THE FAMILY OF JOHN MOULE OF ALDGATE

Introduction and Summary of Findings

Our family is traced back with certainty to John MOULE who married Elizabeth PARSABLE (or PERCIVAL) in 1765 at St Botolph’s Aldgate, London, hereinafter referred to as John Moule of Aldgate. The marriage and banns records are the earliest known records of John which have been identified with certainty (or even with probability). Assuming the correctness of his age in burial registers, he was born in 1737/8. His ancestry has been extensively researched for well over a century. A lot of information has been built up and a number of possibilities have been eliminated. However in reality it is probably fair to say that we have little more idea who his parents were than researchers did a century ago. However the Moule DNA project (see below) has identified that John Moule seems to be fairly closely related to Adams Moule who married in 1755 at Willingham, Cambridgeshire.

Life of John Moule of Aldgate

Land tax records for Christchurch Spitalfields show that John Moule lived at Wheler St, Spitalfields, from 1766-9. Poor rate assessment records for St Giles Cripplegate show he lived at Hanover Court, Cripplegate, from 1772-6 and then moved to Great Swan Alley. Rate books at St Stephen’s Coleman St show he lived there until his death on 21st October 1796; the parish registers give his burial on 28th October aged 58. (A recent re-examination of the parish registers for St Stephen’s has shown his death to have been in 1796, not 1795 as published for many years. St Stephen’s was a very small parish, and evidently the original researchers many years ago failed to realise that there was more than one year to a page).

John’s occupation is variously listed against the baptisms of his children as shoemaker, plasterer, furniture painter and brewer’s servant (it is possible that the plasterer and brewer’s servant may refer to other people). It is curious that (with one exception) the baptisms of the daughters have been found, but none of the baptisms of his sons has been found (except possibly that of a son Thomas in 1785). It seems unlikely that all four of the missing baptisms of his sons are simply awaiting discovery. Baptismal coverage of London on the IGI is close to 100%, and it seems likely several parishes would have been involved (baptisms of his daughters were at Christchurch Spitalfields (1766), St Luke Old St, Finsbury (1767), St Olave Hart St (1770), St Giles Cripplegate (1773)). This might suggest that John had a non-conformist background, with his sons being baptised non-conformist, and his daughters according to his wife’s denomination of Church of England.

Where John lived prior to 1766, or between 1769-72, has not yet been discovered. The marriage and banns records of St Botolph’s Aldgate of 1765 describe him as living in that parish, but there is not evidence from other records (such as land tax) to support this being the case. In 1793 he stood unsuccessfully for the post of Parish Beadle at the church of St Stephen’s Coleman St, coming third out of five with 16 votes (as opposed to 51 by the victorious Abraham Schofield). After his death in 1796, his widow Elizabeth moved to the parish of St John’s Clerkenwell, dying in 1824 aged 81, and was buried at St Stephen’s.

John’s surname is usually spelt Moule on records, although Mould has been found, and his marriage records Maule – this being the earliest record could be significant. Despite the humble nature of John’s recorded professions, he must have had some financial means since two of his sons were solicitors and one a stock-broker. He also appears to have been literate, at least to the point of being able to sign his own name.

History of Research into the Ancestry of John Moule

The first documentary evidence of anyone looking into this question is correspondence between Margaret Alice Moule (1861-1931) and Charles George Moule (1839-1916) in c1885. The latter wrote that he believed we were descended from the Bedfordshire Moules (see below). In 1911 Margaret hired the services of the well-known genealogist Charles Bernau to research the question. Bernau claimed to be "almost convinced" that John Moule would prove to be identical with the John Moule baptised in 1732 at St James’s Clerkenwell, son of John and Hester (nee Graves). The burial entry at St Stephen’s Coleman St (suggesting 1737/8 for his birth) had not been discovered at that point. Nonetheless I was recently inclined to share Mr Bernau’s view (despite the age discrepancy), until the burial came to light of John Moule at Clerkenwell aged four years.

Revd RWM Lewis (1866-1954, great-grandson of John Moule’s son George) compiled a complete tree of the descendants of George Moule, along with various notes and pictures, and printed this privately in 1938, entitled, ‘The Family of Moule of Melksham, Fordington and Melbourne’. The number of copies printed is unknown, but may well exceed 100.

In the 1950s or thereabouts, some research was undertaken by a J.Jameson (presumably male, but correspondence gives no indication of sex). Who commissioned him is not known, but it may perhaps have been Arthur Christopher Moule (1873-1957), since the correspondence was found in the possession of his nephew, Professor Charles Moule. Jameson was also engaged in researching unrelated Moule families at that time, including that of a Carl Edmonds Moule (1897-1973) who left the address quoted by Jameson in 1963. This CE Moule turned out to be descended from another long-published Moule family from Sneads Green, Worcestershire. Jameson confidently claimed that our John Moule was baptised in 1738 at Wanstead, Essex, the son of John Mould (sic) and Sarah (nee Underwood). However research in the 1980s and early 1990s showed this John Mould to have lived at Chigwell, Wanstead, Waltham Holy Cross, Epping, West Ham, and Poplar, and that his son John was having children by Ann at St Anne’s Limehouse from 1758 to 1772, thus eliminating him from the picture.

As far as is known, little research was done in the 1960s and early 1970s, until my brother Jocelyn and I started to show interest. In 1982 I set out to update RWM Lewis’s pedigree, and succeeded in tracing several missing branches. In 1987 I printed and circulated some 25 copies of an updated tree, ‘John Moule of Aldgate – a Genealogy’. To contain the volume in size and effort to what is manageable, I included only those family members born with the surname Moule, and their spouses. In the introduction I speculated that John Moule might be identical with the John Mole (sic) baptised 1741 at Thorpe Mandeville, Northants. However an inspection of the Thorpe Mandeville parish registers in 1988 revealed that this John Mole lived for only two days.

The Vanneck Connection

John Moule’s wife, Elizabeth Parsable, was baptised at Stockton-on-Tees in 1743. Her parents were Thomas and Ann (nee Blackett). Quite a lot is known of Ann through letters (which survive) about legacies from her cousin Michael Blackett which she never received (Michael’s stepson, Christopher Johnson, walked off with his estate, to which he apparently had no entitlement – recent discoveries suggest this may not have been quite as dishonest as the family has claimed – Michael Blackett died in 1761 and the matter was not pursued until 1788, some 27 years later, and unsurprisingly got nowhere). Presumably for this reason, John Moule’s son George included the arms of Blackett in his quartering, which were first and fourth those of William Mole of Tingrith, Bedfordshire (who originated from the Mole family of Culworth, Northamptonshire), second Blackett, and third Vanneck (for reasons not yet discovered).

There is a marriage in 1691 of Anthony UTRICK and Elizabeth VANNECK. It may possibly be a coincidence, but in 1767 there is a will of a sailor called Utrick MOLE (sic). If Utrick were the grandson of Anthony and Elizabeth, and brother of John Moule of Aldgate, this would explain the Vanneck quartering. Utrick (unhelpfully from our perspective) leaves everything to Miss Sarah Robinson of St Clements Dane, London (where he owned properties), and names no relatives. However (upon investigating further), this Utrick is probably identical with the Utrecht (sic) Mole baptised 26/5/1734 at Holt, Wiltshire, son of William and Isabella. There is a marriage of a William Mole and Isabella Bates 12/8/1729, presumably his parents. There consequently seems little prospect of this Utrecht being a descendant of the Vanneck / Utrick marriage in 1691, so this seems to be a red herring.

The surname Vanneck is very uncommon in England in that period. There was a London-based Mole family living in the Stepney area (next to Aldgate) in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. A Christopher Mole from this family was secretary of the East India company in the 1730s at the same time as a Joshua Vanneck was chairman. Christopher’s brother Thomas Mole was a congregational minister. The East India Company acted as a kind of club, with members marrying each other’s sisters or daughters. This would all fit in well with the possibility of John Moule coming from a non-conformist background, as suggested earlier. However extensive research into this family (many of whom left wills) has failed so far to reveal any link.

Interestingly there is (was ?) a French Huguenot church in Wheler St, Spitalfields, where John Moule lived 1766-9. In his book, "Memories of a Vicarage", (1913), Bishop Handley Moule describes the forefathers of his grandfather George Moule as being "French by origin", but gives no indication of how he knew this.

The Clerkenwell Connection

Some time after the death of John Moule in 1796, his widow Elizabeth went to live in Clerkenwell. This may be coincidental, but possibly suggests a connection with the Mould family living there at the time. William MOULD (sic) of Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, watchmaker, died in 1796; his widow Jane died in 1806. This William does not seem to have had a son called William from his marriages, yet a William Moule of Eagle Court was buried at St John’s Clerkenwell in April 1821 aged 41. If (and obviously this is a big if) this William is the son of our John, then this would seem to suggest a close connection between John Moule and William Mould senior, possibly that they were brothers. John is known to have had a son William (about whom very little is known). However from the will of John’s sister-in-law Margaret Parsable, it seems that William was the elder brother of Henry (who died aged 67 in January 1848). In order for Henry’s elder brother to have been able to be 41 in April 1821, Henry and William must have been twins, or else born a year to eighteen months apart. An upper limit of 1776 for William’s birth is determined from the fact that his elder brother John died in 1809 aged 33. There is a baptism listed on the IGI on 3/7/1781 at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, of a William Henry Moule, son of John and Elizabeth, quite possibly a mis-transcription of twins William and Henry – the original should be consulted. It seems that this Clerkenwell Mould family is not connected to the John and Hester Moule who had children baptised there in the 1730s – John senior died in 1735, his son John in 1736, and the age of his son William (born 1735) does not fit with his being 65 in 1796.

There is other circumstantial evidence linking these two families. Poor rate assessment books for Swan Alley show a John Moule living there from 1810 to c1820 (perhaps the son of Adams Moule of Whaddon, Cambridgeshire; see section on Moule DNA project below). This cannot be the son of John senior (who died in 1809), but William Mould of Clerkenwell also had a son John. A Thomas Moule had children baptised at St Stephen’s Coleman St c1800, again impossible for this to be a son of John senior, but fits perfectly with his being a known son of William Mould. More puzzling is the Richard and Martha Moul (sic) who had a daughter Martha baptised at St Stephen’s Coleman St in 1780. This is such a tiny parish that it seems highly unlikely that unrelated people of the same not very common name would have been living there at the same time. With regard to Richard, it would seem a bit tight for Richard to be a nephew of John Moule; another brother would seem more likely. William Mould’s final wife was Jane REYNOLDS. The Jane Moule who married a John Reynolds in London in 1819 is probably the final daughter of our John (she would have been around 32 by then), perhaps another indication of a connection. Marrying (say) the nephew of your uncle’s widow is not improbable, particularly since Jane may well have been living close to her aunt after her father died. There is a baptism of a Mary Mole (sic) in 1764 at St Botolph’s Aldgate, daughter of William and Mary. This may well relate to an earlier marriage of William of Clerkenwell.

If the 1821 burial were of a son of William Mould the burial registers would almost certainly say Mould, not Moule – William’s family is almost invariably Mould, and John’s family Moule, but a disagreement about how to spell their surname certainly need not preclude them from being brothers, or perhaps cousins.

John Moule junior (son of John and Elizabeth) married at St James Clerkenwell in 1805.

Possibilities for the Baptism of John Moule

It seems likely that the baptism of John Moule is yet to be found. Indeed, if he was a non-conformist, it may well never be found, since non-conformist registers from the early eighteenth century often do not survive. Two possibilities which fit with his burial entry (died October 1796 aged 58) are under consideration:

John Moule son of Richard / Mary, baptised 17/9/1738 at Barley, Herts

John Maull son of Robert / Jane baptised 14/5/1738 at St Martin-in-the-Field, London

It is my conviction that the John Moule of Barley son of Richard / Mary can more or less be eliminated. It seems to me that this John is much more likely to be the John Moule who married Hannah Pamphilion and had children at Elmdon, Essex in the 1760s / 70s. There is a Richard Moule who had children by Ann at Elmdon in the 1770s, probably identical with Richard Mold (sic) baptised at Royston in 1734, and probably a brother of John. Richard Moule and Mary Rowel married at Toft in 1733, and is probably identical with the Richard Moull (sic) baptised at Elmdon in 1700 - the family seems to have left the village for a few decades before returning. This seems to me to be much more likely than any connection with our family - two brothers returning to the nearby birthplace of their father seems to be the explanation. [Evidence provided to me more recently suggests that John Moule of Barley probably died in infancy – his brother Joseph mentions five siblings in his will, but not John. Also Richard’s marriage seems to be that to Mary Tigger in 1721 at Barley].

John Maull (sic) baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1738, son of Robert / Jane is an interesting possibility, and certainly the next one to be investigated or eliminated. I have looked up the original marriage entry at the Family Records Centre (October 1732 - no precise date but the last entry for the month). It seems that it was a clandestine marriage conducted in a coffee shop in Fleet St. I discussed this with a staff member (who kindly helped me decipher the appalling handwriting), and probably not too much should be read into this. Many people didn't want the bother and expense of official weddings, and so had weddings conducted by clergy without parishes and without banns or licenses in informal settings. These were entered into the registers of Fleet Prison. Robert Mall (sic) and Jane Powell were both recorded as being of the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, so there is little doubt it is the same couple. Robert is described as a staymaker (maker of corsets). This one is the next one to be eliminated (or otherwise proven), but this may be difficult. A search of the burial records for St Martin-in-the-Fields from 1738 to 1767 will take many hours, even days, but could be worthwhile. It looks as if Jane remarried in 1767. They had a daughter Margaret in 1739 who lived only for a few days. Whether John lived to adulthood is not known. I searched the rate books for St Martin-in-the-Fields 1738-40 some years ago, without success. It does fit with the spelling of John's surname on the marriage / banns entry at St Botolph's Aldgate in 1765, and is only about three miles from St Martin-in-the-Fields. However it offers no explanation of a Vanneck connection, any link to William Mould of Clerkenwell, or why none of the baptisms of John Moule's sons have been found (except possibly the 1785 baptism of Thomas at Finsbury St Lukes, who presumably died in infancy).

Jane may be identical with the Jane Powell baptised 1700 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth. The most likely possibility for the baptism of Robert Mould seems to be that in 1692 of a Robert Mold at St Martin-in-the-Fields, parents Robert and Ellen.

The will of Robert Mould, 1763, of St Paul Shadwell, Middlesex, seems to be from a different family. He has a wife Elizabeth, and is probably identical with the Robert Mould who married Elizabeth Hicks, 1735, at Wyddial, Herts.

There is also a marriage of James Maul and Sarah Tweedy, 17th October 1732 at Fleet Prison, for which there must be a reasonable likelihood of a link to the marriage the same month of Robert and Jane. The 1692 baptism of Robert Mold does not seem to provide any link to this. It has been suggested to me that Robert and James might be sons of Robert Maule of Monifieth, Aberdeen (James born 1701, Robert born 1707). This family apparently had property confiscated following the first Jacobite rebellion in 1715, and there is mention of Maule family members going to London to try to get their confiscated property back.

A large number of wills from this period have been consulted. However, apart from the 1788 will of John’s sister-in-law Margaret Parsable, none contains any definitive reference to John or his family (indeed it is barely possible to point to any likely or even possible such reference). The same seems to apply to Robert Maule of St Martin-in-the-Field, the most likely candidate for John’s father.

One possibility which could explain things would be if Robert and James were the sons of Benjamin Mould and Katherine (nee Harper), baptised in 1713 and 1715 at St Mary Whitechapel. The clandestine nature of the marriages would be explained by their being minors. William Mould of Clerkenwell might be a grandson of Benjamin (perhaps baptised 1730 at St Dunstan Stepney, son of William and Sarah; Benjamin had a son William baptised 1711). However this will require substantial investigation.

At present I have to confess to a state of bafflement. John Moule seems to have come from nowhere, leaving few clues as to his origin. However if William Mould of Clerkenwell can be shown to be his relative, this should be a major step forward. Clerkenwell rate books, and the original baptism of William Henry Mould at Greenwich need to be points of investigation. However the Moule DNA project provide a fresh impetus.

Moule DNA Project

The Moule DNA project has provided a reasonably close match between our family and that of Jim Moule of the USA. His ancestor, John Moule of Kneesworth, Cambridgeshire, emigrated to the USA in the 1830s, and was a non-conformist. Jim has recently managed to show that his John Moule was the son of Adams Moule of Whaddon, and that he in turn was the son of Adams Moule who married at Willingham, Cambridgeshire, in 1755. The DNA evidence points to a 25% chance of John Moule of Aldgate and Adams Moule being brothers, and a 50% chance of their being related within three generations.

There is a John Moule of St Botolph’s Bishopsgate, London, son of Adams Moule of Whaddon, farmer, (thus Adams Moule junior) who was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 1811. This is very close to where John Moule of Aldgate and his family had lived, and suggests the two families may have known each other. As mentioned earlier, poor rate assessment books for Swan Alley show a John Moule living there from 1810 to c1820, which may be identical with the son of Adams Moule of Whaddon, Cambridgeshire.

The Moule DNA project is still at a very early stage, and it is to be hoped that other Moule researchers will join to see if their families connect as well.

Children of John Moule

Mary was the eldest child, baptised in 1766 at Christchurch Spitalfields, London. She married John Ashton HOWES in 1787 at St George’s Hanover Square.

George Moule was born in 1768. His baptism has not been found, although his birth date is known from his gravestone in Melksham churchyard (now no longer legible). He married in 1785 Sarah HAYWARD. Their granddaughter Adelaide Sarah Moule (1828-1909) is alleged to have described the marriage as "a hasty and possibly turn-a-way romance". He was a solicitor and moved to Melksham in the 1790s. It seems strange that he did not complete his articles until the late 1790s, but possible by marrying when he did he breached the terms of his original articles and had to repeat them. His wife may well have been a relative of Elias HOWE, whose will George proved, which had bequests to various members of the Hayward family. His correspondence in relation to his mother’s stolen inheritance survives. How much contact (if any) he had with the rest of his family after moving to Melksham is unclear. He had twelve children, four of whom are the ancestors of all known Moule relatives (although one of these branches recently died out in the male line, and another is set to follow suit), and died in 1830.

Elizabeth Moule was baptised in 1767 at St Luke’s Finsbury. Presumably she died in infancy, as another daughter Elizabeth was baptised in 1770 at St Olave Hart St. She must have been alive in 1788 when Margaret Parsable wrote her will, but otherwise nothing further is known about her. She is probably identical with the Elizabeth Moule who married Thomas MANN in 1794 at St Luke’s Finsbury.

John Moule was buried in early 1809 at St Stephens’s Coleman St, aged 33; died of a liver complaint. He was thus born c1775, but his baptism has not yet been found. He married 17/10/1805 Clarissa OWEN at St James’ Clerkenwell. His widow remarried in 1811 to Thomas Wyatt. Clarissa may have had some connection to a HORNBY family, since a witness at her remarriage was George Hornby, and she subsequently had a daughter Clarissa Hornby Wyatt. Her marriage to John Moule has not been found and probably pre-dates 1800, since coverage on the Pallot marriage index is close to 100% for London 1800-37. There is no evidence to suggest that John and Clarissa had any children (and only just over three years for them to have done so). John’s administration in 1809 was handled by his wife Clarissa and brother Henry. He was a solicitor, although little is known about his career.

William Moule must have been living in 1788 at the time of the will of his aunt, Margaret Parsable. He must have been born between 1775 and 1780 (possibly Henry’s twin), and may well be identical with the William Moule who died in 1821 at Eagle Court, Clerkenwell, aged 41, as discussed earlier. If he married, the most likely possibility is that he is identical with the William Moul (sic) who married in 1799 Ann WESTCOMB at St Dunstan’s, Stepney – no children have been found for this marriage. Apart from this nothing is known about him. There was a William Moule who married in 1805 Louisa Isabella BARNARD at St James’s, Picadilly, and had several children baptised at St Giles Cripplegate 1806-24. This would appear to be a different William, since he died in 1847 aged 63, which would make him younger than Henry rather than older as suggested by Margaret Parsable’s will. Also the 1841 census for Finsbury indicates that he was born in a different county.

Henry Moule died in early 1848 aged 67, thus born c. 1780. He was a stockbroker, and a little volume he wrote about stock market calculations still survives at the British Library. His baptism has not yet been found. He married in 1806 Maria Wilkinson at St George the Martyr, Holborn. He was buried at St Mary Islington. His widow Maria died in 1862, leaving her estate (including several properties in Clerkenwell) to a clergyman friend she was living with. The nature of this relationship is unclear. No will has yet been found for Henry, but the absence of any mention of any children in Maria’s will strongly suggests there were none.

Jane Moule was baptised in 1773 at St Giles Cripplegate and buried in 1776 at St Stephen’s Coleman St. A further Jane must have been born at a later date, after Henry, to be alive at the time of Margaret Parsable’s will in 1788. Otherwise nothing is known about her, but as discussed earlier there is a fair possibility she is identical with the Jane Moule who married John REYNOLDS in 1819, and possibly this was a relative of her uncle’s widow.

Thomas Moule baptised in 1785 at St Luke’s Finsbury, son of John and Elizabeth is presumably the same family, but must have died before Margaret Parsable’s will was written in 1788.

Children and Later Descendants of George Moule

George Moule had twelve children (perhaps making up for the fact that his three brothers do not seem to have had any at all). Four of his children left male-line descendants to the present (or recent) day, although sadly one these male lines has died out and another is set to follow suit. Until such time as it is possible to put together fuller biographies, I will make some very brief mention of some of the children and members of later generations.

Frederick Moule had an only son Frederick George Moule who emigrated to Australia. He spent all his money looking for gold, finding enough to make a pair of cuff-links. He founded a law-firm which still exists. The last Australian male Moule, Bill, died in 1991. I corresponded for many years with Valentine Leeper, a member of this branch, until shortly before her death in 2001 at the age of 101. The last surviving male line member of this branch is Eugene (born 1952, now living in France) – his father returned to England about the time of the First World War. He is unmarried and childless, so this branch looks set to die out in the male line. His half-brother Michael died unmarried in 2006.

George William Moule was recorded in family notes as having married a lady called Isabella, with some comment that the marriage may have been abroad and disapproved of. There is an Ontario marriage bond of a George William Moule Esq now of York (Toronto) and Isabella Butler also of York, 6th April 1822. As George was born 1798, this seems likely to be his marriage. His entry on the 1851 census has recently been found, showing him as an inmate of Alderbury Prison in Wiltshire ! It will be interesting to discover the reason for his incarceration. He died the following year in Melksham (death certificate gives cause of death as "found dead in bed"), seemingly having been released. There is no record in England of the death or remarriage of Isabella (she probably either pre-deceased him in Canada, or else returned to Canada after his death), and no evidence of any children.

Charles Thomas Moule’s last male-line descendent was Geoffrey Fullerton Moule who died in South Africa in 1994, leaving a daughter Pam.

Revd Henry Moule 1801-80 was for fifty years vicar of Fordington (now part of Dorchester). He and his wife are fondly remembered there to this day, not least with various memorials in the church and outside. His reputation was largely built up as a result of his conduct during a cholera epidemic, and to help combat this disease he invented an earth closet. Most well-known of his sons was Handley, Bishop of Durham 1901-20; also Horatio, a good friend and influence of Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure is largely thought to be based upon him); George (Bishop in mid-China) and Henry (water-colourist and curator of Dorchester Museum). George’s grandson, Professor Charles (Charlie) Moule is undoubtedly the most distinguished Moule of the late twentieth century, having been a Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University for 25 years, and was awarded the CBE in the mid-1980s for his services to theology. He was the last surviving great-great-grandson in the male line of George Moule of Melksham and died in 2007 aged 98. Three of Revd Henry’s sons (Henry, George and Arthur) leave male line descendents to the present day. The descendants of Henry (junior) have lived in Canada since the early twentieth century. Charlie’s nephew Michael lives in France with his family, and my brother Hugo recently settled in Canada with his family, but otherwise members of this branch live in England.

Horatio Moule emigrated to India and was Dean of Calcutta Cathedral. His son Horace had a distinguished career in the Indian Civil Service. Horace’s son Hugh was killed in the First World War, but his widow and two young sons returned to England and leave male line descendants to this day. This branch is just about the only one to have changed the pronunciation of the name from "Mole" to "Moole" – H.D. Moule (son of the above Hugh) acknowledged to me in 1984 that his mother always used "Mole". The now extinct Australian branch also used "Moole", but Michael and Eugene have not followed this example.

At the time of writing (2011), as far as I am aware, still extant in the male line are six widows of such great-great-grandsons of George Moule of Melksham, and four great-great-granddaughters. [Some of the widows and granddaughters may have died in recent years without my knowledge]. There are 14 great-great-great-grandsons (aged between 42 and 80), 10 great-great-great-granddaughters, 10 great-great-great-great-grandsons (aged between 10 and 36) and nine great-great-great-great-granddaughters. The first male-line member of the sixth generation was born earlier this year. The last great-great-grandson of George Moule was Professor Charlie Moule (died 2007), and the last great-grandson was Henry Charles Cautley Moule, who died in 1986.

Last Updated 13/11/2011