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1911 · 259144 — N.p. London 1911. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full red morocco gilt upper boards titled in gilt spines with raised bands dentelles gilt marbled endsheets a.e.g. Some inoffensive traces of damp along lower portion of boards of Moore volume occasional superficial scuffs otherwise fine. Internally immaculate. With two full page watercolor heraldic drawings in first volume: Arms Crest and Badge of Clarence Moore; Armorial Bearings of Edwin Carleton Swift; both signed Archibald G.B. Russell Lancaster Herald College of Arms London. Manuscript on paper 28 lines in a fine cursive hand in black ink with occasional red initials within red rules. 160; 253 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Monumental genealogical manuscript volumes recording the descent of Clarence Moore of Washington D.C. who died aboard the S.S. Titanic in April 1912 and his second wife Mabille daughter of Edwin Carleton Swift of Prides Crossing Massachusetts. They were married in 1900 and had four sons: Edwin Swift Moore born 1901 died in childhood 1907; Jasper Moore born 1905; Clarence Moore born 1910; and Lloyd Moore born 29 November 1912. In addition to the detailed genealogical reports the volumes include extenisve extracts from historical documents and records in England Pennsylvania Massachusetts and Maryland. The Swift Genealogy William Swyft of Sandwitch and some of his descendants 1637-1887 includes 1296 entries and concludes with a family tree for Mabille Florence Swift. The researches for Moore were conducted by "Hester Dorsey Richardson and Albert Levin Richardson experts in Original Research of Baltimore Maryland".<br /> The Moore pedigree is updated through 1926 noting that Mabille married again in 1915 to Aksel de Wichfeld of Maribe Denmark.<br /> <br /> Clarence Moore 1865-1912 a banker and sportsman of Washington. D.C. and M.F.H. of the Loudoun Hunt and the Chevy Chase Hunt had travelled to England to buy a pack of hounds and sailed for home on the Titanic. Survivors reported Moore's heroic conduct. He lowered women and children into the lifeboats and refused to take a place in the boats.<br /> <br /> A beautiful and imposing genealogy. unknown