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Link: Irish Wills
« on: Friday 02 June 06 19:20 BST (UK) »
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Re: Irish Wills
« Reply #1 on: Friday 25 April 08 04:06 BST (UK) »
Dr Jane Lyons of Dublin has an interesting article about "Wills, Administrations and Deeds - Ireland" on her From Ireland website. www.from-ireland.net/gene/wills.htm
Dr Lyons refers to Sir Arthur Vicars in her article. His index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland (1536-1810) was reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore (1989) The manuscript of this index is held in the NAI. Copies of the indexes are available on the shelves in the Public Search Room at The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) at Balmoral Avenue, Belfast.

Examples of Abstracts of Wills and Deeds thanks to Dr Jane Lyons. 
Co. Antrim www.from-ireland.net/ant/antrimwills.htm
Co. Armagh www.from-ireland.net/arm/armaghwills.htm
Irish Probate Districts & Wills available in Dublin http://tinyurl.com/5zvwj7

PRONI holds all original wills and grants of letters of administration for deceased persons in Northern Ireland from 1900 to 2001.

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Re: Irish Wills
« Reply #2 on: Friday 25 April 08 10:12 BST (UK) »
PRONI now have Will extracts online (Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry only but for those with relatives in Donegal it is worth checking):
www.proni.gov.uk
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Re: Irish Wills
« Reply #3 on: Friday 25 April 08 10:49 BST (UK) »
Aghaloe, Co. Tyrone Parish Deed Abstracts http://tinyurl.com/6j7anf

Examples of Abstracts of Wills and Deeds thanks to Dr Jane Lyons.
Co. Donegal www.from-ireland.net/wills/donegal.htm
Co. Mayo www.celticcousins.net/ireland/mayowills.htm

Registry of Deeds Index Project - Ireland
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~registryofdeeds


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Re: Irish Wills
« Reply #4 on: Monday 12 March 12 02:21 GMT (UK) »
The book, Index to the prerogative wills of Ireland, 1536-1810, is available online via Google Books.

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Re: Link: Irish Wills
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 31 December 16 03:13 GMT (UK) »
Quote from their facebook page ...

Fantastic news! FamilySearch has made many of the index microfilms to the Registry of Deeds memorial books available on-line as virtual microfilms:
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/185720?availability=Family%20History%20Library
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https://www.facebook.com/RegistryofDeedsIndexProjectIreland

http://irishdeedsindex.net/

Courtesy of my sister who is researching our Scots-Irish ancestry, and does love these memorials.  :-*

Salute,

Janelle

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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 31 December 16 06:04 GMT (UK) »
This is just the index to the deeds... not just wills, they also cover marriage settlements, property and loans etc, The wealth of informations in the actual books which the index refer to. 
While the index can offer clues to dates the actual memorial might refer to something different.

Example. I have a marriage settlement memorial between Charles Creed and Catherine Norris who married in 1778. The index indicates a memorial between Creed Knight. Knight, was the barrister facilitating the settlement on behave of Catherine Norris and her father John Norris, Creed refers to Charles's father Francis. The marriage settlement actually hides a wealth of property transfer, Francis used the settlement to transfer all his land instead of making a will because he knew he had brothers who wanted to make claim on any future will. 

There are over 350 memorials with the name Creed as the grantor alone and it took me nearly 2 days in the registry to list them. Goodness knows how many are hiding as grantees. I only managed to transcribe a handful of these over 3 days.  Unfortunately there are quite a few Creeds who were barristers who facilitated encumbered estates so quite a few memorials do not refer to family dealings.
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