The following information is a copy of JK Stokes data on Mount Barker as contained in her Rootsweb (Ancestory.com) Genealogy Website  and has been included here with permission.  No alterations or additions may be made to her information without further permission, although relevant comments and/or additions are welcome to be added at the bottom of each page.  (copied July 2014)

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.

• 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• A History of Mt Barker - Mesdames Trigg & Robertson, unpublished manuscript 1943 - State Records
• A History of Mt Barker - Mrs A. Jones - unpublished - Local History Library, Mt Barker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• Historical notations - J.K. Stokes, unpublished research notes, private collection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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