Charles MacAlister

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MacAlister, Charles (1830-1908), Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South, Goulburn, NSW, Chas. MacAlister Book Publication Committee, 1907, 396 pp., index, port.

Charles came to Australia in 1833 as a three year old child. His family settled in the Goulburn area at Strathaird Station. Charles became a bullock driver, carrying goods from rural areas to Sydney. He later supplied the goldfields, including the Turon, Majors Creek, Beechworth, Kiama, Lambing Flat and Forbes fields. He recounts lively details of his life including descriptions of incidents at which he was not prsent, such as the Eureka and Lambing Flat Riots. It is probable that he relates other people's memories of these events.[1]
  1. Australian Autobiographical Narratives, Volume 1: to 1850.