43.3.2.4.1 The Family of Dr William Moore Miller

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 46^th 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 46^th went to India.

1814–1818

1/46th [South Devonshire]

Sydney; Newcastle; VDL

from Cowes; to Madras

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 

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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.

The Australian Dictionary of Biography provides some important clues, as to this family.

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.

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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.

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[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.