Our research into Moby's ancestry begins in earnest and leads to a Melville ancestor.  

Notes:

• LA Times article about the LA Library Foundation event from September 2013

• Moby discussing Moby-Dick from a video made for LA Library Foundation

• Read Moby-Dick if you dare

• Moby discussing family from a video made for LA Library Foundation

• Moby talking about his grandmother from Porcelain (2016)

• Page from New Jersey marriage Index recording marriage of Alice B. Albridge and John M. Gardner

• Page from Massachusetts marriage index recording 1935 marriage of Alice Beverly Albridge

• Marriage record of Alice Beverly Albridge to John William Hall in April 1935 

• Obituary of John William Hall, San Bernardino County Sun, June 4, 1980

• Photos of Melville “Hap” Hall (used with permission)

• Family tree of John William Hall (1912–1980)

• Family tree of Herman Melville’s siblings and immediate descendants 

• Family tree of Clara Ellery Melville (1833-1909)

 

Music by Blue Dot Sessions, closing theme Breakmaster Cylinder.