A Shore-based Whaling Station

Some useful notes & quotes from Susan Lawrence, author and Professor of Archaeology at La Trobe University who has studied the sites of colonial whaling stations (See References)

Essentials for a shore-based whaling station:

• A sheltered Harbour, safe anchorage for ships leaving supplies and picking up barrels of oil.(WFM)Close to migrating whales. " ... the station nearest the headland was preferred as it was closest to the whaling grounds." If whales came from the South, then the south headland was preferred. (WFM)
• A lookout (tall tree, headland, island etc. Whales came from a known direction, eg South in Spencer's Gulf Remains of eg stone shelters can sometimes be seen at lookout points.(WFM) 
• Tryworks. Trypots or tuns with some kind of support and fire underneath, maybe a stone slab platform for workers to stand on. Had to be away from water because water spoiled the oil. (WFM)
• Cool, damp storage for barrels of oil. (WFM)
• Huts and workshops positioned upwind of the smelly, smokey tryworks, but on level ground (WFM)
• Fresh water and building materials, both stone and timber, though any of these could be brought in by ship if necessary. (WFM)
• A gently sloping beach for hauling up carcasses and blubber; a natural rock platform was convenient for cutting in.(WFM)

My Notes on Fishery Beach: 

Location: Whales would have come from the South, so most likely lookout would have been on the Southern headland. Anchorage presumably okay. The beach is very stony, with rock outcrops extending into the sea and the drop to the water's edge is steep in 2019. Might have been different in early-mid nineteenth century.
Level sites: Land above the beach consists of terraces. Clark's hut located on one of these. Likely also workers' accomodation, though much has been obliterated by the building of a silver smelting works on the same site.
Building materials: There may have been timber, but it's gone now. Plenty of large slabs of slate available on the shore and creek bed and small, rounded stones for paths also on the shore.
Location of tryworks unknown, but probably far end of the beach

Fishery Beach. Slate outcrops provided
materials for floors and chimneys. Kangaroo Island
can be clearly seen on the horizon.
Image copyright Anne Tichborne 2019

Fishery Beach looking North, showing flat terraces
useful for buildings. There was even a vegetable garden.
The location of the manager's hut is the area of reeds
in the middle ground, near the creek and sheltered by
a southern headland. Image copyright Anne Tichborne 2019

My Notes on Encounter Bay:

Locations were: near the Bluff (Rosetta Head) with the lookout stationed on summit of the Bluff - a flag signal was used. On Granite Island / Nulcoowarra with lookout at summit of the island. 
 The famous sketch of Christmas Day 1850 shows a very straight row of slab huts with substantial if roughly built (stone, not brick?) chimneys, and a couple of slab sheds. The roofing material looks same as the slab walls, though one or two may have been thatched. The prevailing wind is from the south. No sight of tryworks, but a structure  on a slope of the Bluff could be shear-legs, though I understand this was on a floating platform at least some of the years whales were hunted at Encounter Bay.
The anchorage was not so very safe - three ships incl Solway were lost in a gale. Ships eventually learned to anchor in the lee of Granite Island.

References: 

• The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand Susan Lawrence, editor 1998 (AWS)
• Whalers and Free Men. Life on Tasmania's Colonial Whaling Stations by Susan Lawrence Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne 2006 (WFM)

Mary Louisa Connor 1830 - 1886

Born 9 Nov 1830 in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, Australia 

Daughter of John Connor (a sailor) and JaneThomas

[no known siblings]
Wife of Joseph Stone — married 15 Feb 1847 (to after 1859) in Adelaide, South Australia.
De facto wife of Thomas "Tom" Clark, whaler and farmer

Wife of Francis Laurence Buckler/Buckley — married 14 Jan 1861 (to before 15 Dec 1869) in Port Elliot, South Australia,

Mother of Mary Ann (Stone) Rix, Robert Clark, Eliza Jane (Clark) Chapman, Louisa Elizabeth (Buckley) Stone and Frank (Buckler) Buckley (may have passed away 13 Jan 1868 at Yankalilla) John Buckley (died as an infant)

Mary Louisa died 4 Jan 1886 in Adelaide, South Australia

 Mary Louisa Connor was born in Hobart-town in the British Colony of Van Diemen's Land on 9th November 1830, to parents Jane Connor nee Thomas and John Connor, Seaman. The family was still in Hobart in 1834, when Mary was baptised. (See Note 1.)

On 4 May 1846 a Mary Connor departed Hobart on the ship Adelaide for Port Phillip.
In 1847 Mary was in Adelaide in the Colony of South Australia, where she married Joseph Stone in Holy Trinity Church Adelaide, when she was still a minor aged 17yrs. Her father's name is not recorded in the marriage register,

In 1848 Joseph and Mary had a daughter, Mary Ann Stone, at Port Adelaide.

In 1849, Mary left Joseph and ran away with a man named John Harris. They left Port Adelaide in a boat belonging to the Whale Fisheries. According to a witness Mary lived for a while with Harris at Encounter Bay. Harris subsequently went to the Victorian gold diggings and Mary then lived with a whaler named Tom Clark . Clark undertook to manage the whaling station at Fishery Creek, south of Cape Jervis from May 1850 and newspaper reports of the time have him living there with "Mrs Clark" who must have been Mary Louisa because in 1851, Mary gave birth to Tom's son, Robert Clark. In 1858, Mary (calling herself Louisa Stone) and Tom had a daughter, Eliza Jane. (They could not have married because Mary Louisa was still married to Joseph Stone.)

In 1859, Joseph Stone petitioned the South Australian Supreme Court for a divorce, naming his wife Mary Louisa and Thomas Clark as co-respondents. At the time, Mary was "living with her mother at Encounter Bay" (There is evidence that her mother was by this time Mrs Jane Thompson, wife of John aka William Thompson, licensee of the Fountain Inn at Encounter Bay.

The Fountain Inn in 1933.

Mary Louisa evidently did not raise any of her first 3 children. A court hearing in 1861 reveals what happened to her firstborn, Mary Ann Stone.

Mary's daughter Mary Ann Stone was raised by Mary's mother, landlady of the Fountain Inn, Encounter Bay. (See Note 4.) Mary Ann married whaler Ezra alias Anthony Moore in October 1861, when she was only 13 years old. There was a court case because Moore made a false statement about parental consent. Mary Louisa, now Mrs Frank Buckley, gave evidence. (See Note 3.) The court allowed the marriage.
Mary's daughter by Tom Clark, Eliza Jane, later lived with her grandmother on Kangaroo Island, where she was known as Eliza Jane Sylvia Thompson.

Robert Clark's obituary suggests that Robert went with his father to Kangaroo Island, On reaching adulthood, Robert acquired land for himself on the Island and became a well known farmer and grazier.
Now free of Joseph Stone, Mary Louisa married Frank Laurence Buckley/Buckler on the 14th January 1861  and their daughter Louisa was born 5 days later on 19th January 1861. Buckley was a very young man, only 20 years old at the time of the marriage. Mary Louisa gave her age as 24!  Buckley must have appeared only recently on the scene if he believed this, and surely could not have known about his new wife's son aged 10 and two daughters, 3 and 13 yrs old.

A son, Frank Buckley, was born in 1863  at Encounter Bay and passed away in 1868.

In 1865 Louisa Buckley of Rapid Bay applied to the Destitute Board and was assigned two rations for one month. 
In 1868 Mary Louisa Buckley, formerly Stone nee Connor gave birth to another son, John, without giving the name of the father. She called herself Lewisa Buckley and gave her residence as Rapid Bay.  She would have been 38 years old. The child only survived 7 weeks.  (Note 8).

Before 1869 was up, Francis Buckley had deserted Mary Louisa. A notice was published in the Police Gazette in December 1869. A warrant was issued from the Normanville Police Station but Buckley was thought to have gone to Queensland.  It seems he never returned and Mary Louisa, with two young children, had to try and survive without him.

Between 1873 and 1885 a Louisa Buckley, born in Hobart, ship of arrival not given, was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital 4 times. She gave various addresses in Adelaide and her occupation was recorded first as servant, then twice as prostitute and lastly as "Carwoman" (charwoman?). An 11 year old Louisa Buckley is recorded as being admitted at a similar time. This could have been Mary Louisa's daughter or another girl with a similar birth date.
In 1873 a boy, "young Buckley" is said to have been with Louisa in Adelaide in evidence given to a court on December 15th. It's uncertain who this was as both Louisa's sons to Frank Buckley seem to have died very young. Did she have another son, or was one of the children who died not hers?
In 1881, Louisa Buckley was sentenced to 21 days imprisonment with hard labour for being in a house knnown to be frequented by thieves and prostitutes -(Note 9.)

Georgina Ashley, Annie Fulham, Louisa Buckley, Thomas Cunningham, William Crocker, and Charles Ives were charged on the information of Inspector Sullivan with being the occupiers of a house frequented by thieves and prostitutes. A man named Jeremiah Dasey gave evidence of going to the house and being robbedof £5, a bottle of brandy, and some cigars.Evidence was also-given that defendants were continually loafing about the Phoenix and Shamrock hotels, and never did any work, The information against Crocker was withdrawn, and the other defendants were sent to gaol for twenty-one days with hard labor. 

The Phoenix Hotel was on Hindley St, Adelaide and appears
on the right in this 1851 sketch by S.T. Gill.

In 1886 Louisa Buckley, born in Tasmania, aged "49" with 2 children, "enceinte" (pregnant?) was admitted to the Destitute Asylum in Adelaide. She was recorded as living in Currie St. West, occupation domestic duties.We can presume she died in the Destitute Asylum because she passed away on 4th January 1886, aged 56.

The Destitute Asylum, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide (left)
next to the Mounted Police Barracks in 1868

At the time of her death, Mary Louisa had a mother, elderly but still living, a married daughter aged 38, a son, a man of property, aged 35 and a daughter aged 28 planning her own wedding on Kangaroo Island. Of the men whose children she had borne, Joseph Stone had a successful stevedoring business at Port Adelaide, Tom Clark a farm and a tribe of grandchildren on Kangaroo Island and Francis Buckley was missing, free of family commitments.

Sources

• Birth:

Mary Louisa Connor

DOB 9th November 1830

Father: John Connor, Seaman

Mother: Jane Connor

Place of Birth: Launceston, VDL

Ref: Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St John, Launceston in the County of Cornwall, in the year 1834. Pg 46, entry #5764

Per Tasmanian Names Index, Record#NAME_INDEXES:1083433

• Tasmanian Names Index Record ID NAME_INDEXES:536627
• Marriage:

Groom: Joseph STONE, adult, single

Bride: Mary Louisa CONNOR, minor, single

Date: Feb 15, 1847

Place: Holy Trinity Church Adelaide

District: Adelaide

Ref: 2/25
(Data courtesy SA Genealogy and Heraldry Society http://genealogysa.org.au) ALSO: from FamilyHistorySA.info

STONE / STOW Joseph,

Mary Louisa CONNOR

married 15 Feb 1847 at Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, aged adult, minor

• Birth of Mary Ann Stone: FamilyHistorySA.info:

STONE / STOW Joseph,

Mary Louisa CONNOR,

parents of child born 11 May 1848 named Mary Ann at Pt Adelaide

• Divorce proceedings Stone vs Stone and Clark - see article: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49826783
• Birth Date of Robert: [https://sites.google.com/site/cyclopediasa/home/robert-clark-1851-1932 Cyclopedia of South Australia - Robert Clark 1851-1932)
• Birth of Eliza Jane: Eliza Jane CLARKE, born March 08 1858

to parents Thomas CLARKE and Louisa STONE at Encounter Bay. Reg. District: Encounter Bay, Book/Page: 16/447 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)

1. Hearing re Marriage of Mary Ann Stone and Ezra Moore: "LAW AND CRIMINAL COURTS." South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) 30 November 1861: 3. Web. 13 May 2018 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50080691.
2. Destitute Board: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39124201
3. Birth of son John Buckley: Born: 1868, November 26, Father not named, Mother: Lewisa BUCKLEY @ (fmly) STONE (nee) CONNORS, Birth Place/Residence: Rapid Bay, Ref: District of Yankalilla 71/253 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)
4. Death of son John Buckley: Date: 03 Jan 1869, Age: 7w, at Rapid Bay, Ref: Yankalilla 34/302A (courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia )
5. Obituary Robert Clark: Penneshaw - Obituary 12 Nov 1932
6. "Adoption" of Eliza Jane Mary Louisa's mother Jane Thompson and her husband William Thompson are buried in the Kingscote Cemetery. An inscription on Jane's grave reads: ::THOMPSON, Jane, nee Thomas of North Cape (Genealogist's Note: Jane Connor nee Thomas gave her name at her marriage as Jane Thomas), KI; Died 10 August 1904, aged 87 years, wife of William (1814-1884), who arrived on Kangaroo Island in 1835, and was associated with the early whaling industry, parents of Eliza Jane Sylvia Chapman." (1858-1952) (Genealogist's Note:This is Eliza Jane Clark, daughter of Mary Louisa Stone nee Connor and Tom Clark, so grandaughter of Jane Thompson) ; "Erected by her descendants; Unveiled 27 July 1996" Source: Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association.
7. Marriage: Frank Laurence BUCKLER, bachelor aged 21 (born c. 1840) married Louisa Conner, spinster aged 24 [she was 31] on 14th January 1861 at the Registry Office, Port Elliot. Bride's father John Conner, Groom's father Samuel Buckler Reg. District: Encounter Bay, Book/Page: 45/369 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)
8. Birth of Frank Buckler/Buckley: Frank BUCKLER was born on 8 April, 1863 to parents Frank Buckler/Buckley and Louisa Cannan/Connor of Encounter Bay Reg, District: Encounter Bay Book/Page: 29/26 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)
9. Birth of Louisa Buckler/Buckley: Louisa BUCKLER was born 19th January, 1861 to parents Frank BUCKLER and Louisa Conner of Encounter Bay Reg. District: Encounter Bay Book/Page: 22/250 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)
10. Admissions to Adelaide Hospital: South Australian State Archives, Doc #GRG 78/49: Admission registers - Adelaide Hospital, later Royal Adelaide Hospital, entries #386, #726, #739, #1577
11. Admissions to Destitute Asylum: State Records of South Australia: Destitute Asylum Admissions 1870-1906 Vol2/#1.
12. Death: Louisa BUCKLEY of Adelaide, wife of Francis Buckley, died 4th January 1886 at Adelaide. Age given as 49 years (she was 56) Reg. District: Adelaide Book/Page: 151/400 (Courtesy Genealogy and Heraldry Society of South Australia)
13. POLICE COURTS. (1873, December 16). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 3
14. Prison Sentence: POLICE COURT—ADELAIDE. (1881, August 15). The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), p. 2 (SECOND EDITION). Record for the Adelaide Gaol is Vol G, p 231. Can be viewed on microfiche at State Records of South Australia, Cavan Rd, Gepps Cross.
15. Desertion: BUCKLY Francis, 30 y. Deserted wife Louisa. Warrant issued Normanville. Supposed in QLD. Source: South Australia Police Gazette No 50, 15-12-1869, p 191

Research Notes

• 1. null
• 2. A Mary Louisa Connor was one of seven young people confirmed at St Mary's Catholic Church, Morphett Vale, on January the 4th, 1846. This was the opening and dedication of the church, which was the southern-most Catholic Church in South Australia at the time. The subject of this profile would have been 15 years old. Historic Churches and Parishes of South Australia, No. 2 WILLUNGA— MORPHETT VALE ST. MARY'S, MORPHETT VALE Foundation Stone Laid 28-7-1845 Opened 4-1-1846 | ST. JOSEPH'S, WILLUNGA However, our Mary Louisa gave her religion as Church of England when admitted to hospital in the 1870s.
• 3. There was an Encounter Bay whaler called Frank Buckley. "A PIONEER OF YELKIE." Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931) 10 March 1928: 56. Web. 13 May 2018 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165635082> but this man seems too young to be him. Subsequent newspaper reports note that a Mrs Louisa Buckley was in the Rapid Bay area 1865 and 1868.
• 4. In October 1861 the landlord, Fountain Inn was a Mr Thompson. See: "ENCOUNTER BAY." Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904) 28 September 1861: 4 (Supplement to the Adelaide Observer.). Web. 13 May 2018 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158183168>.
• 5. The South Australian BDMs Database at GenealogySA has been searched for deaths under the following names:

Louisa Buckley - died 4 Jan 1886, married, aged 49? husband Francis Buckley. died at Adelaide. SA BDM shows this as Frank BUCKLER

Mary Buckley - no possible candidates

Mary Stone - died Adelaide 12/3/1911, married, b 1839 (too late I think)

Mary Stone - born 1831, died 2/4/1880, widow, died in Norwood, no relative named

Mary Connor - born 1820, died 12/4/1873 in Adelaide, no relative named, marital status not known. (This seems to be M. C. who came on the Thirteen.

• 6. John Harris Arrived on the Adelaide (Schooner) June 1835 and there is a photograph taken of him in Adelaide in 1841. [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/projects/counterpoints/Proc_2002/A9.htm#_ftnref261 The Mysteries of Karta - Flinders Uni. Archaeology Dept.)
• 7. Re lead that Mary Louisa Connor came to Adelaide on the Thirteen. No, this was not her. Adelaide Hospital records say this Mary Connor was born in Galway, Ireland. See: Hospital Admissions Register A-E Entries #336 and 1122 and Entry #248 Register of Admissions Destitute Asylum A-C, State Records of South Australia In 1871 a Mary Connor aged 49, resident North Adelaide, who arrived on the ship Thirteen and lived by selling milk applied for admission to the Destitute Asylum. The record said she had 3 children.
• 8. A child, Francis Buckley, died aged 4 at "Rapid Bay, Second Valley" on 13th Jan 1868 (b. 1864) No relatives named. Ref: Yankalilla, Book/Page: 31/440 (No birth reg found for this child) No connection to Mary Louisa has been established. 
• 9. The Shamrock Hotel: "
  There was also the notorious Shamrock Hotel (known also as the Colonel Light Hotel and the Heritage Hotel) in Light Square.. This hotel and its theatre where vaudeville shows were frequent, gained a notoriety that often attracted journalists. On 29 October 1877 one such reporter from the  Register reminded readers that it was 
  ‘one of the lowest amongst the low public houses of the city where men and women had sunk
  to the level of brut es’ and without exception seemed to attract the worst types of loafers, prostitutes, and
  other well-known ‘Police Court habitues’. The Shamrock Hotel’s reputation was so poor that each year when the licence came up for renewal, there were always objections by outraged respectable locals to
  it continuing at all. But the police and Licensed Victuallers' Association believed the hotel played an important role in the city and it was allowed to exist. They explained through theLicensed Victuallers' Gazette of 12 March 1881 that We must have these classes of public-houses. The Shamrock Hotel does not aspire to be a select house of call, but a house of its description is an imperative necessity, and acts as a proper channel for the loose people of Light-square to keep to themselves. We do not desire to see the contaminating influence of the Shamrock habitues spread over the face of the city, and therefore, where a house is specially appropriated for the use of such characters, to seek to deprive it of its licence for permitting prostitutes to congregate is utterly absurd."
  The City of Adelaide - A Thematic History, August 2006 McDougall & Vines Conservation and Heritage Consultants 27 Sydenham Road, Norwood, South Australia 5067

Tom Clark - Off Shore Whaler

I now have all the low-down on Thomas Clark, whaler and farmer, of Encounter Bay and Kangaroo Island.

See also on this Blog: Mr &Mrs Clark of Cape Jervis  | Encounter Bay Whaling Station

Thomas (Tom) Clark aka Clarke
 Born about 1810 in England, United Kingdom
Brother of James Clark(?) according to two sources.
Father of Robert Clark and Eliza Jane (Clark) Chapman. Their mother was Mary Louisa Stone nee Connor. She had three other children from different fathers
Tom Clark died at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island.

Thomas Clark, an Englishman (10), was present in the British Colony of South Australia in its early years. A biography of his son Robert Clark says that Tom arrived in Australia in 1835,(6) which was before the establishment of the colony of South Australia, and that he came to South Australia from Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) to join the whale fishery at Encounter Bay. Tom Clark's ship of arrival is not mentioned in his Obituary (2). He had a brother named James Clark, also a whaler at Encounter Bay.(1) A Thomas Clark, Whaler, left Launceston on the whaling vessel Thistle for Port Fairy on 20th October 1836. (12)
A Thomas Clark departed Hobart for Adelaide on the Will Watch on 19th March 1844 (4)
He is mentioned in newspapers as a headsman, and then chief headsman at the Encounter Bay whaling fishery from 1844. (3) He distinguished himself for his strength and the number of whales he caught. (1) His appointment as headsman implies some years of prior experience as a mariner and whaler. He was thus employed until at least 1851. Off-shore whaling was seasonal and he may have had other employment elsewhere in the off-season.(3)
In 1850 Tom Clark partnered with Barnett to hunt whales near Cape Jervis, in a spot now known as Fishery Beach. Whaling commenced in May 1850. Tom was manager and lived there with "Mrs Clark" in a slab hut, remains of which have been excavated by archaeologists. They kept ducks, fowls and pigs, probably for their own use and to supplement the diet of the whalers.(13,14,15)
There were twelve whalers, but few whales. Only one was caught in the entire season. (15) Tom had plenty of time to build three rowboats in sheds on site. At the end of the season, the fishery was sold to Bennett's (15) Tom is recorded as having been in Bennett's employ in 1851 (3) ; this could have been at either Fishery Beach or Encounter Bay, though his son Robert is said to have been born at "Port Victor" (Encounter Bay) (6).
The woman posing as "Mrs Clark" was Mrs Mary Louisa Stone (5) Tom and Mary's son Robert Clark was born in 1851.(6). One source says that a second son, William, was born in 1855. (7) In 1858 they had a daughter, Eliza Jane Clark. (8) By 1861 Mary Louisa had left Tom and was married to Frank Buckley. (9)
In 1853 Tom Clark was one of the locals who assisted survivors of the shipwrecked steamer Osmanli at D'Estrees Bay, Kangaroo Island. He offered to take charge of the salvage operation. (10)
 
Tom spent his later years on Kangaroo Island where his son Robert became a successful farmer and grazier.
He passed away in 1892, aged 82 at Antechamber Bay, Kangaroo Island. (11)

 AN OLD KANGAROO ISLANDER.-A corre
spondent writes from Hog Bay:-"Mr. T.
Clarke died at his son's (Mr. R. Clarke) resi
dence at Antechamber Bay on the 19th, after
a, short illness, aged eighty-two. Thus has
passed away the once celebrated Tom Clarke,
the noted headsman of bygone times, when
whaling was an important industry in the
colony. Tom Clarke was stationed at En
counter Bay for many seasons, and his reported
feats of great strength are well known in that
locality. He had resided on the island for
many years, and was highly respected. A
goodly number of neighbours attended his
funeral to show their respect for him."

Sources

1. OLD RESIDENT TELLS STORIES OF WHALING DAYS
2. AN OLD KANGAROO ISLANDER
3. FamilyHistorySA.info: CLARK Thomas, headsman (1846 Hagen, 1847 Wilde, 1848, 1849 Barnett, 1851 Bennett) Names in brackets are his employers as a whaler. Source: South Australian Government Gazettes 1844-51
4. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (1844, March 22). The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840 - 1859), p. 2
5. What we know of Tom Clark's and Mary Stone's relationship is from a newspaper report of a divorce suit brought by Mrs Stone's husband, Joseph.[ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49826783 Supreme Court - Stone vs Stone and Clark
6. 6. Cyclopedia of South Australia 1909, pp.1021-1022
7. Bibliographical Index of South Australia, May 1986 There's no formal registration of this birth. Not known where the BISA got it from. In 1880, a William Clark, son of Thomas Clark, married Ellen Harris in Adelaide (BDM 124/835) but no certainty of connection.
8. Mary called herself Louisa Stone: CLARKE Thomas, Louisa STONE, parents of child born 1858-03-08 named Eliza Jane at Encounter Bay (data courtesy Family History S.A.)
9. Hearing re Marriage of Mary Ann Stone and Ezra Moore: "LAW AND CRIMINAL COURTS." South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) 30 November 1861: 3. Web. 13 May 2018 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50080691.
10. Letter from Thomas Clarke to South Australian Free Press, , 4th March 1854
11. Death Thomas CLARKE died 19 May 1892, aged 82yrs, born approx 1810, at An techamber Bay which was also his residence at time of death. Ref: District: Yankalilla Book/Page: 202/409 per South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society.
12. Tasmanian Names Index - Departures
13. New Whale Fishery at Cape Jervis
14. Shipping - Cleared Out 
15. The Whaling Season SKETCHES OF THE PRESENT STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. No. VIII.-CAPE JERVIS

 Notes

• Tom Clarke was immortalised in Simpson Newland's book "Paving the Way".
• In 1835 the Schooner Adelaide brought whaler Thomas Harris to Kangaroo Island. Could it also have brought Tom Clark?
• In 1836 a Thomas Clark left Launceston on the whaling ship "Thistle" for Port Fairy. https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/results?qu=NI_NAME%3DThomas&qu=NI_NAME%3DClark&qf=NI_DEPARTURE_PORT%09Departure+port%09Launceston%09Launceston
• in 1850 the Barnett whaling company, owned by Joseph Barnett, became a partnership, Joseph Barnett & Thomas Clark (Source: http://www.familyhistorysa.org/sahistory/whaling.html Whaling in South Australia). Tom Clarke worked for Barnett in 1849, and Bennett in 1851 but no employer is recorded for 1850. Most whaling ceased at Encounter Bay about this time.