Charles Doudiet
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Background
Charles Doudiet was born in 1832 in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Rev. Jacques-Frederic Doudiet, who moved to Canada with his family in 1844 to take up a position with the French Canadian Missionary Society. [1] Doudiet died in Canada on 13 June 1913.[2]
After moving the New York Charles Doudiet sailed to Port Phillip on the Magnolia.[3]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Doudiet may have been a participant at the Stockade on 3 December 1854 and his notes record that he helped carry the dying Captain Charles Ross to the Free Trade Hotel on the 05 December 1854. [4]
Post 1854 Experiences
He sketched the burning of James Bentley’s Eureka Hotel, and other Eureka Stockade related scenes.[5]
In The News
- RICHARD W COWAN, from Montreal, — send your address to Charles Doudiet, Elliott and Co's stores, Flinders-lane.[6]
In 1996 sixteen of his sketches were sold to the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery for $245,000.[7]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Doudiet
- ↑ Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00294b.htm
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ The Argus, 3 June 1853.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
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