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Paul Caswell
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Dorset Wills.
« on: Thursday 29 May 08 19:00 UTC (UK) »
Hi All,

I just took delivery of 'Dorset Wills and Administrations 1568 - 1799' Smiley

There are some wills in there I would be interested in ordering a copy of the original. Where might I be able to find them?

I've looked in A2A and NA and cant find any references.

It does mention 'All now preserved at the Probate Registry, Blandford' but the document is dated 1900 so I suppose they're at Dorset Records Office. Am I right?

If anyone wants a lookup, post here. It just contains name, place and date for each will.

Paul
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #1 on: Friday 30 May 08 12:23 UTC (UK) »
I've found some of my Alner wills (from the Bere Regis area) in the Wiltshire records. I think Dorset is part of Salisbury diocese and so they have ended up at the new Wilts history centre. Several of my family's wills are already  online at the Wilts record office website and I think more are going online as the project progresses. This is off the top of my head so I'll see if I can add a more detailed post later. Smiley
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #2 on: Friday 30 May 08 19:09 UTC (UK) »
Thanks Fred,

I've e-mailed Dorset records office to ask them. No answer yet.

Paul
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #3 on: Friday 30 May 08 20:01 UTC (UK) »
Hello Paul ... you could be useful !

Tell me, would the ordinary common or garden ag. lab. and his relatives have made wills, if they could even write ?   I'm talking 1700 - 1800 here ...   Would they have had anything to leave anyone, and wouldn't a mans wife or children just have inherited anything there was without a will ? 
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #4 on: Friday 30 May 08 21:35 UTC (UK) »
Hi, the search page for the wills in the "Probate records of the Consistory Court of Salisbury" is at:

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/wills_search.php

There are more than a dozen for my family in Dorset and it seems that around a quarter of the collection have so far been digitally recorded for the website, thanks to the lottery funding.
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 June 08 17:56 UTC (UK) »
Quote from: Lydart on Friday 30 May 08 20:01 UTC (UK)
Hello Paul ... you could be useful !

Tell me, would the ordinary common or garden ag. lab. and his relatives have made wills, if they could even write ?   I'm talking 1700 - 1800 here ...   Would they have had anything to leave anyone, and wouldn't a mans wife or children just have inherited anything there was without a will ? 

Hi Lydart,

Forgive me for not responding, my notifications seem a little iffy right now.

To be honest I am no guru on wills. I think the one I found was unusual because there was trouble with one of the sons so the father had to make a will to ensure he didn't get anything. I would guess low paid workers are unlikely to deposit wills but that doesn't mean they didn't make them. I really don't know but don't give up trying. Smiley

Paul
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 15 June 08 07:30 UTC (UK) »
Fred... THANK YOU for that site ... I've found lots of people on it that I believe I can link in ...
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Re: Dorset Wills- RICE
« Reply #7 on: Monday 25 August 08 01:33 UTC (UK) »
Hi Paul
Would you mind having a look for any RICE Wills in Dorset please. 

Regards
Webby
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 12 December 08 13:02 UTC (UK) »
Gosh Webby! I am so sorry it took this long to reply. As I said earlier my notifications don't seem to be working.

Here's what I can find:

Rice, Reuben, Piddletown 35 1763
Rice, Reuben, Senr., Piddletown 8 1786

That's all I'm afraid.

If these are yours you can make contact with Dorset Records Office and ask them for copies. There is a charge but it is reasonable.

Paul
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #9 on: Friday 06 February 09 15:01 UTC (UK) »
Many Dorset wills from the part in the diocese of Salisbury are indeed at the new record off ice for Wiltshire in Chippenham. They go back a long way, 1587 is the earliest I've referred to!
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 02 April 09 10:22 UTC (UK) »
Paul

Not too much of a wish list I hope;

Plowman
Taunton
Gollop

I have found quite a few wills via the NA but a few key characters are missing.

Thanks

Stephen
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 02 April 09 14:47 UTC (UK) »
There are at least some Dorset Wills which did not go to Salisbury,e.g. the 1671 will of Osmond Luffman who died in Blandford Forum is deposited in Dorset archive. This will survived (with some charring at the edge!) the great fire of Blandford c 1731. So it is definitely worth looking directly.
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 02 April 09 18:02 UTC (UK) »
Hi Stephen,

Lots of Plowman's, a few Tauntons and Gollops:

Plowman, Hercules, Stalbridge 1742
Plowman, John, Sturminster Newton, 1724
Plowman, John, Tolpuddle 1768
Plowman, Robert, Fontmell A. 1686
Plowman, Robert, Weymouth A. 1793
Plowman, Thomas, - I. -
Plowman, Thomas, sen., Bryanston 1693
Plowman, James, Iwerne Minster 32 1672
Plowman, Thomas, Woodland in Horton 91 1734
Plowman, Thomas, H.M.S. "Prince Frederick" 51 1745
Plowman, Wm., Portesham 43 1747
Plowman, George, Lytchett Matravers 32 1758
Plowman, Robt., West Stour 71 1762
Plowman, Jas., East Orchard 45 1775
Andrews als. Plowman, Jane, Gussage All Saints 30 1709
Plowman, Benjamin, Dorchester 11 1669
Plowman, James, Iwerne Minster 47 1672
Plowman als. Hodder, Ann, Compton Abbas 22 1690
Plowman, Hercules, Sturminster Newton 51 1706
Plowman, Thomas, Ship "Eagle" 90 1707
Plowman als Andrews, Jane, Gussage All Saints 30 1709
Plowman, John, Hinton St. Mary 10 1758
Plowman, John, Sturminster Marshall, 28 May 1703
Plowman, William, Sturminster Marshall, 26 Jan, 1735
Plowman, George, Litchett Minster, 19 Dec, 1794, Inv.

Taunton, Thomasine, Weymouth A. 1693
Taunton, Alice, Weymouth, 85 1767
Taunton, John, Batcombe 4 1696

Gollop, Ann, Burstock 1688
Gollop, Benjamin, Upcerne A. 1693
Gollop, Maximillian, Dorchester 1719
Gollop, Richard, Stoke Abbas 1784
Gollop, Thomas, Stockland 49 1669
Gollop, Mary, Maiden Newton 35 1762
Gollop, Dorothy, Berwick 2 1773
Gollop, Mary, Melcombe Regis 19 1779
Gollop, Jane, Hook 30 1786
Gollop, John, Burstock 6 1682
Gollop als. Glisson, Elizabeth, Marnhull 33 1689
Gollop, Francis, Broadwinsor 14 1695
Gollop, Martha, Maiden Newton 16 1778

Hope some of them are yours. Smiley

Paul
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 02 April 09 18:13 UTC (UK) »
Paul

Thank you for your time and effort.  Alas, no elusive names on the list.  Sad

Stephen
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Re: Dorset Wills.
« Reply #14 on: Friday 03 April 09 13:23 UTC (UK) »
Reference your question re Ag Labs leaving wills.  I was gobsmacked to find 3 of my Ag Labs did in the 18th/19th Centuries.  They only left a couple of sticks of furniture and a couple of pounds but bless them, they gave me leads to other family members - when I managed to get them deciphered!
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