Court of the Peculiar of Banbury: Difference between revisions

1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.<br>2. Proceed to the "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court. Also see "Family History Library Records."<br>3. Contact or visit the Bristol Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send a list of record searchers upon request.<br>4. Visit The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library 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 [[Introduction to Family History Centers|centers]] near you.<br>

Jeremy S. W. Gibson has published an "Index to wills proved in the Peculiar Court of Banbury, 1542-1858," which is available from the [http://www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2786 Banbury Historical Society], at the Oxfordshire Record Office, at the {{FHL|125010|title-id|disp=Family History Library}}, and elsewhere.  

In addition, a manuscript index to the records of the peculiar courts of Berkshire is available on microfilm at the [http://www.sog.org.uk/index.shtml Society of Genealogists] in London, and the Family History Library:  

The original and microfilmed records listed below also include indexes.  

*Filed wills and administration bonds, 1547-1856 (very incomplete to 1660). The records are filed with those for the peculiars of Cropredy, Horley and Hornton, King's Sutton, Bierton, and Thame.  

Records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through family history centers. They include:  

*{{FHL|291436|title-id|disp=Probate records, 1547-1858}} (includes indexes)  

*{{FHL|268521|title-id|disp=Banbury wills and inventories, 1591-1650}} (published transcriptions)  

Banbury parish in Oxfordshire was a peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln (Cathedral). The court of the Peculiar of Banbury had jurisdiction only over the parish of Banbury and its hamlets.