William Bramley-Moore

[2][3] His family background was described by Nathaniel Hawthorne, invited in 1854 by John Bramley-Moore to a dinner at Aigburth, to meet the novelist Samuel Warren.

He described the parents as "violent tories, fanatics for the Established Church" and followers of the evangelical Hugh M'Neile (heard as McMill by Hawthorne), the "present Low-Church Pope of Liverpool".

Conversation was against the Tractarians and Roman Catholic influence, and with more talk about money from John than Hawthorne was used to with the English upper classes.

[9] Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1872 showed no further living taken by Bramley-Moore after 1869, his replacement at Gerrard's Cross being William Addington Bathurst (1839–1922).

The plot is based on the story recorded by the Waldensian pastor Jean Léger, and commented on by Alexis Muston, of six brothers who married six sisters and brought up a large family group, who suffered religious persecution.

[27] It was brought up to date with the 1866 killings at Barletta in southern Italy of the pastor Gaetano Giannini and five others in anti-Protestant riots.