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Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

Store order from Hugh Galvin

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Hugh Galvin

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written letter on paper

Historical information

Hugh Galvin (1827-1878) was a shepherd convicted of murder and transported to Western Australia on the Dudbrook in 1853 (no.1560). He eventually settled at Greenough where he married Elizabeth McDonnell in 1862.

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1456

Item type

Material

Width

106 mm

Height or length

108 mm

Depth

1 mm

Themes

Inscriptions and markings

Septr 4th 1865
Mr Maley Please to let the bearer have one canester of blasting Powder and one coil of Fews and place the same to my account
Hugh Galvin

Contextual Information

This letter provides an example of the diverse items that could be purchased from Maley's Store at Greenough.

Keywords

Ticket-of-Leave

Place made

Greenough
Western Australia
Australia

Year

1865

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Well provenanced

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