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Tissable, consort of John Frederick Holland, Adjutant-General Militia, died 15th July, 1831. The inscription on the other stone is now undecipherable.

Henry Holland, the second son of Major Samuel, also followed surveying for a few years, but eventually joined the army. In 1779 he was Ensign in the 70th Foot, but about 1785 exchanged to the 44th Foot and was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain in 1794. In 1798 or shortly afterwards he was drowned at sea with his brother officer, Major \Nalker. By one account this occurred at the Isle of Wight, but other accounts, which appear equally reliable, state that their ship was wrecked on Anticosti. He left two daughters: Sophia, who mar- ried Sylvester, and Eliza.

Charlotte was probably the eldest daughter of Major Holland. There is a tradition in the family that she was engaged to a Lieutenant Haldimand, who was drowned in the employ of her father. It could not have been Haldimand, as his accidental death occurred on 15th December, 1765, before she was born. It is possible, however, that there was a younger Haldimand who met the same fate, or it is more probable that it was another lieutenant or assistant. After her father’s death she lived with her widowed mother and died, unmarried, at Tryon River in 1833.

Another daughter, Susanna, married Thomas Ward after her father's death in 1801, but before 1803.

Three of Major Holland's children are not mentioned in his will or by any of his descendants of to-day. In March, 1773, he stated he then had two sons and four daughters (another child expected) and in 1784 that he then had ten children. It is possible that three died between 1784 and 1800. Possibly one or more of these three may have been born between 1766 and 1773, or between 1776 and 1780, or between 1780 and 1784.

Frederick Braham, the third son, was born in 1774. He was baptized at Quebec on May 18, 1779, according to the Cathedral records, and was also in the army. His military career was as follows: Ensign 60th Foot, March, 1795; Lieutenant 7th Foot, July, 1795; Lieutenant, half—pay, January, 1799; Lieu- tenant, 69th Foot, August, 1800; Lieutenant, Irish, half—pay, February, 1803; English, half-pay, December, 1815.

He appears to have made Tryon River, Prince Edward Island, his home after retiring from the army, but probably lived at Quebec in later life. He died there of cholera on September 14, 1836. (There is no record of his death, however, in the Cathedral records).

His first wife was Mdle. de St. Laurent of Quebec, and sister of the first wife of Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of George III. Edward was born in 1767. He was not a favourite with his father and was given military service abroad. In 1791 he came to Canada from Gibraltar in command of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, a regiment that had been stationed at Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers in 1773, and part of the regiment was besieged in Quebec in 1775-76. They served throughout the Revolutionary War and in 1783 returned to England. After three years in Canada the Prince was transferred to the West Indies, serving at Martinique and St. Lucia, and then returned to Canada. In 1799 he was created Duke of Kent and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America, which position he held until 1800, when he was appointed