Three members of the Desborough family married three members of the Man family.  In 1806 Georgiana Desborough, the daughter of Henry Desborough of the Post Office, married Edward Man.  In 1853 one of the sons of that marriage, James Lawrence Man, married his first cousin Ann Desborough and another son Edward Desborough Man married his first cousin Louisa Mary Harris whose mother was Louisa Ayton Desborough, Georgiana's sister.  Below are Lawrence Desborough and Ann Bryne, the grandparents of Georgiana and her sister Louisa Ayton and great grandparents of Ann Desborough and Louisa Mary Harris.  To view a diagram of how the Man and Desborough families have inter-married along with others such as Holworthy, Kirkness, Matthews and Webber click here (<--- one page PDF).  At the point when Louisa Ayton Desborough marries John Webber Harris (parents of Louisa Mary Harris), royal blood (somewhat diluted) begins to pour through the Man/Desborough veins. To view the descent from Edward III down to Edward MacPherson Man (Ed) please click here. To read a description of the retirement dinner held for Henry Desborough of the Atlas Insurance Company (brother of Georgiana) (three pages in PDF) click here.  To read Henry's testimony before the House of Commons Select Committee on Postage click here.  A genealogy of the Desborough family has been prepared and can be accessed here. (<--- PDF).  Also, there are two Desborough marriages to Rendalls. In 1854 John Rendall married Fanny Desborough and in 1887 Gerald Rendall married Ellen Desborough. For details of the Rendall family please contact David Man (see 'How to Contact us') as the document contains some copyrighted material that cannot be displayed on this website.

Ann Desborough, who married James Lawrence Man, had a brother John Desborough who had a very successful military career during the Boxer Rebellion, details of which will be forthcoming.   Ann and John's father was Henry Desborough of the Atlas Assurance Company (above right); he was the brother of Georgiana who married Edward Man.  John Desborough was not the only successful military man in the family, much earlier in the 17th century a John Disbrowe rose to the rank of general in the parliamentarian forces during the English civil war.  He married Oliver Cromwell's sister Jane Cromwell.  It was this John Disbrowe who advised Oliver not too accept the crown when parliament offered it to him.   A listing of births, marriages, and deaths appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine starting in 1816 and covering the names of Desborough, Disbrowe, etc. can be viewed here.  A transcription of a letter from Sophia Kellner to Henry Desborough (in PDF) can be read here. Letters to Sir Robert Peel, etc. 

An aunt of Georgiana (Desborough) Man's, Fanny Desborough, married on 1 October 1870 John Henry Stewart. One of their children, Frances Emelia Stewart married Sir Augustus Brydges Henniker and they had a daughter Frances Elizabeth Henniker who married Charles Robert Bree whose two main claim to fame was a book on birds not found in the British Isles {   ] and his attacks on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution which he published as 'An Exposition of Fallacies of in the Hypotheses of Charles Darwin'. 

Desborough Albums: 1. Small contact sheets and 2. Large contact sheets  These have been divided up to make access easier: