In the year 1777, when King George the [Third] was on the throne of England, was born the man who was destined, (through the marriage of his grand-daughter with our father, Charles Tribe (2) to be the maternal ancestor of our branch of the Tribe family. George Moore was a very tall man, standing over six feet in height, (according to our mother, his height was six feet two or three inches) and with a very big and stout frame. His birthplace is uncertain, but he lived for many years in the beautiful little village of Brenchley, in Kent, a few miles from Tunbridge Wells. Here he for many years acted as village blacksmith and kept the public house connected with the smithy. He married a Miss Lydia [the following word was crossed out and no surname entered. RWH] and had among other children a son whom he named George, and who assisted him in the forge and public house. Lydia, his wife, was a very small woman, short and slight, and the appearance of the husband and wife walking together was often the cause of much amusement to strangers. Our mother has told us that her grandmother could walk erect under her husband's extended arm, and was obliged to almost run in order to keep pace with her husband's giant strides.

George Moore the elder was very popular in the little village, as befitted his office of village blacksmith, as also was his son George, who, being a first rate shot and a true sportsman, and his father farming a few acres of land adjacent to the public house, was a great favourite with the sporting gentry of the neighbourhood, and often accompanied them on shooting excursions. Indeed, his love of sport was the cause of his early death, for, having gone shooting one day in very cold and stormy weather, he was overtaken by a heavy rain storm and neglecting to return home until the day's sport was over, he contracted a heavy cold which brought on the illness which caused his death.

George Moore the younger was a tall man, being but an inch or two shorter than his father, but rather slightly built. He married a Miss Fannie Maynard and our mother was one of his children. George Moore died at Brenchly at the early age of thirty-five (35) years, on November 19th 1841, and was buried in the village churchyard.