Marriages and Daughter
Rhodes married firstly Sarah King (died 1862), then Sarah Ann Moorhouse, sister of William Sefton Moorhouse. They lived in a large house, The Grange in Wadestown, Wellington. He had no children by either wife, but fathered a daughter, Mary Ann Rhodes, by a Maori woman called Mary. William and Sarah Ann loved his daughter, and Sarah Ann adopted her. She was provided for in her father’s will, but she challenged the will, losing in the New Zealand Supreme Court but being awarded £750,000 by the Privy Council.
Mary Ann Rhodes married her stepmother’s younger brother Edward Moorhouse in Wellington in 1883. They moved to England and raised four children, including William Barnard Moorhouse. Shortly before he married in 1912, as required by the will of his grandfather, he changed his name to William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse. He was the first airman to win the Victoria Cross.
William Barnard Rhodes is buried at Bolton Street Memorial Park, and his grave is part of the memorial trail.
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