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Title: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: HMGG on Tuesday 31 May 11 02:11 BST (UK)
Will/Probate of Timothy Hogan d. 18 May 1931 - NT

Can anyone tell me where I am likely to find out about the adminstration of Timothy Hogan's estate after his death, if the public trustee, J.W. Nichols, put his property up for sale by tender on 16 June 1931?

I currently reside in the UK, so it's not like I can pop into the state library to access records. Any help would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: craizi daizi on Tuesday 31 May 11 03:36 BST (UK)

Hi HMGG

There is a few articles on his death here and an Obit,  seems he was a widower and had a son in Townsville and a daughter that was a Hospital Matron in Rockhampton,   Timothy Hogan was originally from Ireland

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22Timothy+Hogan%22

Daizi
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: HMGG on Tuesday 31 May 11 03:44 BST (UK)
Ah yes.   

I already have the newspaper articles in relation to him (from Trove), but his grandchildren are curious to learn why both his daughter and son received nothing from his estate, so I am chasing the probate/intestate documents.
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: cando on Tuesday 31 May 11 04:12 BST (UK)
   
Registrar of Probates
Law Courts Building
Mitchell Street
DARWIN NT 0800 Australia   

Indexes—published 1885-1941
Wills—application has to be made with SSAE and reply will advise availability and request fee.


Office of the Public Trustee
Nichols Place,
Cnr Cavenagh & Bennett Streets,
DARWIN NT 0800  Australia

Postal Address    GPO Box 470,
DARWIN NT 0801  Australia

Email  -    Public_Trustee.doj[at]nt.gov.au    Replace [at] with @

Cando
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: HMGG on Tuesday 31 May 11 04:22 BST (UK)
Thank you Cando.    ;D
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: HMGG on Tuesday 31 May 11 19:53 BST (UK)
I should just like to mention how wonderfully helpful the people of the Northern Territory are, as are the kind people here at RootsChat.   I spoke to the registrar of BMD in Darwin, who kindly read out the certificate to me (I am purchasing it, too) and she then gave me a telephone number for the people who look after the cemetery, who found the records for my great-grandfather and offered to take a photograph and send it to me.

I also spoke to someone at the supreme court who is going to try and locate the records for me.   And, thanks to craizi daizi, I also found the notice from the public trustee asking for beneficiaries, creditors, etc. to come forward, which was not published nationally, meaning neither my grandfather nor his sister would have been aware of my great grandfather's death or that his estate was in the hands of the public trustee.
Title: Re: Wills and Probates for Northern Territory
Post by: cando on Wednesday 01 June 11 05:15 BST (UK)
Wonderful result HMG ;D

Cheers
Cando