Margaret Thompson, wife of James Gordon Mitchell Black

[Tickettyboo]

Indeed. It's a great pity that the calendar of probate becomes less and less informative over time.

Not sure if I am misremembering, but before we had the facility to view the probate calendar online, if  I could get to a Probate office I could use either the printed books ( for earlier entries) or their pcs (for later entries). From memory the later stuff had more detail showing on the pcs than I see now on the probate search website. If this look up facility still exists in probate offices, then a look up request 'may' result in more detail if someone has the time to visit.
I'd happily offer to do it, but I too currently live in Scotland and therefore its quite a journey for me to get to an English Probate  Office.

Boo

[Forfarian]

Thanks, Boo, again. I very much appreciate all your help. As you say, quite a trek to get to an English probate office, especially from the north of Scotland - I suppose I should add that to my lists of things to do if/when I ever get round to going to Newcastle.

However I suspect that even the later printed books don't have the same level of detail - notably the omission of the person to whom probate was granted, as the online calendar from around the 1960s is still a scan of something printed.