Born 1796 Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. To SA 1839 MOFFATT with his wife Janet nee Smith, and young family. At first a shoemaker in Adelaide, the family moved to Woodside, where he took up land. Later the Thomson family farmed near Mount Pleasant on a property they called Lillybank on the Harrison Creek watershed along the Cookes Hill road. The homestead's door and window lintels and chimneys were built of Scottish Aberdeen granite brought out as sailing ship ballast. Eldest daughter Euphemia married George Melrose, whose property was nearby Rosebank. Another daughter Janet married Littlehampton butcher Priestley Hillam, and they settled at Mount Pleasant.