Family
On 6 August 1814 in Malta he married Eliza Louisa Williams (1796–1874) of Bakewell, Derbyshire, with whom he had five children:
- Ellen Mary Moresby (b. 1820) who married Commander (later Admiral) James Charles Prevost
- Mary Moresby (1824–1908), married Robert Aslack White (1820–1908)
- Commander Fairfax Moresby (1826–1858), who died in the wreck of HMS Sappho off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
- Matthew Fortescue Moresby (1827–1919), was secretary to his father until he moved to Sydney, New South Wales where he became a well known painter and photographer.
- Rear Admiral John Moresby (1830–1922), surveyed the coast of New Guinea
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