Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell

Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell (1792-1883). The son of the 2nd Earl Mount Cashell he was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent some time in Switzerland and married in 1819 to Anna Marie Wyse/Wyss (c.1793-1876) of Berne. The family then lived for a time in Frankfurt, Germany. The couple would have four daughters and three sons.

In 1833 the family left Europe for British North America and settled in Lobo Township in the London District (later Lobo Township in Middlesex County, Ontario). Using the services of an agent Lord Mount Cashell purchased 1000 acres from the estate of the late Captain John Matthews (c.1771-1831) an Upper Canadian politician and former officer in the Royal Artillery who had come to British North America in the retinue of Governor-General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. Settling on the former Matthews' estate Mount Cashell built -- by Upper Canadian standards -- a large home for his family and servants. During his time in Upper Canada (later Canada West and then Ontario) he sometimes ran afoul of local authorities by asserting his rights as an elected representative peer in the Irish Peerage. Local folklore indicates that Mount Cashell had a propensity to use a pistol to shoot at flies who infiltrated his home. On October 1, 1865 Mount Cashell's lawyer, H.C.R. Becher, based at nearby London, Ontario confided in his diary that "The Earl of Mountcashell dines with me often. He is a troublesome client, rather amusing as a guest at first, but in the main a bore." Various members of the family travelled between Britain and the lands in British North America and Mount Cashell's daughter-in-law, Jane Dance, son of the Hon. George F. Moore died at the Lobo property in 1868 and was buried in a local cemetery.

By 1870 the family had wound up its dealings in the area and returned to Britain. Mount Cashell died October 1883 and was succeeded by his son Stephen Moore, 4th Earl Mount Cashell (1825-1889) who was in turn succeeded by his younger brother Charles William Moore, 5th Earl Mount Cashell (1826-1898).

References

*Lobo Township Heritage Group. "The Heritage of Lobo, 1820-1990 "(Ilderton, Ontario: Lobo Township Heritage Group, 1990), 275-279.
*"Illustrated London News" 27 October 1883.