Mary Moore was born on 11 November 1832, in Ansley, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom as the daughter of William Moore and Mary King. She married Thomas Masters Barker on 8 January 1865, in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in St Laurence in Thanet, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Clevedon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1891. She died on 2 June 1916, in Mere, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mere, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom.
English: from Middle English more ‘moor, marsh, fen’ (Old English mōr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in such a place, or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, as for example Moore in Cheshire or More in Shropshire.
English (of Norman origin): ethnic name from Old French more ‘Moor’, either someone from North Africa or, more often, a nickname for someone thought to resemble a Moor. Compare Morrell and Moreau .
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English personal name More (Old French More, Maur, Latin Maurus), originally denoting either ‘Moor’ or someone with a swarthy complexion (compare Morrell , Morrin , Morris , and sense 2 above). There was a 6th-century Christian saint of this name.
My father and mother brought up a family of thirteen - there were seven boys but one had died before I was born in 1874, one irl died when only five years old, she was the oldest daughter, that was a …
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