The
Family of Dr William Moore Miller
Dr
John Moore Miller was the son of Thomas Miller and Elizabeth Moore.
He
was born in 1820 at Black Town Madras, India, one of three children.
His
siblings were
Jane
Paske Miller 1818 – 1878
Elizabeth
Miller 1820
His
mother died in India, in 1821.
His
father was Captain Thomas Miller, of the 46th Regiment which served
in New South Wales in 1815. Thomas
married Elizabeth Moore in Sydney in June 1915.
The
first question is “How was Elizabeth Moore in Sydney in 1815?”
After their marriage the 46th went
to India.
1814–1818
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1/46th [South Devonshire]
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Sydney; Newcastle; VDL
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from Cowes; to Madras
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Elizabeth was the daughter of John
Moore, a solicitor from London and his wife Martha Ann Field. She was born 1785 in London. The children were
1.
Elizabeth
Moore 1785 – 1821
India m Capt Thomas Miller
2.
William
Henry Moore 1789 - 1854 NSW
m Mary Ann Hanks
3.
Frederick
Moore 1790
4.
Ann
Field Moore 1792
- 1877
NSW m William Cordeaux
5.
Thomas
Matthew Moore 1795 - 1854
NSW
6.
Martha
Louisa Moore 1801
- 1895 Sale VIC. Her mother died shortly afterwards
Martha died before 1802, and John Moore remarried Mary Camper
Hasselden
With Mary his children were:
Mary Catherine Moore 1802 -
1827 in India
Charles Dodwell Moore 1804 - 1834
- NSW
.
John Moore died in London in 1813.
Mary Campen Moore was still alive in 1818.
At that time her daughter was married, and shortly afterwards
her son came to Australia to join his step brothers.
WILLIAM HENRY MOORE, (1788?-1854), solicitor, was the
elder son of John Moore, a London solicitor, and his first wife Martha (Ann)
Field. He served his clerkship with his father and in 1810 was admitted an
attorney of the three superior courts at Westminster. For most of 1813 he acted
as under-sheriff of London and Middlesex in place of his father who had died in
January that year, and in February 1814 was recommended by Jeffery
Bent for appointment as one of the two unconvicted 'solicitors of the
Crown' whom Bathurst proposed to send to New South Wales, to overcome earlier
difficulties with ex-convict attorneys there.
With Frederick Garling Moore was chosen and
each was promised a salary of £300 from colonial funds as compensation for
leaving England and undertaking the risks of practice in the colony. They were
at first called 'stipendiary Solicitors', and later 'Crown or Government
Solicitors', although they had 'no Public or Official Duty to perform' and were
never considered 'as professionally retained in the service of the Colonial
Government'.Recommended to Governor Lachlan Macquarie for 'every
Privilege and Protection … extended to the Civil Colonial Officers of the Higher Classes', Moore sailed in the Marquis of
Wellington with two sisters
and a brother, and arrived at Sydney on 27 January 1815.
On 11 May he
was admitted to the courts as the first free solicitor in the colony. He showed
a strong partiality for anti-emancipist politics. In February 1816 he joined
Rev. Benjamin Vale in seizing the
American schooner Traveller as a legal prize under the
Navigation Acts, was suspended by Macquarie for 'insolence and insubordination'
and denied every indulgence that had been extended to him. A year later
Macquarie reported him to London as the 'Chief mover and promoter of a
Memorial' to the House of Commons 'to convey Charges of the Most False
and Malicious nature against me' and for forging signatures to this petition.
After somewhat heated correspondence with the Colonial Office in November 1819
Moore apologized for his actions, and was then reinstated and given his
indulgences and arrears of pay. Under Governor Sir Thomas
Brisbane Moore was more cautious; though opposed to Henry Grattan
Douglass in his controversies with the Parramatta magistrates he avoided
improper participation in the affair, and in September 1825 was appointed
King's coroner or master of the Crown office with an additional salary of £300,
but he narrowly escaped censure for organizing the exclusives' dinner to
celebrate Brisbane's departure.
Under Governor (Sir) Ralph Darling Moore
acted for nearly a year as attorney-general after the resignation of Saxe
Bannister in October 1826, and he assured the governor that he had acted
legally in the Sudds-Thompson affair; however, Darling was critical of his
capacity and in December 1827 suspended him as 'Crown Solicitor' for supporting
resolutions at a Turf Club dinner which the governor thought insulting. Moore's
willing support for Darling's opponents seems out of character and he strongly
protested his innocence. In a lengthy review of the disputes in the colony the
secretary of state disapproved Darling's action in removing him. Moore's post
of 'Crown Solicitor', in the sense in which the term was applied to him, was
abolished, and the subsidy originally authorized by Bathurst was
withdrawn. In 1852 Moore successfully petitioned the Legislative Council for
compensation and was awarded £1800.
In 1829 the office of crown solicitor in the modern
sense of the term, previously held by Thomas Wylde, was revived, and Moore was
appointed to it at a salary of £500, but without the right of private practice.
In conducting the business of the Crown in the Supreme Court he was often
outmatched by able opponents such as Robert Wardell and William
Charles Wentworth and, though Moore sought the position of
solicitor-general, Darling repeatedly stressed his incompetence, adding that he
was 'certainly not disposed to serve the Government', was 'one of the most idle
Men living' and urged his dismissal. In response to these mounting complaints
of negligence, unnecessary delays and unintelligible reports, in June 1831
Governor (Sir) Richard Bourke was ordered to inquire into the
solicitor's conduct.
In January 1832
Bourke reported that Moore had been 'culpably neglectful on several occasions',
but he hoped that the arrival of the new attorney-general, John
Kinchela would improve Moore's work. However, in 1834 the resentful
letters which he wrote after being rebuked for refusing to prepare briefs led
to his final suspension and his attempts to obtain an annuity were
unsuccessful, though in 1842 he was appointed by the Supreme Court to examine
persons applying for admission as attorneys.
Protected by Bathurst's promises and assured of a
monopoly of private practice by Bent's refusal to admit ex-convict attorneys in
court, Moore had built up a very lucrative private law office and by 1822
Commissioner John Thomas Bigge could report to the Colonial Office
that Garling and Moore had been 'very fully remunerated' for the expense of
moving to the colony.
At first Moore's brother, Thomas Matthews, had
been his clerk and as a partner he had Edward Joseph Keith in 1825-27, his
stepbrother Charles Dodwell Moore in 1828-34 and George S. Yarnton in
1841-42.Moore had many other interests. In 1836-42 he was a director of the
Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney, in 1837 became a shareholder in the Marine
Insurance Co., a committee member of the Royal Exchange, and in 1842 chairman
of the Union Assurance Co. In and around Sydney he acquired much land, some of
it leased to tenants and some, at the corner of George and King Streets, he
sold in 1834 at up to £55 10s. a foot.
His chief farm, which he bought from Simeon
Lord in 1824, was at the seven-mile (11 km) post on the Liverpool Road.
From his properties in County Camden in 1838 he sent sheep overland to Adelaide
and went there himself to sell them. In 1842 Moore offered himself
unsuccessfully for appointment as town clerk of the new Sydney Municipal
Council, claiming the special qualification of having had business associations
with the Corporation of London. Next year, with liabilities exceeding his
assets of £66,000, he was declared insolvent. Much of his country land had to
be sold and his library of eight hundred volumes was offered at auction. His
certificate of discharge is not officially recorded but it appears from
recitals in a conveyance registered in 1853 that it was allowed by the Supreme
Court on 8 July 1845.
At his death on 13 October 1854 in College Street,
Sydney, he left his remaining city land to his sister Ann, widow
of William Cordeaux, and some £2300 of goods and shares to his wife Mary,
née Hanks, whom he had married on 13 August 1844 at St James's Church, Sydney,
and who died on 5 November 1871, aged 65.
From
that information, William had a sister, Ann, a brother Thomas Matthew Moore, and
step-brother Charles Dodwell Moore.
He
arrived in 1813, to take up his appointment and brought with him, his brother
and two sisters.
Those
were Elizabeth and Ann, and his brother Thomas.
From
information in wills, it is revealed that his sister Martha, came to Australia
in 1836. She left an annuity to her
niece, Elizabeth Ann Miller. Elizabeth was the daughter of her sister
Elizabeth, who married Capt Miller.
From
records, Charles Dodwell Moore came to Australia in 1821
Thomas Matthew Moore
d 1854
Died June 24th, 1854 at Leppington, the residence of his sister,
Thomas M. Moore, Esq., J.P. of Maneroo, in the 60th year of his age.
New South Wales Government Gazette
(Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Tuesday 15 August 1854 (No.100), page 1780
In the Supreme Court of New South
Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the Will of Thomas Matthews Moore,
formerly of Maneroo, and lately residing at Leppington, near Liverpool, in the
Colony of New South Wales, Esquire, deceased. - ;
NOTICE is hereby given, that William
Henry Moore, of the City of Sydney; solicitor, and Mrs Ann Cordeaux, of
Leppington aforesaid,; widow, the Executor and Executrix named said appointed
in and by the last Will and Testaments of the abovenamed Thomas Matthews
Moore, deceased, intend, after the
expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, to apply to the
Supreme Court of New South Wales, in its; Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that
Probate of I said Will may be granted to them.—Dated the fifteenth day of August, 1854.
NORTON, SON, & BARKER, Proctors for the Applicants.
Martha Louisa Moore d 1895
There died on Friday
at Mr E. L. Bruce's residence, a lady who had a somewhat remarkable career.
Miss Martha Louisa Moore, was born on March 26th., 1804 so was 92 years of age
when she died. Her father, Thomas Moore, was a well known London lawyer and
under sheriff of that city.
Having practised his
profession in France for some years, his house in London was at the time of the
great revolution, the resort of many French refugees, to whom he was a good
friend. Miss Moore emigrated to Sydney in 1836,
to join her brothers and her sister, who had preceded her in 1813.
One of these brothers
was a lawyer, and at one time Attorney General of New South Wales, the other a
squatter. Becoming tired of an inactive life, Miss Moore then resolved to
establish a ladies' school in Sydney. This became the best known institution of
the kind in the colony, and for many years (1843 to 1864) was attended by
pupils from all parts of Australia and New Zealand, by whom she was greatly
beloved and esteemed.
She then made up her
mind to retire and live with her niece, Mrs Whittakers, of Tubbut station, on
the borders of New South Wales and Victoria. She lived there for seven years,
and then joined her grand niece, Mrs E. L. Bruce, at Bairnsdale, with whom she
lived until the time of her decease.
During her residence
in Sale she was a regular attendant at St. Paul's Church until she became too
feeble to make the journey. For some time past the Rev. Canon Watson was in the
habit of going out to "Mia Mia," and holding a service, which Miss
Moore could attend. The funeral took place on Saturday at the Wale cemetery,
the Rev. W. G. Hindley reading the service at the grave.
PROBATE has been
applied for to the will of Martha Louisa Moore, of Sale, spinster, which was
executed on the 1st October, 1890. The will directs that cattle on land at
Tanjil, together with furniture, is to go to her grand niece, Mary Atkinson
Bruce. £100 is bequeathed. to Eyre Lewis Bruce, for his services as executor.
The income of the remainder is left to her niece Louisa Ann Whittakers. An
annuity of £20 is bequeathed to Elizabeth
Ann Miller, another niece, residing in England, and the residue on the
death of Louisa Ann Whittakers to the latter's children. The property (says the
" Times") is valued at £1700 real estate in Victoria, and personal
£1552.
Thomas Matthew Moore d 1854
Thomas returned for a
period of time to England, leaving in 1817.
He later returned and took up his leases.
William
Cox, Robert
Campbell, Thomas Moore and William Henry Moore, the
early landowners in the Cooks River valley, used their properties for primary
production, timber-getting and grazing, rather than private residences. Farm
buildings were constructed to house their labourers, but in each case, the
owner's residence was elsewhere.
The Sydney Gazette, 17 July 1803; Thomas Moore's
farm extended across much of today's Marrickville and Petersham.
He died at the residence of his sister Ann.
Ann Moore d 1877
She married in 1818,
William Cordeaux, who was appointed the Deputy Commissioner General.
At Leppington, on Wednesday, 7th instant, William Cordeaux, Esq.,
late Deputy Assistant Commissary General.
William
Cordeaux (1792-1839), land commissioner, was born on 9 October 1792 at Crambe,
Yorkshire, the son of Richard Cordeaux, a veterinary officer who served in the
Peninsular war and at Waterloo. He joined the British army commissariat service
in Spain as a clerk in November 1810, became a deputy-assistant in January
1814, served in Flanders in 1815 and was placed on half-pay in February 1816.
He was appointed to the Commissariat Department in New South Wales in May 1817
and arrived in Sydney next January in the convict transport Friendship.
He was placed
in charge of the provision section at commissariat headquarters in Sydney and
became involved in Commissioner John Thomas Bigge's investigation into the department. Lachlan Macquarie instructed him to take charge of the commissariat after
the arrest of Commissary Frederick Drennan in April 1819 and he was called as a witness during the
inquiry. A convict, Caro Lissour, accused Cordeaux of accepting wheat which was
not storable, theft of goods, and passing store receipts under fictitious
names. He was not convicted, although in January 1825 he was censured by the
governor for having received into store at Liverpool salted meat later declared
unfit for use.
In 1820 he
accompanied John Oxley and Bigge on a tour from Bathurst
to Lake Bathurst, and in July 1821 took charge of the commissariat at
Liverpool. He returned to England on duty for a brief visit in 1823-24 to
elucidate points concerning Drennan's accounts. On 23 July 1825 he was
appointed a joint commissioner for apportioning the territory, and later in the
year a justice of the peace, but he also continued as a deputy assistant
commissary general on half-pay until 1833.
The duties of
the commissioners were to divide the territory into counties, hundreds and
parishes, to make a valuation of all the waste and unoccupied land in each
county; and to reserve in each a tract of land comprising a seventh part in
extent and value as the Clergy and School Estate. He and the other
commissioners were accused of being very slow in their work, and their positions
were abolished on 1 November 1830, their function being taken over by the
surveyor-general. Cordeaux was also a director of the Bank of Australia and a
member of a Protestant committee in opposition to National schools and secular
education. During his time in office he received considerable land grants and
made his home at Leppington, his Liverpool estate. Mount Cordeaux was named
after him in 1828 by Allan Cunningham.
Cordeaux was
married to Ann Moore on 19 September 1818 at St Philip's, Sydney. She was the
sister of William Moore solicitor, and had arrived in the colony in the Marquis
of Wellington in February 1815. William Cordeaux died at Leppington on
7 August 1839; his widow died on 9 September 1877, aged 86.
Charles Dodwell Moore d 1834
NSW
He arrived in 1821, on the Marshal Wellington. He died on the estate of his brother-in-law,
at Leppington. He was in partnership
with his step-brother in a legal firm.
Mary Catherine Moore died in 1827 in India. James was in the military and served in India
She married James Grant in 1818 under special licence, and her
mother was a witness.
.
Children identified include
Louisa Ann Grant 1820 - 1911
m William Whittaker NSW
Mary Grant 1821 - 1841
John Grant 1823 - 1823
James Grant 1826-1827 d India
James and his mother were buried together in India.
Miss Moore brought Miss Mary Grant, and Miss Grant in 1835. It might be that her brother Thomas brought
out one of the other girls, because they all were living on their aunt, Ann Cordeaux’s property, with
her children, one of whom was the witness at the wedding of Louisa.
The area now known as Leppington was originally
home to the Darug people. It was named after a property
called Leppington Park granted to William Cordeaux in 1821.
Cordeaux used convict labour to build a two-storey mansion and
to work in his fields. The house burnt down in the 1940s but some of the bricks
from the house were re-used at Leppington Public School.
Captain
Thomas Miller
Thomas married Sibella Batley in 1824.
Thomas died in 1850, and Sibella died 1863.
They had a daughter Harriet Caroline Miller, who was born in Ireland,
and she married her mother’s nephew, Rev Benjamin Batley. Harriet died in 1900.
John William Moore Miller
Dr
John William Moore Miller married Catherine Jemima Durnford, in 1870 and they
had a daughter Lillian Frances Throckmorton Moore Miller in 1871 who married
Arthur James Barton.
Arthur
was the son of Dr George Piggot Barton, and his wife Amelia Calkin Budd. George was the son of Thomas Barton and Mary
Graves Piggott.
Dr
Miller had married Catherine Harriet Bowman, and was the father of Kate Mary
Miller who married Col Edmund Philip Bowden-Smith. Their son was
Philip Ernest Bowden-Smith was born on
27 March 1891, the son of Ernest Bowden-Smith and Kate Mary née Moore-Miller,
he was educated at Rugby School. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 19th Hussars on 3 September 1910 (promoted to lieutenant 7
October 1911). The 19th Hussars' role on the mobilisation of the British Expeditionary Force was to provide squadrons to 4th, 5th and 6th
Divisions. This is what happened o the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. Because Bowden-Smith's war service was
recorded as starting on 9 September, he must have been with C Squadron, which
landed with 6th Division at St Nazaire on that day.
Divisional
cavalry squadrons were very active in the early days of the war, when manoeuvre
was still possible. Once trench warfare set in, their role disappeared. The
squadrons of 19th Hussars reformed in April 1915 and joined the 1st Cavalry Division, but mounted action was rare, and if the cavalry did see action
it was usually in the dismounted role. Bowden-Smith was wounded once during the
war. At various times he found himself attached to the Signal Service and as a
temporary instructor at the Cavalry School at Netheravon. He ended the war in the rank of Captain
Bowden-Smith represented Great Britain at the
1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, participating in both the
Eventing and Jumping events. His fourth place in the individual jumping, on
Billy Boy, equalled Great Britain's best result to date in the equestrian
events. Riding Gipsy, he was placed 29th in the individual eventing. Great
Britain did not compete in the equestrian events at the 1928 or 1932 Olympics,
but Bowden-Smith was team captain for Great Britain's equestrian team at
the 1936 Summer Olympics in
Berlin, where they won the Bronze Medal in the team eventing. This achievement
was noteworthy, given the total dominance of the German team with their
superior local knowledge of the tricky course. The team was raised from the
Army School of Equitation at Weedon, where Bowden had been Chief Instructor.
After the
Berlin Olympics, Bowden-Smith, now a Lieutenant Colonel, became Commanding Officer of the 16th/5th Lancers at Secunderabad in India, but when the regiment
began to convert to a light tank regiment, he returned to the UK in 1938 to
take up a newly created post of Superintendent of the Army Equitation Centre
and Remount Depot at Weedon.[9] When World War II broke out, Bowden-Smith was Inspector of Remounts,
becoming Inspector of Cavalry in 1940.
Eventually,
mechanisation caught up with Bowden-Smith, and he became Second-in-Command
of 22nd Armoured Brigade later in 1940. This brigade was composed of yeomanry cavalry regiments of the Territorial
Army which had
been converted to armoured car regiments after World War I, but had been
transferred to the Royal
Armoured Corps and
were now training in the Cruiser tank role.
On 6
September 1941, Bowden-Smith was appointed Brigadier commanding 125th Infantry Brigade in 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division. The division was scheduled to become
an armoured division, and 125th Brigade officially became 10th Armoured Brigade on 1 November 1941.
Based
at Barnard
Castle, the brigade
consisted of three battalions of the Lancashire
Fusiliers (1/5th,
1/6th and 9th), which became 108th, 109th and 143rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps respectively. As an armoured
brigade in the cruiser role, 10th also had a motor infantry battalion (13th Highland
Light Infantry) under
command. However, 10th Armoured Brigade left 42nd Armoured Division in May 1942, the motor battalion was withdrawn, and on 25
July the brigade was redesignated 10th Tank Brigade. The role of a tank
brigade was infantry support, so the brigade moved to the 'Dukeries' area of Nottinghamshire, where RAC units
trained with infantry tanks. Bowden-Smith had his HQ at Carlton-in-Lindrick with the regiments dispersed
to Thoresby Hall, Welbeck Abbey and Rufford Abbey.
On 17
October 1942 the brigade was placed under the command of 48th
(South Midland) Division.
This was a reserve formation, and 10th Tank Brigade was given the role of
holding and training reinforcements for other tank units.
The brigade
maintained Lancashire Fusilier traditions, marking Gallipoli Day on 25
April and celebrating Minden Day on 1 August 'in traditional style. Each unit held a
ceremonial parade and march past'. When rumours began to circulate in
August 1943 that 10th Tank Brigade was scheduled for disbandment, Members of
Parliament for the Lancashire towns complained about the loss of their TA
battalions. In August 1943 a recruiting team persuaded about 60 other
ranks of the brigade to volunteer for the Parachute Regiment if the brigade disbanded. The brigade moved to Wensleydale in September, with Brigade HQ at Bedale, but shortly afterwards the impending
disbandment was confirmed and the brigade came under direct War Office control. Bowden-Smith left on 6 October 1943, and the
Brigade HQ and regiments disbanded in November.
Bowden-Smith
was now posted to Delhi to join the staff of the new South
East Asia Command (SEAC)
under Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. He served on SEAC staff until 1946
when he retired
Bowden-Smith
was an ADC to the King 1944–46, was awarded a CBE
(Military) in 1946[2] and was appointed Colonel of the 16th/5th Lancers in
1950. He was an active Colonel of the regiment until he relinquished the
post in 1959, and was also active in horsebreeding and foxhunting.
Brigadier
Bowden-Smith died suddenly on 28 April 1964 at Wokingham. His surviving family were his two sisters, Marjorie
Bowden-Smith and Doris Boden. His funeral was at St
John's, Woking, on 1
May. A memorial service was held at St. Michael's Church, Chester Square.
Anthony
Durnford’s Horse “Chieftain”
Anthony
Durnford’s sister accepted the responsibility of his horse, Chieftain, when it
was returned to England in 1879.
"Chieftain
was brought home by the 24th Regiment to us at Cosham Park. He is now lent to Mr Whalley-Tooker of Hinton
House[1],
Horndean, and ridden, as his favourite hunter, by one of his loving brothers”,
Catherine wrote.
The
owner of Hinton House, at Horndean was Mr Hyde Salmon Walley-Tooker JP, who
served in the 3rd Hampshire Regiment, between 1856 and 1897. He was born 8th November 1857 in Shropshire.
In 1882 he married Rosalie Mary
Standish, only daughter of Col. C. H,
Dowker
The
gesture of the 24th Regiment to bring him back to England, speaks of the
respect that they must have held for Lieut-Col. Durnford. They were ordered back to England in July
1879 and on 27th Aug they embarked at Durban on the 'Egypt'.
They were
commanded by Colonel R T Glyn, their strength at that time being 767 privates,
11 drummers, 36 corporals, 46 sergeants and 24 officers.
They
arrived at Portsmouth on 2nd Oct and went into barracks at Gosport.
[1] —
Hinton Daubnay, Horndean, Hampshire. Hinton Manor was originally a 17th century
farmhouse on the Hinton manor estate. Originally called Hinton Farm, it is now
a Grade II listed building. The manor belonged to the Hyde family in the
seventeenth century until mid-18th century when it descended to the Tooker
family. In the later part of the 19th century, the Hyde Salmon Whalley-Tooker
family inherited and their main dwelling was Hinton Daubney, although this
house was named as Hinton Manor on the 1st edition 25” OS map, 1868, while the
present Hinton Manor House was still named Hinton Farm. First shown on the1810
OS 1” map and then the Greenwood map of 1826, by the 1st ed 25” OS map,
1868, indicates a formally designed divided rectangular area with low hedges,
to the SE of the house. Substantial farm buildings lie to the north and an
extensive belt of conifer trees to the SW, to the left of the entrance
track/drive. A reservoir is also shown in the SW corner of the site.
Progressive OS maps maintain much the same pattern in the gardens with the
reservoir being named by the 3rd ed OS map, 1909/10 and a glasshouse has
appeared.
