Thomas Moore

Deceased Person

1762 – 1840

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Who was Thomas Moore?

Thomas Moore was an early European settler in Australia. He was born in Lesbury, Northumberland. In 1792 he arrived in Australia as the ship's carpenter on William Raven's Britannia.

In October 1792 Raven left a sealing crew at Dusky Sound, New Zealand while he went off to obtain supplies for the colony. During that time a vessel was built. It is believed Thomas Moore, as ships carpenter was the mainly responsible for its construction..

In 1796 he was appointed master boatbuilder by Governor John Hunter. He married Rachel Turner in January 1797, who had come to NSW on the "Lady Juliana" as a convict, been assigned to Surgeon John White, to whom she bore a son, Andrew Douglas White.

In Jan 1804 Governor Phillip Gidley King launched what was believed to be the first vessel ever built in the colony,the vessel HM armed cutter "Integrity" 50T. was built by Thomas Moore at Sydney Cove.

In October 1809 Moore resigned from the dockyard and by mid-1810 he was residing at the house he had built on the George's River, Moore Bank. Macquarie appointed him magistrate of the George's River district in 1810, a position he filled until he died on Christmas Eve 1840. When Macquarie proclaimed the new town of Liverpool on 7 November 1810, he commissioned Moore to build the town. Moore was supervisor of public works for the next decade. He became a good friend of Macquarie, who appointed Rachel and Thomas Moore the guardians of Lachlan Macquarie jnr, in case anything happened to Lachlan and Elizabeth while they were in NSW.

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Born
1762
England
Died
1840

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on July 23, 2013

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