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Offline welshspencer

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Help on Will
« on: Tuesday 16 January 07 17:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I just downloaded a Will form the National Archives online. and have the downloded Document for John edwards Wick St Lawrence. 1806.  his son was George Edwards he is meantioned in this the document but this Doc they gave me does not look like a will as such, and I cannot read what it all means.
its a bit like a Census with some deatils on????

please can someone have a look at it for me its in PDF and tell me what the doc is. it said on the search it was the Will,  but am not to sure?

Russell

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 January 07 19:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi Russel,
Can you attach the PDF to a message on here, and we can download it and take a look.
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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 January 07 19:57 GMT (UK) »
It sounds like the probate record, but as Prue suggests, see if you can attach it to a message on this thread.

JULIAN
ESSEX  Carter, Enever, Jeffrey, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Staines, Stephens, Surry, Theobald HUNTS  Danns KENT  Luetchford, Wood NOTTINGHAMSHIRE  Baker, Dunks, Kemp, Price, Priestley, Swain, Woodward SUFFOLK  Rose SURREY  Bedel, Bransden, Bysh, Coleman, Gibbs, Quinton SUSSEX Gibbs, Langridge, Pilbeam, Spencer WILTSHIRE  Brice, Rumble

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 January 07 20:18 GMT (UK) »

It's listed in the Death Duty Registers as a will. Perhaps it's an inventory, and/or a list of beneficiaries?

As Julian and Prue have suggested, if you can add it to a message, there'll be lots of people ready to help.

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 January 07 20:30 GMT (UK) »
Hi all

I am attaching it to this message,  As Koromo says it was listed as a Will but under Death Duty Reg , but i thought it was a will or.. it mentions his son george in diffrent parts of the doc.

Russell

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 January 07 20:34 GMT (UK) »
Please ignore this post - looking at wrong file



JULIAN
ESSEX  Carter, Enever, Jeffrey, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Staines, Stephens, Surry, Theobald HUNTS  Danns KENT  Luetchford, Wood NOTTINGHAMSHIRE  Baker, Dunks, Kemp, Price, Priestley, Swain, Woodward SUFFOLK  Rose SURREY  Bedel, Bransden, Bysh, Coleman, Gibbs, Quinton SUSSEX Gibbs, Langridge, Pilbeam, Spencer WILTSHIRE  Brice, Rumble

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 16:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi All

Did you manage to have a look at this for me. I have attached it.

I also could not work out, who the Children were, as it mentions george Edwards Twice. one under Son and againunder Children....


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Russell

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Re: Help on Will
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 23 January 07 16:54 GMT (UK) »
You have a copy of the Death Duty Register. The National Archives will not hold the will itself because it was probated in a church court in Wells, so the Somerset Record Office will hold the actual will.

The National Archives research guide on

Wills Before 1858: Where to Start
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Death Duty Records, From 1796

found at

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp

will explain what precisely a Death Duty Register entry is and how wills were probated before 1858 and where you are likely to find them.

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