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LINKS - Wills and Probate
« on: Sunday 10 May 09 12:52 UTC (UK) »
Some links for sites on Wills and Probate.

These LINKS-Topics have been been compiled from the links submitted by RootsChatters.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed.  Smiley
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Documents Online  Wills from the years 1700-1839 
http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/
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The PCC Wills held by the Public Record Office, many of which are available on DocumentsOnline, cover the period up to 1858. Until that date, all wills had to be proved (formally approved) by church and other courts. The Prerogative Court of Canterbury, the most important of these courts, dealt with the relatively wealthy individuals living mainly in the south of England and most of Wales (what was originally the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury).

PCC stands for Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

How much is available?
You can now access the entire collection of PCC wills on DocumentsOnline, comprising more than 1 million wills covering the period 1384 to 1858. You can search the wills by first and last names, place, occupation and date.

1384 - 1858 - complete

An absolutely absorbing site,  searching the index is free, but it costs £3 to download a digital image of a document.

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If probate was granted, this site explains how to obtain -

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1183.htm

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Cyndi's list has an extensive list of web resources for wills and probate  at:

http://www.cyndislist.com/wills.htm


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« Last Edit: Thursday 21 May 09 08:30 UTC (UK) by Berlin-Bob » Logged
Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe;
Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861)
and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site.

All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)
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