According to Captain John Lort Stokes, RN, the Gores “would seem to have an hereditary taste for the duties of a voyage of surveying and discovery” (Discoveries in Australia, vol. 1, p. 27). For three generations they sent their sons out to sea, up until the Franklin Expedition.
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An introduction to the Gores of Gilmour Estate, near Lake Bathurst (Argyle, Col. New South Wales / Australia), late of Bickington, near Barnstaple (Devon, UK).
Edward Gore [c. 1817-1863] holding an infant, most likely Jessie Ann Gallaway (née Gore) [1859-1954] or Graham Gore II [1861-1899]
Source: © National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Object ID 2008.0021.0029.010 (PDM 1.0)