Diary of Charles Marsden, emigrant labourer of Stalybridge, Lancashire, on a voyage from Plymouth to Port Adelaide aboard the 'Eastern Empire' 16 March 1864 to 20 June 1864. Transcribed from the 'Ashton and Stalybridge Reporter' 8 October 1864, with a report on emigration from Stalybridge 1864.

Charles Marsden, labourer aged twenty five, emigrated to South Australia with his wife Elizabeth, twenty four, and children Agnes and William at a time when the American Civil War had adversely affected the cotton spinning trade in his home town and country.

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