slightly differing account of things here
https://adb.anu.edu.au/essay/29
listing of Thos Gore and Co. as a signature to letter to a captain
SIR J. J. GORDON BREMER. (1838, August 27). The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 – 1838), p. 2 (MORNING). Retrieved January 10, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32161096
thos gore esq listed as passenger here:
Shipping Intelligence. (1835, April 23). The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 – 1840), p. 6. Retrieved January 10, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31716440
1839
1839 NSW and Port Phillip General Post Office Directory. N.S.W. & P.P. General P.O.
-published in Sydney, first directory to include residents of Port Phillip district.
-available in Family History & Newspapers as part of the set of early Victorian directories at GMF 98 Box 40.
Gore, Thomas J.P., merchant, O’Connell street, Sydney p61
online catalogue listing at slv:
formal citation:
who is this Thomas Gore? They are a justice of the peace (?) and no initial.
uncle: john gore
my guy: thomas gore
do a family tree for this mope.
>>>is this the same person:
Early in 1841 the Londoners realised that remittances from Australia were dangerously slow and low. In March John Gore, the largest importer of Australian wool to Britain and a founder both of the Union Bank and of the NSW and VDL Commercial Association, sacked Thomas Gore, his nephew and Sydney agent, who allegedly withheld 125,000 pounds from him, and sacked Michael Connolly, his Launceston agent, as well
source: ‘The Depression of the 1840s in New South Wales’ by Barrie Dyster in subheading section The London Connection published by
Australian Dictionary of Biography, see online here citation here:
Barrie Dyster, ‘The Depression of the 1840s in New South Wales’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/essay/29/text40594, originally published 1 August 2022, accessed 17 February 2025.
the above section cites these two sources::::
Australian 27 June 1840, 11 July 1842; (each edition is 4 pages, I have vagely scanned and can’t see what’s being referred to. would have to go into trove and transcribe)
Frank Broeze, Mr Brooks and the Australian Trade: imperial business in the nineteenth century (Melbourne 1993) p. 61, chapters 5, 6, pp. 161-162, 177.
check this out…early land sales
https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUColLawMon/1883/2.pdf
NEWSPAPERS > CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
also this: Advertising (1841, November 6). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), p. 1. Retrieved February 17, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36852989
18 MARCH 1842
| TLDR | -:Thomas Goodhall Gore who owns fitz section land is going to sue Adam Wilson and Wilson Wilson for trespass? |
| Title of source: | In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Thomas Goodhall Gore, Plaintiff AND Adam Wilson & William Wilson, Defendants. |
| Title of container / Publisher | New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900) |
| Number: | Issue number 22 |
| Publication date: | Friday 18 March 1842 |
| Location: | p 440 |
| ONLINE HERE: | https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230661280# |
| in full here: | In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Thomas Goodhall Gore, Plaintiff AND Adam Wilson & William Wilson, Defendants. TAKE Notice, that an Action of Trespass on the case upon promises has been commenced against you and the other Defendant above-named, and that you are hereby required to appear and plead thereto, on the Twenty-ninth day of March instant, otherwise Judgment will be had against you.—Dated this 17th day of March, 1842 R. J. WANT, Plaintiff & Attorney. JOHN LEGH VANNET, Acting Under Sheriff. To Adam Wilson, one of the above-named Defendants. (1156) |
| further questions: | FURTHER Q’s Who is Gore and is he especially litigeous? Where is Gore based? and why did he buy the land? Who is Adam Wilson and Wilson Wilson and what promises have they broken/ are they trespassing actual land or is this a legal thing if land trespass is this common response is there a court case for this? |
30 DEC 1842
| TLDR | formal advertisement of land purchases for Thomas Goodhall Gore but also some kind of intent to sue his land buyer/lawyer in london ? |
| Title of source: | NOTICE. TO PURCHASERS OF LAND AT PORT PHILLIP, DERIVED THROUGH GRANTS FROM THE CROWN TO MR. THOMAS GORE. |
| Title of container / Publisher | New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 – 1900) |
| Number: | Issue no. 104 |
| Publication date: | Friday 30 December 1842 |
| Location: | page 1934 |
| ONLINE HERE: | https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230360919# |
| in full here: | NOTICE. TO PURCHASERS OF LAND AT PORT PHILLIP, DERIVED THROUGH GRANTS FROM THE CROWN TO MR. THOMAS GORE. I DO HEREBY GIVE YOU NOTICE, that—An allotment, comprising twenty-five acres of land, in the county of Bourke, and parish of Jika Jika, portion No. 51, situate at Port Phillip, in the Colony of New South Wales ;An allotment, comprising two roods of land in the town of South Geelong, parish of Corio, county of Grant allotment No. 2, of section No. 3, situate at Port Phillip afore- said ; An allotment, comprising two roods of land, in the same town of South Geelong, allotment No. 18, of section No. 3, situate at Port Phillip aforesaid ; AND An allotment, comprising one rood and thirty-six perches of land, in the town of Melbourne, parish of Melbourne, county of Bourke, allot-ment No. 2, of section No. 7 ;— Which said several allotments were, by Grants, bearing date respectively the tenth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, granted to Thomas Gore, of Sydney, merchant, his heirs and assigns, were purchased by the said Thomas Gore, by the direction of Charles Gore, of Moorgate-street, in the City of London, merchant, for me, and on my account, and that the same were so granted, as aforesaid, to the said Thomas Gore, as a Trustee, for and on my behalf, and that I am now entitled thereto. And I do hereby further give you notice, that a bill was filed by me on the fifteenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and is now pending in the High Court of Chancery, in England, against the said Charles Gore, for the purpose of compelling him to execute or cause to be executed proper conveyances to me, of the said allotments of land, and that a memorandum or minute of such bill has been filed with the Senior Master of the Court of Common Pleas, in England, for the purpose of the same being registered, pursuant to an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, entitled ” An Act for the better protection of purchasers against judgments, Crown debts, lis pendens, and fiats in Bankruptcy.” Dated this twentieth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and forty-two. JOHN GORE. D. CHAMBERS and HOLDEN, Solicitors. (3597) |
| further questions: | FURTHER QUESTIONS is there a book about first landsales of vic? |
burrows & co 