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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 more quickly locate the original wills and admons which are on microfilm, via any family history [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers] near you. | 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 more quickly locate the original wills and admons which are on microfilm, via any family history [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers] near you. | ||
Before looking for a will, you should search an index. <br> | Before looking for a will, you should search an index. <br> | ||
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Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1750-1800<br> | Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1750-1800<br> | ||
[http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/applications/wills/index.htm http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/applications/wills/index.htm] | [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/applications/wills/index.htm http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/applications/wills/index.htm] | ||
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[http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm] | [http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm] | ||
Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section<br>Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral<br> | Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section<br>Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral<br> | ||
The probate inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's date from 1660 to 1725. They are arranged in yearly (mostly) and half-yearly bundles. Within each bundle they are arranged chronologically by the date they were exhibited in the court. There are 77 bundles now numbered as Guildhall Library Ms 19504/1-77. | The probate inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's date from 1660 to 1725. They are arranged in yearly (mostly) and half-yearly bundles. Within each bundle they are arranged chronologically by the date they were exhibited in the court. There are 77 bundles now numbered as Guildhall Library Ms 19504/1-77. | ||
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For an alphabetical list of London City parishes and the courts that had jurisdiction over them, click on the link for the letter that a parish name begins with: | For an alphabetical list of London City parishes and the courts that had jurisdiction over them, click on the link for the letter that a parish name begins with: | ||
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This list does not include parishes in the county of Middlesex. For those parishes, go to [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]]. | This list does not include parishes in the county of Middlesex. For those parishes, go to [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]]. | ||
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If a search in the most likely probate court jurisidiction proves unsuccessful, then search the next court as listed in ranked order, i.e. "no. 2", and etc. | If a search in the most likely probate court jurisidiction proves unsuccessful, then search the next court as listed in ranked order, i.e. "no. 2", and etc. | ||
In practice, most Londoners sent their wills to the [[Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury|Prerogative Court of Canterbury]] and the [[Court of the Bishop of London (Episcopal Consistory)|Consistory Court of London]] from the mid 1700s to 1857. | |||
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*[http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/2FDB01F7-C781-44D5-A492-61EE38E88A94/0/6WILLSFORLONDON.pdf Wills for London, Middlesex and Surrey Before 1858] (London Metropolitan Archives Information Leaflet) | |||
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