References - Straitsmen and Straits Women


If you're visiting this page because you're a descendant of the Straitsmen and their island wives, welcome! Also welcome to other interested researchers and genealogists. Perhaps we can share information. There's a public comments section at the bottom of this page. Do leave a note to introduce yourself.

This is a list of references for anyone interested in the mariners who hunted for whales, seals, kangaroo and wallaby, and just about anything else saleable along the southern coast of Australia, including Bass Strait, Kangaroo Island and King George Sound, and the women who accompanied them and bore their children, known as "Island Wives". The relevant period of time is the late 1700s to the mid 1800s. I've included references to other Palawa people who went to live on Flinders Island at the behest of G.A. Robinson.

Profiles on WikiTree

John Briggs a Palawa man (from Tasmania)
Mannalargenna a Palawa man who lived on Flinders Island
Dalrymple "Dolly" Briggs a Palawa woman
Poolrerrener a Palawa woman
Tanlebonyer a Palawa woman
Betty Thomas a Palawa woman of Kangaroo Island
Hannah (Thomas) Simpson a Palawa woman of Kangaroo Island
Mary (Thomas) Seymour a Palawa woman of Kangaroo Island
Sam Thomas a Palawa man born on Kangaroo Island
Edward "Ned" Tomlins a Palawa man and whaler, son of Sam Tomlins
Truganini a Palawa woman
Wapperty a Palawa woman
Woretemoeteyenner a Palawa woman
George "Fireball Bates a Straitsman, settled on Kangaroo Island
George Briggs a Straitsman
Nat Thomas a Straitsman, settled on Kangaroo Island
Robert Wallen aka Henry Whaller, Wally etc a Straitsman,
settled on Kangaroo Island
Sam Tomlins a Straitsman, father of Ned Tomlins/Thomlins

Online

 Books, Journals

Some are available from libraries, some as ebooks.  Try copying the title and pasting it into Google.
  • The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand Susan Lawrence, editor 1998
  • Whalers and Free Men. Life on Tasmania's Colonial Whaling Stations by Susan Lawrence Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne 2006 
  • Islands of Inquiry. Trans-Tasman stories: Australian Aborigines in New Zealand sealing and shore whaling' by Nigel Prickett, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand nprickett@aucklandmuseum.com
  • Plomley, N.J.B. (ed) 1966. Friendly Mission; the Tasmanian journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834
  • Plomley, N.J.B. and K.A. Henley 1990. The sealers of Bass Strait and the Cape Barren Island community. Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers and Proceedings 37:37–127. 
  • Unearthed - The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island.by Rebe Taylor, Wakefield press
  • Tipping, M. 1988. Convicts Unbound; the story of the Calcutta convicts and their settlement in Australia" (re George Briggs)
  • Cumpston, J.S. 1970. Kangaroo Island 1800–1836 Canberra: Roebuck Society Publication No 1.
  • Birmingham, J. 1992. Wybalenna: the archaeology of cultural accommodation in nineteenth century Tasmania. Sydney: Australian Society for Historical Archaeology.
  • Nash, M. 2003. The Bay Whalers; Tasmania’s shore-based whaling industry Woden: Navarine Publishing.
  • Chamberlain, S. 1989. Sealing, whaling and early settlement of Victoria; an annotated bibliography of historical sources. Victoria Archaeological Survey Occasional Report 29
  • Lambert, T. 1925. The Story of Old Wairoa Dunedin: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie. 
  • Alexander Tolmer, Reminiscences of an Adventurous and Chequered Career at Home and at the Antipodes Published in London in 1882. 
  • Letter of H.C.Berrett to Norman Tindale, Journal of Anthropological Researches on Kangaroo Island, South Australia 1930-1974 AA 338/1/32 Adelaide Museum

 






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