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Order for flour from John McGrath

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John McGrath

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written note in ink on grey paper with pink horizontal lines

Historical information

John McGrath arrived as an Enrolled Pensioner Guard aboard the "William Jardine" on 01/08/1852. Formerly a Private 87th Regt. Moved to Greenough c1856. Granted G9 & G10 in 1868.
John Brown was a CP man. Working as a farm labourer he died of heart disease, aged 35 at Alex Dewar's farm, Greenough in 1868.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1441

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

124 mm

Height or length

60 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

September the 8 1865
Mr Maley please sir to let John Brown have one bag of flour on my acount John McGrath

Contextual information

This is the only note associated with John Brown in the Maley Mill & Store Archives.

Keywords

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

Last modified

Wednesday, 30 July, 2025

Completeness

100

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