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Hansard Entry For Jack Moffat’s Death

Jack Moffat Death Report

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Lieut.  Jack Moffatt,  R.A.M.C., T.A.,  killed by explosive while on duty with Home Guard, WW2.

Chair ,with inscription , in his memory.

Close Up of Chair Dedication

Jack Moffat In Home Guard Uniform

 Rod. Moffatt, Clan Member, (72)

has extensively researched his Moffatt ancestors and has sent us photographs illustrating some of their history.  Much of the research he did was at the City of London’s extensive Guildhall Library

MOFFATT FAMILY :  Thames  Lightermen and Watermen, London.

Researching genealogy in Southern England one comes to realise what a huge source of employment there was in the London Thames / Docklands area, especially among the respected Watermen and Lightermen group of workers, this was a living that was often very family orientated.
There is much detail available on the internet covering this part of London’s history and the following is an example of one of the web sites:
http://www.parishregister.com/gallery.asp
One can see a picture of the interesting Almshouses in Penge (South London) in which Rod’s family once lived. Sadly these almshouses were sold for re-development into private apartments. The residents were rehoused in a greener area outside London which some may have considered a  pleasant alternative.

Photograph: Ernest Frederick Moffatt

Joseph Frederick Moffat

Ernest Joseph Frederick Moffatt, grandfather to Rod. Moffatt,born 1881 at Russell Place, Poplar, London (m. M Hawkins), Christened: 29 Jun 1883, All Saints Poplar.He was a Waterman and Lighterman on the river Thames all his life. d.  Jun 1926 in St Andrews hospital,Bromley London.Photograph taken on his wedding day by Wiffen Photographer of Poplar.

Photograph: Frederick William Moffatt, great grandfather.
Born: Jan 1858, Laurel Cottages Hammersmith
Bap:  April 1863 St. Georges Chapel, Old Brentford, Middx. (m D. Dixon)
Waterman and Lighterman, also he had a Newsagent’s shop
and was joint Master of a Pleasure craft on the River Thames.
Later he was a Mason at Brentford. d. Mar 1934 at the Watermens & Lightermens Almshouses, Penge. 

Photograph taken by family member at Brentford.

Frederick William Moffat

jean oliver
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Submitted on 2011/09/07 at 11:05 pm
my great aunt married peter dickson moffat in1891 Iknow about part of her life but cannot find whwt happened to her after 1910 ?

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COLENE  VINCENT  -
is given the Award for the FARTHEST TRAVELLED!
Well…surely she could not have come farther than from New Zealand to be with the Clan!
Flying into Manchester and picking up a hire car, the itinerary ran something like this :
Silloth (Cumbria), Dunoon, Isle of Mull, Fort William, Crieff, Moffat,
Dumfries, Tillicoultry, Dundee, Montrose, Inverness, Perth,
Skelton, Manchester, Abu Dhabi -
fly back to Christchurch NZ.
+++++What a woman!! Our Clan Member Extraordinaire++++++++

What a lot of work and worry this Academy Road house has undergone, to arrive at this happy point in 2011.

Niamh & David Elliott have sent the latest pics. showing the newly installed windows and intricately renewed stonework.

At last the scaffolding is down and work proceeds when dry weather permits, on the stone outhouse at the back.

The windows alone have demanded a huge amount of effort, the unique glass blown by a specialist firm.

Installing the frames and sills has required a series of painstaking, time consuming sessions.

(ref. Norgrove  Studios, Ben Sinclair)

Pictured below are visitors Johan Findlay OBE JP

(author of “All Manner of People” – History of Justices of Peace in Scotland)

and Colin Moffat our Clan Genealogist, with David Elliott.

It’s always a joy to see such individual old houses brought back

to useful and elegant life again -

Congratulations!

By Jeff Benson, Minneapolis, MN USA

This article is reproduced from the Clan Moffat Newsletter Autumn 2009 (Vol 3 Issue 7)

There’s no telling the surprises that may be lurking in one’s family history. This narrative tells how I came to discover a 17th century Scottish ancestor named Robert Moffat in… Sweden?!

My parents were always proud of their respective ethnic heritages and made of point of passing that information on to their children. I have thus long known that my mother was half German, half Norwegian and my father’s ancestors all came from Sweden. My mother knew a couple distant cousins in Norway and one of them even came to visit us in America. The idea of maintaining a living link to distant relatives in another land fascinated me. While I knew very little about my great-grandparents, I decided that someday I was going to find out more about these ancestors. Read more »

A recent innovation is the Clan Moffat Roll of Honour, honouring Clansmen and Clanswomen who, by their works have brought honour to the Moffat name or who have contributed to the general good of Clan Moffat.  We were proud and happy that John “Jock” Moffat agreed to become its first member.  He was a key member of the heroic team that disabled the steering mechanism on the Bismarck, enabling its sinking by the Task Force.  Further evidence about these  events is discussed in his best-selling book   “I Sank the Bismarck”.

Note – October 2010 : John was not able to attend the Clan AGM but he received the scroll recording his place in Clan Moffat’s history when Gordon and Hazel travelled to his Scottish home.

Many Clan Members will know of the deep cleft in the Moffat Hills known as the Devil’s Beef Tub. Here, so I’m told, our Moffat ancestors hid the cattle they had stolen from the neighbouring clans. The Beef Tub is part of Corehead Farm, an area of about 1500 acres that also includes Hart Fell, the highest hill in Dumfriesshire.

On Friday 29th May Borders Forest Trust triggered the legal option to buy Corehead and the deal has now been concluded.

The Trust’s focus now turns to the management of the site, with plans to create a mosaic of habitats across the rolling hills of Corehead, whilst retaining elements of low intensity farming, such as hill grazing by cattle, and hay and wet meadow management. The Trust are delighted to announce that a conditional grant of £200,000 for management of Corehead has been received so far from the Tubney Chariitable Trust.

Bringing Corehead into conservation management is a vital part of the Trust’s vision of restoring the Ettrick Forest. Many thanks for helping to make this happen. www.bordersforesttrust.org