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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 321 UtrtEaae. Thomas Mooee, Esq. of Billown, Isle of Man, J. P., member of the House of Keys, and captain of the parish, third son of His HoNOUE Deemstee {i.e. judge) Mooee, of Eushen Abbey and Billown, Isle of Man, who was sole judge for the whole island ; was I. 7th November, 1786, at Eushen Abbey ; m. Catherine Moore, of Billown, Isle of Man, sister of George Moore, Esq., American con- sul at Trieste {see family below), and widow of Mr. Gooch, son of Sir Francis Q-ooch, Bart. She was b. in London, 1st January, 1782, and d. at Billown, 23rd June, 1859. He d. at Billown, 8th March, 1862, leaving a son, the present GEOEaE Heney Mooee, Esq. of Glenmark. Arms used — Three greyhojinds courant in pale. Crest — A moorcoch rising. Residence — Glenmark, Canterbury, New Zealand. According to tradition, three brothers left Ireland with King William, one of whom settled in England, one, the ancestor of Sir John Moore, the hero of Corunna, in Scotland, and the Ihird, the ancestor of Catherine, mother of George Henry Moore, Esq. of Glenmark, in the Isle of Man. In all probability this family descends from the Muirs of Kowhallan, one of whom went to Ireland, from whom also descends the family of Moore, of Tara House, co. Meath. Philip Mooee, Esq. of Douglas, Isle of Man, b. in 1675 ; d. in 1746, having had five sons, viz., Philip, of The Hills, Isle of Man ; Geoege (Sie), of whom presentl_y ; James (Rev.), of Dxiblin ; William, d. in 1727, aged 13 (to whose memory there is erected in Cartmel church, Lancashire, a monument, on which are engraved the arms of Moore, with the motto " Duris non frangar ") ; and John, d. a minor. Sie Geoege Mooee, of Ballamoore, Isle of Man, with one of his brothers founded and endowed two separate schools in Peel- town, Isle of Man. He was sometime speaker of the House of Keys (the Manx Parliament) ; m. the daughter of Csesar Bacon, Esq. of Seafield, Isle of Man, and was grandfather of George, American consul at Trieste, m. first, at Constantinople, 8th May, 1804, Mary Eroding ; and secondly, at Trieste, 8th February, 1817, Sarah Nicholson, of Baltimore, U.S.A. He was father of the late George Moore, Esq. of 27, St. Aubyn's-road, Upper Norwood, CO. Surrey, sometime British consul in Italy and in the United States of America. Catheeine, m. Thomas Moore, Esq. of Billown, Isle of Man, J. P., member of the House of Keys, and captain of the parish, and was mother of the present Geoege Heney Mooee, Esq. of Glenmark. Wim xif f^atftrop. WEBB, HON. EDMUND, of Hathrop, Bathurst, New South Wales, J.P., member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, &. at The Lodge, Liskeard, Cornwall, England, 4th September, 1830; m. 17th January, 1854, Selina Jane Jones, fourth daughter of the late William Tons, Esq. of Springfield, Orange, New South Wales, and has had five children, four of whom survive, viz. : — I. Edmund Tons, h. 27th January, 1855 ; m. 28th March, 1877, Fanny Edgworth, second daughter of the late Hon. James Byrnes, and has issue, three sons and three daughters, ir. Sydney William, I. 15th August, 1859 ; m. 27th September, 1883, Lucy Ann Amelia, eldest daughter of B. Lee, Esq., police magistrate, Bathurst, and has one son. I. Selina Helen, h. 24th November, 1857; m. 29th December, 1880, Joseph Thompson, Esq., LL.D. II. Catherine Emma, h. 7th February, 1861 ; m. 29th March, 1883, Ernest Matthew Bowman, Esq. of Merotherie, Gulgong, New South Wales, J.P. Mr. Webb was educated at the academy of Messrs. Keley and Roberts, at VOL. I. T