Manuscript Genealogy of Sportsman Clarence Moore, Who Died on the Titanic

Report of Researches Made in Great Britain and America for Clarence Moore, Esq. [with:] Swift’s Genealogy.

[N.p., London? ca. 1911].

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With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms, Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell, Lancaster Herald, College of Arms, London. Manuscript on paper, 28 lines, in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials, within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Manuscript Genealogy of Sportsman Clarence Moore, Who Died on the Titanic. Full red morocco gilt, upper boards titled in gilt, spines with raised bands, dentelles gilt, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume, occasional superficial scuffs, otherwise fine. Internally immaculate.

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Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore, of Washington, D.C., who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912, and his second wife Mabille, daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore (born 1901, died in childhood, 1907); Jasper Moore (born 1905); Clarence Moore (born 1910); and Lloyd Moore (born 29 November 1912). In addition to the detailed genealogical reports, the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy, William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887, includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by “Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson, experts in Original Research, of Baltimore, Maryland”.
The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926, noting that Mabille married again in 1915, to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe, Denmark.

Clarence Moore (1865-1912), a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C., and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt, had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds, and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore’s heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats.

A beautiful and imposing genealogy.