"Mary Thomas" née Harris was a diarist, poet and early settler of South Australia.

She accompanied her husband, newspaper proprietor Robert Thomas (newspaper proprietor)/Robert Thomas to South Australia on the Africaine and arrived at Glenelg, South Australia/Holdfast Bay in November 1836. The family wanted to “obtain a competence” in South Australia, but expected they “must go to England to enjoy it.” He printed John Hindmarsh/Governor John Hindmarsh's Proclamation Day#South Australia/proclamation of the colony, which occurred under the Old Gum Tree on 28 December 1836.

Already a published poet at the time of her arrival in South Australia, she was a prolific letter writer and kept a diary which was first published in 1915 as The Diary and Letters of Mary Thomas. This gave a detailed account of her voyage on the Africaine as well as an insight into early colonial life.

She died at her house in Adelaide, South Australia/Adelaide on 10 February 1875, leaving two sons and two daughters.

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