Moody, John & Samuel

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Their parents John Moody = Holborn 1.11.1767 Magdalen Hinton by banns, wits Wm Hinton, Jas Johnson. Baptisms of whose children at St James Piccadilly, Elizabeth born 17.10.1768 bapt 1.11.1768/ John born 26.6.1770 born 22.7.1770/ Samuel born 27.10.1772 bapt 15.11.1772/ Jane born 3.5.1775 bapt 26.5.1778/ William Owen born 7.1.1780 bapt 30.1.1780.
John Moody carpenter Carnaby St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon/ voted 1780 Fox & Rodney/ voted 1790 Hood.
Will proved PCC  5.6.1787 James Faldes victualler Carnaby St, exec John Moody carpenter Carnaby St, wife Sarah, dau Sarah. James Faldes of the Ship Carnaby St vintner 1784 (Nat Arch C 111/266). John Moody bach otp = St Pancras 29.4.1788 Sarah Faldes wid otp by  banns.
John Moody shoemaker 1791 SunFire 80 on the Terrace at Tottenham Court Road/ boot & shoe maker 1792 SunFire 8 Carnaby St.
24.5.1794 letter from James Hartley to Dundas stating papers of the greatest consequence re: LCS were in possession of James Cornfoot, Tottenham Court Rd [QV], James Lapworth Carnaby St [QV], John Moody shoemaker Carnaby St, Samuel Moody carpenter Carnaby St, Philip Willby at Lapworth's, William Bunbow watchmaker at Lapworth's (Nat Arch HO 42/30/100 f255)
9.5.1795 Moody first mentioned in LCS records (Thale p251), as one of the oldest members of LCS (p357) as delegate of Div 27 (p258) elected to Executive Committee (p259) resigned from it 4.9.1795 (p302). 
John Moody shoemaker Carnaby St voted 1802 Fox.
J Ann Hone, For the Cause of Truth p63, reckoned Moody was a spy signing himself "Notary" whose letters can be seen online via Nat Arch at HO 42/78 folios 59, 146-151, 246-8, 262-3, 291-2, 294-6 (wrong folio nos are given in Nat Arch catalogue) also at PC 1/3117 and PC 1/3583 (not digitised or indexed) which I haven't searched. These letters seem to date from 1803 and 1804. See my entry for Moody, John in Godwin Diary dataset, an actor and a different person from the bootmaker. Hone says Moody was part of Tooke's Westminster election committee in 1796 and a trusted member of the Wimbledon circle till his death, which fits with the mentions of Wills and Burdett in the will of the bootmaker, see below.
Sarah Moody age 47 bur 23.4.1805.
Will PCC 3.10.1806 John Moody of Carnaby St bootmaker dated 9.5.1806 mentioned father John Moody (property in Whitchurch,Shropshire), brother William Owen Moody, dau Magdalen Hinton Moody, dau Sarah Faldes, cousin John Moody of Moreton, Shropshire land surveyor, good friend George Knutton doctor of physic, worthy friends John Walker of Berkeley Sq, Joseph Cole of Jermyn St, Alexander Wills [QV] of Buckingham Place. to Sir Francis Burdett "this piece of friendly advice - to take especial care of his conduct and person and never more to be the dupe of artful and designing men at a contested Election or even among Persons moving in a higher sphere of life for Placemen of all descriptions have conspired against him and if Prudence does not lead him into Private life certain destruction will overtake him".
Thomas Sherman Rogers = St George Bloomsbury 17.1.1808 Magdalen Hinton Moody botp by banns. Magdalen Rogers of Bell St Marybone bur Paddington 25.5.1838 age 48.
Will proved PCC 15.2.1832 William Owen Moody officer of Excise of St Marylebone