Family
In 1859 he married Jane Willis Scott ( - 1876) of Queenstown, Ireland and had six children:
- Walter Halliday Moresby CBE (9 November 1861 – 24 April 1951), lawyer and spy
- Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862–1931) became a well-known writer under a variety of pseudonyms
- Ethel Fortescue Moresby (1865 - ?), married Frederick Haines
- Georgina Moresby (23 July 1867 - ?), married Peyton Temple Mackeson
- Donald Fairfax Mackeson
- Hilda Fairfax Moresby (16 December 1868 – 16 August 1893), accidentally drowned
- Gladys Moresby (5 April 1870 - ?)
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