Reverend John Fitz Moore Halsey
(1796-1864)
4 July 1861

Volume 4, page 170, sitting number 4750.

[Although the Silvy daybooks call him 'Mister,' this is probably the Reverend John Fitz Moore-Halsey of Gaddesden Park, Hertfordshire.]

He appears on the 1861 census living at Gaddesden House, Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, together with his wife, Sarah Moore-Halsey, and his step-daughter, Fanny Halsey. He was 65 years old and gave his profession as 'Clergyman of the Church of England.'

Some forty years earlier The European Magazine (6 February 1821) had announced: 'The King has been pleased to give and grant unto the Reverend John Fitz Moore, Clerk, M.A., Vicar of Ivanhoe, in the county of Buckingham, His royal licence and authority that from and after the solemnization of his marriage with Sarah Halsey, widow and relict of Joseph Thompson Halsey, late of Great Gaddesden, in the county of Hertford, Esq. and only surviving child and heir of Thomas Halsey, sometime of Great Gaddesden aforesaid, Esq. deceased, he may assume and take the surname of Halsey, in addition to and after that of Moore, and bear the arms of Halsey quarterly with his own family arms.'

Reverend John Fitz Moore-Halsey died on 24 April 1864 at Gaddesden Park. He left an estate valued at £40,000.