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From: John Graham <>
Subject: Re: Ancestor - Abel STRATTON
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 20:05:33 +1000


Dave,

>picture of Abel taken in New South Wales circa 1870/75. The original photo
>shows a stamp on the reverse: J.H. Nixon, Artist & Photographer -
Wellington, >South Australia. Attempts a few years back to track down the
place noted on >the stamp came up empty as the place shown apparently no
longer exists.

There is a Wellington in NSW, and it is in sheep country, so maybe another
check of the back of the photo might clarify whether it really does say
"South Australia".

>They in turn suggested I contact the NSW Supreme Court, Probate Registry
in >Sydney requesting they make a search to establish if his estate was
ever >granted for administration in NSW.

The probate indexes are freely available, but unfortunately there is no
entry for Abel STRATTEN/STRATTON in the range 1800-1928. Similarly, there
is no entry in the NSW death indexes to 1945. Starting to look as if he
didn't die in NSW.

>Can anyone out there in 'List-land' provide assistance that may narrow my
>search? Can anyone suggest something that I may be overlooking?

The electoral rolls for early this century might be a place to start, but
unfortunately it is a hard slog - there is no one combined roll by state as
we have now. You need to find someone with enough time to look through
electorate by electorate, and even then he may not have been registered,
although if he had accumulated some wealth he was more likely to be on the
roll. It was generally the itinerant workers who are missing.

John



John Graham


GENEALOGY FROM GERRINGONG
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~johngra

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