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• Birth	1770
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Dec 1845	Twickenham, England
  Buried	St. John's Wood Church, Marylebone, England
  Person ID	I0225	Durnford
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2010 23:44:16
  Father	Brabazon William
  Family ID	F0757	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Moore John
  Married	May 1788
  Divorced	10 Jul 1805
  Notes	Divorced July 10, 1805.
  Family ID	F1196	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Durnford Anthony William, b. 24 Jan 1775, London, England
  Married	17 Aug 1805	Old Church, Pancras
  Children	1. Durnford Edward William, b. 22 Oct 1803, London, England   2. Durnford George Anthony, b. 18 Sep 1804, Canterbury, England   3. Durnford Catherine Jemima, b. 3 Feb 1806, Rochester, England   4. Durnford Arthur Gifford, b. 14 Jan 1809, Brockhill, Berkshire, England   5. Durnford Harriet Barbara, b. 9 May 1810, London, England
  Family ID	F0236	Group Sheet

• Photos		Barbara Brabazon

• Notes

  Only daughter of the brother of the Earl of Meath. Was 18 years old when married. Had 3 children with John Moore. Burke's Peerages does not mention marriage to Anthony Durnford, only marriage to John Moore. John Moore requested a divorce from the House of Parliament (a rarity in those days) from Barbara Brabazon on the grounds of adultery. Apparently grounds included the facts that Edward William Durnford and George Anthony Durnford were both born while Barbara was still married to John Moore. The John Moore Divorce Bill was passed by the Lords on July 10, 1805, she married Anthony Durnford a month later. Interestingly, John Moore changed his name to Moore-Brabazon after Barbara's death. Monumental Inscriptions in Holy Trinity Church on the east wall of the south transep: Sacred to the Memory of Barbara. The beloved wife of Lieut.-Colonel Anthony William Durnford of Colne Villa Twickenham, (Late of the Grenadier Guards) and only daughter and heiress of the late Hon. William Brabazon of Tara House, County of Meath, Ireland. Died 4th December 145. Age 76. And is interred in a private vault under St. John's Wood Chapel Regent's Park. [Cobbett, Richard Stanley, Memorials of Twickenham: Parochial and Topographical, 1872]