In 1825 Captain Moberly married Miss Mary Fock (a.k.a. Marie Foch), daughter of General Fock of the
Russian Imperial Service. She was born in
Sebastopol,
Crimea, where her father was then stationed. General Fock (a.k.a. Foch or von Fock) was a member of a Polish family of distinction. Of this union were born nine children, six sons and three daughters.
Children Mary born at
Sowerby,
Yorkshire, 1829; married in 1850 Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, Radnorshire, Wales. George, also born at Sowerby in 1830, became a barrister in
Collingwood, Ontario and married Fanny Maria, third daughter of the late Col. E. G. O'Brien,
Shanty Bay, Ontario.
Walter was born at
Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire in 1832 and went on to become a
civil engineer.
Henry was born at Penetanguishene, Ontario in 1835. He entered the
Hudson's Bay Company's service in 1854. Clarence was born at Penetanguishene in 1838. Also known as William, Clarence became a civil engineer and was for many years Chief Engineer of the
Northern Railway of Canada, from
Toronto to Collingwood. He resigned from this position in 1875, to become the contractor of the Northern Extensions Railway to Gravenhurst. Following its completion later that year, he became Chief Engineer of the Ontario & Pacific Junction Railway, which proposed to build a connection from there to the proposed CPR. The O & P J was never built. Clarence W. Moberly died in Collingwood in 1902. Arthur Moberly, born at Penetanguishene in 1840, became a doctor and married Caroline Jean, daughter of J.O.Bouchier of Sutton, Ontario, and died in 1879. Sophia, born at Penetanguishene in 1843, died in infancy, and is commemorated on her father's gravestone.
Frank Moberly, born at Barrie in 1845, Civil Engineer. In 1871 he took charge of the government survey from
Winnipeg to the
Kootenay Plains, at the headwaters of the Athabaska in the
Rocky Mountains and engaged in a number of transcontinental railway and exploration surveys both in Canada and the United States, from
Newfoundland to
Vancouver Island and in the States to California. Emma, born at Barrie in 1847, remained unmarried and lived with her sister Lady Brydges, Radnorshire, Wales. ==Life after the Navy==