
Sources of Historical Information on
Mt Barker
This page serves to provide the reader
with a list of works which are useful in researching the area generally. Where
possible, I have listed the probable locations of this information. Unless
otherwise state, these reference works are housed in the Mortlock
Library.
Mortlock Library North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000 |
State Records Office Adelaide, SA |
Local History Library Dumas Street, Mt Barker
5251 |
- A Book of South Australia - Women of
the First Hundred Years - ed. L. Brown et al, Women's Centenary Council of
South Australia 1936
- A History of Mt Barker - Mesdames
Trigg & Robertson, unpublished manuscript 1943 - State Records
- A History of Mt Barker - Mrs A.
Jones - unpublished - Local History Library, Mt Barker
- Australian Dictionary of Biography -
ed. Pike, Douglas et al, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, VIC 1967
- Captain John Finnis - H.J. Finnis,
pamphlet, Pioneer's Association of SA, 1958
- Colonists, Copper and Corn in the
Colony of South Australia - E.M. Yelland, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne,
1970
- Diary of Elizabeth Davison 1839 -
State Records Office
- Diary of Francis Davison 1842-1846 -
State Records Office
- Diary of John Dunn - State Records
Office
- Diary and miscellaneous papers of
Joseph Hawdon - copy in State Records Office, SA; copy in Mitchell Library,
Sydney NSW
- Early Experiences of Colonial Life
in South Australia - J.W. Bull, Adelaide, 1878
- Early Mount Barker - G.C. Morphett,
pamphlet Adelaide 1940
- Historical notations - J.K. Stokes,
unpublished research notes, private collection
- Historical notes on the township of
Littlehampton - research notes 175, State Records Office
- History of the families of Bonython
- E.G. Bonython, Adelaide 1966
- Journal of a Journey from New South
Wales to Adelaide - J. Hawdon, Georgian House, Melbourne 1952
- Kay Hinrichson, Mandurah WA -
William Tonkin letter
- Land records - Lands Titles Office,
Adelaide
- Latest information from South
Australia - J. Morphett 1836 - State Records
- Letters from Samuel Davenport to his
father 1842-49 - State Records
- Letters from Victorian Pioneers,
1878 - T.F. Bride, SA Archives, reprinted and available from Gould
Books
- Liebelt Family History - E.A.
Wittwer, Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide 1975
- Millbrae and its Founding Family -
May Mills, Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide 1973
- Mostly Mount Barker - Aspects of the
early history of the district, including Blakiston - Vivien S. Martin,
Gillingham Printers, Adelaide 1982
- Mountain Upon the Plain - Bob
Schmidt, Gillingham Printers, Adelaide, 1983
- Mount Barker Courier Newspaper -
Local History Library, Mt Barker
- Mount Barker Police Records 1842
-1960 - State Records Office
- Notes on Early Mount Barker -
research notes 157, State Records
- Notes on Ferdinand von Mueller - N.
Gemmell, South Australian Naturalist, June 1975
- Our Townships, Farms and Homesteads
- Southern Districts of South Australia - E.H. Hallack, T.H. Thomas & Co.
Adelaide 1892
- Paradise of Dissent - Pike &
Douglas, Rigby Publishers, Adelaide 1857
- Pastoral Pioneers of South
Australia, - R. Cockburn, Adealide Publishers Ltd. 1927
- Pioneers of Prefabrication - Gilbert
Herbert, Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 1978
- Private Letters of the Hawdon Famly
1835 - Mitchell Library, NSW
- Reminiscences - W.R., A.R. &
B.G. Stokes - unpublished notes - private collection
- Short Biographical Sketches - State
Records Office
- South Australiana, September 1877 -
State Records Office
- South Australian Act No. 4, 1841 -
State Records Office
- South Australian Almanac 1842
- South Australian Gazette and
Colonial Register - Mortlock Library
- South Australian Government Gazette
Volumes - State Records Office
- South Australian History: a Survey
for Research Students - F.K. Crowley, Libraries Board of SA, 1966
- South Australia in 1837 - R. Gouger
- South Australian Record No. 4,
1838
- South Australian Records prior to
1841 - E.A.D. Opie, Hussey & Gillingham, Adelaide 1917
- South Australian Register Newspapers
1838-1840 - Mortlock Library
- South Australian Year Books
- St James' Blakiston 1847 - 1997, K.
Faulkner, Gould Publishing Gumeracha SA 1997
- The Cyclopedia of South Australia,
Volume 1 - H.T. Burgess, Hussey & Gillingham, Adelaide 1927
- The First Special Survey - H.J.
Finnis, Royal Geographical Society of SA, Proceedings, Volume 52, 1951
- The Great Eastern Road - H.J.
Finnis, pamphlet, Pioneer's Association of SA 1969
- Town & Country Journal 1879 -
State Library of Victoria
- Various local history articles,
photographs, newspapers and local birth, death and marriage records - Local
History Library, Mt Barker
- Victorian Primitive - Miles Lewis,
Greenhouse Melbourne, 1977
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