Sussex Probate Records: Difference between revisions

The Susex Records Society has done a great job in putting up many of their index listings including probate. The following is the link to their publications on probate indexes. [http://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/bwills1.asp?an=&ap=] <br>Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384 - 1858) [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1]<br>

 

 

Bishop of Chichester. Consistory Court (Archdeaconry of Chichester) Wills and administrations, 1511-1865 Indexes 1511-1857. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=82159&disp=Wills+and+administrations%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Deanery Court or Peculiar Court (South Malling) Probate records, 1588-1858 The jurisdiction for this court includes the parishes of: Busted, The Cliffe or St. Thomas Lewes, Edburton, Framfield, Glynde, Isfield, Lindfield, Mayfield, Ringmer, South Malling, Stanmer, Uckfield and Wadhurst. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=173636&disp=Probate+records++] Many of these volumes have indexes.<br>Diocese of Chichester. Consistory Court (Archdeaconry of Lewes) Probate records, 1527-1858 Printed book Indexes and FHL Film 97227, 97228, 97229, 97230 and many of the films have indexes at the beginning or end [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=685691&disp=Probate+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Dean of Chichester. Peculiar Court Wills and administrations, 1553-1861 Jurisdiction includes Chichester (St. Andrew, St. Bartholomew, St. Martin, St. Olave, St. Pancras, St. Peter the Great, St. Peter the Less, and the Close), New Fishbourne, and Rumboldswyke. Many of the films have an index at the beginning or end[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=82301&disp=Wills+and+administrations%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Archbishop of Canterbury. Peculiar Court (Exempt Deaneries of Pagham and Tarring) Wills and administrations, 1520-1907 Jurisdiction includes South Bersted, Chichester (All Saints), part of Horsham, East Lavant, Pagham, Patching, Slindon, Tangmere, and West Tarring. Many of these films have an index at the beginning or end. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=82267&disp=Wills+and+administrations%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Diocese of Chichester. Peculiar Court (Exempt Deanery of Battle) Probate records, 1531-1857 The jurisdiction for this court includes only the parish of Battle. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=173743&disp=Probate+records%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Transcripts of Sussex wills&nbsp;: as far as they relate to ecclesiological and parochial subjects, up to the year 1560 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=147632&disp=Transcripts+of+Sussex+wills%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Calendar of wills and administrations in the Archdeaconry court of Lewes in the bishopric of Chichester&nbsp;: together with those in the Archbishop of Canterbury's Peculiar jurisdiction of South Malling and the Peculiar of the Deanery of Battle; comprising together the whole of the eastern division of the county of Sussex and the parish of Edburton in West Sussex, from the earliest extant instruments in the reign of Henry VIII to the Commonwealth [1509-1660] [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=212898&disp=Calendar+of+wills+and+administrations+in%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Index to Some Wills proved and Admons Granted in the Peculiar Deanery of South Malling, 1560-1567. Included are also an index to an additional 216 Susses Wills. The indexes comprise pages 138-152 Sussex archaeological collections - v. 50 (1907) [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1679746&disp=v%2E+50+%281907%29%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Calendar of wills in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Chichester, 1482-1800 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=237740&disp=Calendar+of+wills+in+the+Consistory+cour%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Calendar of administrations in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Chichester, 1555-1800&nbsp;: Calendar of wills and administrations in the Peculiar court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1520-1670&nbsp;: Calendar of Wills and administrations in the Peculiar court of the Dean of Chichester [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=243356&disp=Calendar+of+administrations+in+the+Consi%20%20&columns=*,0,0]

Starting in 1796, a tax or death duty was payable on estates over a certain value. Estate duty abstracts may add considerable information not found elsewhere. Between 1796-1858 estate duty indexes may help locate a will. For more information, go to [[Estate Duty Records]].<br><br>