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The following is an updated edition of an article I wrote that was published in the Society of Australian Genealogists’ journal Descent, Volume 34, Part 3, September 2004, pages 129 to 135 (174 entries). The updated information has been extracted from, first an article in Descent, Volume 39, Part 2, June 2009, pages 59 to 65, titled “A further look at Australian Probate Records in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury” by Michael Andrews-Reading (30 entries), second an item in Descent, Volume 39, Part 2, September 2009, page 132, titled “More Australian Wills held in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury” (11 entries).

Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England
Wills 1384 to 1858

The UK National Archives (1), the new name for the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, has made available on their Documents Online web site (2) the index to over one million wills of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) covering the period 1384 to 1858. Copies can be purchased and received online generally for £3.50 sterling (current in 2009).

For more background information on wills and testaments throughout the UK, see the Family Records web site (3). For information on obtaining a copy of a will proved after 1858, see the Court Services web site (4).

Until 1858 all wills had to be proved by the Church and other courts. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, the most important of these courts, dealt with relatively wealthy individuals living mainly in the south of England and most of Wales (what was originally within the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury. The date given relates to when the will was proved.

Entries have been found using the very good online search facilities for surnames of those indexed with the names of various colonies and the place name field for others in Australia, as follows. The results were :-

Australia – 27 entries
New South Wales – 116 entries
Van Diemen’s Land – 41 entries
Tasmania – 1 entry
Port Phillip – 2 entries
Victoria – 11 entries
Queensland – no entries
Norfolk Island – 1
UK – 13
Other – 4

Total 215 entries less seven duplicates = 208

Readers will observe that the list includes many well known early Australian identities such as: The Right Reverend William Grant Broughton, Sir James Dowling, Sir George Gipps, George Howe, Phillip Parker King, Reverend Robert Knopwood, Sir Maurice Charles O’Connell, Captain William Paterson, John Oxley, and Thomas Braidwood Wilson. On the other hand the list includes Benjamin Lord, Labourer, of Newton near Geelong. The earliest date is for Andrew Miller, Commissary of the New Settlement at New South Wales, 17 January 1791.

Also Andrews-Reading noted that the list includes eight First Fleeters, including Henry Edward Dodd, “alias Edward Dodd”. He also notes that the earliest Australian will was for another First Fleeter, William Wall, who died in 1789, but proved on 26 July 1792. I have included the 30 additional entries listed by Andrews-Reading in the list below. He identified quite a few well known people, including Richard Atkins, John Thomas Bigge, William Bligh, Sir Richard Bourke, John Hunter, Philip Gidley King, Lachlan Macquarie, Arthur Phillip, even though they did not die in Australia.

There may be other PCC wills that have not been found that relate to people who have lived or died in Australia. Therefore if someone checking this list does not find an entry, I recommend checking the National Archives index.

Wills

Aheren, John, otherwise A Herien otherwise A Hearn otherwise Aherne otherwise Ahern otherwise O’Hern otherwise O’Herne otherwise O’Hearne of Sydney, New South Wales, 14 April 1818, PROB 11/1603

Andrew, David Thomas, on board the Ship Land of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 23 February 1836, PROB 11/1857

Anstey, Thomas, of Anstey Barton, Van Diemens Land, 14 December 1853, PROB 11/2181

Ascough, William, of Sydney, New South Wales, 15 April 1837, PROB 11/1875

Ash, George, of Berrima, Argyle, New South Wales, 10 June 1844, PROB 11/1999

Atkins, Richard, Judge Advocate at Sidney in New South Wales of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 1 February 1821, PROB 11/1639

Ayrey, Charles, Settler of Mount Gellibrand in the Colony of Victoria, 19 January 1855, PROB 11/2204

Barttelot, David Barttelot, of Sydney, New South Wales, 31 December 1852, PROB 11/2162

Beck, Frederick John, Merchant of Adelaide, South Australia, 19 January 1856, PROB 11/2225

Beeson, John, Yeoman of Petersham near Sydney, New South Wales, 12 August 1845 PROB 11/2022

Bell, Thomas, Surgeon of Bendoura in the district of Braidwood in the county of Saint Vincent, New South Wales, 13 May 1857, PROB 11/2250

Bettington, James Brindley, of Oatlands near Parramatta, New South Wales, 12 September 1857, PROB 11/2257

Bigge, John Thomas, Chief Judge of the Island of Trinidad and Commissioner of Enquiry to the Colonies of New South Wales and the Cape of Good Hope, 15 March 1845, PROB 11/2013

Billing, James, Surgeon of the Ship Batavia now bound to New South Wales in the service of His Majesty’s Government, of Newington Green, Middlesex, 16 December 1819, PROB 11/1623

Black, William, of Lima Station near, Victoria, 5 December 1856, PROB 11/2242

Bligh, Elizabeth, Widow of Balmain near Sydney, New South Wales, 17 February 1855, PROB 11/2205

Bligh, William, Captain in His Majesty’s Navy and Governor General and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty’s Colony of New South Wales of Lambeth, Surrey, 29 April 1818, PROB 11/1603

Bompas, Joseph Carpenter Bachelor of Medicine of the University of London and Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London of Adelaide, Province of South Australia, 1 February 1856, PROB 11/2226

Bordes, George Frances William, Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers of Sydney, New South Wales, 03 February 1846, PROB 11/2030

Bossward, Joseph, Builder of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 2 July 1855, PROB 11/2215

Bourke, Sir Richard, Lieutenant General in Her Majesty’s Army of Thornfield, Limerick, 22 September 1855, PROB 11/2219

Bowden, Edmund, of Hobart, Van Diemens Land, 10 September 1849, PROB 11/2099

Bowen, Susan, Widow of Sydney, New South Wales, 7 May 1840, PROB 11/1927

Boyes, Henry, Carpenters Mate belonging to H M Brigg Buzzard of New South Wales, 31 March 1838, PROB 11/1891

Bransgrove, Thomas, Yeoman of Launceston, Van Diemens Land, 21 June 1855, PROB 11/2213

Brewer, Henry, of Sydney, County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 16 September 1797, PROB 11/1296

Brisbane, Sir James, Captain In His Majesty’s Royal Navy of Brisbane, New South Wales, 2 October 1827, PROB 11/1731

Bromiley, Kershaw of Melbourne, Australia, 21 June 1854, PROB 11/2192

Broughton, The Right Reverend William Grant, Lord Bishop of Sydney, Doctor of Divinity of Sydney, New South Wales, 27 June 1854, PROB 11/2193

Brown, George, of Sydney, New South Wales, 18 March 1851, PROB 11/2128

Brown, James, of Heidelburgh, Bourke within the District of Port Phillip, New South Wales, 29 April 1854, PROB 11/2189

Brown, Jonathan, Licensed Victualler of Sydney, New South Wales, 9 September 1854, PROB 11/2197

Bruce, Henry Alexander, Ensign in Her Majesty’s 96th Regiment of Launceston, Van Diemens Land, 16 January 1845, PROB 11/2010

Budd, Henry Surgeon of City of Melbourne, Victoria, 21 August 1856, PROB 11/2237

Bunn, George, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 26 December 1835, PROB 11/1854

Burnett, Robert Edwin, of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 29 April 1851, PROB 11/2130

Burton, Frederick, otherwise Charles Frederick Burton, Attorney at Law and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Adelaide, Province of South Australia, 14 December 1846, PROB 11/2046

Butler, Gamaliel, Solicitor of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 30 August 1852, PROB 11/2157

Butler, John, Merchant and Accountant of Sydney, New South Wales, 18 December 1850, PROB 11/2123

Campbell, Edwin, Grocer of Sydney, New South Wales, 8 November 1855, PROB 11/2222

Campbell, John Thomas, of Sydney, Cumberland, New South Wales, 19 November 1830, PROB 11/1777

Capper, Charles Henry, Engineer of Cooks River Cumberland, New South Wales, 29 July 1854, PROB 11/2194

Carmody, Paul, Color Sergeant Twenty First Regiment of Foot of Hobart Town, New South Wales, 3 April 1839, PROB 11/1909

Castle, Frederic of Morphett Vale, South Australia, 25 September 1857, PROB 11/2257

Chavanne, Louis Armand, of Adelaide, South Australia, 19 December 1854, PROB 11/2201

Clark, Edward, of Gaskmore Park on the Torrens River, Province of South Australia, 14 February 1857, PROB 11/2246

Clark, Francis, of Kensington near the City of Adelaide, South Australia, 16 October 1854, PROB 11/2198

Clarke, William Henry, formerly a Captain in Her Majesty’s Fourth or Kings own Regiment of Foot of Pembrook near Cassilis, New South Wales, 21 August 1847, PROB 11/2060

Collie, Alexander, Colonial Surgeon and Surgeon of the Royal Navy of Perth, Western Australia, 30 August 1837, PROB 11/1882

Cooke, William Robert Smith, Merchant of Adelaide, South Australia, 6 May 1854, PROB 11/2190

Cordeaux, William, of Leppington near Liverpool, New South Wales, 21 January 1843, PROB 11/1973

Cox, William Edward, Gentleman of City of Sydney, New South Wales, 14 April 1855, PROB 11/2209

Crawley, George, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 2 May 1855, PROB 11/2211

Crespin, George Henry Legassicke, Storekeeper of Melbourne, New South Wales, 14 December 1849, PROB 11/2104

Crichton, Constantine Talbot, Barrister at Law of Gresford on the Upper Paterson River, New South Wales, Australia, 28 May 1847, PROB 11/2055

Crocker, George, Gentleman, formerly Cotton Commission Agent of East Melbourne, Victoria, 23 October 1857, PROB 11/2258

Culley, Jane, Widow of Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, 30 June 1854, PROB 11/2192

Cumming, James Charles, Land Purser in the Royal Navy of Little Swan Port, Island of Van Diemens, 21 January 1845, PROB 11/2010

Dirom, Alexander, of Mount Annan, Australia, 27 December 1853, PROB 11/2182

Dirom, Joanna Elizabeth, of Mount Annan, Australia, 27 December 1853, PROB 11/2182

Divers, John, Farmer of Adelaide, Province of South Australia, 1 May 1844, PROB 11/1998

Dodd, Henry Edward otherwise Edward, Seaman late belonging to His Majesty’s Ship Sirius and appearing on the Books of the said Ship Number 148 of Rose Hill, County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 20 June 1792, PROB 11/1219

Donaldson, James, of Sydney, New South Wales, 7 April 1857, PROB 11/2249

Dowling, Sir James, Chief Justice of the Supreme of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 5 November 1846, PROB 11/2044

Edenborough, Henry, of Sydney, New South Wales, 30 March 1855, PROB 11/2208

Erskine, James, Formerly Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of New South Wales of Leamington, Warwickshire, 24 December 1825, PROB 11/1706

Ferris, Thomas, Gentleman of Sydney, New South Wales, 20 October 1831, PROB 11/1791A

Foveaux, Joseph, Lieutenant General in the Army of Saint Marylebone, Middlesex, 11 April 1846, PROB 11/2034

Fowler, William Thomas, Master Mariner of City of Sydney, New South Wales, 20 March 1855, PROB 11/2208

Frankland, George, of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 5 December 1851, PROB 11/2143

Gall, Isaac Hindley Herbert, Captain in Her Majesty’s 99th Regiment of Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land, 27 March 1856, PROB 11/2229

Gellibrand, Joseph Tice, of Derwent Park, Van Diemen’s Land, 8 May 1838, PROB 11/1895

Gilbert, Napoleon, Licensed Victualler of Geelong, Victoria, 20 February 1856, PROB 11/2227

Gipps, Sir George, Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, 4 February 1848, PROB 11/2069

Gore, Thomas Goodall, of Sydney, New South Wales, 5 January 1856, PROB 11/2225

Grant, James Macpherson, formerly Captain in Her Majesty’s 93th Highlanders of New South Wales, Australia, 8 June 1848, PROB 11/2076

Gregory, George Phillips Foster, of Saint Leonards on the North shore near Sydney, New South Wales, 6 May 1852, PROB 11/2152

Groves, John Samuel, Captain of the Ship Eliza of London and now about to sail for New South Wales and the East Indies, 15 February 1834, PROB 11/1827

Gunton, Henry, late Captain in Her Majesty’s Fiftieth Regiment of Dural, New South Wales, 14 March 1849, PROB 11/2089

Hall, Charles, of Sydney, New South Wales, 8 March 1853, PROB 11/2168

Hallett, William Hughes, of Sydney, New South Wales, 17 April 1855, PROB 11/2210

Harris, John, of Shanes Park in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 6 January 1841, PROB 11/1939

Hartwell, Philip Hanrott, Civil Assistant Surgeon of the Colonial Establishment of Norfolk Island, New South Wales, 19 November 1840, PROB 11/1936

Henderson, John, of Newcastle, New South Wales, 30 October 1837, PROB 11/1885

Hill, Benjamin, of Sydney, New South Wales, 13 July 1853, PROB 11/2175

Hill, William, Captain in the New South Wales Corps of Norfolk Island,
12 March 1795, PROB 11/1257

Hill, William Smith, Master Mariner of Sydney, New South Wales, 25 January 1845, PROB 11/2010

Hobson, William, Lieutenant Governor of such part of New South Wales, 16 November 1843, PROB 11/1988

Hopkins, Benjamin, of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 19 April 1851, PROB 11/2130

Hopkinson, William, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 9 June 1855, PROB 11/2214

Horne, Alfred William, of Bowerbank Deloraine, Van Diemans Land, 5 November 1849, PROB 11/2102

Howard, Joseph, Innholder of Saint Kilda, Melbourne in the District of Port Phillip, New South Wales, 31 May 1853, PROB 11/2172

Howe, George, Government Printer of Sydney, New South Wales, 7 August 1823, PROB 11/1674

Howell, John Thomas, Gentleman of Sydney, New South Wales, 19 December 1857, PROB 11/2261

Hudson, Isaac, Gentleman of No 5 Dock Quarry Cottage, Cumberland, New South Wales, 23 October 1847, PROB 11/2063

Hunt, Frederick, Cabinet Maker of Sydney, New South Wales, 15 July 1843, PROB 11/1982

Hunter, John, Vice Admiral in His Majesty Royal Navy of Leith, Mid Lothian, 9 April 1821, PROB 11/1642

Ibbott, John, Land Farmer of Drummond and District of Brighton, Island of Van Diemens, 11 October 1856, PROB 11/2240

Jackson, William Collins Burke, of Sydney, New South Wales, 25 September 1828, PROB 11/1745

Jacob, Henry Hutton, late Major in Her Majesty’s 80 Regiment of Foot of Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, 13 January 1843, PROB 11/1973

James, Ruth, formerly Rogers of Sydney, New South Wales, 17 November 1843, PROB 11/1988

Jellicoe, Mary Tucker, Widow of Campbell Ford Cottage, Van Diemen’s Land, 15 June 1847, PROB 11/2057

Johnson, Reverend Richard, Clerk, Rector of Newington, Surrey
2 May 1827, PROB 11/1726

Johnston, Harley Robert, of Australind, Western Australia, 20
December 1854, PROB 11/2202

Johnston, James, Farmer of Tippermallo, New South Wales, 27 October 1840, PROB 11/1935

Jones, Elizabeth Frances, Spinster of Sidney, New South Wales, 14 June 1855, PROB 11/2214

Jones, Frederick, of Melbourne, Victoria, 8 October 1857, PROB 11/2259

Jones, Lewis, Gentleman of Richmond near Melbourne, Victoria, 28 November 1856, PROB 11/2241

Joseph, William, otherwise William Shairpe, Gentleman of North Shore near Sydney, New South Wales, 6 February 1850, PROB 11/2109

Ker, David, Land Merchant of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 14 October 1828, PROB 11/1746

King, Anna Josepha, Widow of Parramatta, New South Wales, 18 November 1845, PROB 11/2027

King, James, of Ferawang, Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, 19 December 1857, PROB 11/2262

King, Morgan, otherwise Seymour, Private in His Majesty’s 100th Regiment of Foot, Bachelor of New South Wales, 11 November 1825, PROB 11/1705

King, Philip Gidley, Captain in the Royal Navy and late Governor of the Territory of New South Wales of Tooting, Surrey, 19 November 1808, PROB 11/1488

King, Phillip Parker, Captain in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy of Carrington, New South Wales, 11 August 1857, PROB 11/2256

Knopwood, Reverend Robert, Clerk of Van Diemens Land, 21 January 1846, PROB 11/2029

Knott, John, Surgeon of Adelaide, Australia, 7 February 1851, PROB 11/2127

Lane, Edward Henry, Gentleman of Sydney, New South Wales, 29 April 1852, PROB 11/2151

Lawrence, William Effingham, of Launceston, Van Diemans Land, 20 March 1856, PROB 11/2229

Lewis, Charles, Lieutenant Colonel of Her Majesty’s 80th Regiment of Marquarle Street Sydney, New South Wales, 13 November 1854, PROB 11/2200

Lewis, Thomas, of Sydney, New South Wales, 16 August 1839, PROB 11/1915

Lindsay, John Blatchford, Master Mariner of Van Diemans Land, 13 June 1840, PROB 11/1929

Loinsworth, Jane Alexandrine, Spinster of Adelaide, New South Wales, 19 May 1854, PROB 11/2191

Lord, Benjamin, Labourer of Newtown near Geelong, Victoria, 24 January 1854, PROB 11/2184

Lucas, Penelope, Gentlewoman of Parramatta, New South Wales, 19 June 1840, PROB 11/1929

Macdonald, George, late a Captain in Her Majesty’s 17th Regiment of Infantry of New South Wales, 12 June 1855, PROB 11/2214

Macdonald, Hugh, Quarter Master in His Majesty’s Forty Sixth Regiment of Foot of Sidney, Territory of New South Wales, 27 February 1823, PROB 11/1666

McDougall, Dougall, Commander of the Ship Tottenham of Sydney, New South Wales, 2 May 1820, PROB 11/1629

Mackay, George, Captain in His Majesty’s 48th Regiment of Foot of Sydney, New South Wales, 19 August 1824, PROB 11/1689

Mackenzie, Alexander Kenneth, of Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 20 June 1848, PROB 11/2076

Mackenzie, Emma, Spinster of Melbourne, Victoria, 13 January 1854, PROB 11/2184

McLachlan, Charles, of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 11 June 1856, PROB 11/2234

McLeod, Alexander, Lieutenant Colonel in the Honorable East India Company’s Fifth Regiment of Madras Native Cavalry of Sydney, New South Wales, 19 June 1829, PROB 11/1757

Macquarie, Lachlan, Major General in His Majesty’s Army first Lieutenant Colonel of the 73 Regiment and at present Captain General and Governor Chief in and over the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies of Jarvisfield Island of Mull, Argyllshire, 29 November 1824, PROB 11/1692

Margetts, Alfred, Gentleman of Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land, 7 February 1855, PROB 11/2206

Mason, Robert, Widower of New South Wales, Australia, 22 June 1850, PROB 11/2115

Merrett, William, Butcher of Sydney, New South Wales, 20 January 1843, PROB 11/1973

Miller, Andrew, Commissary of The New Settlement at New South Wales, 17 January 1791, PROB 11/1200

Miller, George, of Sydney, New South Wales, 10 September 1855, PROB 11/2219

Miller, James Dickie, Surgeon in Her Majesty’s Navy of Van Diemans Land, 25 June 1840, PROB 11/1929

Moore, Joseph, Quarter Master of Her Majesty’s Fiftieth or Queen’s Own Regiment of Foot of Sydney, Australia, 15 July 1850, PROB 11/2116

Moore, William Henry, Gentleman of College Street, Sydney, 7 April 1856, PROB 11/2231

Monro, Mark, Commander of the Merchant Ship Sarah of Port Jackson, New South Wales, 22 January 1824, PROB 11/1680

Moriarty, William, Commmander in the Royal Navy of Launceston, Van Diemens Land, 4 September 1851, PROB 11/2139

Murray, Alexander, of New Norfolk, Van Diemen’s Land, 30 December 1842, PROB 11/1972

Nash, Richard West, of Perth, Western Australia, 9 January 1851, PROB 11/2126

Naylor, Reverend Thomas Beagley, Clerk in Holy Orders of City of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, 31 August 1850, PROB 11/2118

Norton, Nathanael, Retired Commander in the Navy of Mulgoa, New South Wales, 28 May 1852, PROB 11/2153

Nott, Henry, Gentleman of Sydney, New South Wales, 23 December 1848, PROB 11/2085

O’Connell, Sir Maurice Charles, Colonel of Her Majesty’s 80th Regiment of Foot and a Lieutenant General in the Army of Sydney, New South Wales, 13 April 1849, PROB 11/2091

O’Hara, George Willoughby Davy, Lieutenant of the 50th or the Queens Own Regiment of New South Wales, 1 May 1841, PROB 11/1945

Old, George Greensill, of Sydney, New South Wales, 25 April 1856, PROB 11/2231

Orman, Benjamin, Mariner of Sydney, New South Wales, 8 December 1827, PROB 11/1734

Oxley, John, of Sydney, New South Wales, 14 April 1832, PROB 11/1798

Palin, Charles Henry, Batchelor of Hobarts Town, Van Diemans Land, 7 July 1829, PROB 11/1758

Panton, William, Grazier of Montpellier, County of Camden, New South Wales, 12 August 1836, PROB 11/1866

Paterson, William, Captain of the New South Wales Corps, Lieutenant Colonel of Sidney, New South Wales, 22 November 1810, PROB 11/1516

Pearson, Andrew, Chief Mate of the Ship Edward for New South Wales, 14 August 1830, PROB 11/1775

Pedder, William, Captain in His Majesty’s Sixty Third Regiment of Foot of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 6 January 1844, PROB 11/1992

Phillip, Arthur, Vice Admiral in His Majesty’s Navy of Bath, Somerset, 14 October 1814, PROB 11/1561

Pogson, George Thomas, Lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry in the Service of the Honorable East India Company of Hobart Town, Van Diemans Land, 7 April 1856, PROB 11/2231

Pratt, Percy, of Sydney, New South Wales, 11 November 1857, PROB 11/2260

Redfern, William, of Campbell Field, District of Airds, New South Wales, 20 October 1834, PROB 11/1837

Reid, David, Surgeon in the Royal Navy of Argylshire, New South Wales, 29 March 1844, PROB 11/1995

Rennoldson, Anthony, Master of the Merchant Brig Queen Charlotte of Norfolk Island, New South Wales, 22 July 1837, PROB 11/1882

Rennoldson, John, Master Mariner and commanding the Ship Sir Godfrey Webster now laying in the County of Cork and bound to New South Wales, 14 February 1828, PROB 11/1736

Richardson, John George, Gentleman of City of Sydney in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales, 21 October 1845, PROB 11/2025

Ritchie, Thomas, of Perth, Van Diemens Land, 18 August 1853, PROB 11/2177

Roberts, Margaretta, Widow of Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land, 30 January 1856, PROB 11/2226

Roberts, Richard, of Sydney, New South Wales, 30 January 1847, PROB 11/2049

Robinson, William, Land Free Settler of Elizabeth Street in Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 12 November 1839, PROB 11/1919

Rogers, John, Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Royal Navy of Sydney, New South Wales, 31 March 1836, PROB 11/1859

Rolland, John, of Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 24 September 1831, PROB 11/1790

Rossi, Francis Nicholas, of Rossiville near Goulburn, New South Wales, 12 July 1853, PROB 11/2176

Sabine, John, of Felixtow, South Australia, 9 October 1857, PROB 11/2259

Savage, Arthur, Surgeon of Sydney, New South Wales, 9 May 1857, PROB 11/2252

Shepherd, Thomas, Nurseryman of Sydney, New South Wales, 3 June 1843, PROB 11/1981

Skardon, Sophia, Wife of Little Hampton Villa District of Norfolk Plains, Van Diemans Land, 18 July 1836, PROB 11/1865

Skurray, John Arthur, of Melbourne, Victoria, 27 September 1856, PROB 11/2239

Sloane, James Fullerton, Accountant of Hobart Town, Tasmania, 16 May 1851, PROB 11/2093

Smith, Maria Whitefoord, of Monmouth, Van Diemens Land, 23 September 1853, PROB 11/2178

Stephens, John, Printer and Publisher of Adelaide, South Australia, 10 November 1853, PROB 11/2181

Stocks, Samuel, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of South Australia of Adelaide, South Australia, 24 December 1851, PROB 11/2144

Stoker, Henry, of Thomas Town, Van Diemans Land, 15 December 1845, PROB 11/2028

Street, Thomas, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 11 May 1855, PROB 11/2213

Thomas, Joseph Evans, of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 23 October 1854, PROB 11/2199

Thomson, James, Assistant Surgeon to the Territory of New South Wales, 22 June 1807, PROB 11/1463

Thorne, Joshua Henry, Master of the Ship Ann now bound to New South Wales of No 38 Bower Street, Commercial Road East, Middlesex, 8 April 1848, PROB 11/2073

Tilston, Richard, Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy of Port Essington, Northern Territory, New South Wales, 14 November 1850, PROB 11/2123

Tod, Patrick James, of Spring Grove near Adelaide, South Australia,
17 December 1855, PROB 11/2224

Todd, William, Gentleman of Sydney, New South Wales, 14 December 1855, PROB 11/2224

Underwood, James, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 7 March 1844, PROB 11/1996

Vine, Anna Maria, of Liverpool, New South Wales, 15 May 1840, PROB 11/1928

Vine, George Ballard, Lieutenant in His Majesty’s Royal Navy of Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, 2 December 1836, PROB 11/1870

Walker, William, Merchant of Sydney, New South Wales, 2 August 1854, PROB 11/2196

Wall, William Private Soldier in the 48th Company of His Majesty’s Marine Forces of Sydney, New South Wales, 26 July 1792, PROB 11/1221

Watkins, Ann, Spinster of Sandy Bay near Hobart town, Van Diemens Land, 23 April 1853, PROB 11/2171

Webb, Robert Sanders, Chief Officer of Customs of Port Philip, Australia, 8 September 1855, PROB 11/2220

Westall, William, an assistant Surgeon in Her Majesty’s Army of New South Wales, 4 June 1853, PROB 11/2175

White, Andrew Douglas, Captain in the Royal Engineers of Parramatta, New South Wales, 1 September 1838, PROB 11/1901

Williams, Reverend John, Missionary belonging to the London Missionary Society of Sydney, New South Wales, 12 November 1842. PROB 11/1971

Williams, Thomas, Steward of the Ship Prince Regent, Captain Aitken bound to Sydney New South Wales of Calcutta, East Indies, 28 February 1845, PROB 11/2013

Williamson, James, Farmer of Indented Head, Victoria, 21 August 1855, PROB 11/2218

Wilson, Alexander, Umbrella Maker of Melbourne, New South Wales, 10 May 1854, PROB 11/2192

Wilson, Thomas Braidwood, formerly a Surgeon in the Royal Navy of Brendwood in the County of Saint Vincent, New South Wales, 24 October 1845, PROB 11/2026

Wood, James Boteler, Gentleman of Hobart Town, Van Diemens Land, 12 May 1828, PROB 11/1741

Wood, John, Lieutenant in Her Majesty’s Navy upon half pay of Saint Peters in the District of Maitland, New South Wales, 19 June 1841, PROB 11/1948

Yaldwyn, Reverend Richard, otherwise Yawland, Clerk of Barrack Street, Hobart Town, Island of Van Diemens Land, 1 June 1839, PROB 11/1913

References

1 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.au
2 https://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk
3 The web site familyrecords.gov.uk closed in September 2009, for similar information go to the National Archives web site.
4 https://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/civil/probate/index.htm

Above current as at October 2009