Person:Edward Moore (34)

Edward Moore was appointed to be the vicar at Over in the diocese of Chester on the 17th of July, 1753.^[10] But tragically his time there was cut short, when just two years later in 1755, he was killed while standing in the old vestry under the clock tower and one of the clock weights dislodged and fell on his head. Apparently he had just finished officiating at a marriage in the church when it happened.^[8]

However, in 2016, I actually met its then vicar, who turned out to also bear the surname of Moore. But no relation to my ancestor Edward. And as of this writing (2019) he still is the vicar there. And we may trust that no such unfortunate accident, as befell his namesake predecessor, should cut his time short as the vicar at Over! And I should add that I have no evidence that the Rev. Edward Moore was killed "in front of the bride, who watched with her groom" - although it could have been so, if they happened to have been together in the vestry - perhaps to sign the parish register. Equally he could have been alone in there to change out of his ecclesiastical vestments. And the newly married couple had already left in their carriage or cart. In my little limerick, I merely wanted to establish that he had officiated at a wedding just before his tragic encounter with that falling clock weight.

The parish church of St. Chad's proved somewhat difficult to locate on that occasion of my visit there on Sunday, May 8th. And I was hoping to arrive in time for that day's evensong service. But the GPS in the rental car had led me rather astray into a suburban cul-de-sac. Fortunately a kind fellow nearby gave me excellent directions. This after he had exclaimed: “Ah yes, the church the devil picked up and put down somewhere else!”

« The remoteness of St. Chad's gave rise to a fantastic poetic tale. The Devil, aggrieved at the strict piety of the people of Over and the fact that they managed to evade his clutches, sought to deprive them of their church, which was then said to be sited along the main street of the village. One day, Satan, flying over the village, swooped down, seized the church, with its foundations and everything intact, and carried it off. The monks of nearby Vale Royal Abbey hearing of this deed immediately began to chant prayers and cause bells to be rung believing that this would frighten the Devil.

Alarmed at this commotion, Satan, now flying about a mile south, released his prize which floated safely down to earth to settle in a secluded valley, where it has remained ever since. The reality is that the focus of settlement shifted from the area around the church to a location higher up on the Over ridge during the fourteenth century. ...

...

In 1812 a clock was installed on the west face of the tower with the initials I.V. and I.T on its face, referring to churchwardens John Vernon and John Thompson. This apparently replaced an earlier clock for which there are records in the mid eighteenth century of money being spent on repair to such a clock. In fact vicar Edward Moore (1753-56) [sic] was killed when one of the clock weights fell on him shortly after he had officiated at a marriage: there is an inscription to his memory on a piscine in the vestry and on a memorial plaque on the west wall of the nave. .... »

—From: A Hidden Place of Worship: A History of St. Chad's Church and Parish, Over, Winsford by Tony Bostock, 2007, pp. 6 & 33.^[8]

Just prior to his appointment in 1753 as vicar to the parish of Over, the Rev. Edward Moore had been for ten years the curate at Sedbergh, then in the west riding of Yorkshire (now in Cumbria).^[10] Sedbergh lies about sixteen miles to the east of Kendal and Dr. Adam Askew, who was born and lived in Kendal before moving to Newcastle, had sent his eldest son Anthony to the Sedbergh School. The third of three generations of medical doctors, Anthony Askew (my three-times great grandfather) entered the school between 1730 and 1742. Of course this was a few years before Edward Moore’s son Peter (also a three-times great grandfather) attended the school. He is listed in the register as entering between the years 1760 and 1770. He must have been sent there by his much older brother, Edward Moore of Stockwell, who became his guardian after the death of his father. Peter Moore would go on to join the English East India Company - serving (and making a small fortune) in the Bengal Presidency; before returning to England and representing Coventry as its Member of Parliament.

The Lineage of the Rev. Edward Moore

A number of sources - most notably the various editions of Burke's Landed Gentry (since 1847)^[1] and the 'Pedigree of More, of Barnborough Hall' compiled by Joseph Foster (1874)^[2] - have claimed that the Rev. Edward Moore, vicar of Over, Cheshire, was descended from Sir Thomas More. As the 1847 Burke's Landed Gentry has it:

« The Rev. Edward Moore, LL.B., vicar of Over, co. Chester, son of John More, was of a Lancashire family, and in descent, by a junior branch, from the Chancellor More, whose arms he bore. »

However, this claim may be seriously questioned. And I have found no real evidence - certainly no primary sources - to substantiate this claim. In his excellent book, The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More (published in 2008),^[7] the late Martin Wood wrote:

« Foster states that his pedigree is authenticated by members of each family; I suspect that in the case of the Rev. Edward Moore’s lineage he is referring to Colonel Charles Thomas John Moore (1827-1900) of Frampton Hall, FSA, JP and DL, who spent many years collecting documents on the Moore/More family. Colonel Moore was a well-known antiquarian and may well have been responsible for getting the lineage included in Burke’s Landed Gentry. ... »

Martin Wood then adds:

« The Rev. Edward Moore’s descent from Sir Thomas More via John Moore was said by Col. Moore to be a ‘tradition’ and, while not doubting the descent itself, his research later led him to suggest that, rather than being descended from one of the John More’s (above), he may have been descended from what he calls “the Norfolk branch” of the family – presumably the branch said to be descended from Thomas More (born 1538), the grandson of Sir Thomas who became an Anglican minister. The further claim by Col. Moore that the Rev. Edward Moore was ordained and held his first curacy in Norfolk is clearly not true. I have discovered that Edward was admitted to Merchant Taylor’s School at the age of 14 on 12 September 1712 and that he later went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in December 1724 and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1728.

...

I do not know the origins of the claim (in Burke’s Landed Gentry) that Edward was of a Lancashire branch of the Barnborough family, and in my research I have not come across any such branch. The ‘Alumni Cantabrigiensis’ records that Edward was “of Retford, Notts.” and that he was “son of John”. Unfortunately a search of the Church Register at Retford did not turn up any John or Edward Moore during the period in question, but this is not conclusive evidence that they did not have a home there. If Edward was descended from Sir Thomas More, and if he was born in 1702 – which seems most likely – then his father must have been John More IV, the grandson of Thomas V and Mary. .... »

And as to the question of The Rev. Edward Moore's coat of arms duplicating those of Sir Thomas More, Mr. Wood had some interesting comments, which he made to me in a correspondence,^[11] dated 25 June, 2005:

« I am no expert. However, I have discovered that having the same, or similar, arms is no guarantee of descent, as similar arms were often granted to people with similar names. The system was, I believe, also much abused in the 16 and 1700's when people could buy arms with little or no proof of identity. Officially, of course, the only people who could display arms were those who had been granted them by the College of Arms and, in the case of hereditary titles their male heirs or where there were none, the senior female heiress.

The official More arms - the chevron between three moorcocks were the arms of Sir John More. To this Sir Thomas added the unicorn's heads which were the arms granted to Thomas Graunger the father of his Mother, Agnes Graunger. I do not know whether John More II was ever granted any Arms in his own right. Given the time in which he lived I rather doubt it. However in the composite family group painting of Thomas More and his descendants by Rowland Lockey (painted in 1593) there is a shield in the background with the three moorcocks quartered with the three lions of the Cresacre line. This seems to have been reproduced in various pedigrees from the mid 1800s. A painting of Cresacre More (1572-1649) has a shield with the arms More (three moorcocks) quartered with the arms of the Gage family of Firle in West Sussex. Cresacre's wife was Elizabeth Gage. No sign of the Cresacre lions.

The arms of Moore of Frampton Hall incorporate the 3 moorcocks, the Graunger unicorns and the Cresacre lions with other families they descended from. These arms are mentioned in the book "The General Armory",^[12] so I assume they were granted officially. The General Armory also mentions the arms of Moore of Stockwell (i.e. Rev. Edward's eldest son) as being the three moorcocks, so I also assume they also were official. I do not know whether Peter Moore, the M.P. was ever officially granted arms.

I have actually seen the arms on the piscina in St. Chad's church. They are only small and I could just about make out the moorcocks and the Cresacre lions. I don't know whether Rev. Edward was ever officially granted Arms. I tend to think that they were adopted by his eldest son Edward when he rose seemingly from rags (or probably best suit) to riches.

It seems to me that there was, in all of this, a measure of pretentiousness and inventiveness. »

I do not know if the crest and quartered arms, shown above, were actually granted to Richmond Moore, who was the great, great grandson of the Rev. Edward Moore - and my grandfather. Although I somehow doubt it. In the coloured painting (on the right above), the first three quarters could be described as follows: "Quarterly, lst, ar. a chev. engr. sa. betw. three moorcocks ppr. (for MORE); 2nd, ar. on a chev. gu. betw. three unicorns‘ heads erased sa. as many bezants (for GRAUNGER); 3rd, or, three lions ramp. gu. (for CRESACRE)..." The 4th quarter would appear to be: "az. a cross moline az. betw. four estoiles pierced gu." - which, if so, would have to be for WEBB - as in 'Richmond Webb' - as it is thus described in 'The Pedigree of Thackeray and Webb' on page 74 of Monken Hadley by Frederick Charles Cass, M.A. (published 1880) - and where it appears adjacent to (on p. 75) 'The Pedigree of Moore (claiming descent from the Chancellor, Sir Thomas More).'^[3] The "only son and heir" of this Richmond Webb, a "captain in the Guards, descended from the family of Richmond alias Webb, of Rodbourne Cheney, co. Wilts," was Lieut-Col. Richmond Webb (c.1714-1785). And it was his eldest daughter, Sarah (c.1750-1797), who married Peter Moore (1753-1828), the 5th son of the Rev. Edward Moore. Sarah, as the eldest, might well have been the sole heiress. She had three younger sisters. However, her husband's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, states that she was the "daughter and coheir of Lieutenant-Colonel Richmond Webb of Bandon, co. Cork, and Sarah Griffyths."^[14] While, "Colonel Richmond Webb had only one son who grew to manhood, and he died as a young soldier, unmarried, in the American War."^[13]

The remaining four quarters should presumably be for other armorial heiresses married into the direct line of the MORE/MOORE family ancestors of Richmond Moore. And I have no idea who they could be! None of the wives of his paternal line (up until Sarah Moore née Webb) would appear to qualify. Not his mother, Edith (1838 - 1864), the youngest daughter of Colonel Henry Stephen Olivier. Nor his paternal grandmother, Henrietta (1801-1837), youngest daughter of John Halhed. And no one has appeared to be able to identify the wife of the Rev. Edward Moore - apart from that her name was Mary.

I do know - from correspondences sent by Richmond Moore to his daughter, Joyce Askew née Moore (my mother) - that he was very interested in researching the Moore family history. Perhaps not quite to the same degree, however, as that engaged in by Colonel Charles Thomas John Moore (1827-1900) of Frampton Hall, referred to by Martin Wood in his book (as quoted above), as a possible source for 'Burke’s Landed Gentry' of the lineage of the Rev. Edward Moore.

Finally, there is the anomaly of an alternate birth date for Edward Moore, deriving from his two school registries. As well as possibly a father named Edward and a mother named Catherine - if an entry in the register from the Parish Church of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange in London is for our Edward - he who ends up as the Vicar at Over.^[6] Both the Merchant Taylor's School^[4] and Trinity College, Cambridge University^[5] have him born very precisely on the 6th of October, 1702. However the Cambridge University Alumni record, which gives this date of birth - as well as 1755 for his death, when Vicar of Over, also says his father's name was John. And no mention of his mother. This is also the source for his being "of Retford, Notts." - for which Martin Wood says he could find no parish record for him there. Still, Mr. Wood does find 1702 as the more likely birth year for him.^[7] But I can find no other indication that his parents were named Edward and Catherine; and that they had him baptised at the Parish Church of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange in London on October 15, 1702.

So, as it stands to date (11/06/2019), and having no clear certainty as to the Rev. Edward Moore's lineage, I have not added any parent for him to this page.

Clock tower of St. Chad's church at Over in Cheshire. Photograph taken by Robin Askew on 8 May, 2016.

Plaque 'in memoriam' to the Rev. Edward Moore in St. Chad's church nave. Original photograph taken by Robin Askew on 8 May, 2016. The rather faint inscription here has been superimposed with black printed text.

Two paired details from photographs, both taken by Robin Askew on 30 October, 2012, in the then house of her sister, Felicity. On the left is a black & white 'ex-libris' sticker from a book, which must have once belonged to Mr. Richmond Moore (their grandfather). On the right is a coloured painting of the same crest and quartered arms used in Richmond Moore's 'ex-libris' sticker.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Burke, John, Esq. & John Bernard, Esq. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. II – M to Z. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street. MDCCCXLVII. (1847) p. 881.

   « MOORE OF STOCKWELL.
   . . .
   Lineage.
   The Rev. Edward Moore, LL.B., vicar of Over, co. Chester, son of John More, was of a Lancashire family, and in descent, by a junior branch, from the Chancellor More, whose arms he bore. He was b. in 1696, and d. in 1755, . . . . »
   > Accessed on: books.google.co.uk/

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} 'Pedigree of More, of Barnborough Hall' in Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. II. — West Riding. Compiled by Joseph Foster. London, 1874.

   « (arrow pointing down to)
   Rev. Edward Moore, or More, LL.B., vicar of = Mary,
   Over, co. Chester, son of John More, Esq., born 1696,
   died 1755.
   | . . . . »
   > Obtained from an original folded sheet comprising 3 pages - having been separated from the full book of pedigrees.
   > Also accessible to be seen (and downloaded) as a pdf file on-line at: us.archive.org/ (pdf: p.44/328)

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Cass, Frederick Charles, Monken Hadley, Westminster: printed by J.B. Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street. 1880. pp. 72-76.

   p. 75 « Pedigree of MOORE (claiming descent from the Chancellor, Sir Thomas More).
   Arms of Moore. 1 and 4. Arg. a chevron engr. betw. three moorcocks. 2. On a chev. betw. three unicorns' heads erased sa. as many bezants. 3. Or three lions rampant purp. for Cresacre. / Crest. A moor's head, affrontée, ppr. wreathed round the temples, a jewel pendent in the ears, arg.
   Rev. Edward Moore, LL.B. vicar of =|=
   Over, co. Chester, son of John More,
   b. 1696, d. 1755
   . . . . »
   p. 74 «  Pedigree of THACKERAY and WEBB.
   ...
   « Richmond Webb, captain in the guards, descended from the family of Richmond alias Webb, of Rodbourne Cheney, co. Wilts, bur. at St. Margaret's Rochester. Will proved P.C.C. 18 Dec. 1734. Arg. a cross moline az, betw. four estoiles pierced gu. Crest. A tilting spear arg. headed or, broken in three parts, one piece erect, the other two in saltire, enfiled with a ducal coronet of the last.
   == Anne ____ bur. at St. Margaret's Rochester 1733.
   |
   Lieut. Col. Richmond Webb, only son and heir, commanded a company at Culloden. Of Great Queen St. Westminster, d. 27 May 1785, aged 70, and bur. in east cloister odf Westminster Abbey. (1)
   == Sarah, dau. of J. Griffyths, of Downton, co. Radnor, esq. d. in Upper Seymour St. Portman Sq. 8 June 1789, aged 65, and bur. in east cloister of Westminster Abbey.
   |__________
   |__|__|__|__|
   |__|__Sarah == Peter Moore, esq. lord of the manor of Hadley.
   ___Richmond Webb,__└ Charlotte,__└ Augusta, mar. Thomas Evans.
   —┐
   William Makepeace Thackeray, 7th son and youngest and 16th child, b. at Harrow 20 June 1749, of Bengal Civil Service, d. 11 March 1818 and bur. at Hadley.
   == └ Amelia Webb, d. 29 Apr, 1810, aged 52, and bur. at Hadley.
   .... »
   > Accessed on: archive.org/ from where it may be downloaded as a pdf file: monkenhadley00cass.pdf

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} A Register of the Scholars admitted into Merchant Taylor's School From A.D. 1562 to 1874, Compiled from Authentic Sources and Edited with Biographical Notices, by the Rev. Charles J. Robinson, M.A. Rector of West Hackney, Vol. II. Printed and published for the Editor by Farncombe & Co., Lewes. 1883
   pp. 34-35.

   « 12 Sep. 1712. //
   ...
   Edward Moore,¹ b. 6 Oct. 1702.
   .... »
   [1] « Edward Moore, admitted of Trin. Hall, Camb. Ll.b. Com. Reg. 1728. »
   > Accessed on: books.google.co.uk/

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} J. and J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses : a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900, (Cambridge, 1922-54)., in Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line].

   « Name: EDWARD MOORE / College: TRINITY HALL / Entered: 1724 / Died: 1755
   More information: Adm. scholar at TRINITY HALL, Jan. 2, 1723-4. Of Retford, Notts. S. of John. B. Oct. 6, 1702. School, Merchant Taylors'. Matric. sizar Dec. 1724; LL.B. 1728 (Com. Reg.). Ord. (Chester) Dec. 22, 1728. V. of Over, Cheshire. Died 1755. (Burke, L.G.; F. C. Cass, Monken Hadley, 75.)
   Source Information:
   Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
   Original data: Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.
   > Accessed on: search.ancestry.co.uk/

6. ↑ 'London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812'.

   Register of the Parish Church of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange.
   Christenings.
   « . . .
   Edward Moore of Edward & Catherine born Octob: 6th baptized Octob: 15th. 1702
   . . . . »
   Source Citation: London Metropolitan Archives, St Bartholomew by the Exchange, Composite register: baptisms 1558 - 1711/2, marriages 1558/9 - 1706, burials 1558 - 1678 and 1706 - 1711, P69/BAT1/A/001/MS04374, Item 001.
   Source Information:
   Ancestry.com. London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
   Original data: Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives.
   > Accessed on: search.ancestry.co.uk/ Original image: City of London > St Bartholomew by the Exchange > 1558-1712 (p. 71/143)

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Wood, Martin: The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More. First published in 2008 by Gracewing, 2 Southern Ave, Leominster, Herefordshire
   pp. 197-202.

   « ... Edward was appointed to the post of vicar at St. Chad's on 14 July 1753. His name appears on a list of the succession of vicars of the parish displayed inside the church. Unfortunately, after officiating at a wedding sometime in 1755 he was standing under the bell tower when the church bell fell from its mounting above and killed him. A plaque in the church records the event as follows: 'In Memoriam. Revd. Edward Moore, sometime Vicar of this Parish, accidentally killed in the old Tower Vestry of this Church. A.D. 1755.' After his death his eldest son is said to have presented the piscina in the church which, underneath the bowl, has a small shield with the Arms of More quartered with those of Cresacre on it (now badly eroded). Above the bowl there is an inscription that reads: 'To the glory of God and in pious memory of Edward Moore, LLB, Vicar of Over, born 1696, died 1755; and Mary his wife, born 1703, died 1772, whose bodies are buried near this spot.' the piscina has been relocated from its original position on the wall of the church at the side of the altar to its present place in the vestry. .... »
   NOTE: See the next reference,^S8 which states it was a "clock weight" that fell on his head - not 'the church bell'.

8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Bostock, Tony: A Hidden Place of Worship – A History of St. Chad’s Church and Parish, Over, Winsford. 2007
   p. 33.

   « ... In 1812 a clock was installed on the west face of the tower with the initials I.V. and I.T on its face, referring to churchwardens John Vernon and John Thompson. This apparently replaced an earlier clock for which there are records in the mid eighteenth century of money being spent on repair to such a clock. In fact vicar Edward Moore (1753-56) was killed when one of the clock weights fell on him shortly after he had officiated at a marriage: there is an inscription to his memory on a piscina in the vestry and on a memorial plaque on the west wall of the nave.⁷³
   .... »
   [73] Powell, F.E., The Story of a Cheshire Parish (1897), p.37
   > Accessed on: tonybostock.com/
   NOTE: This suggests the Rev. Edward Moore died in 1756 rather than the year before - as most other sources have it. This is almost certainly incorrect (see the burial record in the next reference^S9); and may have been derived from the fact that his successor was appointed to replace him on 15th March 1756 - being the date given on the Church of England database^S10 for both the appointment of Rev. John Gleave and the death of Rev. Edward Moore. This is most unlikely - given that it must have taken some time (more than a few hours!) after Moore's sudden death for his successor to have been selected and officially appointed.

9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Parish Register of the Church of St. Chad's in Over, Cheshire.

   « Rev. Edward Moore, late Vicar of Over, buried 6 May 1755 »
   > Information received in an e-mail, dated 6 Aug 2007, from a friend (& descendant of the Rev. Edward Moore's eldest son, Edward Moore of Stockwell House), who visited the Chester Record Office and copied this entry down from the parish register.

10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5} 'The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835' (CCEd).

    Moore, Edward (1728 - 1756) / CCEd Person ID: 63794
    Ordained Deacon: 22/12/1728 [Ordaining bishop: William Baker, of Norwich. Moore exhibited a certificate, under the seal of Robert Nash, LLD, vicar general of Robert, bishop of Norwich, that it was found in the register that Moore was ordained on this date; his certificate was dated 16/08/1736.]
    Appointed Minister of Bidston, Cheshire: 07/07/1742
    Appointed Curate of Sedbergh, West Riding, Yorkshire: 7/6/1743 *
    Appointed Vicar of Over, Cheshire: 14/07/1753 / Vacated (death): 15/03/1756
    > Accessed on: theclergydatabase.org.uk/
    * Note: the detail of the appointment of the Revd. Moore as Curate of Sedburgh can no longer be found on this website. It was previously there, showing him without his Christian name as: "Moore, Blank" - and with the added notation: "Moore's forename left blank". But it remains clear that he was living in Sedbergh between 1743 and 1753, when he was appointed the vicar at Over, in Cheshire. The Sedbergh parish records show baptisms there of six of his children and the burial of one of them. The first of these, Esther, baptized on the 10th May, 1743; and the last, Bernard, buried on 3rd March, 1753. This note added here on 29 April, 2023 —R.C.A. (robinca)

11. ↑ E-mail, dated 25 June, 2005, from Mr. Martin Wood (author of hits then soon to be published book, The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More, from whom he was descended) to Robin Cary Askew (a descendant of the Rev. Edward Moore).
12. ↑ The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. By Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, author of "The Peerage and Baronetage," "History of the Landed Gentry," . . . &c., &c. — Published, London, 1884
    pp. 242, 700 &703.

    « Cresacre (Barnborough, co. York, lords of that place from temp. Henry III. to Henry VIII.; the heiress m. JOHN MORE, Esq. only son of the ever memorable SIR THOMAS MORE). Or, three lions ramp. gu. Crest—A cat-a-mountain; the origin of the crest, says tradition, was the circumstance of the death of PERCIVAL CRESACRE, who, it is asserted, was attacked and killed by a wild cat from one of the little woods of Barnborough. »
    . . .
    « Moore (Stockwell, co. Surrey). Ar. a chev. engr. betw. three moorcocks sa. combs, wattles, and legs gu. Crest—A Moor's head affrontée ppr. wreathed round the temples az. and or, a jewel pendent in the ears ar. Motto—Resolve well, persevere.
    « Moore (Frampton Hall, co. Lincoln). Quarterly, lst, ar. a chev. engr. sa. betw. three moorcocks ppr.; 2nd, ar. on a chev. betw. three unicorns‘ heads erased sa. as many bezants; 3rd, or, three lions ramp. gu., for CRESACRE; 4th, per chev. sa. and or, three elephants‘ heads erased counterchanged, for SAUNDERS; 5th, erm. on a chev. sa. betw. two dragons‘ heads erased ppr. in chief and a buglehorn of the second stringed gu. in base a griffin's head couped betw. two buglehorns stringed or, for TUNNARD (modern); 6th, az. a chev. betw. three demi griffins or, for TUNNARD (ancient); 7th, sa. on a fesse cotised or, betw. three coneys courant ar. as many escallops of the field, for CONEY; 8th, vert three escutcheons ar. each charged with a border engr. or, for BURRELL. Crest—A Moor's head affrontée ppr. wreathed round the temples az. and or, a jewel pendent in the ears ar. Motto—Disce mori mundo. »
    . . .
    « More (SIR THOMAS MORE, the eminent Lord Chancellor, temp. Henry VIII.; his only son JOHN MORE, was ancestor of the MORES, of Barnborough, co. York : his dau. MARGARET, m. WILLIAM ROPER, Esq., of Eltham, co. Kent). Ar. a chev. engr. betw. three moorcocks sa. combs wattles, and legs gu., quartering ar. on a chev. betw, three unicorns‘ heads erased sa. as many bezants. Crest—A Moor's head affrontée sa. »
    > Accessed on: Google Books > 'The General Armory', from where it may be downloaded as a pdf file: 'The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales'

13. ↑ The Thackerays in India by Sir William Wilson Hunter, KCSL, MA, LL.D.. published by Henry Frowde, London : 1897, p. 100.

    « Mrs. Thackeray's father, Colonel Richmond Webb had only one son who grew to manhood, and he died as a young soldier, unmarried, in the American War. Of Colonel Richmond Webb's daughters, the youngest did not marry. The other three, as already mentioned, became the wives of Bengal civilians.
    Of these gentlemen, Mr. Peter Moore, a man of energy and talent, was destined to play an important part in the Thackeray family. As his brother-in-law the elephant-hunting Thackeray may be taken as the type of a Bengal District officer in the last century, so Moore represents the more brilliant career which the secretariat at the Capital held out to the abler or more fortunate members of that great service. ...
    In 1774, when only twenty-one, he had married Sarah, eldest daughter of Colonel Richmond Webb, whose sister Amelia became the wife of Thackeray two years later. On returning to England Moore settled at Hadley, Middlesex—the 'faire plain for two armies to joyne together' made memorable by the Battle of Barnet. There too the Thackerays bought a small property in January, 1786; perhaps with the help of Mrs. Thackeray's inheritance from her father, Colonel Richmond Webb buried in Westminster Abbey cloisters in June, 1785. The two married sisters, Sarah and Amelia, were thus reunited by the nearest ties of neighbourhood for the rest of their lives. .... »
    Accessed in a hardcover copy of the book (First Edition, January, 1897), in my possession (R.C.A.)

14. ↑ E. A. Smith, ‘Moore, Peter (1753–1828)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

    « Moore, Peter (1753–1828), politician, was born on 12 February 1753 at Sedbergh, Yorkshire, the second son of the Revd Edward Moore (d. 1755), vicar of Over, Cheshire, and his wife, Mary. He was two years old when his father died and so was educated at Sedbergh School under the aegis of Edward Moore, his elder brother by eighteen years, who secured him a position as indexer of the House of Commons Journals through a connection with the first Lord Holland. As a result of Holland's patronage Moore went to India in 1769 as a writer, and subsequently as collector, factor, and commissioner of police in the East India Company's service. When in India he married at Patna on 8 or 10 January 1774 Sarah Webb (b. c.1750, d. before 1797), daughter and coheir of Lieutenant-Colonel Richmond Webb of Bandon, co. Cork, and Sarah Griffiths. They had five sons, four of whom predeceased their father, and two daughters, including Frances Moore. His wife, whose sister Amelia was grandmother of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, also died some time before 1797.
    .... »
    Accessed 10 Dec 2007 at oxforddnb.com

15. ↑ Askew, Robin Cary: On the Trail of My ANCESTRAL HAUNTS in and around the English 'Lake District' —as pursued on a personal odyssey 'from pots to coals, past ancestral halls, amongst the lakes and hills, where heavenly daffodils ~ though for our trip through the fells, 'twas the magic of bluebells' (unpublished).

    Note: The article (here above) 'REV. EDWARD MOORE, LL.B. —Onetime, if briefly, Vicar of St. Chad’s at Over in Cheshire—' is adapted from (and enlarged upon) the first few pages of this forthcoming book, which is both a photographic journal and a family history study of those ancestors (both paternal and maternal), who lived in the north of England - especially in and around the Lake District - up until near the end of the 18th century. The journal begins on May 5, 2016 in Stoke-on-Trent, and follows a visit to the parish church of Over in Cheshire, before winding its way north through the so-called 'Forest of Bowland' to reach the 'Lake District'; and after lingering there for eight days, heading east via Hadrian's Wall to reach Newcastle upon Tyne; and after a couple of days there, head back south through the north Yorkshire moors to the City of York; and from there return to Stoke-on-Trent on May 25.