Historical information

Identification not certain. Original copy of photograph in catalogue was identified only as "Mr Lewis Snr", but the same photograph in the Lewis family file is named as "George Lewis Snr" (George Lewis 1855-1935).
Maker's name on photograph, "Will S. Anderson" suggests it is of William Lewis. (William Snowdall Anderson was an itinerant photographer in Victoria in the 1890s. He advertised his services in the Camperdown Chronicle in 1895. If photograph which shows a reasonably elderly man was taken in the 1890s, subject would be too old to be George Lewis.)
William Lewis married Ann Keating at Gnarkeet in 1853.

He is said to have been present at the Eureka Stockade.

Physical description

Sepia photograph of an older man with beard, wearing suit, seated with right leg crossed over left and right hand resting on right knee.