Wills and Inquisition Post Mortems

[MattD30]

Just a general question here. Would Wills and IPM count as the same type of source since both deal with what happened to the deceased's property etc. I am putting a file together of the wills I've collected in my research and wonder if I should include the IPM that I have notes for as well. In some cases the deceased did make a will, for example the IPM of William Strudwick dated 1642 states that he "Made Will 9 January last.." (info from transcript).

What would others do?

Thanks.
Matt

[Guy Etchells]

Just a general question here. Would Wills and IPM count as the same type of source since both deal with what happened to the deceased's property etc. I am putting a file together of the wills I've collected in my research and wonder if I should include the IPM that I have notes for as well. In some cases the deceased did make a will, for example the IPM of William Strudwick dated 1642 states that he "Made Will 9 January last.." (info from transcript).

What would others do?

Thanks.
Matt

That would depend on what you mean by “the same type of source”.

Wills are/were what property (land and/or personal) the deceased wants to bequeath to others whereas Inquisition Post Mortems were legal inquests into what property the deceased held from the Crown and what services or duties went with the property.

They were raised for different purposes and by different means.

I would definitely class them as two different types of record and not simply because the property/cash mentioned in later wills may not even be in the subject’s possession by the time of his/her death.

Cheers
Guy

PS Found the site I had bookmarked for IPMs
http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk

Good example at
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jdv/

[MattD30]

Just a general question here. Would Wills and IPM count as the same type of source since both deal with what happened to the deceased's property etc. I am putting a file together of the wills I've collected in my research and wonder if I should include the IPM that I have notes for as well. In some cases the deceased did make a will, for example the IPM of William Strudwick dated 1642 states that he "Made Will 9 January last.." (info from transcript).

What would others do?

Thanks.
Matt

That would depend on what you mean by “the same type of source”.

Wills are/were what property (land and/or personal) the deceased wants to bequeath to others whereas Inquisition Post Mortems were legal inquests into what property the deceased held from the Crown and what services or duties went with the property.

They were raised for different purposes and by different means.

I would definitely class them as two different types of record and not simply because the property/cash mentioned in later wills may not even be in the subject’s possession by the time of his/her death.

Cheers
Guy

PS Found the site I had bookmarked for IPMs
http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk

Good example at
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jdv/

Hi Guy

Thanks for that. I already have them filed as separate records so I will probably keep them like that to avoid confusion. I think I will need to reorganise my IPM file though so that it's clearer to read through.

Many thanks again

Matt