Elizabeth Sophia Dumaresq

In June 1827 Henry returned to England, where he married in 1828 Elizabeth Sophia, elder daughter of Augustus Butler-Denvers and his second wife Eliza Bizarre, née Sturt, and half-sister of George, later the fifth earl of Lanesborough. In the same year Mrs Dumaresq's cousin, Charles Sturt, became Darling's military secretary. Returning with his wife in 1829, Henry brought to New South Wales Thomas and Martha Petty as his personal servants. Petty later became the proprietor of the famous hotel in Sydney which was known for a century simply as 'Petty's'.

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Henry Dumaresq m. in 1828, Elizabeth Sophia,^ elder daughter of the Hon. Augustus Richard Butler - Danvers (formerly the Hon. Augustus Richard Butler, having assumed the additional surname and arms of Danvers, on the occasion of his first marriage with Mary, the daughter and heiress of Sir John Dangers, Bart., in 1792), and granddaughter of Brinsley, 2nd Earl of Lanesborough ; and by her (who d. 12th March, 1877)

^ This lady was given, by royal licence, 24th October, 1866, the precedence of an earl's daughter.