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Elias MOORE, M.P.P.[1, 2, 3]

Male 1776 - 1847  (71 years)


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  • Name Elias MOORE  [4, 5] 
    Suffix M.P.P. 
    Born 1 Mar 1776  America Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 13 Oct 1847  Yarmouth, Upper Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I543  Jay Moore Family Tree
    Last Modified 2 Jun 2014 

    Father Samuel MOORE, UEL
              b. 4 Apr 1742, Rahway, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 19 Sep 1822, Norwich, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Rachel STONE
              b. 21 Sep 1743, Elizabethtown, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 7 Dec 1813, Elizabethtown, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 8 Nov 1763  Elizabethtown, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Family ID F687  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary DODGE
              b. Abt 1780
              d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 5 May 1801  Wilmot, NS Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • One record shows Mary Freeman as the spouse of Elias Moore and mother of Lindley Moore without sources.
    Children 
     1. Lindley MOORE
              b. Abt 1806
              d. 1893c., St. Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Elias MOORE, Jr.
     3. Mary MOORE
     4. Charles MOORE
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F209  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary A. FREEMAN 
    Married 18 Apr 1843  Wesleyan Methodist Church Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/londist7.htm
      London/Middlesex District Marriage Register 1832-1853, Archives of Ontario microfilm MS 248 Reel 3, vol 16

      Marriages performed by Rev. Solomon Waldron, Wesleyan Methodist Church
      Return #444
      1843
      April 18 Elias MOORE to Mary A. FREEMAN both of Yarmouth by license. Wit: Alma Luis, John Freeman.
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    Children 
     1. Lindley MOORE
              b. Abt 1806
              d. 1893c., St. Thomas, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2014 
    Family ID F693  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The first temperance lecture in the Yarmouth district is said to have been given in the home of Elias Moore, a prominent member of the local Society of Friends Monthly Meeting (Quakers).

      Elias assisted Peter Lossing in asembling details fro Gourlay's History of Canada, published in 1818.

      He was the in the Reform Party with William Lyon MacKenzie and MPP for Middlesex County at the time of the Duncombe Revolt of 1837 (a.k.a., the 1837 Rebellion).

      In Isaac Moore's Family Record (see Source List), Isaac mistakenly spelled his name "Ellis."

  • Sources 
    1. [S27] Norwich Archives.

    2. [S90] GEDCOM file from Robert Wayne Shewman, compiled by Robert Wayne Shewman.

    3. [S22] Moore - Moores in Early Canada, James Henry Moore, (Manuscript compiled and written by James Henry Moore, 1985).

    4. [S104] Shotwell, Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, Ambrose M. Shotwell, (1895-97), 21 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S93] Myers - Ancestors and Descendants of Lewis Ross Freeman, 689 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S108] RootsWeb.com, HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~BROOKEFAMILY/MOOREELIAS.HTM (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S108] RootsWeb.com, HTTP://HOMEPAGES.ROOTSWEB.COM/~MARYC/LONDIST7.HTM (Reliability: 3).