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Title: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Ros Fornaro on Thursday 09 September 10 03:52 BST (UK)
Hi All,

Would some kind soul be able to look in the indexex for the Coroner's Report number for Richard Henry Mortimer Pride  who died on the 12th August, 1959.

Thanks

Ros Fornaro
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Jamjar on Friday 10 September 10 04:15 BST (UK)
You may like to contact NSW State Archives.

Telephone - (02) 9673 1788

Facsimile - (02) 9833 4518   

Email - info[at]records.nsw.gov.au

Jamjar
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Ros Fornaro on Friday 10 September 10 04:43 BST (UK)
Hi Jamjar,

Thanks for the information.  It appears that the inquests haven't been kept for that time.

Ros
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Jamjar on Friday 10 September 10 05:59 BST (UK)
Did they say where you would find the information?

Jamjar
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Ros Fornaro on Friday 10 September 10 06:31 BST (UK)
Hi Jamjar,

I found the information on their website. I tried for an inquest in Western Australia and they have been destroyed so I guess that will be the case in New South Wales.

Ros
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: John Pride on Sunday 18 September 11 03:18 BST (UK)
Ros,

Please reply to this message if you will.  I am John Pride, descended from Colonel Thomas Pride and a Pride in Chesterfield County, Virginia.  We've been in this area since the mid-1600's, with some evidence of the wanderings of Pride's from here, across the U. S..

John
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Billyblue on Wednesday 21 September 11 10:20 BST (UK)
Ros
You say of NSW State Records  "inquests haven't been kept for that time."
1959 is only about 50 years ago.  Did they say they haven't been kept or that they did not have them?
Maybe they are still at the Coroner's Court?

Dawn M

Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Katharine75 on Monday 26 September 11 13:33 BST (UK)
Could it be that they are not currently available - 50 years isn't long, and records usually have an 'age' at which they are realised because of privacy laws. Maybe 50 years is too current.

What were you hoping to get from the inquest records? Perhaps the papers will have more information on his death.
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Katharine75 on Monday 26 September 11 13:34 BST (UK)
*released   ;D
Title: Re: Inquest for New South Wales
Post by: Dundee on Monday 26 September 11 23:54 BST (UK)
NSW Inquest Papers

*Inquest papers have survived for some localities in 1851
*A small sample of files from 1916, 1918-20, 1921-39 have survived
*The bulk of the papers of 1940-63 have survived

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/archives-in-brief/archives-in-brief-4

Debra  :)