Monmouthshire wills

[Wulfsige]

Is there a comprehensive index anywhere of the wills I'd like to consult? The deaths were from the 1830s to the 1880s, all for the surname Gameson (sometimes spelled Gamson) and all the deaths were in Monmouthshire. I suspect the actual wills are scattered between Aberystwyth, Kew, maybe Ebbw Vale, and a range of other places, but I don't know how to find out.

[mckha489]

From 1858 won’t they be on the UK probate site?
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/

Pre 1858
https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/help-to-search/family-history-help/records/wills-and-probate-records

Plus I can see three on the PCC catalogue on Ancestry but none are of Monmouthshire

[Wulfsige]

Thank you. It led me to the will of Jane Gameson, 1855 - but that only thickens the mystery! Why didn't she choose her brother-in-law as executor, rather than another man, of the same name, from far away? I guess they were all related somehow, if you go back to the 1700s. 

[mckha489]

Thank you. It led me to the will of Jane Gameson, 1855 - but that only thickens the mystery! Why didn't she choose her brother-in-law as executor, rather than another man, of the same name, from far away? I guess they were all related somehow, if you go back to the 1700s.

Aren’t the executors from the same place as Jane was? Garnddiffeth

Thomas Waters a contractor, and Thomas Gameson a Bricklayer.

[Wulfsige]

Yes, the executors were from the same parish as Jane. The parish of Trevethin included (maybe still does?) the village of Garndiffaith. Thomas the bricklayer and Jane (it says) were both in that parish ("place" in the will, I seem to recall), but Thomas the other bricklayer (my ancestor, and Jane's brother-in-law) was miles away in 1851 and 1861 in the Tredegar area.