John Moir (settler)

John Moir (12 August 1851  – 31 May 1939) was an Australian pastoralist in the areas to the east of Albany, in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

Born at Cape Riche in 1851, he was the eldest son of the pioneer Andrew Moir, who was from Markinch in Fifeshire, Scotland, and had settled in the region in the 1840s.

[3] The station was used as supply depot for the sandalwood, whaling and sealing industries that were flourishing in the area through the 1870s to the 1900s.

[1] Moir was married in 1881 and remained at Cape Riche where he had taken a half share of the property on the death of his father.

[4] Moir and his son Neil extended their land-holding along Cheynes Beach in 1920 when they acquired another 1,796 acres (727 ha) of land.