Moore, Mary Blake (mother)

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Monochrome photograph, colorized

Mary Blake (1828-1895), eldest daughter of Maurice and Anne Blake of Ballinafad, County Mayo (about seven miles from Moore Hall), married George Henry Moore in 1851; their first child George Augustus Moore was born the following year.

The photograph was published in Maurice George Moore, An Irish Gentleman (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1913), facing page 302; and in Joseph Hone, The Life of George Moore (1936), facing page 124.

Present whereabouts unknown.

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