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Store order from John Ayscough

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John Ayscough

c. 1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand-written note on back of a taupe envelope

Historical information

John Ayscough (1812-82) was convicted in 1852 of raping his own daughter and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was sent to WA on Runnymede in 1856 (convict no.4164). By the 1860's he was farming at Greenough where he married Eliza Ainsworth. Ayscough died in the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1267

Item type

Letters

Material

Paper

Width

67 mm

Height or length

120 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Please send one bottle of machine oil /6 __cord if you have any dried fruit please send _ lbs if none a bottle of fruit 1/- nutmegs one bottle of aniseed or Pectoria Drops and you will oblige Jn Airscuff

Contextual Information

This is one of only two notes written by Ayscough held in the Maley Mill & Store Archives. The use of an envelope as a note suggests there was at times a shortage of paper at Greenough.

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

c. 1865

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

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Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative