Unlike the post 1858 civil wills, and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills pre 1858, many of the smaller regional will court collections on Ancestry do not listed approximate death dates guessed from the probate date (obviously in a few cases there can be quite a gap i.e. if the executor(s) did not administer the estate in their lifetime(s)). So if you search by death date through the main wills search page, you will not find
any results for many of these smaller courts. So you should always search by the
'Any Event' date in the case of wills.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/categories/clp_wills/?searchOrigin=navigation_header There also seems to be another issue, in that some will collections may not even turn up in the wills category search i.e. Dorset Wills is one I have found
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2119/
