Charles Moore

Partner and probably brother of Henry Moore (q.v.), merchants of Barbados and Liverpool. Born County Antrim c. 1804.

1. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, c. 1804. Of Barbados when he married Marian Elizabeth Storey, only daughter of the late John Storey Esquire in Dublin in 1835. Five children born in Liverpool: Marian Edith (1839), Helena Blanche (baptised in St Nicholas' Catholic Church, Liverpool, 1841), Laura Mary (1843), Charles Henry O'Hara (1845), Arthur John (1849).

2. Henry Moore & Co. advertised for passengers in the "first-class fast-sailing ship 'Loodianah', of 744 tons, due to sail from Liverpool to Calcutta in December 1850.

3. In 1851 Charles Moore was living at South Hill Toxteth Park Lancashire, aged 45 'E & W India merchant' with his wife Marian (transcribed as Maria), three daughters and two sons Charles and Arthur (aged 5 and 1); in 1861 Charles Moore was living at Fullwood Park, Toxteth Park Lancashire aged 56 born County Antrim 'Landed proprietor, shipowner, East India merchant' with wife Marian Elizabeth 'merchants wife' aged 50 born Liverpool and children Marian Edith 21, Helena Blanche 19, Laura Mary 17, all born Liverpool.

4. This appears to be the Charles Moore MP for Tipperary 1865-9; certainly George Augustus Vaughan, who was a partner with Charles Moore and Robert Carlyle in a merchant firm in Liverpool in 1864, married Laura Mary, given as the daughter of Charles Moore of Mooresfort; and Count Arthur John Moore (1849-1904), nationalist MP for Clonmel, was born in Liverpool at the same time as Charles Moore's son Arthur [see above]. Charles Moore as purchaser of Mooresfort was described as 'from Co. Antrim'.

T71/896 Barbados claim no. 1678; T71/899 Barbados claim no. 4001; T71/891 Tobago claim no. 91 (Scarborough (town)).

1. Belfast Newsletter 16/01/1835; Ancestry.com, Liverpool, England, Catholic Baptisms, 1741-1916 [database online]; Findmypast.co.uk, England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 [database online].

2. The Scotsman 30/11/1850.

3. 1851 and 1861 censuses online.

4. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), Vol. 2, p. 2361; H. B. Blackall 'The Butlers of Cregg' Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 28 (1958/59) pp. 23-41.

We are grateful to Alan Weeks for his assistance with compiling this entry.