Cheshire Probate Records: Difference between revisions

Several printed indexes exist for the probate court jurisdictions of Cheshire, but not all. Look in this ("Printed Indexes") section under each Probate court for indexes and the locations for accessing same.  

Original will indexes 1545-1858 are available in print by both the Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society and the Chetham Society. These two voluminous series containing numerous records for both Lancashire and Cheshire counties, contain helpful indexes to most of the wills and administrations for this major probate court jurisdiction for Lancashire. These volume series are often available at many major archives in the United Kingdom such as at the British Library, and Guildhall Library, London, and other like institutions. The Family History Library likewise has most all of these volumed indexes in these series available on microfilm (the last three volumes below are available in book form only) as follows: