Pioneer Ships to South Australia 1836

The main Primary Sources used in compiling this site are:-

The Pioneers' Association of South Australia pamphlets

• Before The "Buffalo" (H.J. Finnis, Adelaide 1964)
• The South Australian Colonizing Ships of 1836 (L.J. Ewens 1962)
• The Little Ships Of The Pioneer Years 1836-1845 Part I
  (L.J. Ewens 1952)
• The Little Ships Of The Pioneer Years 1836-1845 Part II
  (L.J. Ewens 1953)
• A Synopsis Of The Diary of Dr. John Woodforde Surgeon on board the "RAPID," 1836 (Compiled by G.C. Morphett) 1951)
• John Michael Skipper (Biographical Notes by S.H. Skipper)

State Records (formerly The Public Records Office of S.A.)

• Correspondence of The Colonial Secretary's Office
• Correspondence of The Colonization Commissioners for S.A.

The Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Private Record Groups of Robert Gouger - John Brown
  B.T. Finniss - Diary of Mary Thomas
• Various Research Notes compiled by G.H. Pitt (archivist),
  Dr. A.G. Price (President RGSSA) and J.D. Somerville (honorary historian RGSSA).
• The Mortlock Library has many other sources for passenger names, immigrant ship arrivals and diary accounts

The Royal Geographical Society of S.A. Inc Library

• Report By The Colonization Commissioners for SA on the Departure of the "Rapid" and the "Cygnet" etc
  (Proceedings 11 (Supp) T. Gill 1910)
• "Buffalo" and Extracts From The Journal of Mr & Mrs G. Stevenson(Proceedings 30 1928-29)
• Old Colonists' Reminiscences (Proceedings 5, 6, 7 1901-04)

Recommended Further Reading
- Voyage Of The Africaine (Miss P. Hope 1968)
- Those Shades Of Earliest South Australia (Eva May Waddy 1937?) (first person narrative based on pioneer diaries - RGSSA copy has list of errata correcting minor errors with dates etc))

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