Thank you for your PM.
William Wilberforce FRASER was born Scotland, son of a Presbyterian Reverend.... I am sure his role as a Police Magistrate further gives all of us confidence that he tested the evidence presented to him in that Court House. So I am also sure that by 1884, and thus with about ten years as Inverell,s P.M. his experiences would guide his judgements. I doubt if he would have personally attended and observed the local foot police collecting the details of her age, place of birth,... his obit is readily available online via Trove. He died in January 1918 aged 87. He had been in the Inverell district since aged 21. He retired as Police M in 1895, and continued farming at Brodies Plains.
I should mention that NSW BDM early church records are extensive, but they are from the decades before it became compulsory to register births, deaths or marriages. So not everyone baptised their babies,, not every church register survived ... floods, fires, bushrangers, misplaced by clergy .... etc.
ADD obit
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/180515759 Daily Telegraph 28 Jan 1918.
