William Arthur Evans [5989] ¹

   FamilySearch ID: KL9T-MCX.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Newspaper: WILL CASE, 1932 Jul 26, Goulburn District, New South Wales, Australia. ² WILL CASE. (1932, July 26). Goulburn Evening Penny Post(NSW : 1881 - 1940), p. 3 Edition: DAILY and EVENING. Retrieved April 17, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article99550452>

WILL CASE ,
PRESUMPTION OF DEATH
ORDER MADE
A case concerning the former
Australian Arms Hotel was heard
in Equity before the Chief-Judge,
Mr. Justice Harvey.
In the matter of the trusts of the
will of William Arthur Evans, late of
Goulburn, pawnbroker, who died in
1890, application was made on behalf
of Anne Saxton, Arthur Evans, Bal-
gowan, Veronica Mary Barry, and
Charlotte Ida Balgowan that the Court
should assume the death of William
Arthur Evans, junior, and order that
certain land at Goulburn be vested in
the applicants for an estate in fee
simple as tenants in common. On the
land at Goulburn had, been erected a
hotel known as the Australian Arms
Hotel, Clinton Street, which, in Oc-
tober, 1924, was de-licensed. William
Arthur Evans, junior, the life tenant,
who was born in 1859, executed in
1896 a mortgage over the hotel, this
passhig to an assignee who later
died. Prolonged litigation followed,
and in September last an order was
made directing payment of certain
compensation money to the present
applicants subject to decision on the
question of whether the life tenant
was dead. William Arthur Evans
Junior, who, if living, would be 73
years of age, disappeared many years
ago. Search had been made for him
without success.
An affidavit by Catherine Hobbs, of
Vaucluse, stated that the deponent did
not know the missing man, but that,
while in company with Berenice
Oates, in Cowper Street, Bondi Junc-
tion, in 1929 or 1930, she saw a man
whom Berenice Gates (his sister-in
law) said was her brother-in-law.
When spoken to, he said that his name
was Evans, but that his Christian
name was Philip. An affidavit by Mrs.
Oats said that she positively identi-
fied her brother-in-law.
Having heard further evidence, his
Honour said that he thloughlt he ought
to presume that Evans was dead.
The evidence was strongly against
the idea that it was him who was seen
at Bondi Junction.
An order was made vesting the land
in the applicants (beneficaries under
the will), costs as of submitting de-
fendants to each respondent out of the
fund.
Mr. H. S. Nicholas (instructed by
Messrs. Hughes, Hughes, and Garvin).
appeared for the beneficiaries after, ex-
tionction of the life interest; Mr. David
Wilson (instructed by Messrs. Betts
and Son, of Goulburn through their
Sydney agents, Messrs. Pigott, Stin-
son, Macgregor, and Palmer) for the
mortgagee of the life interest; : and
Mr. W. Hutton (instructed by Mr.
Cecil O'Dea) for the trustee of the.
life interest.

• Newspaper: Overdue Rates, 1952 Mar 14, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ³ Advertising. (1952, March 14). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 11. Retrieved December 1, 2011, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18257805>
WILLIAM ARTHUR EVANS of Goulburn, JAMES MARSDEN, JOHN JAMES WOODWARD and MOSS MARKS Trustees of the AR-GYLE PROVIDENT, BENEFIT BUILDING & INVESTMENT SOCIETY; JAMES SIMONS of GOULBURN, MARY JANE EVANS, EDWARD WEST EVANS, GEORGE EVANS, THOMAS EVANS, ANNIF EVANS, CHARLOTTE WINIFRFD BALGOWAN, JOHN BALGOWAN, HENRY FRANCIS BARTON, ARCHIBALD HULBERT WINDEYER of Deniliquin, ARTHUR ALLEN and PERCY LANDALE of Deniliquin, Overdue Rates £6/15/9, Land Part Lot 21, Section 44, Faithfull Street, Goulburn.

William married Mary [5990] [KL9T-MCN] [MRIN: 2288] before 1854. (Mary [5990] [KL9T-MCN] was born before 1839 and died after 1854 in <New South Wales>.)