MOORE, Edward (Grimwade p.599)

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He may have been Edward, son of the late William Moore, a farmer from Horton, Cumberland, who applied for freedom by redemption in the Merchant Taylors Company in 1750 and was listed in the 1768 London Poll Book as a freeman of the Merchant Taylors Company at St Anne’s Lane having notified Goldsmiths’ Hall of a move there in 1769.
He married Esther Woodfall at St Anne and St Agnes church in 1753. He had signed a bond for this purpose in the same year declaring he was 30 years old and that both he and Esther were from St Martin, Ludgate parish.
Five of their children were christened at St Martin, Ludgate between 1754 and 1761 and a son christened at St Sepulchre, Holborn in 1762.
The Will of Edward Moore, jeweller late of Ludgate Street, was proved for probate on 29th October 1773 (National Archives reference PROB 11/991/482). Although Grimwade reports Moore had notified Goldsmiths’ Hall of a move from Ludgate Street to Gracechurch Street in 1771 and he appeared there in the 1773 Parliamentary Report his Will was presumably written prior to this change of address.
Esther Moore entered a mark as a goldworker from 37 Gracechurch Street in January 1774.
Interestingly his daughter Hester (born 1753) applied for freedom by patrimony in 1787.