A brief overview of the major sources in our collection that relate to cemeteries.
A brief overview of the administration of the collection of death duties - Deceased estate files - and how to find the records.
Intestate: A person who dies without leaving a will.
This guide provides an overview of the Office of the Curator of Intestate Estates and a select list of related records series
A grant of probate is the authority given by the Supreme Court NSW to the executor(s) to deal with a deceased person's estate. The will in the Probate packet is considered by the Court to be the only legal document. Records in a Probate packet include: the last will and testament codicils (...
This index simplifies the process of searching several different deceased estates indexes by combining all indexes into one searchable database.
This index is to the Devonshire Street Cemetery Reinterment Register. The Register covers details of remains, and in some cases monuments, from Devonshire Street Cemetery following its resumption to make way for the development of Central Railway Station.
Intestate: A person who dies without leaving a will. This is a very large series of records comprising 964 boxes. The records have been indexed from 1821 to 1913: [6/3481-3910] (excluding boxes of miscellaneous papers) [10/27478-27949] and [6/26823-24, 6/26843-45].
This index is for supplementary (early) probate records that are not part of the main probate series. It records the name, date, item number and page number. If you are looking for the main series of probate records (...
Every now and then rare we find rare examples of collection items which may be described as 'treasures'. One example is the intestate estate file for a Mr Patrick Birmingham who died in 1907. Most of the records on this page are not typically found in intestate...
We bring you another video instalment from Archives Behind the Scenes. This week Coleen shows us the very popular Probate Packets.
These records contain the last will and testament of the deceased as well as administrative documents around the settling of the estate. The...