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Very Rare Staffordshire Australian Convict

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Lustre Jug, c.1827, of baluster form, inscribed Joseph Marshall// Gunnerton//1827 flanked by portraits of Beaumont//M.P for the county of Staffordshire, surrounded by painted flowers and foliage, h 18cms Joseph Marshall (friend of Beaumont helped with Election) of Gunnerton, Northumberland, was one of 299 convicts transported to van diemans land on the convict vessel "The Marion" 27th September, 1847 after appearing at Northumberland Quarter Assizes - sentenced to 7 years exile on 23rd Febuary, 1846. He later returned to Northumberland on release as his name appears in London Gazette of 1879 with the liquidation of his assets. 1181 Convicts transported on the Marion, the ship made four trips to van Diemans land in 1843, 1845, 1847 and 1851, the last voyage to Western Australia. Thomas Wentworth Beaumont was M.P for county Stafforshire elected 1826,

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