Allegra Byron Allegra Byron Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. Born in Bath, England, she was initially named Alba, meaning "dawn", or "white", by her mother. At first she lived with her mother, her mother's stepsister, Mary Shelley, and Mary's husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. When she was fifteen months old, she was turned over to Byron, who changed her name to Allegra. Byron placed her with foster families and later in a Roman Catholic convent, where she died at age five of typhus or
Frances Byron, Baroness Byron little being known about Frances Berkeley's early years, she is identified in John Faber's graving of 1736, before the death of her first husband, Lord Byron. Historians have suggested that she married young because her father's letter refers to "a disproportionate match to their ages"; thus it is inferred that Lord Byron was a much older man; he is thought to have been at least thirty years older than Frances. During this marriage, Frances had six children, until Lord Byron's death on 8 August 1736. It was "through her second son John [that Frances was] the great-grandmother of Lord Byron,