John Moore

Last Name: 
Moore
First Name: 
John
Grave Plot No.: 
672
Spatial: 
Date of birth: 
1799
year of death: 
1839
Age at death: 
40 years 5 months.
Gender: 
Male
Relationships: 
John married Anne Isabella Mackenzie on 13th October 1824, at Calcutta. He then had six children with her - John O Moore (born: 1826) Roderick Warden Moore (born: 1829) Anne H Moore (born: 1931) Helen B Moore (born: 1834) Frances G Moore (born: 1835) Mary A Moore (born: 1838).
Full Epitaph: 
In The Memory of, John Moore, for many years the senior member, of the firms of Julloh and co. And Moore Hickey and co, of this city, who died on the 11th September 1839, Aged 40 years and 5 months, in life he was greatly beloved, and in death deeply lamented, in memory also of three of his children, who died in early infancy.- Llewellyn and Company.
Occupation: 
Senior member at Tulloh & Co. and Moore Hickey & Co.
Residence: 
Garden Reach, Calcutta.
Place of death: 
Garden Reach, Calcutta
Tomb architecture: 
column. pillar tomb.
Detailed information: 

He was a senior member of the firm Moore, Hickey & Co., the first Indigo mart of Calcutta founded and promoted by the native 'celebrity' entrepreneur Babu Mutty Lall Seal (or Motilal Sil), of Colootollah. The firm had their office at Mission Row near the Tank Square. The company he worked in, prior to Moore, Hickey & Co., named 'Tulloh & Co.' was also partly owned by Mutty Lall Seal which shows us that the two had a continuing relationship. (Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Colonial context of the Bengal Renaissance: A Note On Early Railway Thinking In Bengal, in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. XI, No. 1, March 1974.)
The 'Moore' in the company's name might also suggest that John was a stakeholder in the venture, however no evidence justifying the same could be recorded.
Post John Moore's death, his belongings were shared by his wife Anne Isabella Moore; John Jackson, a member of the firm Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company of Clive Street and Roderick Mackenzie, a resident of Tank Square.

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