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 == Court Jurisdictions  ==
+Before 1858, settlement of the estate of deceased persons was handled by ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England.&nbsp; Every town and parish in Derbyshire was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary ecclesiastical court and one or more secondary ecclesiastical courts.
 For an alphabetical list of the parishes of Derbyshire with the pre-1858 courts that had jurisdiction over them, click on&nbsp;a letter of the alphabet that a parish name begins with: &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes A|A]],&nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes B|B]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes C|C]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes D & E|D-E]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes F through H|F-H]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes I through L|I-L]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes M through O|M-O]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes P through R|P-R]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes S|S]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes T|T-V]], &nbsp;[[Derbyshire Probate Jurisdictions Parishes W through Z|W-Z]].<br>