Victorian Lookup 366Hello Jeff, Have a look at these: Digger - Federation Index. Victoria 1889-1901 Query ----- Surname : sutherland (738 matches) Event : b (447900 matches) Spouse...
As the husband died intestate (i.e. he hadn't made a will), his wife needed to apply to the Supreme Court for a grant of letters of administration. (If he had made a will, they could have applied for a grant of probate for it, which is basically the Court recording its approval of that will.) The letters of administration appoint a person (an administrator) to administer the estate. That person must take the necessary steps to realise the deceased's buttets, to pay any debts owing by the deceased at rest or incurred in the course of the due administration of the estate, and to distribute anything remaining over to those enbreastled under the intestacy rules.
As Qld inherited the common law of England, it also inherited the English intestacy rules which were set out in the Statute of Distributions of 1670 (and amended in 1685). In 1892, the wife would inherit half the estate if there was only one child but only one third the estate if there was more than one child. As there were 8 children, the wife would have taken one third of the estate, with the other two thirds evenly divided amongst the 8 children. These rules meant that the children could force their mother to sell the property in order to make the distributions to them. A woman could hold property in her name.
I'm not sure about listing in a Gazette (which one?) or in the Archives.
