Bibliography

Allen, Helena. Kalakaua: Renaissance King, Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1995.
(Biography of Hawaiian King Kalakaua, includes references to Brown sons-in-law Thomas and Charles Spencer, as well as a “Captain Haley”, who may or may not be ours.)

Barry, Bernice. Georgiana Molloy: The Mind that Shines. Author published, 2015. Distributed via Cypress Book Agency, North Fremantle, Western Australia, ISBN: 978-0-9942064-0-4.
(Meticulously researched biography, including mention of Heppingstones.)

Brown, Peter Lancaster. Australia’s Cost of Coral and Pearl, Sydney, NSW: Seal Books, 1995.
(Includes brief discussion of Captain Brown’s whaling gun.)

Clark, Patricia, and Spender, Dale. Life Lines: Australian women's letters and diaries 1788 to 1840, St. Leonards, NSW, 1992.

Colby, Barnard L., For Oil and Buggy Whips, Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1990.
(Includes a chapter on Theophilus Brown with reference to his older brother Robert.)

Cresswell, Gail J. The Light of Leeuwin, Margaret River, Western Australia: The Augusta-Margaret River Shire History Group, 1989.
(Early history of Augusta, including mention of the Heppingstones.)

DeVarigny, Charles, Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands: 1855–1868, translated by by Alfons L. Korn, University Press of Hawaii, 1981.
(DeVarigny was a Frenchman who became Prime Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom. His memoir includes a visit to the Kau district with the King to during the aftermath of the erruption that destroyed Captain Brown’s ranch.)

Druett, Joan. Petticoat Whalers Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820–1920. University Press of New England, 2001.

Durack, Mary, To be Heirs Forever, London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1976.
(Not specific to our people, but a good description of early colonial life in Western Australia.)

Elwell, Marge & Dennis, Historic Na'alehu: Hawaii's Deep South, Orange, CA: Paragon Publishing, 2005.
(History of the Kau district, includes photographs of Capt. Brown and the Kahuku Ranch marker.)

Erickson, Rica, The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians: pre-1829-1888, Nedlands: W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1988.
(Volume II, D-J includes entries for the earlier Heppingstone generations. Volume III, K-Q includes entries about the Molloys)

Erickson, Rica, The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians: 1829-1914, Volume 3: Free 1850-1868, Nedlands: W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1988.
(Includes entries for second and third generation Heppingstones in Australia.)

Gelett, Captain Charles Wetherby. A Life on the Ocean, Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd. 1917.
(Gelett, master of the mission ship Morning Star in the Hawaiian islands, was a friend of Captain Brown, and describes the volcano incident.)

Haley, Nelson C. Whale Hunt. Ives Washburn, 1948; reprinted © Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. 1990.
(Haley was married to Charlotte Brown; this is an account of his voyage on the Charles W. Morgan, 1854-1861.)

Hardwick, Gil, Castle Dangerous, Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press, 2003.
(Biography of Alfred and Ellen (nee Heppingstone) Bussell with references to the Heppingstone family.)

Hasluck, Alexandra, Portrait with Background, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1955.
(Definitive biography of Georgiana Molloy, wife of the captain to whom Robert Heppingstone was indentured.)

Henderson, David A. Men & Whales at Scammon’s Lagoon, Los Angeles, CA: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1972.
(Contains an account of the loss of Brown’s ship Black Warrior.)

Heppingstone, Ian D. & Wilson, H. Margaret, “Mrs John”: The Letters of Charlotte Bussell of Cattle Chosen, in Early Days, Journal and Proceedings, volume vii, part v, Perth: Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1973.

Heppingstone, Ian D., A Whaling Family, in Early Days, Journal and Proceedings, volume 10, part 5, Perth: Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1993.

Heppingstone, Ian D., American Whalers in Western Australian Waters, in Early Days, Journal and Proceedings, volume vii, part 1, Perth: Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1969.

Heppingstone, Ian D., Whaling in Cockburn Sound and Thereabouts, in Early Days, Journal and Proceedings, volume vii, part v, Perth: Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1973.,

Hohman Elmo P., The American Whaleman, Clifton, NJ: August M Kelly Puglishers, 1972 (reprint, originally published: NY: Longmans, Green & Co., 1928)
(Definitive history of the American whaling industry.)

Joll, E., Edmonds, J, Tresham, A., (eds). Swan River Colony, Perth: West Australian Newspapers, Ltd., 1979.
(Picture book of early Swan River Colony.)

King, Barbara. Through the Seventh Gate, Australia: Acton Press. (1993) ISBN: 0 646 13865 0.
(self-published chronicle of the Turner, McDermott, and Whitfield families who settled in Western Australia at the same time as the Heppingstones. Charlotte’s younger sister, Elizabeth Heppingstone, married a Turner.)

Landaur, Lyndall Baker,  Scammon, Beyond the Lagoon: a Biography of Charles Melville Scammon, Pasadena, CA: Flying Cloud Press, 1986.
(Biography of Captain Scammon, whose discovery of whales in coastal Mexico lured Brown to the site where he lost the Black Warrior.  Nothing in here that’s not in Henderson, but a good read.)

Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen, Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1990.

Lines, William J., An All Consuming Passion: Origins, Modernity, and the Australian Life of Georgiana Molloy, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994.
(Biography of Georgiana Molloy, wife of the captain to whom Robert Heppingstone was indentured.  Hasluck is better, but this one is more readily available.)

Lund, Judith Navas. Whaling Masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing from American Ports: a Compilation of Source, New Bedford MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2001.
(Extensive index of whaling ships and captains in the American whaling industry. Notes where logs are held. We just got a copy of it and will be happy to look up voyages for you – email: admin@captainbrown.net.)

Lytle, Thomas, Harpoons and Other Whalecraft. New Bedford, MA: The Old Dartmouth Historical Society Whaling Museum, 1984.
(Detailed study of tools used in the whaling trade, including several pages about Brown’s whaling gun; reprinted fall 2004)

Jennings, Rodger, Busselton “...outstation on the Vasse” 1830-1850, Busselton, W.A.: Shire of Busselton, 1983.
(History of Busselton, town the Heppingstones moved to after they left Augusta, including several references to our Heppingstone family.)

Rogers, James A. Journal of Whaling Voyage of Ship Mentor of New London, Capt. William M. Baker, New Bedford, MA: Reynolds Printing
(Log of the voyage during which Robert Brown and Charlotte Heppingstone met.)

Russell, Penny. For Richer For Poorer: Early Colonial Marriages, Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Shann, E.O.G., Cattle Chosen: The Story of the First Group Settlement inWestern Australia, 1829-1841, University of Western Australia Press, 1978 (facsimile edition).
(Focuses primarily on the Bussell family, who came to Australia on the same ship as the Heppingstones.)

Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery, Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1989.
(Index of American whaling voyages.) There’s a .PDF copy online here: http://ia700407.us.archive.org/30/items/historyofamerica00star/historyofamerica00star.pdf

Stewart, Athol F. Ferguson. Australia's Grace Darling. Perth: Paterson's Printing Press Ltd. (no date).

Stokes, John. The Western State (second edition), Perth: Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., 1962.

Terry, Frances, They Came to the Margaret, Bunbury, W. A.: South West Printing & Publishing Co., 1978.
(Good focus on our people – Mrs. Terry was descended from the Heppingstones – but much seems to be based on hearsay and/or augmented by the author’s imagination.)

Turner, Tom, Turners of Augusta, Perth: Paterson Brokensha Pty. Ltd., 1956.
(Biographical study of James Turner, who emigrated to Australia on the same ship as the Heppingstones.)

Watson, Rose., James Woodward Turner of Augusta, in Early Days, Journal and Proceedings, volume vii, part v, Perth: Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1973.
(Describes the Turner family, who emigrated to Australia on the same ship as the Heppingstones.)

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