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 ''[[England]]&nbsp;[[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Berkshire]]''
-For an explanation of probate records in England, click [[England Probate Records|here]].
+The following article is about probate records in the county of Cumberland. For general information about English probate records, click [[England Probate Records|here]].
+== Description  ==
+''Probate'' is the legal court process by which the estate of a deceased person is distributed to his or her heirs. The term ''probate'' refers to a collection of documents, including [[W genealogical glossary terms|wills]], [[A genealogical glossary terms|administrations]] (also called admons), [[I genealogical glossary terms|inventories]], and [[A genealogical glossary terms|act books]]. The Church of England ecclesiastical courts had authority for this process until to 1858. This article explains about probates and how to get started to search for a will.
+Beginning in 1858, authority over probate matters was taken from ecclesiastical courts and put under the civil authority of the Principal Probate Registry. The '''Probates After 1857'''&nbsp;section below has a link to an article about probates after 1857.
 == Getting Started  ==
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 #Click a letter or span of letters for your place name. This opens a jurisdictions table.
 #Follow the instructions on the jurisdictions table page.
+== Court Jurisdictions by Parish  ==
+Before 1858, every parish was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and several secondary (or superior) courts.&nbsp; The majority of the Berkshire parishes were under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire, as stated above.&nbsp;
+Click [[Berkshire Probate Jurisdictions|here]] to see an alphabetical list of Berkshire parishes&nbsp;that were the exceptions, and the courts that had jurisdiction over them.
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 The [[Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury]] also served as an appeals court.
-== Some Explanatory Notes on the Berkshire Probate Courts  ==
-From the website of the Oxfordshire Record Office:&nbsp; "Negotiations are at an advanced stage with the Genealogical Society of Utah to digitize all the Oxfordshire Probate Records, 1516-1857.&nbsp; 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. &nbsp;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."
-== Court Jurisdictions by Parish  ==
-Before 1858, every parish was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and several secondary (or superior) courts.&nbsp; The majority of the Berkshire parishes were under the jurisdiction of the Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire, as stated above.&nbsp;
-Click [[Berkshire Probate Jurisdictions|here]] to see an alphabetical list of Berkshire parishes&nbsp;that were the exceptions, and the courts that had jurisdiction over them.
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 Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire (Episcopal Consistory Court) An index to the surnames, other than those of testators ... occurring in the registered wills of the Archdeaconry of Berks ...&nbsp;: registers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I &amp; 19 and parts of register J (pp. 1-578) &amp; register M (pp. 1-245), ca. A.D. 1480-1710 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=392490&disp=An+index+to+the+surnames%2C+other+than+t%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Index to wills proved and administrations granted in the Court of the Archdeacon of Berks, 1508 to 1652 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=208103&disp=Index+to+wills+proved+and+administration%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Archdeaconry of Berkshire. Court Index of Wills and administrations, 1508-1857 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=278280&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1508%2D1857%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Wills, 1525-1857 Archdeacon of Berkshire [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=200522&disp=Wills%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Index to wills proved and administrations granted in the court of the Archdeacon of Berks, 1508 to 1652 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=208328&disp=Index+to+wills+proved+and+administration%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Index of the probate records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire&nbsp;: volume 2, 1653-1710 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=341898&disp=Index+of+the+probate+records+of+the+Cour%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Registers of grants of admonitions, 1547-1857 Some of these films include indexes [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=708256&disp=Registers+of+grants+of+admonitions%2C+15%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Will index 1508-1653 for the parishes of Appleford and Sutton in Berkshire<br>FHL Film 1278815 Item 5 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=593525&disp=Parish+register+transcripts%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Will index 1508-1652 for the parish of Drayton in Berkshire FHL Film 1278815 Item 8 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=593677&disp=Parish+register+transcripts%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>Peculiar Court (Faringdon, Berkshire) The jurisdiction of this court included the parish of Faringdon which included Little Coxwell, Littleworth, Thrupp, Kindell Weare, Wadley, Port, Puckety, Westbrooke and Little Wickensham. This court is a Salisbury Prebend. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=291460&disp=Wills+and+administrations%20%20&columns=*,0,0]
+== Some Explanatory Notes on the Berkshire Probate Courts  ==
+From the website of the Oxfordshire Record Office:&nbsp; "Negotiations are at an advanced stage with the Genealogical Society of Utah to digitize all the Oxfordshire Probate Records, 1516-1857.&nbsp; 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. &nbsp;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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 == Estate Duty Records<br> ==