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Barrington was born at Maynooth, the son of a working silversmith named Waldron, or Captain Barrington, English troop commander.
At some point in the 1785–1787 period he married and the couple had a child, but the names of the wife and child, and their eventual fates, are not known.
While enjoying the beginnings of his prosperity in Australia, Barrington romanced and cohabited with a native woman, Yeariana, who soon left him to return to her family. Barrington said that Yeariana possessed "a form that might serve as a perfect model for the most scrupulous statuary."
Barrington died at Parramatta in 1804.
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