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  • Lancashire Will Search

    The purpose of this page is to provide a search engine to assist one in finding a will of a person who died in Lancashire, England from the time period of the mid sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century.

  • London Signatures

    England. Online index of 10,000 wills from the Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex. Copies of the wills can be purchased online.

  • Medieval & Tudor Kent P.C.C & C.C.C. Wills

    Old wills from Kent, England.

  • Northants Wills Proved 1852-1857

    A list of all wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Northampton for the years 1852-1857.

  • Origins.net - Genealogy Research online specializing in British & Irish genealogy search $

    Access some of the richest British and Irish genealogy records for under £5 a month including comprehensive British & Irish record collections, dating back to the 13th century; the National Wills Index, pre-1858 English wills and probate documents; downloadable genealogy guides, maps and rare publications.

    • Origins.net - National Wills Index $

      Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1700-1807; British Record Society Probate Collection 1320-1858; Oxfordshire Wills Index 1516-1857; Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1731-1858; Surrey & South London Will Abstracts 1470-1856; York Medieval Probate Index 1267-1500; York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883.

    • Wills

      The first phase of a project to index and digitise all the early wills that were proved in the District Probate Registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry from 1858 to c.1900. View the entire will calendar entry for each successful search. The second phase will link the index entries to both the will calendar entries and the copy wills images.

  • ScotlandsPeople

    The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland. A partnership between General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon enabled by Scotland Online.

    • Wills & Testaments

      Free index search of over 611,000 index entries to Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1513 to 1901.

  • Surrey Plus Wills Index

    Surrey, England. The Surrey+ Wills Index provides an index to names of people (e.g., beneficiaries, tenants, creditors, witnesses) appearing in the Wills of Testators residing in the County of Surrey, England, and others of the Home Counties. Links are provided to transcripts of Wills, where available.

  • The National Archives | DocumentsOnline

    United Kingdom. Access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Searching is free, images are available for download for a fee.

    • Famous Wills in PROB1

      Wills of various historical figures from the United Kingdom.

    • Wills

      Includes a searchable index to probate records (wills) with over 800,000 wills from the period 1384 to 1858.

  • The Wedderburn Pages - Glossary

    Glossary of archaic Scottish words and phrases useful for genealogical research, including terms linked to property and possessions, found in wills and testaments.

  • Wills & Probate Records

    England. From the Northamptonshire Record Office.

  • Wills Database

    Cheshire, England. Index covers the years 1492 - 1940 and contains 130,000 entries. It covers probate documents proved at Chester mainly for Cheshire residents. The index supplies name, place of residence (at the time of making the will), occupation and date of probate (usually within a year of death, although it can be much longer). It also indicates the type of record which survives. These could be a Will, 'Admon' or administration bond (normally when there is no will), Inventory of personal property or Codicil or other probate documents.

  • WorldVitalRecords.com - Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills $

    Probate Jurisdictions--Where to Look for Wills. Jeremy Gibson. (2002). The purpose of this guide is to show you where to start looking for wills and associated records, for before 1858 British wills were probated in a wide variety of ecclesiastical courts. This guide will lead to the correct record offices, both for places in the expected ecclesiastical jurisdictions and those that are the exceptions. The arrangement is by county and thereunder by court of jurisdiction and repository, with information indicating the present location of the wills, the period of coverage, and the existence of indexes. This new Fifth Edition supersedes all previous editions.

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