Henry Stokes (ca.1808-1898) was a sealer who lived on the Island in pre-colonial days.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/digitalpubs/placenamesofsouthaustralia/S.pdf
Given Name(s): Henry
Last Name: STOKES
Death Date: 12 Sep 1898
Gender: M
Age: 89y
Approx. Birth Year: 1809
Marital Status: N
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Residence: Emu Bay Kangaroo Island
Death Place: Emu Bay Kangaroo Island
District: Yankalilla
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Book/Page: 254/485
Source: SAGHS https://www.genealogysa.org.au
See inquest into fire: (1880, February 7). South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), , p. 9. R http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95041714
QUEENSCLIFFE, September 26.
Mr. Henry Stokes, who fell dead in the fire at Emu Bay last week, was 90 years of age. He came out in 1836 in the ship Hartley, of which he was mate, and owing to a dispute with the captain left the ship at Kingscote, and settled there, after wards working for the South Australian Company and Mr. Calnan. Stokes Bay is named after him. After many years of hardship the deceased settled in Emu Bay with his wife, but their house caught fire, and he was left homeless. Kind friends soon built another house for them, but soon after this Mrs. Stokes died, and during the last few years Mr. Stokes had been living by himself on Government rations and the kindness of his neighbors, who used to visit him daily and attend to him in his old age."
- THE COUNTRY. (1898, October 5). The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), , p. 2 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION). http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208999398