420 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. Anns — (C'onfii-med to Cliarlcs do la Cour, Seigneur de LabiUiei-e,* -Itl! Dpcembor, 1600, in the oll'icial register of Montpellier-Moutauban.) Ou. an eagle displaj-ed or crowned az. langued and armed arg. Sesidence — Harrow-on-the-Hill. HON. SIR JOSEPH PALMER ABBOTT, Knight, of Tarella, St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales, J. P., Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of that Colony, h. at Muswellbroob, New South Wales, 29th September, 1842 ; to. firstly, 23rd December, 1873, Matilda Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Dr. Macartney, of West Maitland, New South Wales, and by her has issue, I. John Heney Macartney, 6. 25th December, 1874. II. Macartney, h. 3rd July, 1877. I. Frances Amanda, 6. 28th March, 1876. He m. secondly, Is-t March, 1883, Edith, youngest daughter of the late James Solomon, of West Maitland, by whom he has issue, HI. Joseph Palmer, l. 18tb October, 1891. II. Lydia Abbott, h. 27th June, 1884. III. Blanche Edith, h. 10th September, 1885. lY. Eleanor Kingsmill, h. 15th August, 1887. Sir Joseph first entered the Assembly of New South Wales iu 1880; was secretai'y for mines from 7th January, 1883, to 7th October, 1885 ; and secretary for lands from 7th November to 22nd December, 1885. He was a member of the New South Wales Commi.ssion for the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888 ; and was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in October, 1890 ; and was one of the delegates of New South Wales to the
- Note. — Tliis notice of the English line of the family would be incomjjlete without
further mention of the French branches. The junior ones of de Montoamj) and du Viala {see their pedigree in D'Hozier's Armorial General, ^eg., VI) became extinct in the male line many years ago. On the death of Charles de la Cour, Seigneur de Labilliere, his two eldest sons, being Huguenot refugees in England, bis thiixl sou Francis de la Cour de la GardioUe, became head of the family in France and possessed of the land, held from time immemorial to the present day, by them at Aulas, from which place their residence was, about the time of liis death, removed to their present house at Vigan, about a mile distant. Separa- tion, difference of religion, and tiie fact of fighting on opposite sides, nerer interfered with the affection of the four brothers. Ou the pe.ice of Eipwick, the two who were with the English Army and the two in the French Army passed two or three days at Brussels ; this, their only meeting, being touchingly recorded in their letters, which still exist. When killed at the siege of Turin iu 1706, Francis left a young widow, Frar93ise d'Aiglepierre, of Saline, and an infant son, Charles Desire, whose son Charles Philibert, was Lieutenant in the regiment of Dauphine at the battle of Eosback, about which he wrote some letters, which have been printed for private circulation (Copy, British Museum). He rose to be a Colonel of his regi- ment, whieli became known as the 38th; at the Revolution, the family lost the pension which had been conferred on his grandfather for his services. His son, I.ouis Marie de la Cour de la GardioUe was the last man of the family in France. His career in the French Navy was closed when he was a young ollicer. by his being made a prisoner of war on his sliip " La Serieuse " being captured at the Battle of the Nile. He wrote some letters des- cribing the movements of the French Fleet, from its departure from Toulon to its destruction by Nelson, which have been printed for private circulation (Copy, British Museum). He lived at Tigan, and d. leaving by li is wife an only daughter Marie Amelie (who d. 7th March, 1888) , the only representative of the de la GardioUe branch, m. Charles Louis Auguste, Baron de Cabiron, who d. 22nd April, 1891. Their onlj' daughter, Marie de Cabiron, is now the only descendant of this branch of the family in France.
