The Moores of Charlton Brook Farm
A brief history of the Moore's family, written by Andrew Smith.
An outline history of the Moore’s of Charlton Brook (or Moore’s Farm)
The Moore family have lived, farmed and worked in the Charlton Brook/Mortomley/Chapeltown area for nearly 300 years, so I have been able to trace many of them back through their baptisms, marriages and burials in the parish records of St Mary’s, Ecclesfield.
The first mention that I have found so far is that of Enoch Moore (1767-1850) who initially farmed the land as a tenant farmer before becoming the freeholder of the land sometime before 1840. He married Anne Moore (1770-1824) in 1798 and they had three children, two daughters, Maria and Hannah, and finally a son, Enoch (1817-1895) who inherited Charlton Brook Farm from his father.
Enoch had married Mary Johnson (1816-1896) in 1849 and over the next decade they had five children, four daughters and a son. The son, also called Enoch died in 1877 at the age of 24, leaving the four daughters, Ann, Hannah, Sarah and Mary as the potential inheritors of the farm. This is where, from Enoch’s point of view, things began to “go wrong”.
His oldest daughter, Ann (1850-1926), the farmer’s daughter, embarked on a relationship with William Swallow Jackson (1849-1924). William appears on the 1871 as an agricultural labourer, but this probably does him a slight disservice as rather than being an itinerant labourer he had worked for, and lived with, his uncle John Trippett who farmed 114 acres in nearby Tankersley, since 1855, by which time both William’s parents had died.
Whether Ann’s father approved or not of this relationship, William and Ann were married at St Mary’s on 12 June 1872 and their first son, Thomas, was born just six months later on 9 December 1872
William and Ann had nine children, of whom two died as infants and one, William Frederick Jackson died during the Battle of Passchendaele in WW1 and is buried in the Canada Farm Cemetery near Ypres.
The remaining six were Thomas Moore Jackson, Colin Trippett Jackson (my maternal grandfather), Marianne Jackson, Alice Maud Jackson, Enoch Moore Jackson & George Bertram Jackson.
When Enoch Moore died in 1895, Charlton Brook Farm was left to his eldest daughter Ann and her husband William Swallow Jackson, but he did not want the Moore name to die out, so in his will he stated that if William, Ann or their children were to benefit from this inheritance then they had to change their surname from Jackson to Jackson-Moore. This change was effected on 7 August 1897.
This choice was slightly unusual, because as the Moore name would have been perceived at the time as being the more important, the surname should have become Moore-Jackson but that was not Enoch’s choice so Jackson-Moore it became.
William Swallow Jackson-Moore farmed Charlton Brook Farm until his death in 1924 and the farm was then run by his widow, Ann until her death two years later in 1926. Their eldest son Thomas Moore Jackson-Moore had predeceased both his parents and so in the normal course of events my maternal grandfather, Colin Trippett Jackson-Moore, would have inherited the farm. However, that did not happen and the farm passed to Enoch and was subsequently lost from the family, I believe in the 1930s (more research is needed!).
Colin Trippett Jackson-Moore (1875-1950) married Edith Annie Beard (1884-1972) in 1908 at St Mary’s, Ecclesfield and they had nine children, four boys and five girls. Edith Annie was one of the five daughters of Charles Beard (1858-1928) and Ellen Jarvis (1860-1940). Charles was a coal miner and latterly an innkeeper of The Acorn in Bracken Hill.
There is a family story that my grandmother, if there was a coal strike, would put a farthing on the gatepost of the striking miners’ houses so that they would still have some money to spend at the inn!
Colin and Edith’s first child was a girl, Isobel (1909-2003), followed by two boys who died in childhood, Enoch (1910-1921) and Eric (1912-1916). Harry (1914-1989), Mary (1916-1998), William (1917-1923), came next before my mother, Nancy (1921-1969), Brenda (1925-2000) and Charles (1927-2019). They all lived at 1 Hallwood Road, Bracken Hill until the children left home to be married, but my grandmother, Edith, lived in the same house until she died in 1972.
Although their surname was Jackson-Moore, they were all known just by the surname Moore. I never heard my grandmother referred to by anything other than Mrs Moore and whilst on their birth certificates the children had the surname Jackson-Moore, the England & Wales Register treats the Jackson as a Christian name and so at school they were all known as Moore.
All the children ended up working in one capacity or another for Newton Chambers and my mother was a shorthand typist for one of the senior managers. After the Second World War, Newton Chambers opened an office in London and my mother volunteered to move to London to work there. She moved to Crews Hill a small hamlet on the edge of London near Enfield, Middlesex living with one of her cousins, Freda Moore Gulliver and her husband. It was on the commuter train from Crews Hill into Moorgate that she met my father, Leslie Charles Smith (1918-2005). They married in Mortomley in 1948, the year after Leslie founded Lesney Products which subsequently grew into the “Matchbox Toys” company which was beloved of children around the world. They had three children together, Andrew, John and Karen who all live in the south of England.
Document Details
| Archiving Reference Number | E&DA/CHAP/AS002 |
|---|---|
| Date | 2020 |
| Search Year | 2020 |
| Type | Document |
| Photographer/Artist | Andrew Smith |
| Publisher | Andrew Smith |
| Contributor/s | Andrew Smith |
| Area | Chapeltown |
| Collection Holder | Ecclesfield Parish Council |
| Date Donated to the EDA | 1st November 2020 |
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