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From: "Hugh Watkins" <>
Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:16:33 +0100
References: <47AA93FF.1080408@iinet.net.au><001701c86957$9e256060$6401a8c0@OFFICE>
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it depends on date and the jurisdiction
before or after 1858
most are not on line

Hugh W

On 07/02/2008, Jan James <> wrote:
> Can anyone help please. Where do I find wills for Monmouth or Raglan on
> line- Jan Western Australia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Ray Lewis
> Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2008 2:16 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
>
> G'day Dick
>
> Have you considered that yur ggparents may not have married? It could be
>
> that either one or both could have had an encumbrance (real or imagined)
>
> which prevented them from marriage. There are, as yet, no marriages
> shown for them on FreeBMD although the transcriptions are reasonably
> complete, FreeBMD gives no guarantee that they ever will be because of
> the very nature of the system. You will have tried the surname
> combination search, with or without the various forenames, I am sure.
> This worked vey well for one of my colleagues just yesterday when she
> found one of her ggrandparents second marriage in Middlesex when she had
>
> always thought that he had not married again. She had not realised that
> you could do searches using just one person's given and their two
> surnames.
>
> As for a will, it may not have been necessary. After all, wills cost
> money to administer and your ggparents may have decided that they did
> not want to give money to solicitors and/or trustees. They might have
> distributed their family belongings in such a way as to preclude the
> necessity for a will. There is a death for a Mary Hewson, aged 45, at
> Newport, M for September Quarter 1897 (11a/100) on FreeBMD but nothing
>
> for FHH or WFHH or combination of those names, so far anywhere on
> FreeBMD between 1890 and 1910.
>
> Sorry not to be of much help, but it could be that someone else on the
> list has better news.
>
> Regards
> Ray Lewis
> Hazelmere Western Australia
>
> Richard Fowler wrote:<snipped>
>
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