Mary Eileen More

1553 - 1630  (76 years)

• Name	Mary Eileen More
  Birth	25 Dec 1553	Barnborough, West Riding, York, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	1630
  Person ID	I2029	Butler Family Tree
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family	Robert Edward Moore,   b. 1550, Bampton, Oxford, England d. 1605 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1588
  Children	1. Mary Jane Moore,   b. 1588, Shropshire, England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jun 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Dec 1553 - Barnborough, West Riding, York, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- found at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I95961 ----------------------------------------------- Post-em Display Return to WorldConnect ----------------------------------------------- Database: mjr6387 Individual: I95961 ----------------------------------------------- Martin Wood 2012-03-31 01:29:20 [email protected] I have seen your RootsWeb pages under 'Mary Eileen Moore' and think you should know the following: Various otherwise reputable genealogy sites contain serious errors in regard to this family, some even giving a high star rating for accuracy. The documented facts are as follows: Mary More, the daughter of Thomas More II (1531-1606) and Mary Scrope (1534-1607) was born on 25 December 1553. However, she was NOT born at Barnborough (the correct spelling), Yorkshire, but at Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. The event is recorded in the family’s ‘Book of Hours’. I have a copy of the entry. Mary did not have 'Eileen' anywhere in her name. Mary married Edward More (of an unrelated family) born at Lower Haddon in the Parish of Bampton, Oxfordshire, where his family farmed their estate. The name 'Robert' does not appear anywhere in Edward's records. Many people write Edward’s second name ‘Moore’, but I have a copy of a letter from one of their daughters which shows that they wrote their own name ‘More’ (i.e. with one ‘o’). Edward’s birthdate is usually given as c.1560, but this is pure guesswork. His date of birth/baptism are not recorded. The family had remained Catholic and these events were not recorded in Church of England Parish Registers. Edward and Mary married, most probably in 1585-6 as, for a few years before that, Edward was in various London prisons as a convicted Recusant (i.e. someone who had refused to conform to the Church of England). Family records, Jesuit Records, Convent Records (three of the daughters became Nuns at Convents in Catholic Europe) and Court Records for Recusancy show that Edward and Mary spent all their married life on the small estate owned by Mary’s father at Low Leyton, Essex. They had no connection with Shropshire. Low Leyton is where their seven children were born - five daughters and two sons. The two sons were Henry and Thomas, both of who were sent into Catholic Europe to be educated. They both became Jesuit Priests. Edward died at Low Leyton in 1605 when Mary was granted permission by the Court to administer his almost non-existent estate. Mary later went to live with one of her married daughters at Stondon Massey, Essex where she died in 1630. It follows from the above that Edward and Mary DID NOT have a son John Moore - let alone a Robert John Moore. Nor did they have a daughter Mary Jane Moore. According to which site you visit, John Moore is said to have been born in Bampton, Oxford, Reading, Shropshire (a County, not a town or village), Swaffham in Norfolk, and even in Ireland – all (apart from the Parish of Bampton) being guesses/invention. The John Moore who emigrated to Virginia in the ship Bona Nova in 1620, followed two years later by his wife Elizabeth (said to have been a ‘Merritt’ ) in the Abigail, settled in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. The English ancestry of this John Moore is unknown. The Elizabeth City line gave rise to an Augustine Moore who married Mary Woolley. There is, however, no known connection between this line and, as some record, the line of Colonel Augustine Moore of King William’s County. Colonel Augustine Moore is said to have been born in England in 1585. He died in Virginia in 1643.He married, as his second wife, the widow Elizabeth Seaton who was, by birth a Todd. They had five children. The English ancestry of Col. Augustine Moore is also unknown. You say you welcome additions/corrections, so I hope this will be of interest to you. Best wishes, MW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •ID: I95961 View Post-em! ------------------------- **** See Above **** •Name: Mary Eileen MORE •Given Name: Mary Eileen •Surname: More •Sex: F •Birth: 25 DEC 1553 in Barnborough,West Riding,York,Eng 1 2 •Death: 1630 •Change Date: 27 SEP 2009 at 01:00:00 Father: Thomas MORE b: 8 AUG 1531 in Chelsea,London,Middlesex,Eng Mother: Mary SCROPE b: ABT 1534 in Hambleden,Buckingham,Eng Marriage 1 Robert "Edward" MOORE b: 1550 in Bampton,Oxford,Eng•Married: ABT 1580 in Barnborough,West Riding,York,Eng 1 2 Children1.Has Children John MOORE b: 1584 in Shropshire,Eng 2.Has Children Mary Jane MOORE b: ABT 1588 in Shropshire,Eng Sources: 1.Repository: Name: Kirk Larson Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Title: Online Genealogical Database Collection Author: MyFamily.Com Inc. Publication: Genealogical Research GEDCOM (360 W. 4800 N., Provo, UT 84604, Ancestry.com Abbrev: Online Genealogical Database Collection Page: Contact: Sarah Ingram 2.Repository: Name: Kirk Larson Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Title: Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson Author: Larson, Kirk Publication: Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants Abbrev: Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson Page: Contact: Sarah Ingram -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------