Cornwall Probate Records: Difference between revisions

*'''1858-1957''' {{RecordSearch|2451051|England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957}} at [https://familysearch.org/search FamilySearch]- [[England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index

Original wills, administrations and inventories for the Consistorial Court of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall, {{FHL|329778|title-id|disp=1579-1859}}  

Calendar of wills, administrations and accounts relating to the counties of Cornwall and Devon in the Connotorial Archidiaconal Court of Cornwall : (with which are included the records of the Royal Peculiar of St Burian) now preserved in the district probate registry at Bodwin Contents: {{FHL|241992|title-id|disp=v. 56. 1569-1699 -- v. 59. 1700-1799.}} <br>Cornish probate records at Cornwall Record Office, {{FHL|303843|title-id|disp=1800-1857}}.<br> Index to Cornish probate records, {{FHL|351093|title-id|disp=1600-1649}}.  

Unproved Archdeaconry Court Wills are listed in {{FHL|556166|title-id|disp=this book}}.  

{{FHL|556166|title-id|disp=Index}} to Cornish estate duty and Deanery of St. Buryan wills The Royal Peculiar of the Deanery of St. Buryan included the parishes of St. Buryan, St. Levan and Sennen. See above v. 56 amd v.59  

"The present {{FHL|303843|title-id|disp=list}} is an amalgamation of the main series of Archdeaconry of Cornwall wills and bonds with those of the Royal Peculiar of St. Buryan and the Estate Duty Office wills (the latter from 1812 to 1857)."  

Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall : proved in the Court of the principal registry of the Bishop of Exeter, {{FHL|235196|title-id|disp=1559-1799.}} And of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, {{FHL|251593|title-id|disp=1559-1799.}}  

Transcript of Devonshire wills, {{FHL|289964|title-id|disp=1600-1800}}. This court also covered some Cornwall parishes and these abstracts may include wills of Cornwall residents. br&gt;Index to wills, copies and related papers [of the County of Devon], {{FHL|575287|title-id|disp=1200-1900's }}. It may include persons from Cornwall.  

Cornish wills in Prerogative Court of Canterbury Contents: {{FHL|282741|title-id|disp=v. 1. 1383-1558, A-J -- v. 2. K-Z -- v. 3. 1558-1583.}}  

Indexes Archdeaconry of Cornwall {{FHL|15644|title-id|disp=1796-1811 Death Duty Registers.}}<br>{{FHL|556166|title-id|disp=Index}} to Cornish estate duty and Deanery of St. Buryan wills. <br> {{FHL|573927|title-id|disp=Wills for the Diocese of Exeter (County of Devon), 1812-1857}} The copies were made for the Legacy Duty Department of the Stamp Duty Office, and from 1848 on to its successor, The Estate Duty Office of the Inland Revenue Office. They consist of wills proved in the Principal Registry and Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter, and in the various Archdeaconry Courts.  

Estate duty wills, Cornwall, {{FHL|1132062|title-id|disp=1811-1857.}}  

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