Even less is known about Moor than many of his counterparts, the only information available coming from a brief item in Allan’s Tyneside Songs[1][2] Mr Moor, not even his Christian name is known, was a shoemaker who had a business in Denton Chare,[3][4] Newcastle.
He was a good bass singer and sang in the choir of St. Andrew's Church,[5] Newcastle upon Tyne.
Moor was the writer of "The Skipper's Dream", an anti-papal song, written in a Geordie dialect, which tells of the dream of a local skipper, with caustic comments about the forgiving of sins for money.
The song appears later in the Tyne Songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect – a 72-page booklet printed and sold by W. Orange, North Shields in 1827.
In the later (1840) edition printed and sold by W & T Fordyce of Newcastle, T. Moor is given as the writer.