Tristram Moore 1767 : Short Biography

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Hello,

I'm intrigued by the given name of your ancestor. Several (distant) cousins and I have been searching for several years for the birthplace of our ancestor, Tristram Patton. We were told by a researcher at the UHF that the first name Tristram was rare and that it may have been given to sons of people who were (I am presuming) tenants of a certain Tristram Beresford in the late 1600s in what is now county (London)Derry.

Our ancestor immigrated to the Colonies at the time of or just before the American Revolution and is said to have fought and to have been part of the guard of General Washington. He ended up in what became West Virginia, dying there in about 1843.

Good luck!

Linda (Patton) Reverchon

Linda Reverchon

Sunday 5th September 2021 08:17AM

Hello, Linda, lovely to hear from you. I am in Sydney, Australia - where in the USA are you?

My 5 x great grandfather Tristram Moore arrived here in 1802 as an Irish Rebel convict. He died in 1839 aged 69.

I had the same thoughts as you about whether he was named after Sir Tristram Beresford. I spent 2 years researching this TM and his family and below is an Appendix I have in my research.

Tristram was born in 1767 in the Townland of Carrowreagh in Co Derry. His Moores had come from the City of Londonderry in the 1600s. His grandfather Tristram Moore was born about 1680 and his father James Moore in 1700 signed a Land Indent for Carrowreagh in 1700 with Connolly, and another Moore for Carrowclare (or v.v.) then. They weren't tenants of Sir Tristram Beresford but and earlier Moore - maybe connected to them - had served under Beresford

1642-1643 - Muster Rolls of Foot Companies in the Garrison of Londonderry May 1642 to August 1643 [T808/15176] – from Macafee site

#390 Rich. Moore Soldier Company – Captain Tristram Beresford [Berisford] Date of Muster 18th July 1643

The Townlands of Carrowreagh and Carrowclare are near Myroe which is about 16 miles from Coleraine.

I believe my 5x gt g/father's father was also Tristram, and mine of 1802 named his son Tristram in Sydney - so 4 in a row. The baby soon died.

Tristram Moore's daughter married a Bowd and they had a son Tristram Bowd. This Tristram Bowd had a brother Thomas who named a son Tristram and there were some more down the generations here.

I am not totally sure whether my Moores were from Scotland or England - brought in during the Plantation. There were some Tristram Moores in Devon and Cornwall per below.

Your Tristram Patton sounds to have gone to the American Colonies about 1770-80?

I have come across a few Tristram Moores in parts of the USA:

Chester Co, PA having a son Tristram in 1750, and the father serving in the Revolutionary War. One died 1811 and the other in 1833. The father might have come from Co Derry in earlier 1700s or was possibly a son of a Moore who did - maybe a son of theTristram Moore born about 1680 - married 1705 - and naming his son after his father.

Another born in Maine before the Rev War to I think a William Moore who had likely come from Co Derry. They were Loyalists and moved to New Brunswick and established the town of Moores Mills. Over ther next 4 or 5 generations there were 2 more Tristram Moores - one over 6 feet tall as was mine who came to Australia. The later generations were in Georgia.

And another in Isle of Wight County in Virginia in the 1700s. 

I have even come across 2 in Florida - father and son - at the end of last century. I think I tried to contact but no response.

My email is marilynlong2011@yahoo.com.

Regards, Marilyn 

 

APPENDIX 8: ORIGIN OF THE RECURRING NAME OF TRISTRAM AMONGST THE MOORES?

The first Tristram Moore I have found in the context of this family is Tristram named in the 1700 Land Indent of James with William Conolly.

I have come across a Tristram Moore buried in Devon 1614 and another married 1703 in Cornwall and either he or an infant son buried 1706.

Otherwise Tristram is not a very common name in northern Ireland around 1700 except for (Sir) Tristram Beresford over a time frame of 1617-1702 (33 of the 103 results and of the 103 quite a few others were in the south of Ireland).

So could the first Tristram Moore mentioned in 1700 be named for him?

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=silverbowl&id=I7033&style=TABLE

Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet, died 15 January 1673. He was an Irish soldier and a politician. He was the eldest son of Tristram Beresford born before 1574 who originated from Kent and had settled in Ireland. Beresford entered the Irish House of Commons in 1634 sitting for the Londonderry County which he also represented  from 1656 until 1658 and a third time in 1661. He was knighted in 1664 and created a Baronet, of Coleraine, in the County of Londonderry on 5 May 1665. He died in 1673 and was buried in Coleraine.

Tristram Beresford Esq the third son was born before 1574 and came into Ireland as manager for the corporation of Londoners, known by the name of the society of the New Plantation in Ulster, at the time they made the Plantation in the county of Derry, in the reign of James I. He settled at Coleraine in the county of Londonderry.

The name Tristram then appeared for 5 Moores in Carrowreagh and Carrowclare from about 1780 to 1870. And the Tristram Moores discussed in Appendix 7 could be connected to the same family.

The name Tristram Moore occurs in the east coast states of the USA through to the current day.

 

 

 

 

MarilynL

Monday 6th September 2021 02:00AM