Hi there,
Re
William CHISHOLM, and the death at Forbes NSW in 1864.
The dc should give you how long that chap had been in the Colonies, details of his marriage/s, the children of these including if then living or deceased, his place of birth, the cause of death, the name of the medico attending him, if an inquest or police enquiry was held, where he was buried, the denomination and other family history information, including his occupation.
From Greville’s Official Post Office Directory of 1875 for FORBES
Forbes was an important township in the police district of Forbes, electorate of The Western Gold-fields, county of Ashburnham and 239 miles south west of Sydney. The township (a municipality) is situated on the north bank of the Lachlan river, in the vicinity of once exceedingly rich gold-fields, and supports one newspaper the “Forbes Times”
Two of the locals were
Mrs M CHISHOLM, teacher, Spring St
Henry HUNT, teacher, Brown St
I can see H H HUNT, at the National School FORBES in an offline resource dating from mid 1860s .
I can see Henry H HUNT, a freeholder at Forbes on the NSW Electoral Roll of 1870. I can also see a George CHISHOLM, a resident (ie not a freeholder) at Forbes on that same Electoral Roll, and still there on the 1878 Electoral Roll, still qualified to enrol as a resident. (Henry H HUNT was still a freeholder on that same roll).
Noting:
You needed to be a British Subject (either by birth or by naturalisation) AND a male AND aged at least 21 years of age to be eligible to enrol to vote. It was NOT compulsory to enrol, and the rolls were established and maintained by the Police Magistrates or their delegated representatives. From 1788, ALL persons (regardless of their parentage, or the native place of the parent/s) born in the colonies were automatically British Subjects until around 1949, and then all constitutional/legal separations finalised when Britain and the EU connected in around 1986.
Margaret H CHISHOLM, of Forbes, date of Death 18 October 1890, Probate granted 8 January 1891. Deceased Estate file indexed at NSW SRO at this link (Probate Packets held by the NSW SRO can contain a great deal of family history information. Sometimes there is just one page in the packet, but other times there are hundreds of pages. In some instances on my own tree (I am very NSW centric, because on several lines my forebears arrived when NSW was still a penal colony), NSW Probate Packets have included BDM certificates issued to support identifying the beneficiaries of the estate, along with witness statements including names of their forebears etc).
http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/searchform.aspx?id=15 Two deaths are registered at Forbes for 1890 for the surname CHISHOLM. One is for Margaret J, and her parents given names were recorded as James and Ellen. The other death is for a George Chisholm (likely the chap I noted on the Electoral Rolls). May I note that George’s date of death was 11 October, a week earlier than Margaret’s) and there is a Probate Packet held by NSW SRO for him also. I should also note that NOT all deaths resulted in a Probate Case before the NSW Supreme Court. It depended on the value of the deceased estate.
Here’s a link to the 1872 Grevilles Post Office Directory. I have cited from my hardcopy of their 1875 Directory.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcastle/grevilles/grevilles.html http://home.westserv.net.au/~ffhg/ This is the link for the Forbes family history group.
Cheers, JM
