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712 T?URKF/,S COLONIAL GENTRY. 1812, leaving a fl:iugliter Auiie, m. Alexaiider Maodoxell, of Arnabpe. III. Marjorie (or Marcella), )h. Colonel Alexander McMillan, of De Lancier's Brigade in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards eaptain R.C.V. Regiment. IV. Margaret. The third son, DuxcAN MACDONElt, of Greenfield, co. Grlengarry, commanded a eompany at the taking of Ogdensbuvg by Colonel Greorge Macdonell, C.B. in 1813, was afterwards in King'-s Royal Regiment of New York during the Revolutionary war, and lieutenant of the eounty of Stormont, and left issue, an only son, LlEUTENANT-CoiONEl AkCHIBALD JoHN Machonell, lieutenant-eolonel commanding (in succession to hie father and gi'andfather) of the 2nd Battalion Glengarry Militia 1857 to 1864; baiTister-at-law, recorder of Kings- ton, and a bencher of the Law Society ; was for many years a partner in his profession, with the Right Hon. Sir John Alexander succession to his father, lieutenant-colonel I Macdoxald, G.C.B. Ke was h. 1822. m. commanding 2ud Battalion Glengarry Militia, j Mary, daughter of Robert Long Inxes, lieu tenant H.M.'s 37th Regiment, and d. 27th March, 186-i, leaving issue, I. John Alesaxdee, the subject of this memoir. I. Georgina Hamilton. II. Marv Elizabeth. from which he retired !n 1857, receiving the thanks of the Governor-General " for his long and valuable sei'vices dating from the last war." He was registrar of deeds, co. Glen- garry, and ni Harriet, daughter of Colonel Archibald Macdonell of Leek, Captain Anns — Or an eagle displayed gu. surmounted by a lymphad sa. sails furled and rigged ppr. in the dexter chief a dexter hand couped of the second, in the sinister a cross crosalet fitchee of the third. Crest — A raven ppr. perched on a rock az. Mottoes — (Over the crest) Craggan an phithich ; and under the shield, Per mare, per terras. Residence — The Pines, Alexandria,* co. GlengaiTy, Ontario, Canada. Cluhs — Rideau, Ottawa and Albany, Toronto. ^tiid^cj>. JAMES STUCKEY, of Te Raiigitumau, Opaki, Wellington, New Zealand, h. 9th April, 1840 ; m. 31st December, 1872, Mary (6. 23fd February, 1849), daughter of the late Winiam Bisdee, of The Grove, Milton, Weston- super-Mare, CO. Somerset, England, by Anne Hewlett, his wife, and has issue, I. Henry Bisdee, h. at Christchurch, New Zealand, 10th March, 1875. II. James William, h. at Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 30th October, 1876. III. Eric Ernest, h. at Te Rangitumau, Opaki, 16th November, 1888. I. Annie Rlioda, h. at Cbristchurcb, New Zealand, 11th October, 1873. II. Alice Mary, h. at Te Rangitumau, 3rd September, 1878. III. Ellen Elizabeth, h. at Te Rangitumau, 27th May, 1880. IV. Emily Frances, 6. at Te Rangitumau, 22ndMarch, 1882. V. Margaret, 6. at Te Rangitumau, 28th January, 1884. VI. Dorothy, h. at Te Rangitumau, 12th July, 1886. VII. Winifred, h. at Te Rangitumau, 12th July, 1890.

  • This town was so called in honour of the famous priest, soldier, and statesman, Alex-

ander Macdonell, who accompanied to Canada in 1804, the disbanded soldiery of the Glen- garry Fencible Regiment, of which he had been cliaplain (the first Roman Catholic one in the British iirniy since the Revolution), who had fought under their chief. Colonel Alastair Ranfildson Macdonell, in the Irish Rebellion of '98. He was afterwards chaplain to the Glengarry Liglit Infantry Regiment in the war of 1812-14, was raised to the Episcopacy in 1820, and was Roman Catholic Bisho]) of Upper Canada from 1826 to 1840, when he d. aged 80. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada from 1831 to the year of his death, and on various occasiors received the thanks of the Imperial Government for his services to the Crown, and for which he enjoyed a pension of £600 a year.