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Thursday's Titbit: Probate

Today's post involves my 3rd Great Uncle James Alfred Guymer.  James died on the 6th December 1892 at Baw Baw, three days after his wife Hannah Dolphin nee Jones, leaving their daughter Ada an orphan.  His father Alfred Guymer was nominated as his estate administrator.  More information on them can be found here, here, here and here.

Source: PROBATE JURISDICTION. (1893, January 20). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), p. 543. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220965002

Transcript:
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
In the estate of James Alfred Guymer, late of Breadalbane, in the Colony of New South Wales, farmer, deceased, intestate.
APPLICATION will be made, after fourteen days from the publication hereof, that administration of the estate of the abovenamed deceased may be granted to Alfred Guymer, the father of the said deceased.
DAVIDSON & JOHNSON,
Proctors for the Administrator,
BY FERGUSON & BROAD.
Goulburn,
357  
6s. 6d.


Source: Advertising (1893, January 19). Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98528262

Transcript:
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
In the Estate of James Alfred Guymer, late of Mummell, in the Colony of New South Wales, farmer, deceased, intestate.
APPLICATION will be made after fourteen days from the publication hereof that administration of the estate of the abovenamed deceased may be granted to ALFRED GUYMER, the father of the said deceased.
DAVIDSON & JOHNSON,
Proctors for Administratix, Goulburn.

Source: Probates and Administrations. (1893, February 24). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113735773

Transcript:
Probates and Administrations.
Sitting in Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction yesterday his Honor Mr. Justice Manning granted probate of the wills of Patrick Bourke, John Dunston, Robert Penny, John Love, Edward Nelson Lock, Francis Harris, Eliza Jane Mortimore, Charles Wagner Reynolds, John Wilson Scott, John Garske, David Grover, Edward Austin Gilligan, John Graham, Patrick John Grady, Henry Edward Stokes, Alex. Leith Forbes, Ferguson Wylie, Patrick Mooney, John Douglas Buchanan, Jas. Rhind, Louis Buchanan, Duncan Suir, Joseph Schofield, Jane Sommerville, Samuel Toner, Wm. Henry Lees, Helen Kendall, Elijah Hart, Jas. S. Smith, Ng Wee Kah, Wm. Simmons, John Underwood, Jane Allen, Jas. Godfrey Baker, Emma Brownlow, Cassimer Cassagood, Samuel McCauley, Daniel Mulcahy, Edward Layton Frederick, Isaac Cannon, Jane Ryelan, and Robt. Carey Low.  Letters of administration were granted in the estates of James Gagahan, Angus Robertson, Joseph James Neale, Arthur Chas. Martin, Francis Benson Turner, Eliza Watson, Clarence Leslie James Banks, Francis John Greenway, Elizabeth Hollinshead, Maria Matilda Brain, Bridget O'Brien, James Alfred Guymer, Mary Ann Cotter, Wm. Hazell, James Snedden, George Reed, Edward Gribble, Wm. Barry, Jane Fanny Lester, Woodley Cole Slyman, John Barrett, Mary Dwau, James Warren, John S. W. Thicknesse, Samuel T. J. Mannell, Park. Kearns, and Margaret Ernsten.  Several motions to pass amounts for commission and for sale of real estate were also disposed of.


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