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 318- BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. mayor of Sydney, 9th December, 1868. He shortly afterwards visited England and the principal European cities, and returned in October, 1872, after an absence of two and a half years ; was again returned for Bourke Ward ; and in July, 1874, was returned to Parliament for East Sydney, but was unsuccessful in the general election of 1880 ; he was appointed to a life membership of the Legislative Council of New South "Wales, 10th December, 1880. In 1867, Mr. Moore had the honour of giving his name to the finest public recreation reserve in the city of Sydney, which had been reclaimed from the waste and given to the. citizens as a public park, under his own direction and design. He is also entitled to public regard for numerous other services rendered by him for the public weal. Htneage. According to tradition, Mr. Moore's ances- tors were connected with the city guilds of London. They went to Ulster at the time of the plantation, and settled near Cavan, where some of their descendants are still living. One of them, Mark Moore, Esq. of Cavan, M.D., is cousin to the Hon. Charles Moore. Sir William More, who was lord mayor of London in 1395, is believed to have been of this family. Chaeles Mooee, Esq. of Ballymacarne, Cavan, Ireland (son of James Mooee, Esq., and brother of John Moore, who d. 30th August, 1765, aged 34 years), cZ. 3rd January, 1804. By Jane Elliott, his wife, he had James Mooee, Esq. of Ballymacarne, aforesaid; m. 18th September, 1795, Catha- rine Kogers, of Belturbet (who d. 24th De- cember, 1827), and d. 1st October, 1842, having had twelve children, the eleventh of whom is the present Hon. Chaeles Mooee. Arms — Az., a cross crosslet or, on a canton arg., a kangaroo sejant ppr. Crest — Out of a mural crown gu. a Moor's head in profile, couped at the shoulders ppr., wreathed round the temples or and az., and charged on the neck with a cross crosslet, gold. Motto — Perseverando et cavendo. Residence — Moore Court, Springwood, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. aSBatson ot (Ulantoorti). WATSON, HON. JAMES, of Glanworth, Darling Point, Sydney, New Soath Wales, member of the Legislative Council ; b. at Portadown, CO. Armagh, Ireland, 17th December, 1836; m. 8th April, 1871, Margaret Salmon Ewan, and has issue, I. James Frederick William, b. 27th June, 1878. II. Herbert John Frazer Ewan, b. 2nd February, 1881. I. Maude Mary Frazer, b. 21st November, 1872. II. Mabel Margaret Maclean, b. 11th August, 1874. III. EHzabeth Grace, b. 13th April, 1876. IV. Alice Muriel, b. 25th September, 1883. Mr. Watson arrived in New South Wales in 1857 ; first entered business with his brothers at Young ; and in February, 1869, joined the firm of John Frazer & Co., of Sydney, wholesale merchants ; first returned to Parliament in 1869 for the Lachlan district ; was appointed colonial treasurer, 21st December, 1878, which office he continued to hold until 4th January, 1883. He is chairman of the City Bank, member of royal commission to enquire into the working of the Civil Service, and a member of the Public Works committee. Residence — Glanworth, Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ■