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== Berkshire Probate Courts == | == Berkshire Probate Courts == | ||
Most of Berkshire was under the jurisdiction of the [[Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire]], hence the majority of genealogical searches should be in the records of this court and its superiors, which were the [[Court of the Bishop of Salisbury (Episcopal Consistory)]] until 1836 and the combined [[Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Oxford]] from that time on. In addition, the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury was the highest court in the land. The courts should be searched in that order. | |||
However, the following courts also had some pre-1858 probate jurisdiction within a county. Click on a court name to learn about records and indexes. | |||
*[[Court of the Bishop of | |||
*[[ | *[[Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)]] | ||
*[[Court of the Bishop of Gloucester (Episcopal Consistory)]] | |||
*[[Court of the Peculiar of Banbury]] | *[[Court of the Peculiar of Banbury]] | ||
*[[Court of the Peculiar of Faringdon]] | *[[Court of the Peculiar of Faringdon]] | ||
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== Some Explanatory Notes on the Berkshire Probate Courts == | == Some Explanatory Notes on the Berkshire Probate Courts == | ||
[Note from the website of the Oxfordshire Record Office: Negotiations are at an advanced stage with the Genealogical Society of Utah to digitize all the Oxfordshire Probate Records 1516-1857. It is hoped that this will be a joint project with Berkshire Record Office and the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies to digitize all the wills of the three counties. If successful, the project will involve images of all the wills, inventories, and related documents being placed on a commercial provider’s site, with indexes available through the Record Office sites, and accessed on a pay-per-view basis. Digitization is expected to take place in 2010.] | [Note from the website of the Oxfordshire Record Office: Negotiations are at an advanced stage with the Genealogical Society of Utah to digitize all the Oxfordshire Probate Records 1516-1857. It is hoped that this will be a joint project with Berkshire Record Office and the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies to digitize all the wills of the three counties. If successful, the project will involve images of all the wills, inventories, and related documents being placed on a commercial provider’s site, with indexes available through the Record Office sites, and accessed on a pay-per-view basis. Digitization is expected to take place in 2010.] | ||
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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 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1]] | 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 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1]] | ||
== Estate Duty Records<br> == | == Estate Duty Records<br> == | ||