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Born ABT 1790
Died 23 Feb 1855 at Limavady, Co Londonderry
Father: William Moore
Mother: ?
Married William Edward Crofton 15 January 1816
Children.

Notes: SNIPPET: If you believe your ancestors had a connection to the MOOREs o f Drogheda and Dublin, you might wish to obtain a back issue of the Nov-D ec 2002 issue of "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine. There is a detailed , reader-friendly, ten-page article concerning the MOORE family and mad e all the more interesting with many illustrations. The authoress, Fian a GRIFFIN wished to acknowledge the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, f or the use of their book: "The Family of Moore by the Countess of Droghe da." In 1666, a visitor to Dublin declared that O'CONNELL Street (then calle d Sackville Mall) exceeded any street in London "for elegance of plan an d architecture." In 1799, the artist James MALTON went even further whe n he described it as the "noblest street in Europe, inhabited by person s of the first rank and opulence." With its exceptional width and distin ctive promenade down the centre, O'Connell Street has preserved some of t he aura of elegance and privilege it once enjoyed. Still the principal s treet of the city, it acquired its dimensions and status indirectly as th e result of a long-drawn out court case between the Earls of Drogheda an d Clanbrassil. The greatest boom in Dublin property development had begun in the 1660s , when peace and stability returned to the country after the Cromwellia n wars and the crushing of the Catholic rebellions of the 1640s. The Kin g of England was on his throne and the Viceroy, the Duke of Ormonde, wa s back in Dublin. At that time the city centre was further east than i t is today, centered on the old Custom House, now gone, on the south sid e of the Liffey. It was a medieval town with dirty, narrow winding stree ts, houses with fronts that projected unequally into the streets and chro nic traffic problems that obliged Dublin Corporation to regulate the numb er of Hackney coaches to thirty. A number of entrepreneurial landlords , many of them titled and holding public office, acquired tracts of lan d adjoining the city limits to the north and east where they laid out new , straight, residential streets with uniform frontage. One of these prop ertied aristocrats was Sir Henry MOORE, 1st Earl of ! Drogheda, whose Great-Grandfather had come to Ireland in the time of Henr y VIII. When Henry VIII seriously began to anglicise Ireland in the earl y 16th century, one of his first steps was, the Dissolution of the Monast eries. According to this Act, all monastic houses and their estates unde r crown control were to be appropriated and given or leased to loyal supp orters. The first Cistercian Abbey founded in Ireland was at 2 CONC Mell ifont, 'sweet waters' in a secluded spot beside a river in Co. Louth, o n the borders of the unconquered north. In 1539, the abbot and monks wer e forced to abandon their home, church and lands, which were then lease d to Sir William BRABAZON, Vice-treasurer, and his wife Elizabeth CLIFFO RD. When BRABAZON died, she married again. On the death of her secon d husband she took another, who also died. Undaunted by her record, 28-y ear-old Edward MOORE from Kent (England) became her fourth husband in 156 3, built himself a fortified castle at Mellifont and ! had two sons by her before she died and he married again. In 1566, Quee n Elizabeth I granted Edward MOORE the Abbey and estate of Mellifont, i n perpetuity, and later knighted him. Although he became Pivy Councillo r and played an important role in the English administration of Ireland , MOORE also cultivated the friendship of native Irish chieftains. He wa s not afraid to shelter the 19-year-old Red Hugh O'DONNELL when he arrive d, exhausted and with frost-bitten feet, at Mellifont in 1592, having esc aped from Dublin Castle after four years' imprisonment. MOORE had know n O'DONNELL's father well - a fact still important today in dynastic Iris h politics. I won't go into any more detail except to say that other individuals ment ioned in the article include Henry MOORE, Governor of Meath and Louth, Si r Garrett MOORE, Hugh O'NEILL, Oliver CROMWELL, Henry MOORE, 1st Earl o f Drogheda, Charles MOORE and wife Laetitia ROBARTES. Also 2 CONC mentio ned are a "dramatic author called WYCHERLEY, Alice MOORE, Lord Henry HAM ILTON of Clanbrassil, Lionel SACKVILLE, Duke of Dorset/Lord Lieutenant o f Ireland, and Luke GARDINER. There is Gabriel BERANGER's drawing of Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth, the fi rst Cistercian Abbey to be founded in the country in the 12th century; i n 1566, the Abbey was granted to Edward MOORE by Elizabeth I. There i s a marvelous two-page view of Sackville Street, Dublin, with NELSON's Pi llar in the centre, a lithographic published by NEWMAN & Co. London aroun d 1845. Another later view of Sackville Street, dates from the mid 1850s , published by William COLLINS & Co. of London, Glasgow and 2 CONC Edinb urgh. A HOLBROOK lithograph of Carlisle Bridge and the Custom House (wi th tall masts of ships in the background) formed part of a larger serie s of twelve views of Dublin published circa 1826. Other illustrations in clude St. Mary's Abbey circa 1820 from the Irish School collection of th e National Gallery of Ireland; nearby stood Henry MOORE's town house in D ublin. There is a directory map of the new plan of the city in 1804, eng raved for WILSON's Dublin Directory and published by W! . CORBET of 57 Great Britain Street. An amusing and colorful caricatur e of "The Terrified Dandies, a Scene on Carlisle Bridge" (referring t o a buxom, barefoot Irish wench who tempts them with a kiss!). There i s a Charles BROOKING's map of Dublin dating back to 1728; Engraving of S ackville Street by J. C. McRAE, published by Thomas KELLY, New York; a pr int from the early 1760s showing Luke GARDINER's plan of Dublin, with Sac kville Street and Gardiner's Mall; and a watercolour of Luke GARDINER, Vi scount Mountjoy, by H. HONE. IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com Jean Rice 221103