 He left this position to marry Anne Brydges on 28 December 1778 at Wootton.The Lefroys lived for a time in London, then moved to Basingstoke, where their first child, Jemima Lucy (always known as Lucy) was christened in December 1779.Two children died in infancy (John Henry George, Julia Elizabeth), and a son Anthony Brydges was born in the early 1780s.