CreatorMease, MaryTitle Letters from Mary MeaseDate1851DescriptionExtracts from a diary kept by Mary Mease, and letters written to relatives, during a voyage from Liverpool to Sydney. Describes conditions at Port Adelaide and Adelaide, including her experiences of South Australia, including staying on the ship in fear of travelling the 5 mile voyage in a small boat to the mainland, encounters with natives, dangerous journeys into Adelaide where she was lucky if the horse and carriage remained unturned on account of the terrible roads and general descriptions of the Kapunda mines, early streets, houses and vegetation.History/biographyMary Mease was born in 1829 at Stokesley, Yorkshire. She voyaged to Australia on the way and stopped at Port Adelaide. It was to be a short stay for cargo off-loading but due to the extremely poor road into Adelaide, the job took longer and the ship remained for a few months before heading back out for Sydney. In that time Mease wrote many letters back to family in England. Mease eventually went on to Sydney and also married Rev. J. Barnier of Sydney.
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Mease, Mary, Letters from Mary Mease (1851). State Library of South Australia, accessed 16/10/2024, https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/3361
