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Captain Alured Tasker Faunce (1808 - 1856) the first Resident…
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3-Dec-2022
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Captain Alured Tasker Faunce (1808 - 1856) the first Resident Police Magistrate at Queanbeyan. A sterling silver desk stand, tea pot, sugar basin and salver, all made in London in 1839, and engraved with the family coat of arms for 'A. T. Faunce', also known as 'Iron-man Faunce' for his stand when a magistrate on the N.S.W. North coast, near Gosford, against corrupt government officers, whereupon he was transferred to Queanbeyan to act as Police Magistrate. The cream jug from the set is not present. The main items are inscribed: 'Presented to a. T. Faunce by the inhabitants of Queanbeyan, Molonglo, Gundaroo and Monaro in testimony of their approbation of his conduct as Police Magistrate and their high esteem of his character as a gentleman, August 5 th 1840'. Total silver weight: 1680 grams. (4 items). 'At that time there were some 7-8,000 convicts in work assignment in the area (County of Murray), and it was a rough and violent place. Alured was the senior person....and apart from his work on the bench, he frequently had to lead his posse of troopers on hard-riding chases.... On one occasion he pursued five bushrangers who broke out of gaol 36 miles to Michelago before he caught them. Another time, he chased a group of armed men who broke into a Queanbeyan store and eventually caught them with the help of neighbours and Aboriginal trackers, at one period during 1838 there were so many bushrangers in the area and so many in the lock-up that an absconding servant-turned-informer was given a post in the police force rather than subject him to the danger of imprisonment with his own victims.' (Faunce, A.D., 'A family that went out to the world. The story of the Faunces of Kent'; privately published, 1990; p.97-98.)
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