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Greenough Museum and Gardens > Records

Promissory Note from Denis Higgins

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1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written note on a scrap of paper ( had been held together with sticky tape ).

Historical information

Dennis Higgins (1830-1880) was convicted in Wales in 1853 of stealing with violence. He was sent to WA in 1855 on the Adelaide (convict no. 3539).
John Fox (1816-1866) was a British butcher convicted of uttering a forged five pound note and sent to WA in 1858 on the Lord Raglan (convict no. 4951).
Francis Allender (1829-1900) was a free settler from South Australia who took up a farm at Central Greenough.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB2249

Item type

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Width

178 mm

Height or length

115 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Nov 21st /63
Mr Allender
Please pay to J Fox the sum of Three Pounds and place the same to my A/c
Denis Highein His Mark x

Contextual Information

This note is the only evidence we have that Dennis Higgins was at Greenough.
It is one of fifteen documents associated with John Fox that were left in the Maley Store.

Keywords

Promissory Note

Place made

Western Australia
Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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