I would like to know if there was an inquest into the death of Cyril Robinson. Presumably died in a mining explosion in Broken Hill in 1939. This may have been a suicide or just an accident. Can anyone tell me where to start looking Thanks Jill White Katherine NT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Personals - New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time!

> I would like to know if there was an inquest into the death of Cyril Robinson. Presumably died in a mining explosion in Broken Hill in 1939. Inquests conducted in NSW until 1942 (I think) are indexed and available on microfilm. I can access them at my local library so if you can't get them in the NT I am happy to have a look next time I am up there. They aren't always so easy to find even in the index as the indexes are done according to type of death - eg fire, drowning etc and the date of the inquest may differ greatly to the date of death - depends on how quick they were to register the inquest findings which in country areas can be quite a while. The actual inquest papers are held at the Kingswood Repository. I am not sure whether they have any system for remote access at Kingswood, certainly you can get copies if you go there. The web site with the information about this is the NSW state records - http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/