I hope you enjoy this GRANT OF ARMS with two pendant seals. It is really photo sharing, but I thought you would enjoy seeing this family treasure. Thanks
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
February 9, 2011
October 26, 2010
A GENEALOGICAL SEARCH — A ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR REWARD
For fifty years, I have been searching in London for the documents relating to a family member. I have spent weeks in London over many years in this genealogical search, but I have not been able to break the mystery.
Last month over one million readers visited my site THE ANGLOPHILE. It occurred to me that there must be genealogists out there who might like the challenge to find my family member whose records have been lost to our family’s history.
For anyone who finds this lost family member and can provide first generation documents of proof to my satisfaction, I will pay $1,000.00 US. The documention for Charles Isaac Moore’s birth in the Latter-day Saints records in Salt Lake City is our information, but it is not based on original, first generation, documents. We need the documents in London as proof.
Here are the facts I can provide which I believe to be accurate:
1. Name: CHARLES ISAAC MOORE also known as Charles I Moore
2. Charles Isaac’s older sister was named CLAIRE/CLARISSA MOORE; she died in London
3. He stated in his application for citizenship that he was born 18 August 1864
4. Where: London
5. We believe Charles and his sister Clarissa were orphans and were put in an orphanage in East London; it is possible there were other siblings.
6. We believe Charles was on the EXMOUTH training ship in the Thames being trained for the merchant marines.
7. We believe he was a HOME CHILD and came to the United States, probably through Canada, rather than going out on the seas with the Merchant Marines.
8. We believe he came to the United States at the age of 17 in 1881
9. We believe his sister Clare went into domestic service in London and never came to the States.
10. We find her in an earlier census, but we assume she died before the 1901 census as she disappears from record .
11. We believe Charles’s sister Clare was born in 1863
12. Charles Isaac died in the United States. In the death certificate, his daughter Ruth Moore Williams gave information that he was born in London. All his life, Charles talked about his childhood in London.
13. Charles’s death certificate states that his father was named THOMAS and his mother was unknown. This makes sense because THOMAS is a name that has entered family history several times. Charles never mentioned is mother’s name to any of his children, so she was a remote figure in his life and he had no memory of her. He could have been the youngest child.
We assume that Charles and Clarissa’s mother had died, and the children were put in an orphanage because the father could not care for them. We do believe there were other siblings, but have no records to prove this. We also believe that Charles’s father was an employee of a railroad company. We do have a picture of him, Thomas, in a railroad uniform of the period.
I am putting at the top of this article a picture of CHARLES ISAAC MOORE as a married young man in about 1900 living in the West in the USA.
The image of Clare/Clarissa Moore reveals a similar appearance to many of this branch of the Moore family; in fact, it is amazing.
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1. I am posting an image of Charles Isaac Moore’s father, Thomas Moore. This photograph appears to be a photograph of about 1865–it is possible that this image is an early studio copy of a daguerreotype. It is more likely that it is a CARTE DE VISITE which were so popular in Victorian times about 1860. (I wrote an article about these kinds of photographs) With this photograph, I am including the information of the photographer: A Foster located on Wantz Road Maldon Essex– which is printed on the back of the image. So, that is Thomas Moore, father of Charles Isaac. A very cherished family treasure.
2. The next image is one our family’s most prized items. It is Charles Isaac Moore at the age of 17. We believe it was the photograph which was attached to his immigration papers. We call it OUR FAMILY’S FIRST PASSPORT. On the back of the picture, the photographer is noted: JAMES CURRAN, PHOTOGRAPHER, next to London and County Bank, LIMEHOUSE E. Limehouse seems correct to us because we know he lived near the Exmouth Training Ship at Gray’s. If I could only find the London records for this young man!!! There has to be a record of his birth or a London document showing his birth date SOMEWHERE? But where? A very large posterity would be thrilled. Can anyone help us? We know everything about this man once he came to America–and that is a really fabulous history, but before this arrival, all we have is hearsay.
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Goodness, if others have progenitors they are looking for in the British Isles, perhaps someone who reads this blog might be able to help. Perhaps, someone knows a genealogist who specializes in London research.
What a lot of fun. Hopefully, we will be successful. It would be an achievement I can only yearn for and dream of.
Wonderful.
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
