Index of names by Lenore Frost
 30 December 2006
Updated 7 October 2012

 from a digitised version of the diary at the State Library of Victoria website


Formerly attributed to  Samuel Lazarus, research by Dr Clare Wright has identified the writer
of the diaries as Charles James Evans, a native of  Shropshire who owned an auction house and
printers in Ballarat at the time of the stockade.

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The pages are more readily accessed by date.  In one stretch of dates Lazarus
made an error in the date, but the transcript gives the corrected date.  I have used
the corrected date in the column below.

The new State Library of Victoria catalogue entry reads in part: "Charles Evan's diary begins eleven months after his arrival in Victoria with his brother, George, and describes the brothers' experiences working as carters and timber merchants before setting out for the Ballarat diggings with their mutual friend George Morgan, and John Basson Humffray, who had travelled on the same ship as George Morgan; and their subsequent arrival in Ballarat, where they established a number of successful businesses, including an auctioneering house and a printing and stationary business. The diary also gives a first-hand account of the Eureka Stockade." Further biographical details can be seen in the State Library of Victoria catalogue entry.