Peculiar Court of the Manor of Baddesley-Clinton

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Step By Step

1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.

2. Proceed then to "Records" (see below) to determine what probate records exist for this court.

3. Contact or visit the Lichfield Record Office (see address below), to hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf, citing information obtained from the indexes (see next heading). Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.

4. The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you.

Indexes

Surviving wills and admons to the Peculiar Court of Baddesley Clinton have to some extent been indexed with the following ones:

Printed and Published Indexes

The British Record Society's Index Library published a calendar for earlier years up to 1790 in volume 7, which may be accessed at many major archives in the United Kingdom, such as The National Archives, The British Library, etc.

The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you:

• indexes and original records
• set of Calendars
• 1773 to 1790

Records

Archives Location

The original records are deposited at:

Lichfield Record Office (formerly Lichfield Joint Record Office)
The Friary'
Lichfield
Staffs WS13 6QG
England
Telephone: U.K. 01543 510720
Overseas: (+44) 1543 510720
Obtaining a copy of a probate record:

You may visit the Lichfield Record Office or contact their research service and request a copy of a probate record (include an index reference in your request).
You may visit the FamilySearch Library and search the records on microfilm, or visit a FamilySearch center where you may be able to view the films and search them there.

FamilySearch Library Records

The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you:

• Calendars 1510-1858
• Original Wills, Administrations (Admons), Inventories 1553-1858
• Original Wills & Administration (Admons) 1773-1856

Jurisdiction

This peculiar court held jurisdiction over the parish of Baddesley-Clinton.

During the Commonwealth Interregnum from 1653 to 1660, the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the form of a civil court, had sole probate or testmentary jurisdiction over all of England and Wales.

The Court of the Peculiar of Baddesley Clinton held jurisdiction over the parish. When a search of this courts’ probate records fails to provide the desired probate record, be sure to search the Consistory Court of Lichfield as well as the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.