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Thomas Woore

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Spouse(s)
  
Mary A. Dickson (1835)

Name
  
Thomas Woore

Died
  
June 21, 1878


Born
  
29 January 1804 (
1804-01-29
)
Ireland

Relatives
  
William Busby (father-in-law)

Thomas Woore (29 January 1804 – 21 June 1878) was a Royal Navy officer, grazier, railways leader and surveyor. Woore was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Ireland and died in Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1819 serving on various ships until retiring in 1834. On 1 January 1835, he married Mary Dickson, daughter of John Dickson. From 1846 until 1848 he worked on his own surveying possibilities for the proposed railway line being put forward by the early version of the Sydney Railway Company. In 1867 he was commissioned, with others, to search for a solution to the water shortage of Sydney.

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Thomas Woore Wikipedia