Hello Dianne. Here are a couple of thoughts which might assist you. First: The Probate Division of the Supreme Court used to write out handwritten TRANSCRIPTS (with all of the mistakes which occur in this process) into large A3-sized books, of each Will which they held on file. When I started genealogy almost 40 years ago, anyone could access these at the Probate Office in Sydney. At a later stage they withdrew them from public availability. Now that the Probate Office has sent its older Probate packages to NSW State Records, I do NOT know whether they have also sent those books across, or retained them. It is likely that these are the "Will Books" which you wrote about below. Accordingly, I would recommend a phone call to each entity to ascertain their whereabouts. The bottom line is that if the Will packet is no longer extant, you should be able to read a transcript of the original Will in those books. You will need the details which you have also given below; namely: "Andrew MOORE died in 1891 Probate Ref 1636 Series 4". Please note that there was and still is NO central registry in NSW where Wills are filed. The NSW Registrar-General has now made a provision for people to be able to file notifications with them of the LOCATIONS of current Wills, but there is no compulsion to do so, and as far as I know the contents of those Wills are not part of that process. Secondly: As you said that your ancestor had substantial LAND dealings, you may be lucky enough to find lots of records (perhaps including a Will, but don't bank on it) in the Old System Titles records for the subsequent SALES of his land. Good Luck with this pursuit. Ray in Sydney. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dianne Myers" <dmyers@exemail.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-Hunter-Valley-L@rootsweb.com> ... for a copy of the Will? Would I find it in the Will Books? ... Andrew MOORE died in 1891 Probate Ref 1636 Series 4 ... Dianne

Hello Ray I obtained a copy of a NSW Will from SAG. It was dated 1889, and was handwritten. I checked with the SAG website and found doosens of references to Wills form the British Isles and here which are held by them. This might be the one you need Registrar-General's Office list of wills, 1834-1958 [microform http://svc007.bne009i.server-web.com/catalogue/onlinebook/gatewaylist.ehtml?id=203 Cheers Joanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <ray15@optusnet.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-Hunter-Valley-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [HV] Wills > Hello Dianne. > > Here are a couple of thoughts which might assist you. >