Felix Devlin's Coffee Pot

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Harrison

c. 1860

Overview

EPNS coffee pot with four oblong panels engraved with pictures depicting the Four Seasons.

Historical information

The coffee pot was made by the firm of Harrison, Norfolk Works, Scotland St, Sheffield between 1843 and 1865. Belonged to Felix Devlin, a Pensioner Guard at Greenough, and the pot stayed in the family until his grand-daughter Stella Smith passed it on to the donor for safe keeping and transfer to this museum.
Felix Devlin (b.1824 in Ireland) served as a private in the 86th Regt of Foot. He married Sara Marshall of Co. Cork c1860 and arrived per 'York' as an Enrolled Pensioner Guard on 31/12/1862.
He was stationed at Champion Bay, and then granted land at Greenough, being locations G34 & G35. Here he built a small stone cottage and farmed the land. A nearby permanent stretch of water in the Greenough River has been named after him.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB0064

Themes

Immigration
Social History

Material

Electroplated Nickel Silver

Width

260 mm

Height or length

150 mm

Depth

255 mm

Inscriptions and markings

EPNS 5 Harrison Norfolk Works Sheffield 3018

Contextual Information

The Pensioner Guards and their families were important contributors towards the agricultural settlement of the Greenough Flats. They were granted 2 small blocks of 16 acres each and expected to survive. Very few did. The majority of the small stone cottages they built have long disappeared and their blocks of land incorporated into larger farms.
This coffee pot is important to us as it is representative of the type of possessions they brought out, and indicative of how they were striving for a better sort of life.

Keywords

Greenough

Place made

Sheffield
England
United Kingdom

Year

c. 1860

Primary significance criteria

Social or spiritual significance

Comparative significance criteria

Well provenanced

Greenough Museum and Gardens

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