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(New page: Return to the Staffordshire Probate Records page. == Location of These Probate Records == '''Lichfield Record Office (formerly Lichfield Joint R...) |
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== Historical Background == | == Historical Background == | ||
The Peculiar Court of | The Peculiar Court of Prees or Pipe Minor held jurisdiction over the parishes of Stafford St Chad and Tipton. 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. | ||
<br>You can also visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes (see the Family History Library's cataloged entries providing the microfilms so you can have them circulated to the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp center] near you for searching the wills). The information obtained from the index[es] will help you more quickly search the wills and admons which can also be circulated on microfilm via any family history. | <br>You can also visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes (see the Family History Library's cataloged entries providing the microfilms so you can have them circulated to the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp center] near you for searching the wills). The information obtained from the index[es] will help you more quickly search the wills and admons which can also be circulated on microfilm via any family history. | ||
== Probate Indexes == | == Probate Indexes == |
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