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PREFACE. The compilation of the pedigrees in this, the second volume of the Colonial Gextuy, has proved a pleasant task to the Editor, and the result of his labours will, it is hoped, be found by the reader both useful to consult and interesting to peruse. It is surely unnecessary to dwell on the utility of a work which preserves in a convenient and permanent manner the records of the leading families in the Colonies, and serves to show to those at home and abroad the close bonds of kinship that unite the Sister Colonies to one another and to the Mother Country. All classes in these Colonies must eutertain some interest in a work concerning their relations, friends, and neighbours. It was a happy thought of the late author to extend the area of his labours, which had already produced works found indispensable in every library, and to undertake the Colonial Centky at a time wlien it was still possible to collect full and reliable information concerning the origin and ancestry of the pioneers of colonisation in Her Majesty's more distant possessions. The subject cannot fail to attract the attention of the present generation and will be of absorbing interest to their descendants. To every student of family history it will be pleasant to note that so many well-known and distinguished families at home have sent their younger sons to win their spurs in the Colonies and to add new lustre to the family renown. Many names suggest themselves in this connexion, but to instance a few, mentioned in this second volume, we find England represented by cadets of the liouses of Onslow, Montagu, WoUaston, Eawson, Townsheud, Clifford, Amherst, Cayley, and Weld ; Scotland by Graham, Balfour, Chisholm, Campbell, Dennistoun, Gj'asme, Macdonell, and Ogilvie ; Ireland, by Martin, Hamilton, Wolfe, McCartney, D'Arcy, Blake, Orpen, Perceval, Aylmer, and Grey; and Wales, by Powys, Lloyd, and Williams ; wliile such names as Sturt, Feathei'ston, Learmonth, Youl, Grey, Duffy, Samuel, Jennings, Brodribl), de Labillifere, Angas, Horrocks, Macdonald, Archer, and Uidout, cannot fail to interest ever}' student of the history of Colonial enterprise and jjrogress. i-»y- /• r> it c *^