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Augusta later married her cousin, Lt. Colonel George Leigh (1771–1850), son of General Charles Leigh (1748–1815) and his wife, Frances Byron (1749-1823), her paternal aunt. The couple had seven children: Georgiana Augusta, Augusta Charlotte, George Henry, Elizabeth Medora, Frederick George, Amelia Marianne, and Henry Francis.
Sophia and the unnamed boy died in infancy; Augusta Byron went on to marry George Leigh. [5] Amelia died in London in 1784. Byron then married Catherine Gordon, heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, daughter of George Gordon and Catherine Innes, on 17 May 1785.
Elizabeth Medora Leigh (15 April 1814 – 28 August 1849) was the third daughter of Augusta Leigh.It is widely speculated that she was fathered by her mother's half-brother Lord Byron; this is supported by comments from his widow, even though her mother's husband, Colonel George Leigh, was her legal father.
General Charles Leigh (1748 – 7 August 1815) ... His son, Lt-Col George Leigh, married Augusta Byron, the half-sister of the poet Lord Byron. [9] References
In 2010 part of a baptismal record was uncovered which apparently said: "September 24 George illegitimate son of Lucy Monk, illegitimate son of Baron Byron, of Newstead, Nottingham, Newstead Abbey." [138] Augusta Leigh's child, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, born in 1814, was possibly fathered by Byron, who was Augusta's half-brother.
They married despite the objections of Georgiana's father, Col. George Leigh. Henry Trevanion later began a relationship with his wife's younger sister, Elizabeth Medora Leigh, a woman whose father was thought to be actually Lord Byron, Augusta Leigh's half brother. Though the Trevanions struggled for money their entire lives, Ada Trevanion ...
America Medora "Dora" McCulloch Allison Johnson (1862–1926), wife of 19th century American cattle rancher, cattle broker and gunfighter Clay Allison; Elizabeth Medora Leigh (1814–1849), suspected biological daughter of Lord Byron by his half-sister, Augusta Leigh; legal daughter of Augusta and her husband George Leigh
Following their divorce in 1779, Amelia married John "Mad Jack" Byron, father of Lord Byron, and had one daughter, Augusta Leigh. From 1770 until her death in 1801, the Countess of Holderness was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. [4]