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(? - 1 July 1860) his death
1. * Frances Amelia Thomas (c. 1818 – 27 February 1855) married solicitor and artist John Michael Skipper (18 June 1815 – 7 December 1883) on 28 December 1840. He married again, to Mary Thomas (c. 1813 – 28 April 1883) on 28 April 1856.
G1. * Spencer John Skipper (c. 1848 – September 1903), journalist remembered as "Hugh Kalyptus" of the Register.
2. * William Kyffin Thomas (1821–1878), became a proprietor of the South Australian Register.
3. * Mary Thomas (c. 1813 – 28 April 1883) married her sister's widower John Michael Skipper (c. 1817 – 7 December 1883) on 28 April 1856
4. * Helen Thomas (6 July 1825 – 17 August 1921) married Swiss pianist Alfredo Placido "Alfred" Mantegani (1829 – 5 June 1861) on 25 June 1855.
G2. * Teresa Victoria Mantegani (c. 1856 – 19 Jun 1937) married Miles Horatio Beevor in 1878
G3. * Alfred Victor Mantegani (c. 1859 – 24 Aug 1926) married Ellen Deveny in 1898
5. * Robert George Thomas, (16 February 1820 – 14 April 1883) arrived with G. S. Kingston, aboard Cygnet in 1836, worked as a surveyor (he drafted the original plan of the City of Adelaide), then in 1846 returned to England. He was back in Adelaide in 1861 and served for a time as later Government Architect before reverting to private practice.
