Probated wills

[Foehn]

What's the best way to access a probated will from 1872. Are they available on line?

[ShaunJ]

Not available online but you can order a copy:

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#calendar

[LizzieW]

Some of them have handwritten numbers beside them but this number is not necessary to order a will.  I've just ordered 2 and neither had this handwritten number.

You have to be sure that the info shows Probate and not Administration, if it's only Administration you can't get a copy - at least not from this source.

[Jebber]

You have to be sure that the info shows Probate and not Administration, if it's only Administration you can't get a copy - at least not from this source.

Unless it shows Administration with Will, then you will get both.

[BumbleB]

If it only says "Administration" then there is no copy of a Will at all (if there ever was one). 

You will receive a downloadable copy of the Will, and PLEASE ensure that you do download it, as access is only available for a set amount of time.

[LizzieW]

Unless it shows Administration with Will, then you will get both.

Yes, of course.  I have received wills that hadn't gone to probate but they are very old wills, 1600s/1700s.  Well maybe they did go to probate of a sort.  Most of them have an extra paragraph on the bottom giving the date of death of the person involved and signed by the executors.

[Foehn]

I found her record. What does the statement "With two codicils" mean?

[mckha489]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codicil

[Foehn]

So if it shows 23 June Administration (with the will and codicil) as written, white on black background, am I to understand  this would also give the will. He died in 1839, outside the 1858-1996 choice and a claim for a new administrator was launched in 1870's