 In 1925 Noel Carrington married Catharine Alexander (1904–2004), a country girl educated primarily by her schoolmaster father before attending the Slade School of Fine Art where she met Dora and members of the Bloomsbury Group.They had three children, Paul, Joanna and Jane, and lived in Hampstead until soon after 1945 when they moved to Lambourn, Berkshire, to farm at Long Acre.Some of Noel Carrington's correspondence with his sister Dora has been published.