Jamjar if you read the probate file you will see that no Will could be found and a document was lodged stating that as fact. Technically he died intestate. Well that is my understanding. I could be incorrect...often am. Affidavits were signed stating that there had been a Will executed and a copy only of the Will was also lodged. Anyway the probate file is not the issue anyway.
floggle toggle...this is the relationship.
Sophia STEAD formerly WHITE formerly SMITH nee NASH was Wm Henry CLARKE's mother in law.
His wife, Edith Louisa WHITE was born at Chiltern in 1870 to Burwell WHITE and Sophia NASH. She was their fourth born child.
Death
CLARKE Edith Louisa
Father Boswell [sic]WHITE Mother Sophia NASH
At St Kilda 93 years 1963 Reg#16429
FYI
Death
STEAD Sophia
Father William NASH Mother Martha EDDINGTON
At Chiltern 49 years 1891 Reg#1028
Marriage Victoria - from my own resource
STEAD John James born Canada
WHITE Sophia born Somersetshire
1877 Reg#4662
From Find a Grave.....Burwell WHITE married Sophia SMITH nee NASH 1867, Victoria. She already had at least 2 children (one more had died in 1864). Together they had Sidney Arnold White 1868-?, Edith Louisa White 1870-1963, Mabel Beatrice White 1873-1879 and Horace Burwell White 1874-1875. After Burwell's death, Sophia married a third time and had twin girls.
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Sophia may have been born in Trinidad and Tobago. [My comment - I wonder has anyone bothered to purchase any certificates?]
She was married three times, first to Arthur Smith, next to Burwell White in 1867. She married John Stead on 20th Nov 1877 in Victoria, Australia. They had twin girls Amy Tryphena 1879-1880 (5 months) and Eva Louise Lydia 1879-1854.
Children; Arthur Lincoln Smith 1861-1877, Charles Albert Smith 1864-1864, Albert Egbert Smith 1865-?, Sidney Arnold White 1868-?, Edith Louisa White 1870-1963, Mabel Beatrice White 1873-1879, Horace Burwell White 1874-1875, twins Amy Tryphena Stead 1879-1880 (5 months) and Eva Louise Lydia Stead 1879-1854.
You can search the Find a Grave site for burials and headstones at Chiltern Cemetery.
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