Where to find a will?

[PaulStaffs]

Hello

I found an old book online which lists the will of someone I'm interest in who died in 1646. It was registered in one of the 'Peculiar Courts' and at the time the book was published was said to be preserved in the Lichfield Registry. Can anyone tell me where I should start looking for this and whether it's likely to be available online?

The book is:

Calendars of wills & administrations in the Consistory court of the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1516-1652 : also those in the "Peculiars" now deposited in the probate registries at Lichfield, Birmingham and Derby, 1529-1652; 1675-1790; 1753-1790 Edited by W.P.W. Phillimore

Many thanks

Paul

[stanmapstone]

Have you seen https://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/default.aspx?Index=C

Stan

[BumbleB]

Assuming it has survived, FindMyPast have Lichfield Diocese wills on-line.

[stanmapstone]

Findmypast only have Lichfield Consistory Court Wills, from 1650-1700

Stan

[BumbleB]

If I enter just the year of 1646 into the Staffordshire, Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate, 1521-1860, I have 524 results - entries into the register plus images of the actual will, e.g. Richard Abell of Atherstone = entry in the register plus a copy of the will (6 images).

[PaulStaffs]

Thanks both. I'd already searched on Find My Past and couldn't find it, probably because as stanmapstone says it's not from the 'correct' court.

I've found the right will on Staffordshire Name indexes so it looks like another £8 for a hardcopy

Incidentally, this fellow died abt 1646 and there are two entries for what I think are his grandsons - both wills 'recorded' on the same date in 1673. I know one of them was alive well into the 1700s so do I take it they lodged their wills when they were still quite young as we might do today?

[stanmapstone]

Findmypast only have Lichfield Consistory Court Wills, from 1650-1700

Stan

Should be
Staffordshire, Dioceses Of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate 1521-1860

Stan

[PaulStaffs]

If I enter just the year of 1646 into the Staffordshire, Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate, 1521-1860, I have 524 results - entries into the register plus images of the actual will, e.g. Richard Abell of Atherstone = entry in the register plus a copy of the will (6 images).

Brilliant! i just did the same, entering the date only which gives 3,000+ results (?!) and the fellow I'm after is amongst them but oddly the two sons I mentioned are not.

Thanks so much

[BumbleB]

Phew, very pleased it worked