Is this the Q/land Moody's from Antrim?

Is this the Q/land Moody's from Antrim?

yep.my great great granddad was James Moody who married Mary Loughridge.Abraham Moody(1784)was his grandfather,have we spoken before?

No we haven't spoken bec, I remember looking at the family when you posted for James and Mary Loughridge. I didn't have any luck then either. I found the two different Moody families in Queensland (Maurice Cooper from Isle of Wight died in Woombye). But didn't have anything conclusive in Antrim. There were certainly a lot of them in Northern Ireland, but unclear or no records when the Moodys' started migrating to all parts of the globe.
This letter below is a copy of one held in the Public Record Office in Northern Ireland. You may find it interesting.

Truro 24th Dec 1865

My dear Abraham
I do not know
how many years it is
since I have written to
you or any one olde at home
but I think it must be
three or four this you will
say and say truly is a good
deal too bad however it cannot
be helped now and it is no
[-he?] to mourn over it but
I hope for something better
in the time to come
By this mail I find you
our own and the childrens
pictures they will give you
some idea of what effect
time has had on me
and how we are progressing
as good colonists
home of them are good it
was very hot weather (114
in the shade a "fine dry
heat" as Wm. Watson would
say), and we were often a
fatiguing journey where they
were taken. Charlotte and
the baby are not nearly so
good as they ought of be
Ernest looks cross although
he hahe [has?] naturely [naturally?] a frank and
open countenance Alex and
William are middling - they
have all fair hair Wm's is
quite white he has heard
people say that he is like
papa say that he says himself
that he is like papa and
will be like him when
he grows big - Joseph also
intends to send by this mail
his own picture Ellen and
the children. Altogether
I think your Australian
Brothers Sistes, Nephew's
and wives will occupy
a good many pages of your
Album.
Dr. Watson will be
able to give you full particulars
of how we are all
getting an so that I need
not write about business
We are all well but John
(he is very poorly) and all
steadily acquiring property
of course there is not
the slightest chance of
me ever sitting down into
a mere money matter - an
independant home I have long
possessed and to add
to the comforts of that
home - to increase the
happiness of my wife &
children and in so doing
to increase my own happiness
in the extent of my ambition
I have still a wish
to see my first home again
and State hope that we
Shall yet meet and have
a long talk together
Solomon

Do not forget to remember
me to Margrat [Margaret?]
I hope she is well


Good luck Bec.

thats interesting.its hard tracking down any info on siblings,my dad said great granddad WILLIAM(son of JAMES and MARY didnt talk about his family much,or have have photos of them,so its hard doing research,ive joined so many sites andspent hours reading through documents but theres no concrete eveidence on connections(though i have managed to find MARY LOUGHRIDGE'S siblings,parents and grandparents,but my MOODY's are proving very elusive..when im up at my parents next im going to get dad to do a YDNA test that i read about on another site and see if it shows when our gene line originated from in Ireland..fingers crossed hey?