Probate Register

[andrewalston]

The time starts when they make it available to you. That would have been when they sent you the email, but with these service interruptions you should have expectations of the period beginning when they stabilise their mess.

[Davedrave]

Am I doing something wrong? I am trying to order the will of Thomas Chesshire of 1889, and filling the order in as per screen shots below. I can’t see a folio number. Do I need to look elsewhere for it, or is there not one?

Dave

[andrewalston]

Am I doing something wrong?
Dave

I wish I knew!. I can't get the site to return ANY records, even of wills I have previously purchased. Just "0 document pages returned".

I can't reach the "Advanced Search" either - there is no link visible, even if I "Log in".

[rosie99]

FindMyPast has Thomas Chesshire on an Index to death duties and it gives a folio 4381

[CaroleW]

Give me strength

Finally able to get into the site - much good it does.  Decided to test it using details I am already fully aware of as I am the executor.  Death April 2021.  Go through all the rigmarole - far more detail asked for than before when you consider it previously worked on surname & year of death only

Get to the end and get 

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So - decided to login - didn't recognise me.  Re-registered and changed password which it accepted but couldn't get any further.

Logged out and back in again - accepted email & pw but then asked me to change password!!

At which point I made some very unladylike comments

[Davedrave]

FindMyPast has Thomas Chesshire on an Index to death duties and it gives a folio 4381

Many thanks. I’ll try again. I’ve also sent back feedback as they request, and asked them to reinstate the website as it was before they started messing about with it!

Dave

ps I didn’t realise that this index could be searched like that. I was drawing a blank on FindMyPast just under his name and d.o.d., so a very useful tip

[jonw65]

Am I doing something wrong? I am trying to order the will of Thomas Chesshire of 1889, and filling the order in as per screen shots below. I can’t see a folio number. Do I need to look elsewhere for it, or is there not one?

Did you see my Reply #25
There is no folio number to give them.
Folio numbers are only needed for wills proved at the Principal Probate Registry in London between 1858 and 1930.

[Davedrave]

Am I doing something wrong? I am trying to order the will of Thomas Chesshire of 1889, and filling the order in as per screen shots below. I can’t see a folio number. Do I need to look elsewhere for it, or is there not one?

Did you see my Reply #25
There is no folio number to give them.
Folio numbers are only needed for wills proved at the Principal Probate Registry in London between 1858 and 1930.

I think I understand your reply #25 but you appear to misunderstand what I am saying. The order form simply will not work if the box for “folio number” is left blank EVEN when there is no folio number written next to the entry. (In other words, the website now seems to be set up to expect a folio number to be entered in the box even when such a number does not exist.) It shows up in red as in my screenshot in my post made earlier this afternoon, #28. Just another issue, presumably, with the utterly useless beta version of the website they seem to be messing around with currently.

Dave

[jonw65]

Hi Dave
OK, I get it now!
Sorry about the problem. If it stops people ordering, they must surely fix it soon
Let's hope so!
John