♂Robert Moore

Robert Moore was an Englishman and glover of Bengeworth, beside Evesham, in Worcestershire, who married Ellen Taylor there in 1585. He was the tenth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Margery Moore.

Marriage and children

The wedding, on 9 November 1585, is entered in the Bengeworth parish register in a single line: “Robart more and Elen tayler the ixth of November.” Three years later their daughter was baptized in the same parish, on 3 November 1588, as “Margery the Daughter of Robart More”. She was probably the Margery Moore who married John Washburn at Bengeworth in 1618. No record of Robert’s birth is known.

The will and burial

His will is dated 18 December 1624, and it calls him a glover of Bengeworth. About four weeks later, on 14 January 1624/25, he was buried in the same parish.

Notes

The register entries

Both entries come from the Bengeworth register as printed by James Davenport in The Washbourne Family of Little Washbourne and Wichenford, in the County of Worcester (1907), page 51; Davenport says that the entries he gives in quotation marks are exact copies. They are known from that printed copy, not from the original book. Maltby’s Washburn genealogy gives the marriage day as 19 November.

Margery’s parentage

That the emigrant Margery Washburn was Robert’s daughter is probable, not proved. Barnard’s Some Notes on the Evesham Branch of the Washbourne Family (1914) calls her “Margery Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, of Evesham”. Davenport prints only the one baptism of a Margery More at Bengeworth, and he does not say whether he looked for others; another couple of the name, Humphrey More and Margery Ordwaye, had married in the parish in 1575. Davenport prints the 1618 Bengeworth marriage as “John Washeburne & Margery Moore.”

Evesham or Bengeworth

Barnard calls Robert “of Evesham”; the marriage and the baptism are both in the register of Bengeworth, the parish beside the town.

The will and burial

The will is dated 18 December 1624, and Maltby’s transcription of it is cited to the Consistory Court of Worcester, 1626. It writes the place as “Bengworth” and the trade as glover. The wife is written “Elnor” in the will, where she is named sole executrix. Other names in the will are the son written Thomas More, who is overseer, the daughter Margaret Milner, “the 3 children of Margery Washborn” and “Margery”. Maltby’s transcription marks several words illegible. The burial, on 14 January 1624/25, is from Maltby, who cites the Bengeworth bishop’s transcript, which gives the name “Robert More”.