Eventually, he married an Irish woman named Mary Conolly, before moving to the Colony of New South Wales to become a pastry cook in Parramatta.
[4] His father, also named John, had a grocery store, and Jack would go around with the delivery cart; at Sydney's first Royal Agricultural Show, he sold cigars.
[4] Commencing first with the firm of Frank Bouffier, this followed with thirty years as a Lindeman's representative, and finishing with Leo Buring (the latter two now part of the Treasury Wine Estates company).
"[9] Jack Moses remained a prominent figure in country shows throughout New South Wales and at smoke concerts where he recited his poems and told stories of the bush.
[22] On 10 July 1945 aged 84, the 'last of the bush troubadors', Moses died of heart disease at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,[23] and was buried at the South Head Cemetery.