Genealogical memoirs of the family of Robert Burns and of the Scottish house of Burnes

28 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF
New Zealand, and died at Sydney, N.S.W., on the 9th June
1876. He married, and had six sons, Adam William Gray,
James Henry, Napier Anderson, Alexander Plunkett, Ernest
Blair, George Douglas Inglis Scott, and a daughter, Mary Inglis.
Alexander Horatio, younger son of Adam Burnes by his
first wife, was born 19th October 1834. He married Mary
Jane Harris, by whom he has a daughter, Adamina Horatia,
born October 1872. He emigrated to New Zealand, where
he now resides.
By his second wife Adam Burnes had a son, James, born
24th May 1844, died 30th April 1873; also a daughter,
Annie Eliza Glegg, born 15th September 1842, married, 16th
May 1866, John S my the M'Cay, solicitor, Londonderry. She
has a son, Norman Henry Burnes.
Alexander Burnes, third surviving son of Provost James
Burnes, was born at Montrose on the 16th May 1805. After
greatly distinguishing himself at the Montrose Academy, he
obtained a cadetship in the Indian Army. He arrived at
Bombay on the 31st October 1821. In December 1822 he
was appointed interpreter in Hindostanee to the First Extra
Battalion at Snrat, and soon afterwards he was employed by
the judges of the Suddur Adawlut to translate the Persian
documents of that court. His regiment, the 21st Native
Infantry, having early in 1825 been sent to Bhooj, he accom-
panied it, and during the disturbances at Cutch, in April of
that year, he was appointed quartermaster of brigade. A
report on the statistics of Wagur, which he drew up and pre-
sented to Government in January 1827, was much commended,
and acknowledged by a considerable donative. A memoir on
the eastern branch of the delta of the Indus, which he pub-
lished in 1828, was much approved by the authorities. On