Link: Kent Wills

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Pre 1858 East Kent

Pre 1858 there were two probate courts (Archdeaconry & Consistory Courts of Canterbury) covering East Kent plus the National Prerogative Court of Canterbury and these are now indexed online :

Pre 1858 Archdeaconry & Consitory Courts of Canterbury Wills
http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/ekwills_a/index.html

Pre 1858 Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills (East & West Kent)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp


Pre 1858 West Kent

Pre 1858 the probate courts covering West Kent were Archdeaconry Court of Rochester, Consistory Court of Rochester, Deanery of Shoreham, Peculiar of Cliffe plus the National Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Post 1846 wills for Charlton, Deptford, Eltham, Greenwich, Lee, Lewisham Plumstead & Woolwich came under the Consistory Court of London

Post 1858 all Kent

Post 1858 wills are proved and indexed nationally
http://web.archive.org/web/20110606124613/http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1226.htm

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Canterbury Probate Registry Wills 1396-1558 1640-1650
http://www.archive.org/details/indexofwillsadmi00cantuoft

Consistory Court of Rochester Wills 1440-1561
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/KRV/09/Intro.htm

Edenbridge pre 1858 wills
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/edenwills.html

Kent Wills - Guide to the pre 1858 Probate Jurisdictions
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ok/

Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills
http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/Wills/WillsIntro.htm

Miscellaneous Kent Will & Probate Records
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrawson/probate.html

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Grants of Administration for Persons Dying Intestate pre 1650
http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/GFA/KentishAdministrations/1559-1649_alpha.html

Staplehurst Wills
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~staplehurst/

West Kent Wills pre 1650
http://vulpeculox.net/history/kwills.htm