The recent release by Ancestry of Warwickshire Occupational
an Quarter Sessions meant that I found something about my 4xg-grandfather
Thomas Moore and his father, John Moore.
The family lived in Preston Bagot in the picture-postcard manor house there. As far as I knew they were just farmers, but
now I know that they were also gamekeepers, appointed by the Lord of the Manor –
William Mills in the case of Thomas and John Mills in the case of Thomas's
father. This gave them the "power
and authority to kill the Hares Pheasants Partridges and all and singular other
the Game upon the said Manor". I
believe the family had lived in Rowington before they moved to Preston
Bagot. John Moore had married Martha
Oldham of Wasperton in 1775, and their son Thomas married Elizabeth Anchor in
1807. Their daughter Sarah (my 3x
g-grandmother) was the family member who came to Australia with her sister
Martha and Martha's husband, Michael Steel, in 1845. Sarah married John Highett
in Van Diemen's Land the following year.
Preston Bagot Manor House
