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Irish Quaker Moore family of Ballinacree and emigration to Pennsylvania

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This space sets out what is known about the Irish Quaker Moore families of county Londonderry and northern Antrim in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. At least one of these, Andrew Moore (1688-1753), emigrated to Pennsylvania where he became a prominent Quaker. Unfortunately none of the records of the Quaker meetings in that part of Ulster survive, so there are difficulties constructing the family trees concerned.

Contents

Introduction

A testimony to Andrew Moore's life by the Quaker meeting at Sadsbury, Pennsylvania [1] tells that he was born in county Antrim, Ireland in 1688 and emigrated in 1723. When he arrived in Pennsylvania, he presented a removal certificate from Ballynacree [2] near Ballymoney where a Quaker meeting was settled in 1673.[3] Ballymoney straddles the border of counties Antrim and Londonderry. Ballynacree is on the Antrim side and Coleraine (where a meeting was also settled in 1673) in Londonderry is the nearest large town. In 1692 A meeting was also settled at Dunclady, which is a rual area further south in county Londonderry.[3]

Andrew Moore's family is the subject of a genealogy, Ancestors and descendants of Andrew Moore, 1612-1897 by John Andrew Moore Passmore [4] which runs to 1,600 pages. It has been widely cited, for example in The Ancestry of Richard Milhous Nixon. [5] Chapter 1 starts as follows

1. ANDREW MOORE, son of James and grandson of John Moore, who emigrated to Ireland from near Glasgow, Scotland, 6th Mo., 1612, was born 6th Mo. — 1688, in County Antrim, Ireland. Married in 1715 to Margaret, daughter of Guyon and Margaret (Henderson) Miller.

Unfortunately, the author provides literally no sources to support any of these statements, and his description of his 'research' shows that he had none; the claims that can be checked are false.

Albert C Myers' Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania also has a large section on The Moores of Ballinacree[2] and does a much better job. Unlike Passmore, Myers visited Ireland and diligently found information in the Quaker records, in the Public Record Office and from descendants in Ireland of the Moore family. Myers tells us

Andrew Moore and Margaret Wilson, both of Dunclady Meeting, were married att ye house of Kathrine Henderson in Dunclady [County Antrim] ye 27th day of ye 2m 1715 as by ye certificate may appear."

Myers makes a small mistake about the Dunclady meeting, which was in county Londonderry, but he dryly noted in a footnote

In 1897, Dr. John A. M. Passmore, of Philadelphia, issued an elaborate and carefully prepared genealogy of Andrew Moore and his Descendants, in two large octavo volumes of 1600 pages. In the light of the above marriage record it would seem that he had come to a wrong conclusion in stating, on page 7, that Andrew Moore had married Margaret, daughter of Gayun and Margaret (Henderson) Miller.

Myers also found the will of James Moore, whom Passmore claims to have been Andrew Moore's father, and shows that he wasn't. And he refers to a pedigree of the Moore family in Burke[6] — surely something that Passmore should have come across — to show a different origin story for the family.

So we are left with a relatively clear family of James Moore, documented by Myers and partly in Burke, and a series of disparate records for other people called Moore including Andrew Moore the emigrant. And we have two different origin stories, from Passmore and Burke, neither of which cites any sources.

A .pdf file available on line on web-site bloomfieldbelfast [7] tries to resolve the inconsistencies between Passmore's text and Myers' conclusions by supposing the existence of two James Moores of Ballymoney, cousins, one the prominent Quaker documented by Myers and the other the father of Andrew and other Moores who emigrated to Pennsylvania. This does a fairly good job and introduces useful new material, but it doesn't produce any evidence to support the view that Andrew Moore's father really was called James.

The Quaker family of James Moore

James Moore first appeared in the Quaker sufferings in 1675. He had taken from his farm in the parish of Ballymoney twelve stooks of barly, forty nine stooks of oats and seven carloads of hay all being worth three pounds four shillings and six pence. [8] This was a large amount — most of his fellow sufferers' losses totalled shillings only — indicating a fairly prosperous farm, someone picked on as a trouble-maker or both.

He first appeared in the Ulster Province meeting minutes in 1680. [9] James and Elizabeth Moore, presumably his wife, both gave testimony against tithes in c1681 — the only people named Moore to do so — both on a page for the meeting at Ballymonmey. [10] John Moore was born the following year, [11] parents James and Elizabeth Moore of Ballinacree-more, one of the three Ballinacree townlands. By 1688, James was representing Ulster at national Quaker meetings. [12] Elizabeth Moore also appeared in the Quarterly meeting minutes once, in 1683. [13]

However by 1693, the half-yearly meeting recorded a minute that he had neglected his duty by not attending the meeting and nominating Friends to write to him. [14] His reply was considered at the following meeting and considered unsatisfactory for want of his presence. [15]

Children of James (and presumably Elizabeth) Moore can be identified from various sources, the most useful and complete of which is his will, dated 9 Dec 1727 and proved 7 May 1728, [16] a detailed abstract of which is printed in Myers.[2]

  1. James bequeathed Alice Erwin £20 pa and her children £100 and six small silver spoons — the £100 to be put at interest and the interest to be paid to my daughter Alice Erwin during her life and at her death to be given to her children as she is pleased to appoint. Alice Moore of Ballymoney and Thomas Erwin of Lisgavarney (now Lisburn) married in December 1697. [17] They were probably the parents of John Erwin (abt.1710-). The will also mentions a granddaughter Elizabeth Erwin.
  2. William Moore features in the will together with his sons John, Clotworthy and James and daughter Jean Whitsitt. William also features in Burke[6] who tells us that he settled at Killead (in a different part of Antrim) in 1702 and became High Sheriff of the county in 1718, a role in which he was followed by his son John in 1733. Burke speculates William married a miss Clotworthy.
  3. James Moore appears in the will as does his son William. James married Susanna Whitsitt in 1701[18] and appears to have remained a Quaker. A James Moore of Ballymoney also married Susanna Foster in 1714.[19] It remains to be confirmed that this was the same person.
  4. John Moore was born in 1682 in Ballynacreemore and in 1702 married Ruth the daughter of Robert and Ellinor Hoope in a Quaker ceremony. They settled in Lurgan, remained Quakers and had five children.[11] The will mentions a grandson John Moore the son of my son John Moore.
  5. George Moore married Mary Hoope in Lurgan in 1702.[20]. The will mentions five children, William, James, George, Sarah and Elizabeth.
  6. Elizabeth Moore married Joseph Whitsitt in her father's house in 1705[21] and was later disowned for a 'disorderly' marriage.
  7. The will provides for the children of my daughter Sarah Henderson alias Courteny, £100 at the death of their mother it being put to interest at six per cent to be paid to her during her life yearly and at her death to be divided among her children of the name of Courteny. Sarah Moore married Joseph Courtney of Grange meeting in 1708/9.[22] Myers' statement that this was her second marriage seems to be in error; she is clearly identified as Sarah Moore. Joseph Courtney appeared in a minute in 1721. She may have married an unknown Henderson after that.
  8. Daughter Frances appeared in the will with a son William from an unnamed husband. Myers has him as unknown, but the marriage of Fransis Wilkinson and Franses Moore of Ballymoney was discussed in 1691/2 [23] and soon accomplished. The will also mentions granddaughter Elizabeth Crockett; Elizabeth Wilkinson married Elly Crocket in 1715 in the house of James Moore, explaining the daughter Crocket whose name Myers did not know. More confusing is the person described by Myers [2] 'Eli Crocket, unmarried, received 12 Mo. 8, 1723-4, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. He and John Crocket had arrived as early as 1722.' Plainly these must have been two separate Eli Crocketts. Gilbert and Martha Crockett appear in the early Ulster meeting minutes, followed by Eli or Ely, possibly their son, who features frequently at a provincial and National level. This Ely married twice, in 1677 and 1683 - or were these two separate people? The Eli Crockett who married in 1715 and the one who emigrated in both look like candidates for the first Eli Crockett's son, but they cannot both have been.
  9. Joseph Moore features in the will and Burke[6] whom Myers follows. Joseph Moore of Ballymoney married Susanna Brady of Grange in 1706/7.[24] Burke goes on to list five sons and no second marriage. However, a Joseph Moore of Ballymoney meeting married a Mary Henderson of Dunclady meeting at Katherine Hendersons' in Dunclady in 1721.[25] It remains to be seen whether this was the same person, and if not, who.

Myers tells us that the will appointed sons William, James and Joseph as executors and that his three sons (presumably these three) obtained probate, in which they were described as Quakers. This does not seem consistent with William having been appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1718. More research is required. The will also indicates that the same three sons had previously been advanced £500 each.

It is usually obvious from a will like this who the eldest son was, and the children are often mentioned in order of their birth. Neither is true in this instance. It seems most probable that the last mentioned, James, was the eldest son. He had married in 1701 and may therefore have been born in about 1675. Frances married in 1691/2 and may therefore have been born in about 1670 - although there is obviously some margin for error. Assuming the earlier of these dates, James may himself have married in about 1669 when he was about 26, so born in about 1643. If so, he would have been 84 years old when he made his will - rather a ripe old age. Elizabeth might have been about five years younger and would have been expected to have had her last child in about 1691 when aged about 43. The last marriage that we know of was that of Sarah in 1708/9. If she had been 21 when married, she would have been born in c 1688. This all seems fairly consistent.

Does it seem likely that James was, as stated by Passmore, the son of someone who had emigrated from Scotland in 1612? Hardly, at least not if that person had emigrated as an adult. Burke's claim that he was the grandson of an imigrant at that time seems more credible.

Still need to research the extent to which the above appear in the Quaker minutes and distinguish them (and their chidren) from others who might be in different families.

James' Moore's will also gives some clear indication of his land holdings. [2] He describes himself as 'James Moore of Ballynacreemore'. His bequests mention 'the Quarter Land of Lischeighan' (possibly Lislagan), 'my tenant right at Ballynacreemore and my part of Unckunagh, Claughy, Enogh, and Cabragh', 'the Quarterland of Beltyton' (Ballyton in the Finvoy parish to the south of Ballymoney), 'my tenant right to the Quarterland of Broadmillan and the Quarterland of Rosnashane and 29 acres of Diserderrin' (Desertderrin also in Finvoy and the home of Moore Lodge) and a 'lease let to William Moore of Drumrahegle'. Those of these places that have been identified are all in or close to the parish of Ballymoney, and indeed all to the south west of the town of Ballymoney itself, neighbouring Ballnyacree.

It seems unlikely that James Moore would have described his son William Moore as 'William Moore of Drumrahegle,' so this was probably someone else, whether a relative or just someone with the same surname is not clear.

Need a map to show these and some conclusions

Other Quaker Moores of Ulster - still needs a lot of work

Other Quakers called Moore and linked to Ulster can be indentified either in the Quaker records or in Pennsylvania. Our first task is to identify them; the job then will to be to try to elucidate the relationships between them.

  • Most prominent is the emigrant Andrew Moore who was born in county Antrim in 1688 and emigrated in 1723,[1] together with Samuel Miller, presenting removal certificates from Ballynacree.[2] Contrary to Passmore[4] he married Margaret Wilson in Katherine Henderson's house on the 27d 2m (April) 1715 — both members of the Dunclady meeting which was held there.[26] Andrew Moore remarried in Pennsylvania in 1725 to Rachel Holliday - the date and place of his first wife's death being unclear. He died in 1753 and left a will as did his second wife. Passmore cites these documents, the inventory of Andrew Moore's assets and several probate records in full. They certainly help fix Moore's children and clarify the couple's assets, but they shed no light on his parents or relations in Ulster. The minute of Andrew Moore's marriage is the only surviving record of him in the Irish Quaker records.
  • David Moore in Passmore's appendix[4] is said to have been Andrew's brother. Passmore tells us that David Moore and his wife presented a removal certificate from Ballymoney meeting at Concord on 11m 7 1722. They further requested to remove to New Garden in 1726, but David Moore promptly died. His widow obtained a certificate and removed. However she remarried in 1730 to Thomas McCollum and was disowned. (Myers adds colour, stating that at New Garden Monthly Meeting, in 1730, a complaint was made that Mary Moore is gone out from friends & is Marryed by a Justice of y° peace Contrary to freinds advice to her.) David Moore died intestate, and Andrew Moore applied to the court to displace his widow as administrator stating that he wanted to protect the interests of the children and that the estate (value £285) might otherwise be embezelled. The Orphans' court was involved for some time, as eventually was the eldest son, James. Passmore cites a receipt signed by him referring to his uncle Andrew Moore. David Moore and Mary Wilkisson both of Ballymoney meeting married in the house of James Moore on 7 4m 1715.[27]
  • Passmore also tells us of a James Moore, a blacksmith, whom he states (without sources) accompanied his uncle Andrew Moore to Pennsylvania and married Elizabeth Dickinson there in 1759 before dying near Atglen in 1777. Passmore tells us that he was the son of another James Moore. Rather more information about him appears in the bloomfieldbelfast Moores of Ballymoney pdf[7]. This tells us that James travelled to Pennsylvania without a removal certificate, joined Sadsbury Meeting 5 February 1759 and was dropped (disowned?) in 1764. It continues that the marriage certificate of James and Elizabeth (Sadsbury Meeting, Lancaster Co, Pa) lists him as James Moore, son of James Moore, deceased, of Ballymoney, in the Kingdom of Ireland and was signed by William, Joseph, James, William, Lydia, Rebecca, Jane and Rachel Moore. The author conjectures that his father was the James Moore who married Susanna Foster in 1714 and states (without citing a source) that he died in 1759.
  • Myers tells us of a Daniel Moore recieved in Concord 11m 7 1722 with his wife with a removal certificate from Ballynacree. I have not seen any sign of him in the surviving Irish Quaker records. Nor does Passmore mention him.
  • A Robert Moore of Ballymoney meeting married Jannet Miller of Dunclady meeting in the home of Katherine Henderson in 1703.[28] Robert Moore appears in the national book of sufferings, for example in 1703 in the parish of Ballymoney losing crops worth a few shillings for tithe.[29]
  • Margaret Moore of Coleraine Meeting married Samuel Miller of Duncladdy meeting in Corkie (Corkey, barony of Dunluce) in county Antrim in March 1708/9.[30] (Coleraine is very close to Ballymoney, just across the county border.)
  • As noted above a Joseph Moore of Ballymoney married Mary Henderson of Dunclady in Katherine Henderson's house on 3 3m 1721.[31]
  • And there is the William Moore, late of Coleraine, Linen Weaver, "Married by a Priest" in 1710 mentioned by Passmore.
  • Also William Moore of Ballymoney married Lucy Courtney of Grange in 1727.[32] Interestingly Robert Moore and James Moore were among those appointed to investigate their clearness for marriage. I presume that a close relative - brother, father etc - would not have been appointed, so this hints at three different family groups.
  • In 1737, William Moore son of James Moore of Ballymoney, linendraper, married Mary Gregg the daughter of George Gregg of Termoneny, co Londonderry.[33] It is not entirely clear from the record whether it was the father or the son who was a linen draper. This is one of the few early Ulster marriages for which a marriage certificate exists. It was signed by William Moore (x2), James, John, Joseph, Samson, and Elizabeth Moore (also x2).

Here we seem to have some evidence of at least one other Moore family also based in Ballymoney parish. Andrew and David Moore appear to have been brothers. Perhaps their presence in both Ballymoney and Pennsylvania link James and Daniel, but there is not much to go on.

Family Origins

Recall that Passmore[4] tells us that John Moore, father of the Quaker James Moore emigrated to Ireland from near Glasgow, Scotland, 6th Mo., 1612. By contrast, Burke[6] states that James Moore migrated from Cumberland in the reign of James I., and settled at Ballinacreemore, parish of Ballymoney, co. Antrim. Burke continues to describe William Moore who married Miss Clotworthy as his great-grandson, making James the immigrant grandfather of James the Quaker.

Ballymoney, where the Moores lived, is part of the barony of Dunluce, traditionally held by the Earl of Antrim. The first earl has a detailed entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography [34] and his papers are the subject of a useful write up by PRONI. [35] He was Scots/Irish gallic and a Catholic. Although associated with the rebellion which led to the nine years war, he made peace with the King, so that his estates were neither confiscated nor settled in the Plantation of Ulster. There is therefore no evidence of the Moore family in the Plantation records. Even so, there are various records which might have shown the Moores on his lands but which do not. (See Appendices below.)

The DIB states that he encouraged significant migration onto his holdings from lowland Scotland, which seems good for Passmore's claim, but they mostly lived in the coastal areas, which is less so. However, the Pender Census of circa 1659 reported 1138 English, 2940 Irish and no Scots living there, and Moore was reported to be one of the common names of the Irish rather than English inhabitants. [36]

Tax rolls for the hearth tax introduced after the restoration record no households in the parish of Ballymoney headed by people called Moore in 1669 [37] - something of a blow for both Burke's claim that the Moore's had settled there fifty years earlier and Passmore's implication to the same effect. (See appendices for details.)

However, there were some people called Moore in the broader Ballymoney parish, at least one of them in a townland (Enogh/Enagh) mentioned by James Moore the Quaker in his will.

Surname FornameTownlandParishBarony
Moore HughQr of Drumskie (Drumskea)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
MooreWilliamEnagh LowerBallymoney Dunluce upper
Moore JamesQr of Ardmulfine (Macfin)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Moore RobertQr of Ardmulfine (Macfin)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Moore WidowQr of Kilmoyle (Kilmoyle)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Moore RobertTullaghgorrBallymoney Dunluce upper

Given the estimate above that James Moore's first child might have been born in about 1670, it would not have been surprising to have found him in these 1669 records, but in the event, the only James Moore in Ballymoney was in a townland, Macfin to the north of the town of Ballymoney and in a different part of the parish to any of the land holdings associated with him.

There are also people who may or may not have been related in the calendar of wills proved in the 17th century. [38]

Diocese DistrictSurnameForenameResidenceYear
Derry LondonderryMooreWilliamCastlederg1625
Derry LondonderryMooreWilliamCastlenegore1628
Prerogative MooreThomasDunluce1665
Connor BelfastMooreWilliamBallymoney1685
Connor BelfastMoorHughDrumaul1686
Connor BelfastMoorJohnDunluee1685

So here we have a hint of a person, William Moore, who was present in 1669 on lands clearly identified as owned by James Moore the Quaker in his will in 1727 and who may have died in 1685. Perhaps he was the father or some other relative of James Moore the Quaker, although the presence of so many people called Moore in the neighbourhood (and more broadly) shows the risk of pouncing on a chance association.

The first definite record of our Moore family in the Irish land records happens in 1737, 10 years after the death of our leading Quaker, when the earl of Antim leased the lands at Ballynacree More to James Moore, the Quaker's heir. In the deed James jnr is described as gentleman. It covered all the lands of Ballynacreemore currently occupied by James Moore or his undertenants. [39] The same register of memorials of deeds contains a record of a deed made in the same year between the earl of Antrim and another James Moore, this one a linen draper of Ballydivity, some way north of Ballymoney. [40]

Need to search in the other townlands associated with them.

Need some conclusions.

In pdf file The Moores of Ballymoney[7] the author presents a family tree with James the Quaker as the son of the William shown in the Hearth Money Rolls above, and Andrew Moore the emigrant and most of the other Moores described above as children of another James, a 1st cousin of James the Quaker. This James's father is shown as Robert Moore; Robert and William's father is shown as another James. The reasoning for this is not very clear, but appears to be as follows.

  • Burke says that the original emigrant was a James, grandfather of James the Quaker.
  • Passmore says (without any reasoning) that Andrew Moore's father was James.
  • There were people called Robert, William and James present in Ballymoney in the 1669 hearth money rolls.

Perhaps this is right, but the reasoning is very weak. Unsupported origin stories in Burke are not to be given too much credence. There were two Roberts, a widow and a Hugh Moore in the Ballymoney Hearth money rolls. Why were some selected and not others?

The family tree now on Wikitree

What exists on Wikitree at the time of writing (September 2024) is complete and utter rubbish.

John Moore (1588-1648) was born in Glasgow in 1588. He married a Mary Fenwick in county Antrim in 1618 and had four children of whom Mary was the mother of two. Although he married in 1618, his children were born in 1612, 1630 (two) and 1638, which seems unlikely.

  1. Deacon John Thomas Moore (1612-1677) was born in Hertfordshire, England (no mother specified) in 1612 (when his father was 14). He married Abigail (Pinney) Moore (1618-aft.1677) from Dorset in New England in 1637 and died in Connecticut in 1677. He had one child
    1. James Moore (bef.1650-abt.1727) who was born before 1650 in county Antrim. This James married twice first to Anne (Caulfield) Moore (abt.1658-abt.1710) and then to Mary Elizabeth (Unknown) Irvin (1647-1699)) (note that his first wife died after his second wife) and had three children
      1. Anne Adams (Moore) Arthur (abt.1680-1715) born Antrim 1680
      2. Rebecca Jane (Moore) Evans (abt.1687-1752) born Pennsylvania 1687
      3. Andrew Moore Sr (1688-1753) (the immigrant) born Antrim 1688, died Pennsylvania 1753
  2. Rory John O'Moore Moore (abt.1630-abt.1701) was born in Antrim in 1630 (after his father had married, but even so his mother is not specified). He had one child, whose mother was Mary Elizabeth (Unknown) Irvin (1647-1699) (the wife of his nephew John Moore above). Their child was born after Mary Elizabeth had married John Moore and while he was still alive
    1. David L Moore (abt.1690-1726) born 1690 Antrim, married Antrim 1715 and died Pennsylvania 1726. (He also features in both Passmore and Myers. Passmore says that he was a brother of Andrew Moore.)
  3. James Moore (1630-1701) born Ireland 1630 (mother Mary Fenwick) married Sarah Guyon Antrim 1687 and died Antrim 1701. (She also married James Moore (abt.1630-abt.1701).) The couple had two children
    1. Andrew Moore Sr. (1675-) (a duplicate copy of the immigrant) born Antrim 1675 with a largely blank profile
    2. Margaret J. (Moore) Miller (1683-1763) born Antrim 1683, married Antrim 1708 Samuel Miller (1700-1780) (one of two profiles for this person and the parents shown here are wrong - see space Irish Quaker Millers, and the emigration to Pennsylvania). They travelled with Andrew Moore to Pennsylvania where both families presented removal certificates from Ballinacree, and both settled at Sadsbury,
  4. James Moore (1638-aft.1701) born Antrim 1683, mother Mary Fenwick, died Antrim 1701. (Note that he was the second son called James Moore, and that both of them were alive at the same time.) His wife is not mentioned. He had nine children. He is in many ways the Quaker John Moore described above.

Appendices

This section is something like a collection of appendices and can be skipped by those not interested in the details.

Townlands of Ballynacree

Ballynacree Beg, Ballynacree More and Ballynacree Skein are townlands in the parish of Ballymoney barony of Dunluce in the north-west part of county Antrim in the north of Ireland. Thomas Wight's History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland [3] tells us that in 1673 meetings were settled at Coleraine and at Ballinacree near Ballymoney. He continues by mentioning the meeting established in 1692 at Dunclaudy (Dunglady) in the house of William Henderson and later continued by his widow. Ballymoney straddles the border of counties Antrim and Londonderry. Ballynacree is on the Antrim side and Coleraine in Londonderry is the nearest large town. Dunclady, which is a rual area further south in Londonderry, will also feature below.

Passmore's genealogy

Andrew Moore's family is the subject of a genealogy, Ancestors and descendants of Andrew Moore, 1612-1897 by John Andrew Moore Passmore [4] which runs to 1,600 pages. It has been widely cited, for example in The Ancestry of Richard Milhous Nixon. [5] Chapter 1 starts as follows

1. ANDREW MOORE, son of James and grandson of John Moore, who emigrated to Ireland from near Glasgow, Scotland, 6th Mo., 1612, was born 6th Mo. — 1688, in County Antrim, Ireland. Married in 1715 to Margaret, daughter of Guyon and Margaret (Henderson) Miller.

Unfortunately, the author provides literally no sources to support any of the statements in this paragraph, and those parts that can be checked are shown to be false. A preliminary chapter The Moores in Scotland and Ireland begins

AFTER the most careful research, the author is satisfied that the Ancestry of Andrew Moore (1) emigrated from Scotland.
Andrew's (1) grandfather, John Moore, resided near Glasgow, Scotland. Sixth Month, 1612, he emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, locating with his family in the County of Antrim.

However, once again, he does not share any sources or the slightest bit of reasoning to support this conclusion. He does tell us about his research on the Quakers in Ireland. To carry this out, he wrote to Friends' House in London, which does not hold any information about the Irish Quakers. Friends there wrote on his behalf to the Friends' Library in Dublin who found a small number of records which seemed relevant, which the author cites in full

EXTRACTS FROM FRIENDS' RECORDS IN IRELAND.
John Moore, son of James and Elizabeth Moore, of Ballynacree, County Antrim, born 9-6 Mo., 1682.
Wm. Moore, son of John and Ruth, born at Lurgan, 21-8 Mo. ,1704.
Frances Moore, daughter of John and Ruth, born at Lurgan, 2-1 Mo., 1705.
Eleanor Moore, daughter of John and Ruth, born at Lurgan, 24-2 Mo., 1707.
James Moore, son of John and Ruth, born at Lurgan, 9-5 Mo., 1708.
Robert Moore, son of John and Ruth, born at Lurgan, 4-4 Mo., 1709.
Sarah Moore, wife of John, of Ballinderry, died 17-2 Mo., 1834, aged 36 years.
John Moore, of Brownhedge, County Antrim (Ballinderry), died 13-7 Mo., 1845, aged 98 years.
In the Dublin records there is mention of a William Moore, late of Coleraine, Linen Weaver, "Married by a Priest" in 1710, and Susanna Moore, daughter of William and Mary, of Ballinacree, County Antrim, married in Dublin to Benjamin Dawson, of Dublin, 9-4 Mo., 1753.

Friends in Dublin also wrote on Passmore's behalf to those in Ulster, who replied I have looked into the copies of the Lisburn Mo. Mtg. Registries which are here, but can find no allusion to Andrew Moore's family. I was applied to before in reference to them and had to write to the same effect. The only chance of obtaining the information would be to search the original records.

Although there is literally no information whatever here about Andrew Moore, the author was somehow able to reach conclusions about a more specific date of birth, his parents, his wife, the date at which his family had migrated to Ireland, the place that they had come from and the name and residence of the ancestor in the country of their origin. Nothing vaguely resembling a source or any reasoning of any kind is advanced for any of this. The author simply tells us that he is satisfied of it, rather like a question of religious faith.

We can only guess how he came to his conclusions. Perhaps he saw in the above Irish Quaker records that John Moore, son of James and Elizabeth Moore, of Ballynacree, County Antrim, born 9-6 Mo., 1682 and, knowing that Andrew Moore was born in 1688 and removed from there, assumed that they were brothers. Unfortunately they weren't, Andrew Moore did not marry Margaret, daughter of Guyon and Margaret (Henderson) Miller.

Even less clear is the source of the assertions that James Moore's father was called John, that he came from Scotland and the surprisingly specific claim that he emigrated from near Glasgow 6m 1612. In his introduction Passmore cites two small extracts from volume 2 of Besse's Sufferings first on p 461 [41]

"In 1656, John Moore, a soldier in the army, for speaking to him called 'Dean Worth,' in the graveyard, was put into a hog-sty. After trial at a court-martial it was decided that he had broken no just law."
Page 65 [actually 465], same volume, 'Robert Moore and others were 'haled' out of the Meeting and committed to prison four days, without any examination, and then turned out again, some of them being first stript of their clothing under pretence of fees."

Passmore doesn't mention that the first of these events, concerning John Moore, took place in the province of Munster, or give us any reason to believe that it has anything to do with the James Moore who became a Quaker in Ulster. The second event took place in 1660, in county Cavan, which is in Ulster, but again, there is no reason to link the Robert Moore of Cavan with our James Moore of Antrim. Nor does Passmore indicate why he has picked John as the name of James Moore's father, rather than Robert or anything else.

This work may contain valuable information in this work on Andrew Moore's successors - I haven't checked - but one can only conclude that its description of his origins is fiction; no account whatsoever should be taken of its conclusions on Andrew Moore's birth, marriage or ancestry.

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania

Another author writing a few years later researched a large number of Irish Quaker families who emigrated to Pennsylvania and did a very much better job of his research. In his Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, Albert C Myers also records the arrival of Andrew Moore in Pennsylvania (6 Mo. 8, 1724, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland) and has a large section on The Moores of Ballinacree. [2]

Unlike Passmore, Myers travelled to Ireland, and not just to Dublin. He also visited Ulster and, as suggested by Passmore's Irish correspondents, he searched the original records. Very few family lists survive, but marriages were mostly discussed by the provincial meeting and recorded in its minutes, which do survive. So he cites from them

Andrew Moore and Margaret Wilson, both of Dunclady Meeting, were married att ye house of Kathrine Henderson in Dunclady [County Antrim] ye 27th day of ye 2m 1715 as by ye certificate may appear."

Myers makes a small mistake about the Dunclady meeting, which was across the border in county Londonderry, but he dryly noted in a footnote

In 1897, Dr. John A. M. Passmore, of Philadelphia, issued an elaborate and carefully prepared genealogy of Andrew Moore and his Descendants, in two large octavo volumes of 1600 pages. In the light of the above marriage record it would seem that he had come to a wrong conclusion in stating, on page 7, that Andrew Moore had married Margaret, daughter of Gayun and Margaret (Henderson) Miller.

However, Myers went further than this. No doubt trying to clarify Andrew Moore's family tree, he found what he could about his supposed father, James Moore of Ballinacree. Not finding enough in the Quaker records to resolve the question, Myers went to the Public Records Office in Dublin and found his will. The will clearly shows all of James Moore's children, and Andrew Moore is not among them, whereas the John Moore referred to above was. Andrew Moore was not a child of the leading Quaker James Moore of Ballinacree.

Myers also cites Burke's Landed Gentry in which a part of the Moore Family of Ballinacree appears. [6] Burke also doesn't cite sources and is not altogether to be trusted. It agrees that the Moore family came to Ireland in the time of James VI/I, but it tells us that the family originated in Cumberland, not Scotland, that its progenitor was James rather than John and that he was the grandfather rather than father of James the Quaker - surely statements which Dr Passmore should at least have discussed.

Family origins

Ballymoney, where the Moores lived, is part of the barony of Dunluce, traditionally held by the Earl of Antrim. Despite not being part of the plantation, the Earl had his tenants muster for inspection as did plantation undertakers. The Muster Roll of 1630 for the earl's lands show large numbers of men called Moore, although unfortunately the records available only locate them by barony rather than parish or townland. [42]

Surname FornameEstateBarony
More GilbertEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More GilbertEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JamesEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JamesEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JamesEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JamesEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More RobertEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More ThomasEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More ThomasEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More WilliamEarl of Antrim's British Tenants Dunluce
More JamesEarl of Antrim's British Tenants on his Native Lands Cary
More JohnEarl of Antrim's British Tenants on his Native Lands Cary
More MichalEarl of Antrim's British Tenants on his Native Lands Cary
More AdamEarl of Antrim's British Tenants on his Servitors' Lands Kilconway
More WmEarl of Antrim's British Tenants on his Servitors' Lands Kilconway

The best work on migration of Scots to Ireland has no mention of migrating Moores. [43] A few Scots Moores applied for the equivanent of English/Irish citizenship. [44] An Archibald Moore previously of Scotland moved to Ireland in 1605. A John Moore (with no details of place of departure or arrival) moved in 1615. However, there are too few details for one to be sure whether any of these people was the progenitor of our family.

Those granted lands in the plantation counties were required to ensure that their lands were tenanted by British, and not Irish tenants, and it was the British tenants who were expected to muster, but as his land had not been confiscated or re-awarded, the earl would have been exempt from this requirement, and as Scots/Irish gallic-speaking Catholic, he may have acted differently. Indeed, when the baronies concerned were surveyed about 30 years later in the Pender Census of circa 1659, there were reported to be 1138 English, 2940 Irish and no Scots living there, and Moore was reported to be one of the common names of the Irish rather than English inhabitants. [36]. None of these Moores was descibed as a 'titulado' or person with a claim on land. Indeed almost his lands were simply shown as owned by the earl, with amost none having been leased out. The same pattern appears in the court rolls, where leases might have been enrolled to make them definitive; the only name that appears in respect of Ballinacree is the earl's, that when the crown confirmed his holding. [45]

Almost all English or Scots settlers were affected by the rebellion of 1641. Trinity College's database of 8,000 depositions [46] does not include any mentioning people called Moore (or Moor or Mor or More) in Ballymoney. The closest geographically is Donnel Spence, a labourer in the parish of Billy (north of Ballymoney) who writes of the problems his parents faced with the rebels and adds that 'the servant of Neile Moore was murdred by them at the same time'. [47]

Although the first Earl had died by then, his successors held onto their lands throughout the turmoil of the Cromwellian settlement and are shown as the sole owners of the lands in the Parish of Ballymoney in the Cromwellian records for before (1641) and after (1670) Cromwell's invasion. [48] [49] Again, none had been leased out.

1669 Hearth Money Rolls for North and Mid Antrim [37]

Surname FornameTownlandParishBarony
Boyd RobertBallynacreemoreBallymoney Dunluce upper
Boyd ThomasBallynacreemoreBallymoney Dunluce upper
Cunningham JamesBallynacreemoreBallymoney Dunluce upper
Speare JohnBallynacreemoreBallymoney Dunluce upper
Gamil Wm1q of Skeny (Ballynacree Skein)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Cooper Thomas1q of Skeny (Ballynacree Skein)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Gibsone Thomas1q of Skeny (Ballynacree Skein)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Harvey Robert1q of Skeny (Ballynacree Skein)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Wallace Thos1q of Skeny (Ballynacree Skein)Ballymoney Dunluce upper
Henry John1q of Ballinacree (Ballynacree beg)Ballymoney Dunluce upper

(There were no Moores in the Hearth Money Rolls for the parish of Finvoy where James Moore's will also described land holdings.)

Another place to search is in the indices to marriage licence bonds, but there are no relevant entries to be found there. [50]

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