Court of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury

Dorset Probate Records

Step By Step

1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.
2. Proceed to the "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court.
3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.
4. Visit The FamilySearch Library or, one of its 4,500 satellite FamilySearch centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records; then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search the original wills and admons available online at a local FamilySearch center or affiliate library near you.

Indexes

Online Indexes

Here are two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:

• The Wiltshire County Record Office's online Will Index 1540-1858
• Genuki provides a gateway to these 1000 abstract Wills

Printed and Published Indexes

• Wills at Salisbury 1464-1858
• Wills Beneficiaries Index 1800-1854

The Records

Archive Location

The original records are deposited at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives and History Centre.

Archive Records

Add information about the manuscript, printed and digital records in this location.

• Original wills, administrations and inventories, 1600-1857

FamilySearch Library Records

Original Wills & Administrations 1625-1638

Jurisdiction

This court had jurisdiction in Stourpaine in Dorset. Jurisdiction uninhibited.