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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 723 Htncaar. Joiix TT01.51ES, of Arundel, was it is said doscendi'd from Colonel Holmes, who was executed at (lie time of Monmouth's Kebel- lion. He m. Eli/iibeth GATi'onu.and by her had i?sue, a son, 'ii.i.l.M Hoi.iiKS, m. Rhoda ("arleton, daufjhlerof OiioniiE; this lady had taken the surname and arms of Cavu.etox, hy royal lieeuee, 10th July, 1H13, instead of Groome, and was firanted the followiuf; eoat of arms : — Erminois a bend enKiailed sable surmounted by a bend of the field eliarged with three pheons azure. They had with other issue, an eldest sou, Edward Cahieton Holmes, of IJrookfield, Residence — Matahiwi, -Arundel, Sussex, who m, lllh Ausust, 1810, Elizabeth Carleton, daughter of .lohn Sa yues, and Klizabetli, his wife, and had issue, I. Edward Carleton, m. Franees, daugh- ter of James Pavis, Of -Iberystwitb, Wales, and lias issue, I Heury James Carleton. I II. John Sayhe.s Erei<eric, the subject of this memoir. III. Jlenrv. (if Matahiwi, Masterton. I. Mary Ihoda Carleton. II. -dcla Coote, il. num. lOlh March, 1868. I III. Gertrude Elizabeth, m. Ecv. Wil- liam Buchanan HiTNLor. Masterton, New Zealand. mBoik. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ROBERT THOMAS WOLFE, of liarnnrntli, Moniii)g(oii, Western Australia, h. in the Ciistle, Capo Town, 2!>tli May, I&2S, late of (he Army Pay Uepartmciit, was admitted a freeman of Dublin 1875; m. at Graham's Town, South Afiica, 24'th Januaiy, 1850, Isabelhi, daughter of George Stow, of Nuneaton, co. Warwick (sc' Landed Geiiinj, ?ni(/ec Piiilii'son-Stow), son of George Stow, of London, by Ann, his wife, daughter and co-heires.s of Htimphrey Wiri;it, and has issue, Robert Tennant Stow, of Baronrath, Mornington, and Perth, Western Australia, formerly of Streatham, Victoria, Australia, of Nornuiuton, North Queensland, and of Halls Creek, Kiraberley, South Africa, was sometime Lieutenant 4th Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment, 6. 20th August, 1858; m. 7th October, 1891, Veronica Vivian Maud, second daughter of J. J. Wiivte, of Soutli Australia. Alicia Mary Stow. Hincnge. This family is of great antiquity and has not been undistinguished. The military acliievements of one of its descendants, Majou-General James Wolfe, the illus- trious hero of Quebec, conferred on the name a glorious pre-eminence in the records of British renown ; the legal distinction of Arthur Wolfe, the much lamented Tis- COUXT KiLWARDKN, procured Ins elevation to the judicial bench, and in more recent times, the poetic genius of the Rev. Charles Wolfe, the author of the exquisite lines on the death of Sir John Moore, has added lustre to the house from whieli he sprang. Richard Wolfe, the first of the family who settled in Ireland, went there fnnu Eng- land about 1658. In a common ])lcas judg- ment in 1G65, he is described as " lately of the city of Dublin, gent.," and in a Chancery suit, dated 12th .pril, of the same year, he is sliown as of Hiitlonread In the iiarish of Ougliterard, co. Kildarc. His will, dated 71 h December, 1()7S, was ]irov(.'d 27th Eclu-uarv, following ami lie v:is buried in Ougliterard Cliurcii. By -Vmie his wite, who survived him, he had issue, I. Jonx, his heir, of whom presently. I. .lane, 4. cifca 16S&; m. 11 ugh B.iNXER, of Punchestown. II. Dorotliy, m. William Bri'xtox, of Bishopscoui't, CO. Kildare. III. Anne Katharine. IV. Eleanor, m. William Burgovxe. His son, John Wolfe, of Baronrstb, h. about 1645, was appointed, .Act X, William III, Cap. 3, one of the commissioners for ascertaining the mode of raising the jiroportion of a land tax of .t 120,000, to be paid by co. Kildare. He )«. IGtJy, Mary CoorER, widow of the Rc . 8 A 2