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The first on record of the Moore family is Randle 

 de la Moore, who as reeve of Liverpool appeared at 

 the sessions of the justices in eyre at Lancaster in 

 1 246. ! His name frequently occurs in documents of 

 the time of Henry III and Edward I.' His eldest 

 son, John de la Moore, sen., also attested many charters 

 of the time of the first Edwards ; 

 he was one of the three attor- 

 neys found by the borough of 

 Liverpool in a plea of quo war- 

 ranto at ; Lancaster in 1292,' 

 and he and his brother Richard 

 were returned to the Parliament 

 at Carlisle in January, 1307, 

 as burgesses for Liverpool. 4 



John de la Moore, junior, 

 son of the last named John, 

 occurs as holding land in Liver- 

 pool in 1323,* and as a wit- oilarcd or. 

 ness to Liverpool charters down 



to 1337, about which time probably he was succeeded 

 by Roger his son and heir, who held eight burgages 

 in Liverpool in I346. 6 He died about three years 

 later, leaving a son William, a minor, 7 who died 

 before 1 3 74 without issue, when his tenements passed 

 to his kinsman Thomas, 8 grandson of William, appa- 

 rently a younger brother of John de la Moore, jun. 

 William was the father of John de la Moore, who 



MOORE or BANK 

 HALL. Argent, three 

 greyhounds courant sable 



WALTON 



was mayor of Liverpool in 1 353, and had considerable 

 property there. 9 Dying about 1361 John was suc- 

 ceeded by his son, the above-named Thomas, who 

 had received a grant of lands in Kirkdale from his 

 father in I36o. 10 Thomas was frequently mayor of 

 Liverpool between 1383 and 1407." 



It was his son William who, as already stated, pur- 

 chased the manor of Kirkdale in 1408. He died 

 I August, 1409, a week after the birth of his only 

 child, John Moore. 18 In 1431 it was found that 

 John Moore, gentleman, held the manor of Kirkdale 

 by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee. 11 

 He appears to have died without issue. 14 



Robert de la Moore, son of Thomas and uncle of 

 John, then became the leading member of the family. 

 In 1389 he had a grant of lands in Kirkdale from his 

 father, 15 and was put in seisin in I4o8. 16 In 1417 he 

 witnessed a Kirkdale charter in which Bank House is 

 named. 17 Seventeen years later he was himself the 

 possessor of land at Bank House, which was probably the 

 site of Bank Hall, the future mansion of the family. 1 * 

 Robert had a son of the same name, who had a son 

 William, with whom more plentiful documentary 

 evidence begins again. 19 



William Moore died on 30 July, 1541, seised of 

 the manors of Kirkdale, Bootle, and Eccleshill, and of 

 various other lands, burgages, and properties. His 

 heir was his son John, then thirty-seven years of age. 20 



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