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Ensign John Moor (b. 1696, d. 1786) married Hannah Sias (b. 1700, d. 1786) and had at least eight children and forty-four grand-children.

The Moor/More/Moore Name
The progenitor of the ancient noble family of Moore came from Normandy shortly after the Conquest in 1066 and acquired a very considerable estate in Kent called the Manor of Moore Court, where the family resided until the removal of the representative branch of the family to Moore Place in Benenden (Kent). It is beleived that the origin of the name "Moore" was owing to the estate being located on a "moor" or boggy heath.

Thomas De la More
In 1712 an authenticated pedigree was drawn up by John Philpot, Somerset Herald. he commenced with Thomas De la More, Esq., who first held the manor of "More Place," whence the name was somewhat variously written "De More," "De la More" and "Atee More" until the general relinquishment of such prepositions during the reign of Henry VI.

Thomas De la More was living during the reign of Henry II, as evidenced by a deed in which his grandson is stlyed:
 * John, the son of Henry, son of Thomas De la More, and bearing date at Moore Place on St. Vincent's Day, 1280, in the ninth year of the reign of Edward I. Thomas De la More left issue, Henry de More, who had four sons, the eldest of whom, John de More, died in the reign of Edward II, leaving issue by wife Matilda two sons, Thomas and Henry. Thomas and Joan his wife had John More or Moore, who flourished during the reign of Richard III and left issue, Thomas and John.
 * Thomas de More, the successor, married Catherine, heiress of the Benendens of Benenden, when the family removed to Benenden and built an estate subsequently known as Moore Place. Thomas de More was succeeded by William Moore, of Moore Place, who by marriage with Margaret, daughter of John Brenchley, secured the inheritance of Bettenham and the Moat Islands in Kent
 * Walter Moore, the son of William of Benenden, died 1504 and lef issue, Thomas and William. The former, who next represented the family, had three sons, John, Edward and Thomas. John Moore, his successor, who was of Pluckney, Kent, left isses according to the older records, six sons and one daughter, by his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Brent, Esq., of Charig, Kent. Sir Edward, one of these sons, was ancestor to the Marquis of Drogheda, and another, Sir Thomas, was ancestor to the Earl of Charleville, now extinct titles.
 * Sir Edward, heir to his cousin, Nicholas Moore (1556), has the distinction of being with his brothers the first of the Moore line to settle in Ireland. Sir Edward so distinguished himself there in the time of the rebellion that Queen Elizabeth presented him with the Abbey of Mellefont (County Lowth) and in 1579 he was knighted at the historic camp between Limerick and Kilmallock. About 1599 he commanded during the conflicts against Tyrone.

Coats of Arms
Thirty-nine different coats of arms are registered by those bearing the name of Moore. They show little or no relation to one another. It would be quite futile to cop even the description of them, especially those granted since the appearance of our first known ancestor in America, Samuel Moore, the mariner, in Portsmouth in 1696. Sir Thomas O'Connor Moore, the 11th Baronet, residing at Ross Carbury, County Cork, in the early 1900s bore arms descirbed as follows:
 * Indented lineArgent, two bars sable between nine martlets, gules. Crest, and heraldic tiger's head couped, argent, pierced through with a broken spear proper. The motto "Fortis cadere, cedere non potest" (The brave man may fall but cannot yield) is the only resemblance of the arms of the Earl of Drogheda and his descendants at Moore Abbey (County Kildare, Ireland) London, Malvern (Victoria, Australia), Gorey (County Wexford) and Dublin.

The Lord Mayor of London in 1682 bore arms: "Ermine three greyhounds courant; Sable, and for augmentation on a canton gules a lion of England." Sir John Moore, Bishop of Norwich, 1697, bore arms: "Ermine on a chevron three cinquefoils." Nicholas Moore of the Inner Temple, London, was granted on April 28, 1569, arms: "A moorcock proper, argent. Crest, on a mount vert, a moor-cock, ppr." In 1635 Alexander Moore of Grantham, Lincolnshire, was granted arms: "Gules, on a chief indented, argent, three mullet sable. Crest, a lion pass. reguard, gu. ducally gorged and chained, argent." Those who desire to pursue the subject may easily find at least 34 other coats of arms of recod. To others it should be sufficient to state that there is no "Moore coat of arms" having ancient, presistent and consistent characteristics, or one of a period and antiquity which would justify an American Moore of English ancestry in looking on it as probably that borne by generations of his forebears. When exhaustive study or a lucky chance discloses the connection between humble Samuel Moor of Portsmouth and his immediate English ancestry a sufficient incentive will exist for ascertaining which of the several noble families of Moore in English history we may claim as our own.