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• Mary Moffett who married Stephen Grady, and her Brother Barney Moffett, who married (1) Sarah Lofton Clowers, and (2) Martha J. Pitts;
• James Moffet (1854-1931), Tunnyhull, County Cavan, Ireland, married Maggie Lougheed and their family;
• John Blair Moffat (1858-1933), Coroneary, County Cavan, Ireland married Mary Davidson and their family;
• As well as new analysis of Thomas Moffat (b Edinburgh, 1596), his wife Issobel Gairdin, ancestor of most of the Moffats from Inveresk.

• New material, especially regarding “A Short History of the Family of Moffat of that Ilk”, in which the Irish data is expanded, including new facts and corrections that were unavailable to the author, Robert Maxwell Moffat.

• An update containing new material, especially including data from Ireland in the second half of the 19th century, with accurate dates for Births, Marriages and Deaths, as well as maiden names of married women.

• Margaret Armstrong (or Houlihan) (1843-1917) who married George Moffat (1841-1879), (6 children), and later Thomas Kirk, and who is the matriarch of the present day Moffett family of County Durham;
• Confirming that it was indeed Elizabeth Moffat of Cumberland who married Matthew Glenwright in ca 1853, and died shortly afterwards due to an abdominal haemorrhage;
• More accuracy in the structure of the Moffat families from Leadhills, Lanarkshire during the 19th century.

• Jane Moffatt (ca 1815-1847) who married William Abiah Newman; plus detail of William’s two subsequent marriages;
• A death date for Thomas Moffitt (1818-1867), of Toneywall, County Fermanagh. He married Anne Jane Beattie, and they had 10 children.

• Donald Breadsworth Moffat (1910-1993) whose son, Geoffrey Nicholas Moffat (1943-2019), passed away last month;
• William Moffat (1850-1914), whose early marriage, 1870, to Ellen Ann Clarke Gordon (1852-1938) came as a surprise – since William married Mary Boal (1855-1909) only 4 years later;
• Robert Moffatt (1858-after 1911, County Londonderry, Ireland, and his wife Sarah Carton (or Cartin?) and their extensive family of 11 children.

• Robert Law (1835-1903), Pollokshaws, Renfrewshire, who married Ann Moffat (1841-1923), whose descendents emigrated to New Zealand;
• Brian Moffett (1938-2019), Newcastle upon Tyne, son of Leslie Moffett and Jane Laverick, who passed away 4 September 2019;
• John Smith Moffat (1880-1965), and his wife Janet Cameron (1894-1993), who married in Glasgow, and emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;
• Moffat families commemorated in the Leadhills Burying Ground and Cemetery, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

• Walter Ker Moffat (1893-1946), married Rose Ann Depledge (1895-1984), who lived in Sheffield, and their family;
• Robert Moffat (1909-1987), Fishmonger, warehouse manager and his wife Margaret Reston Clark (1916-2002);
• Charles Percy Moffat (1893-1947), hydraulic pressure engineer, and his wife Emma Butterworth (1896-1990), who lived in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and their family.

• William Moffatt (1850-1914), insurance agent, married Mary Boal (1855-1909), whilst at the same time partnering Mary Jane Rogerson/Orwin (1845-after 1911);
• Robert Moffat (1909-1987), Fishmonger, warehouse manager and his wife Margaret Reston Clark (1916-2002);
• Robert Moffat (1916-1989), Engineer’s Clerk and his wife Mary McMillan Guy (1916-2007).

• George Duncan Moffatt (1896-1952), dental surgeon, married Florence Kate Jannaway (1890-1967), whose first husband, Herbert Harvey (1893-1918) had died at Ypres late in WW1.

• Edward Knowler Moffat (1885-1974) Clergyman, whose autobiography “Reflections on Life: 1885-1974” provides fascinating insight into life in the first half of the 20th century;
• William Muffett (1857-1942), and his life in rural Norfolk, together with two wives, Elizabeth Buck (1856-1885), who died aged 29, and Fanny Augusta Ward (1861-1949)

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