i. Edward-Gamage, an officer in the 59th regt. born 30 June, 1823.
ii. Thomas-Rogers, born 12 Dec. 1826.
iii. William, born 10 Feb. 1828.
iv. Lydia, born 31 Dec. 1818, m. 18 May, 1837, to Francis Shand, Esq. of Liverpool, and of Everton, co. Lancaster; and
v. Martha, born 29 Aug. 1821.
Col. William Byam served under the “hero of a hundred fights,” the Duke of Wellington, in the battles of Orthes, Toulouse, and Waterloo, in which latter he was dangerously wounded, and in those ensanguined plains he belied not his high name, nor the deeds of his fathers, whom we find so often figuring in the annals of Antigua, leading its troops to battle, filling some high official situation, or spilling their hearts’ best blood in defence of their native shores!
[[78]] Ancestor of the now Earls of Cadogan.
[[79]] This pedigree, and that of the Byam family in general, has been authenticated by Herald’s College, by certificate, dated “College of Arms, 27 July, 1841.”
[[80]] So termed by the Heralds of the College of Arms, although only mentioned in Antiguan history as lieut.-governor of the island.