticular consideration. A tradition reports that this Bartholomaeus was granted hereditary nobility in 1583 by the Emperor Eudolph II as Barthol. Stieg- litz von Czenkow (a place not far from Pilsen), and that his descendants, being per- secuted on account of their following the doctrine of Lutlier, had to leave their estates, and to proceed to Saxony without title or wealth. In the 13th and 1-tth centuries lived a family of Stieglitz (also spelt Stiglitz, Steg- litz) on their estates in Pommerland and Brandenburgh, the traces of which disappear in the 14th century, just at the time wlien we read for the first time of a family of the same name resident in and near Pilsen. The two members of the family on whom hereditary titles were conferred by the Emperor Joseph II, 15th December, 1765, were Cheistiax Lfdwig (i.e., Lewis), mem- ber of the High Court of Justice at Leipzig, and "Wilhelm (i.e., William) Ludwig, colonel of a regiment in the service of the Elector of Saxony ; the former being the ancestor of the Irish-Australian branch of the family, and the latter of the German branch, which is still existing in Germany, the members of which have been mostly in the royal Saxon civU or military service, one having been a general in the Prussian-Austrian War in 1866. The mother of the celebrated Austrian Eield-Marshal Baron Gablenz was also a member of this branch. Christian Ludwig, Baeon von Stieg- litz, the above mentioned, m. C. F. Eichter, and had issue, five sons, viz., I. Christian Ludwig, b. 1756 ; m. A. L. Eeinhard ; and d. in 1836. His de- scendants are now living in Saxony and Germany. II. Eriedrich Ludwig, b. 1758; d. 1777. III. Caspar Ludwig, b. 1760; m. C. Grolimann ; and d. 1805, leaving issue. His descendants are now ex- tinct. IT. Heineich Ludwig, of whom pre- sently.