Born 1833 in Ireland. 1880 to Montreal, Canada. Apothecary/druggist. Died 1901 in Westmount, Canada.
BIRTH
George Moore was born 20 Sep 1833 in Ireland per the 1901 Canadian census. His father is Alexander Moore per 1859 marriage register.
MARRIAGE IN CORK, CORK, IRELAND 1859
George Moore married Eleanor Magrath 28 July 1859 in Holy Trinity (Christ Church) in Cork, Ireland by license.
Groom: Full age; Bachelor; Druggist; Residing in Cork; Father Alexander Moore, a Merchant
Bride: Full age; Spinster; Residing in Grand Parade Cork; Father William Magrath, a Cooper
Witnesses: William Magrath and Thomas Landon
Marriage of George Moore and Eleanor Magrath 28 July 1859
at Holy Trinity, Cork, Ireland
Source: Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898; FHL film M70220-4, FamilySearch
CHILDREN
Children of George Moore and Eleanor Magrath (Moore):
Jane Frances Moore born 1860
Anna Eleanor Moore born 1861
Georgina Alexandra Moore born 1863 DIRECT LINE ANCESTOR
Alexander Benjamin Journeaux Moore born 1865
George William Moore born 1868
Alfred Richard Moore born 1870
Edith Hester Moore born 1873
Lillian Blanche Moore born 1876
Ethel Garnet Moore born 1879
IN TRALEE, KERRY, IRELAND
George and Eleanor’s first child was born in 1860 in Tralee in County Kerry. They names her Jane Frances Moore.
Baptism of Jane Frances Moore 7 July 1860 in Tralee, Kerry, Ireland;
parents George & Eleanor Moore
Source: Ireland, Baptism Index, 1571-1912; churchrecords.irishgeneaolgy.ie
IN LIMERICK, LIMERICK, IRELAND
A short time later the family moved to Limerick:
1861 at Alma Cottage in Limerick – baptism of Anna Eleanor Moore; parents George Moore, druggist, Eleanor
1863 at Cecil Street in Limerick – baptism of Georgina Alexandra Moore; parents George Moore, shop assistant, Ellen
1865 at Cecil Street in Limerick – baptism of Alexander Benjamin Journeaux Moore; parents George Moore, druggist, & Ellen Magrath
1868 10 Cecil Street in Limerick – birth of George William Moore
1870 10 Cecil Street in Limerick – birth of Alfred Moore; parents George Moore & Ellen Magrath
1871 10 Cecil Street in Limerick
[It appears that 10 Cecil Street is next door to 11 Cecil Street]
1873 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – birth of Edith Hester Moore; parents George Moore, druggist, & Eleanor Magrath
1876 in Limerick – birth of Lillian Blanche Moore
1879 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – birth of Ethel Garnet Moore; parents George Moore, druggist, & Eleanor Magrath
1879 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – Limerick City Trades Register: Insurance Agent & Companies in Bassett Directory page 103 for George Moore for Scottish Plate Glass Insurance Co. & chemist
1880 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – Masonic Lodge Excelsior Lodge 268; George Moore, P.M., Secretary
1880 11 Cecil Street & 161 George Street in Limerick – Directory page 79: George Moore, agent, Scottish Commercial Insurance Company
1880 11 Cecil Street & 131 George Street in Limerick – Directory page 79: George Moore, agent, Scottish Plate Glass Insurance Company
1880 11 Cecil Street & 131 George Street in Limerick – Directory page 115: Insurance Agents, Moore George
1880 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – Directory page 51: Moore George
1881 Cecil Street in Limerick – Directory: Moore George, manager, and agent for the Scottish Plate Glass Insurance Co.
1881 11 Cecil Street in Limerick – Directory: Scottish Plate Glass–Geo. Moore
Description of The Grove, 11 Cecil Street, Limerick:
Terraced two-bay four-storey over basement brick former townhouse, built c. 1810, with a front railed basement area. Pitched roof hidden behind rebuilt parapet wall and a shared rendered chimneystack to each party wall. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond and cement pointing with limestone coping to parapet wall with lead flashing to brick courses below. Exposed rubble stone walls to basement elevation with a painted limestone plinth course delineating ground floor level. Brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, painted limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Brick round-arched door opening with a replacement timber-panelled door flanked by a pair of quarter engaged timber Ionic columns supporting a stepped entablature and painted decorative webbed zinc fanlight above. Door opens onto a limestone step and limestone flagged platform with two limestone steps, having a cast-iron bootscraper. Platform flanked by wrought-iron railings and cast-iron corner posts on a limestone plinth, with a modern steel gate and steps giving access to the basement level. Coach house to rear has been replaced by a modern two-storey red brick structure shared with Nos. 8, 9 and 10 Cecil Street.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; buildingsofireland.ie
Last residence of George Moore and family in Ireland at 11 Cecil Street in Limerick
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; buildingsofireland.ie
IN MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA 1885-1901
Starting in 1885 we find George Moore and family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
1885 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1885 page 204;
St Elizabeth, from 429 Craig north to 700 Ontario, St Lewis ward;
239 Moore George, druggist
1885 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1885 page 502;
Moore George, Druggist, 239 St Elizabeth;
239 St Elizabeth, Montreal
1886 Lovell’s Montreal Directory. 1996 page 483;
Moore George, druggist, 239 St Elizabeth
239 St Elizabeth, Montreal
1887 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1887 page 216;
St Elizabeth, from 429 Craig north to 700 Ontario, St Lewis ward;
239 Moore George, druggist
239 St Elizabeth, Montreal
1888 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1888 page 554;
Moore George, druggist, 475 St Denis;
475 St Denis, Montreal
1889 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1889 page 583;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 38 Victoria sq, h 475 St Denis [son of George]
St Denis, 475
Moore George, druggist
Moore Alex. B.J., chemist
475 St Denis, Montreal
1890 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1890 page 643;
Moore Alex. B.M., pharmaceutical chemist, 2613 St Catherine h 2611 St Catherine [son of George]
Moore George, druggist, 475 St Denis
475 St Denis, Montreal
1891 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1891 page 700;
Moore Alex. B.M., pharmaceutical chemist, 2613 St Catherine, h 2611 St Catherine [son of George]
Moore George, druggist, 179 St Hubert
179 St Hubert, Montreal
1892 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1892 page 724;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 2611 St Catherine [son of George]
Moore George, druggist, 179 St Hubert
179 St Hubert, Montreal
1893 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1893 page 313;
St Hubert; 179 Moore George, chemist;
179 Hubert, Montreal
1894 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1894 page 833;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 28 Sussex [son of George]
Moore Alfred, druggist, 328 St Urbain [son of George]
Moore George,druggist, 328 St Urbain
328 St Urbain, Montreal
1895 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1895 page 805;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 28 Sussex [son of George]
Moore George, druggist, 328 St Urbain
328 St Urbain, Montreal
1896-1897 do not find George Moore in the directories. He is not at 328 St Urbain, Montreal or 21 Yorke, Westmount.
1898 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1898 page 460;
Yorke, Westmount; 21 Moore Geo, druggist
21 Yorke, Westmount
1899 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1898 page 911;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 51 Fort [son of George]
Moore George, druggist, 21 York, Westmount
21 York, Westmount
1900 Lovell’s Montreal Business Directory page 1109;
Moore, Alex, B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 51 Fort [son of George]
Moore, Alfred R, drug clerk, 363 St Urbain [son of George]
Moore Geo, druggist, 21 Yorke, Westmount
21 Yorke, Westmount
1901 Lovell’s Montreal Directory, 1901 page 1166;
Moore Alex. B.J., pharmaceutical chemist, 343 Grosvenor av, Westmount [son of George]
Moore Geo, druggist, 21 Yorke, Westmount
21 Yorke, Westmount
Source: Lovell’s Directory 1842-1999 (of Montreal and Westmount); Westmount Historical Society
Last residence of George Moore; 21 Rue York, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
Source: Google Earth
DEATH OF WIFE 1885
Eleanor Magrath (Moore) died in Montreal 6 June 1885 at 43 years. Burial at Trinity Memorial in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Eleanor Magrath Moore, wife of George Moore, died and was buried in June 1885
Source: Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968; Ancestry.com
CENSUS 1891
Quebec District 172 Monteal S. District 42 page 42 Aprl 1891
George Moore 60 b abt 1831 in Ireland; Druggist; Widowed; Father b Ireland; M b Ireland
Alfred Moore 21 son
Edith Moore 17 daughter
Lily Moore 14 daughter
Ethel Moore 10 daughter
next door to
Verry George 30
Verry Georgina 24
Verry George 9/12 months
1891 Canadian Census; Canada, Quebec, Montreal;
George Moore (60), Alfred Moore (21), Edith Moore (17),
Lily Moore (14), Ethel Moore (10)
Source: 1891 Census of Canada; St Jacques Ward, Montréal Centre, Quebec; Roll: T-6408;
Family No: 225; FHL Microfilm reels: T-6290 to T-6427; Ancestry.com
CENSUS 1901
Quebec Hochelaga Westmount District Number: 155 Sub-District Number: D-17 Page: 3
George Moore 68 b 20 Sep 1833 in Ireland; Widowed; Immigration Year; 1880;
Racial or Tribal Origin: Irish; Nationality: Canada (Canadian); Religion: Church Of England; Occupation: Doresg W [Druggist]
Nothing about having worked in past 12 months
Nothing to indicate speaks French
No year in column for nationalization
Anna Moore 40 daughter b 1861 Ireland; Immigrated 1882
Ella Moore 22 daughter b 1879 in Ireland; Immigrated 1882
1901 Canadian Census; Canada, Quebec, Westmount;
George Moore (68), Anna Moore (40), Ella Moore (22)
Source: 1901 Census of Canada; Westmount (City/Cité), Hochelaga, Quebec; Page: 3;
Family No: 30; FHL Microfilm reels: T-6428 to T-6556; Ancestry.com
DEATH 1901
George Moore died 1 October 1901 at Westmount, Quebec, Canada at 68 years.
A news article states that George Moore had suffered from Bright’s Disease for the six months prior to his death.
OBITUARY 1901
Mention of George Moore in news notice by his employer:
MONTREAL
Montreal, Nov. 8, 1901
–The firm of Evans & Sons, Limited, has lost two valued employees by the death of W. H. Stanley and George Moore. Both had been in the services of the firm for the past twenty years and were held in high esteem by their employers. The former previous to his death has been ailing for some four or five years with Bright’s disease, while the latter suffered from the same disease for about six months; it is a strange coincidence that both were about the same age and died of the same disease on the same day within four hours of each other. Mr. Moore leaves two sons, the eldest Alex. B.J. Moore, who is head chemist for Evans & Sons, Ltd, and Alfred, who is head clerk for H.R. Gray.
Source: Notice about deaths of Stanley and Moore on page 58 of November 14, 1901
The Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 26; Google Books
Mention of George Moore in obit of a close friend:
STANLEY.–At Montreal, Canada, on September 29, Captain W. H. Stanley. Aged 67. The late Captain Stanley, one of the best known military men in Montreal, and a prominent athlete and fast snow shoer, was for many years in the employ of Messers. Lamplough & Campbell, wholesale druggists, Montreal. On the merging of that business into the firm of Messers. Evans & Sons (Limited), Captain Stanley was asked by Messers. Evans to continue in the position he then held, which he did. For upwards of thirty years he was identified with the firm’s business, but retired on a handsome pension from the house about nine years ago, owing to failing health. Captain Stanley was a military enthusiast, and from an early period in his life had been associated in one form or other with the militia of Canada. He was one of the founders of the Victoria Rifles, and for many years was in command of a company. During the Fenian raids of 18×6 and 1870 he went to the front with his regiment. He severed active connection with the regiment in 1873, and became connected with the Victoria Rifles Reserve Association, in which for the past five years he has held the position of secretary-treasurer. His son, Trooper W. Arthur Stanley, is at present in Heidelberg, South Africa, with Baden-Powell’s Constabulary. A peculiar coincidence in connection with Captain Stanley’s death is the fact that his lifelong friend, Mr. George Moore, with whom he was for many years associated in Messrs. Evans & Sons’ establishment, died about six hours before Captain Stanley.
Source: Captain Stanley obit on page 679 of October 26, 1901
The Chemist and Druggist Volume 59; Google Books
BURIAL
George Moore buried at Mount Royal Cemetery M183-C.
FAMILY
Jane Frances Moore b 1860 Ireland; d 1887 Montreal, Canada
Anna Eleanor Moore b 1861 Ireland;
Georgina Alexandra Moore b 1863 Ireland; m 1859 Ireland George Verry; d 1897 Montreal Canada DIRECT LINE ANCESTOR
Alexander Benjamin Journeaux Moore b 1865 Ireland; m 1889 Montreal Annie Grace Crawford; d 1948 Montreal, Canada
George William Moore b 1868 Ireland; d 1871 Ireland
Alfred Richard Moore b 1870 Ireland; m Eva Rose DeGruchy Quebec, Canada/ m Hilda Gertrude Brumdell; d 1940 Montreal, Canada
Edith Hester Moore b 1873 Ireland; d 1897 Montreal, Canada
Lillian Blanche Moore b 1876 Ireland; d 1940 San Diego, CA USA
Ethel Garnet Moore b 1879 Ireland;
ADDRESSES
- Grand Parade Cork, Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Tralee, Kerry, Ireland
- Alma Cottage, Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- 10 Cecil Street, Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- 11 Cecil Street, Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
- 239 St Elizabeth, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 475 St Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 179 St Hubert, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 328 St Urbain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 21 Yorke, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
ONGOING RESEARCH
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