There are several potential origin stories for the Moone name

• Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mocháin (see Mohan).
• English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Moyon in La Manche, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Modius (from Latin modus ‘measure’) + the locative suffix -o (genitive -onis). or from Mohun in Normandy
• English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French moun ‘monk’ (see Monk).
• Cornish: nickname for a slender person, from Cornish mon ‘thin’.

In England, the name is first found in Devon, where it appears they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy

Current research identifies our line of the Moone family first appearing in records in Sussex abt 1740. The earliest confirmed member of our Moone line is John Moone - who is the Rotherfield area in th 1650s, however limited information is available about the family until his great grand-daughter Sarah married Josiah Bashford in 1784. It is their grandson - George William Bashford - who emigrates to Australia around 1865

The Bashford ancestry goes back 9 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links

• John Moone 1659 - ? married Elizabeth Russell
  • Thomas Moone 1688 - 1768 married Elizabeth Comber
    • Phillip Moone abt 1744 - 1800 married Mary Clouser
      • Sarah Moone 1765 - 1848 married Josiah Bashford 
        • Josias Bashford 1800 - 1880 married Frances Greenyer
          • Josiah Bashford 1823
          • George William Bashford 1840 - 1893 married Sarah Ann Starkey Fullelove
            • /wiki/spaces/HFHW/pages/2523599 married James Cairns Bain
              • James Bashford Bain married Eva Mary Yates
                • Doreen Bain married Douglas James Hardie
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