William Moore

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D Wong on 24th June 2018

**TWO WILLIAM MOORE'S ON THIS VOYAGE. William Moore was 22 years old when transported. He was 5'4¾" tall, dark complexion, brown hair and eyes, literate, Protestant, M tattooed near left elbow. Assigned to Mr Faithful of Richmond on arrival. June 1838: In Windsor Jail for examination. July 1839: TOL Maitland. 1839/41: COF 1841: Granted permission to marry Julia McAdams (Isabella 1840). 1843: (NSW BDM) Married at Maitland. 1843: TOL cancelled for marrying and harbouring a female prisoner, illegally at large in June. (The prisoner was Julia, his wife, who had absconded - she was then sent to the Female Factory at Parramatta). William Moore was then back as a convict and was put on the Illawarra Road gang. He made application for permission to visit his wife at Parramatta, after reports of her misbehaving, he was refused. 1/2/1844: Convict Death Register: 3/2/1844 Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser: Remarkable instance of" Conjugal Affection. — A most remarkable instance of conjugal affection, attended by a fatal result, occurred last week, at the Woronora Probation Gang, under the direction of Mr. Dark, one of the assistant Surveyors, which shows that the domestic virtues, when they take deep root in the human heart, are difficult to be eradicated, and very frequently survive the wreck of every other honourable principle, whose utter abandonment is inevitably consequent upon vicious association. William Moore, a young married man about 30 years of age, attached to the gang, whose wife is confined in the female Factory, and to whom, as the sequel will prove, he was devotedly attached, asked permission, in the beginning of the week, to come to Parramatta to visit her. The indulgence was denied, and the poor fellow, withdrew into the bush to take a solitary stroll and indulge in his own melancholy reflections. In about an hour afterwards he was found stretched lifeless under a tree, having burst a blood vessel in the heart, On Wednesday last an inquest was held on the body, before Charles Bethel Lyons, Esq, Coroner for Parramatta, at the Liverpool hospital, when the foregoing facts wore given in evidence. The body was in so decomposed a condition, that no postmortem examination could bo held, but the jury were unanimously of opinion, that the poor fellow died of a broken heart, and found a verdict of "natural death". 1846: NSW BDM - there is a marriage for Julia McAdams and James Cormack who married at St John's, Parramatta.