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1828: Henry Marson / Hannah Harris

Object number: 2008.0039.0074

1828: Henry Marson / Hannah Harris

Object number: 2008.0039.0074

Diameter: 35mm, thickness: 3mm

Front:

Token with a decorative stippled border and seven lines of stippled text. There is a heart with crossed arrows to the right of the fourth line of text:

HEnrY
MArson 20
HAnnAH
HArrIS
AgEd 19
a token of
august

Back:

Token with a decorative stippled border and eight lines of stippled text. There is a stippled sprig on either side of the third line:

WHEn
THIS YOU
SEE
rEMEMBEr 
ME WHEn –
I . AM FAr –
AWAY
1828

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Scott Brown

10th Nov 2014

Their was a Henry Marson tried at the Warwick Assizes on 9 August 1828 and sentenced to transportation for life. He sailed on the Georgiana, arriving in Hobart on 20 April 1829.

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