My seventh great-grandmother, Sarah Moore, was a Quaker. She was born about 1721 in Perquimans, North Carolina, and died 15 April 1791 in South Carolina. She married fellow Quaker, Thomas Lamb, on 1 October 1746 in Perquimans, North Carolina.

This is on my paternal side. My fifth great-grandmother, granddaughter of Sarah Moore and Thomas Lamb, was Mary Ann “Polly” Lamb, who married Samuel Doty.

Sarah Moore was the daughter of Robert Moore and Hannah Manwaring. Hannah Manwaring was the daughter of Stephen Manwaring and Hannah Voss.

On 7 April 2026, I updated this blog post with new information and corrections to the parentage of our Robert Moore from the Isle of Man.

In the past, many people have linked Robert Moore as being the son of William Moore and Elizabeth McBride, and giving his place of birth as Southward, Surrey, England, even though William Moore was not from Southward. Actually, William Moore was part of another Moore family living in Perquimans, North Carolina.

William Moore left a detailed will, and he does not list a son named Robert Moore. Nor does Robert Moore mention, in his will, any of the names that are linked to the proven children, grandchildren and other descendants of William Moore.

The glaring mistake here was not utilizing the records that we do have about Robert Moore’s origins. In several historical sources, it clearly states that Robert Moore was from the Isle of Man, set sail from there with Rev. Richard Marsden and they came together to North Carolina in 1706.

These two sources, which are well-respected in their research, state our Robert Moore, who migrated to North Carolina, was from the Isle of Man and came from there to North Carolina with Rev. Richard Marsden:  

1. Smith, Alice Whitley, and Casey Thigpen (ed.). The Thigpen Tribe. Yanceyville, NC: Private Publishing, 1961, Rev. 1963, p. 29.
2. Mrs. Winslow, Watson. History of Perquimans County, As Compiled from Records Found There and Elsewhere. Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1931, p. 384.

Rev. Richard Marsden is an interesting character. JSTOR has written a journal article about him entitled Richard Marsden, Wayward Clergyman. He was an Anglican clergyman who traveled several times between the UK and the British American Colonies. He was born in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England.

Robert Moore was baptized on 7 November 1686 in Malew, Isle of Man.

Malew is one of the seventeen parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located in the south of the Island (part of the traditional South Side division) in the sheading of Rushen.

He was the son of Robert Moore (the elder) and Cathrine Quiddy. The parentage of Robert Moore (the elder) is unproven. There is much confusion about several men named Robert Moore that lived in this area in the Isle of Man at the same time. See the image below for a breakdown of the three men named Robert Moore that are mixed up and merged together by many in their family trees.

Moore is a common name in Ireland, Scotland, and the North of England, as well as in the Isle of Man. More was the usual form of the surname till the end of the 16th century. Of Gaelic/Manx origin, Moar, the name for a collector of manorial rents on the Isle of Man.

In a listing of Manx surnames by occurrences in the 1881 census of the Isle of Man, there were a total of 944 people with the name.

Cathrine Quiddie, her surname is on occasion listed as Cuddie, was the daughter of Nicholas Quiddy and Jane. Known children of Nicholas Quiddy and Jane:

1. Catherine Quiddie born about 1649-1651 in Malew, she married Robert Moore in 1673, and died 4 Oct 1686 in Malew, Isle of Man.
2. Thomas Quiddy, baptized 1653 in Malew.
3. John Quiddy, baptized 1654 in Malew.
4. Margrett Quiddy, baptized 1656 in Malew.

The earliest surviving parish register for Kirk Malew is a parchment-bound volume containing baptisms, marriages, and burials starting in 1649 and continuing until 1705. But the original 1649 register is described as being in a very dilapidated condition with crumbling pages that are extremely difficult to handle without causing further damage. Malew baptisms beginning in 1652 are the start of more legible records. This is why I have been unable to locate the baptism record for Cathrine Quiddie.

Quiddie is an uncommon and rare Manx surname. In The Surnames and Place-Names of the Isle of Man by A.W. Moore, he writes regarding the surname Quiddie:

The presence of MacQuiddie in the 1511 Manorial Roll and Cuddie by 1653 and identifying the name as obsolete or extinct by the time of the writing of the book in 1890. He traces the origin of the surname to McGillicuddy, a shortened form of the Gaelic Mac Giolla Mochuda, meaning “son of the servant of St. Mochuda”. He identifies St. Mochuda as the Bishop of Lismore and Abbot of Raithin who died in A.D. 636.

MacQuiddie was concentrated in the northern parishes of the island by the early 16th century. Key figures recorded in the Manorial Rolls include: Donald MacQuiddie (or MacQuyd): Found in the northern division (1515), specifically associated with the parishes of Andreas or Bride. Gilbert MacQuiddie (MacQuyd): Also recorded in the northern parishes, representing the early agricultural landholders of that line.

Historically, the MacQuiddie name and its variants are deeply rooted in the Northern Division of the island, particularly in Andreas and Bride.

Southern Migration: By the time of my Catherine Quiddy and Nicholas Quiddy in the mid-1600s, a small branch had moved south into Malew, but their ancestral origins from the 1511 rolls remain firmly in the north.

The surname, already quite rare, disappears from Isle of Man records before the mid 1700’s.

The Manx cat is a breed of domestic cat that originates on the Isle of Man, with a mutation that shortens the tail. When I was a child, I had a gray Manx cat named Chablis that we called Chebbie.

The Isle of Man is in the middle of the Irish Sea at the center of the British Isles. It is 33 miles (53km) long and 13 miles (22km) wide at its broadest point, with a total land area of 227 square miles (572 square km).

Large-scale immigration from Ireland in the fifth century AD sparked the island’s Gaelicisation, when Irish missionaries following the teaching of St. Patrick began settling on the island. As shown by Ogham inscriptions, and the Manx language emerged. It is a Goidelic language that shares a strong relationship with Scottish and Irish Gaelic. (2)

The Isle of Man was not directly affected by the upheaval of Celtic “Iron Age” civilization brought about by the Roman conquest of Britain from 43 to around 410 A.D., and a Roman naval presence in the Irish Sea might have even had a stabilizing effect. Manx civilization barely changed until the Vikings arrived in the area in 800 A.D., except for the introduction of a new religion, Christianity. (2)

The Anglo-Saxon King Edwin of Northumbria conquered Man in the seventh century, and he thereafter invaded Ireland from Man. It’s unclear how much of an impact the Northumbrians had on Man, but relatively few place names in Man have Old English roots.

At the end of the eighth century, Vikings arrived. They created Tynwald and made other territorial divides that are still in place today. In the Treaty of Perth in 1266, King Magnus VI of Norway gave the islands to King Alexander III of Scotland. However, it wasn’t until the Manx were vanquished in the Battle of Ronaldsway, close to Castletown, in 1275 that Scottish authority over Man was solidified.

In 1399, the island was placed under the feudal dominion of the English Crown following a period of alternate governance by the Kings of England and Scotland. Although the island did not join the Kingdom of Great Britain in the 18th century or its successors, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the lordship was returned to the British Crown in 1765. Its internal self-government has never been lost. The first national legislature in the world to provide women the right to vote in a general election was the Isle of Man Parliament in Tynwald in 1881, albeit married women were not granted this privilege. (4)

I have many paternal DNA matches to others with ancestry from the Isle of Man. The maiden name of Jane, who married Nicholas Quiddy, is unknown, and the parentage of Robert Moore, the elder, is unproven. Based on my DNA matches, it is likely that I am descended from the surname Christian in the Isle of Man.

If you want to learn more about my Lamb/Moore and Doty ancestors, click on the surnames.

My direct line:

1. Nicholas Quiddy and Jane ___.
2. Cathrine Quiddie and Robert Moore.
3. Robert Moore and Hannah Manwaring.
4. Sarah Moore and Thomas Lamb.
5. John Lamb and Prudence Featherstone.
6. Mary Ann “Polly” Lamb and Samuel Doty.
7. Rev. John M Doughty / Doty and Mary Jane “Jane” McGuire.
8. McGuire Doughty and Mary Ann Gooden.
9. John Louis Doughty and Cynthia Ann Barrett.
10. Mary Adalaide “Mame” Doughty and James Francis Fay. (My great-grandparents).

References:

1.  Celtic Farmers – gov.im. Isle of Man government. 16 March 2012. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
2. Magnus 3 Olavsson Berrføtt – Norsk biografisk leksikon. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 28 September 2014. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013.
3. Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man: Adult suffrage. Tynwald.org.im. 2017. Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2025.

To learn more about the Isle of Man:

1. Traditional & Cultural. Visit Isle of Man. visitisleofman.com
2. 5 Fascinating Facts About the Culture of the Isle of Man. visitisleofman.com
3. Isle of Man. historic-uk.com

To learn more about the Manx Cat:

1. The history and ‘tails’ of the Manx Breed. A brief history. manxcatcafe.co.uk
2. Manx Cat | The History, Traits, and Care. July 6, 2024. felinefancy.co.uk

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