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[[Cornwall Probate Records]] | [[Cornwall Probate Records]] | ||
[[England]] > [[Devonshire]] > [[Devonshire Probate Records]], [[Cornwall Probate Records]] | |||
== < | == Step By Step == | ||
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.<br>2. Proceed to the "Probate Records in This Archive" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Cornwall County Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers. | |||
4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records. Then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the original wills and admons also on microfilm via any [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers] near you. | |||
== Indexes == | == Indexes == | ||
==== Online Indexes ==== | ==== Online Indexes ==== | ||
[http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject/ Devonshire Wills online] | |||
[http://www.fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/England/cornwall.htm Cornwall Wills online] (see "Probate Records") | [http://www.fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/England/cornwall.htm Cornwall Wills online] (see "Probate Records") | ||
==== Indexes at The Family history Library ==== | |||
''[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=179523&disp=Index+to+early+Exeter+wills+1286%2D1400+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400]'' | ==== Indexes in The Family History Library ==== | ||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=179523&disp=Index+to+early+Exeter+wills+1286%2D1400+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=251593&disp=Calendars+of+wills+and+administrations+r%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Calendars of wills and administrations of Devon and Cornwall : 1532-1800] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=241992&disp=Calendar+of+wills%2C+administrations+and%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Calendar of wills, administrations and accounts 1569-1799] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=303843&disp=Cornish+probate+records+at+Cornwall+Reco%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Cornish probate records at Cornwall Record Office, 1800-1857] | |||
== Records == | |||
==== Archives Location ==== | |||
Cornwall Record Office | |||
Old County Hall | |||
Truro | |||
Cornwall | |||
United Kingdom, TR1 3AY<br>Email: cro@cornwall.gov.uk | |||
Tel: 01872 323127<br>[http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1729 Website] | |||
==== Archive Records ==== | |||
Abstracts of Testamentary, Administrations and Accounts of Administrators 1532-1857 | |||
Probate Inventories & Administration Papers 16th to 19th Century | |||
Inventories 1531-1699 in Deveon And Cornwall Record Society New Series vol 11 | |||
==== Family History Library Records ==== | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=584802&disp=Wills+and+probate+records%2C+1578-1700++ Wills and probate records, 1578-1700] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=753861&disp=Temerary+administrations%2C+1715-1838++ Temerary (deceased estates) administrations, 1715-1838]<br> | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=765558&disp=Legacy+causes%2C+1725-1829%2C+1693-1++ Legacy causes, 1725-1829, 1693-1845] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=329778&disp=Original+wills%2C+administrations+and+in++ Original Wills, Administrations & Inventories 1579-1859] | |||
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=441045&disp=Account+causes%2C+1668%2D1845%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Account causes, 1668-1845]<br> | |||
== Jurisdiction == | |||
This court held jurisdiction over most of the following counties of Cornwall and Devonshire parishes: | |||
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*St Agnes | |||
*Boconnoc | |||
*Braddock | |||
*Perranzabuloe | |||
*St Winnow | |||
|} | |||
The Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory) had jurisdiction over the whole of the diocese when there was not "bona notabilia' within two or more subordinate courts, and 22 Cornish parishes which were peculiars of the Bishop. The records of the peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter were virtuall all destroyed in 1942. Indexes | |||
==== Online Indexes ==== | |||
[http://www.fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/England/cornwall.htm Cornwall Wills online] (see "Probate Records") | |||
==== Indexes at The Family history Library ==== | |||
''[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=179523&disp=Index+to+early+Exeter+wills+1286%2D1400+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400]'' | |||
== Records == | == Records == |
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