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Promissory note from Robert Kyme

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Robert Kyme

1865

Subcollections

Maley Mill and Store Archives

Overview

hand written note on blue paper

Historical information

Robert Kyme (1819-1867) was convicted of highway robbery and transported to Western Australia in 1858 (No.5816). His Conditional Pardon was issued at Geraldton in 1862, and his Conditional Freedom just four months after this note was written for him. Kyme died at Greenough in 1867.
Not much is known about Charles James, other than he arrived in the colony in1853 with his family and was a farmer at Champion Bay.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-72-GMOB1285

Item type

Letters

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Ink

Writing Paper

Width

173 mm

Height or length

85 mm

Depth

1 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Greenough Flats 19/1/65
To Mr John Maley
Paid wheat a/c
Please to pay Mr C. James the sum of six pounds one shilling & place the same to my act
Robert Kyime

Contextual Information

As cash was scarce at Greenough, promissory notes like these were used to pay people. Kyme was illiterate, and so required someone to write this note, hence the misspelling of his surname. There are another 8 notes from Kyme in the collection.

Keywords

Greenough

Ticket-of-Leave

Place made

Greenough, Western Australia, Australia

Year

1865

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Well provenanced