Person’s Profile
Cordelia (Garstin) Bargus [formerly Colborne](1751-1791)
Description
first wife of CMY's grandfather
Biography
No relation to CMY, this lady is all the same the key to the complex cousinhood which surrounded her. She had two children, John and Cordelia Anne, by her first marriage to Samuel Colborne. She then married the Rev. Thomas Bargus, and died giving birth to their daughter Alethea Henrietta Bargus. He remarried, and had a daughter, CMY's mother Frances Mary Bargus. Cordelia Colborne married the Rev. Duke Yonge. Alethea married the latter's cousin the Rev John Yonge. John Colborne married Elizabeth Yonge (sister of the Rev. John Yonge). Lastly, Frances married William Crawley Yonge (brother of the Rev. Duke Yonge).
