Hi Juilie
No relation I think.
Frederick Moffatt Read (the family spelling) was born in 1837 in Dublin Ireland to George READ (born Kent 1813, died 1842 Jamaica) of the Royal Engineers and Eliza Fanny nee RICE (father Frederick Rice of the Longford Militia and Anne nee MOFFATT).
He had only one sister, Jemima Jane READ - Jemima Jane seemed a very unusual Irish name which led me to their Kent ancestors (she was known as Minnie). Mother Eliza Fanny (sometimes known as Fanny) married Edward Capps after they arrived in NSW. She was matron of the Hyde Park Barrarcks Immigration Depot and then ran a very successful domestic servants registry in Sydney after Mr Capps was goaled and then disappeared.
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