Moore, William

Dublin, Ireland; cabinet maker and joiner (fl.1745-d.1759)

Freeman of the City of Dublin as a Joiner by Service, Easter 1745. Recorded at Inns Quay, 1750-4; Charles Street, 1754-9. Universal Advertiser, 11 June 1754: ‘To be sold by auction, on Monday the 1st of July, all the stock in trade of William Moore of the Inns-quay, Cabinet-maker, consisting of mahogany and oak desks, chamber chests with cedar, tallboys, nobbies, dining, dressing card and tea and breakfast tables, chairs of most kinds, a mahogany clothes press, with all the articles in the joinery way. The sale to begin at 11 o'clock, and continue from day to day until the whole is sold. Note the said Moore has opened a yard in Charles-street, where he intends to sell by retail mahogany, walnut, oak, and other timbers in the joiners way, and for the advantage of the public proposes to cut the stuff for any piece of work of any board in his yard, so that the buyer may not have one foot waste, at the additional price of one penny per foot more than what he will sell the whole board at. The prices at which he will sell is fixed up in the said yard, so that there may be no indisposition by anyone paying more than the other’.

Source: Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture (2007), p. 286.