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IfKM'S COI.O.NIAl. GKNTKY. National Art (lallciy. Sir Patrick was Parliamentary delogato to VPiircsoiit the Legislative Council of Now South Wales in iliu Svduoy Federal Con- vention of ISGl. ILinragr. In the records of the Rolls, we find that John" Jeijxixgs whs dispossessed of the Iowa- land of Hallvtiiiirnhv, in the barony of the Ard-*, parisli of iJallvliot'l. and of several other vnlnablo jiroperties, owin^ to the eoudscation of the properties of the Roman Catholics by the penal code of Hi: sit y VIII and Elizabeth. This Joity Jennings was father of KoiiHur, from n-lioiu descended RonniiT Jennings, whose son, Robert Jennings, m. Mary McMullen, and loft, issue, a son, Kkancis Jennings, of Newry, Ireland, who m. 1819, Mary O'Neil, and d. in Ncwry, in March, 1847, having by her, who d. in Sydney in November, IST^, had issue, 1. Patrick Alfred (Sir), the subject of this memoir. Residences and lEstafes — Colebrook. Double Bay, Oarrawilla South Wales J and Westbrook, Darling Downs, (Queensland. Chib — Union, Sydney. II. John, m. Sarah Jobd.^n. and d. in San Francisco, U.S.A., in 1882, leaving a son and daiiglvter. III. Francis, d. nnm, IV. Peter Vincent Joseph, (/. unni. I. .Mary Anne, m. Mieliael George II. Rose, m. Thomas Racon, and Melbourne, in 1873, leaving by who d. in 187y, seven children. III. Elizabetli. m. first, Jolin QirioLEV, of Castle Blaney, Ireland, and secondly, Thomas Gou.mley, of St. Arnaud, Vic- toria, and has issue, two daughters. IV. Margaret Blanelip, m. Kelly. Cox- d. in hint, 1871, Hubert Livcrjiool l'lain>, in Xew (^bcitcdu JAN DANIEL OVEEBEEK, of Rondebosch, Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa, h. 2iDth December, 1847, m. 8th April, 1880, Clara Harriet, daughter of Charles Bagot Smith, Deputy Commissary-General (retired) of Nurney, near Graham.stowii, Cape Colony, South Africa, and has issue, John Bagot, h. 1 7th February, 1883. ilr. J. D. Ovcrbeek was ajipointed fifth clerk in the Customs, Capo Town, in 1865, fourth clerk, 18G7 ; third, 1870; Port Elizabeth, fourth examining officer, April, 1871, third examining officer, 1874 ; second exaniinin"- officer and measuring surveyor of .shipping, 1879; East London chief examining officer, 1880; measuring surveyor of shipping, 1882; assistant surveyor of Customs, 1883 ; appointed in 1878 special oQlcer of Customs on the staff of His Excellency Sir Bartle Frere in Natal to report on the feasibility of establishing a South African Customs Union. He inaugurated the system of Inland Customs collection at Beaconsfield, Kimberley, in 1883, and the rebate system at Frere, Bethulie, and Colesberg Bridges in August, 1884 ; opened the Custom House at Hancock's Drift on the Umzimkulu in August, 1885 ; was appointed principal officer of Customs at Kimberley in November, 1886; chief clerk in the general management department of the Customs, 16th November, 1888 ; he was on special service in Orange Free State regarding Customs Union, June to August, 1889, October, 1^90, and Sep- tember, 1891; and in the South African Republic, July, 1892; acted as collector of Customs, January to March, 1891, and August to October, 1892, appointed assistant collector and principal controller of Customs, 1st September, 1892.