Court of the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire: Difference between revisions

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Step By Step [edit | edit source]

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.
2. Proceed to the "Probate Records of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.
3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire 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 centers near you.

Indexes[edit | edit source]

Online Indexes[edit | edit source]

Here are two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:

The Wiltshire County Record Office's online Will Index 1540-1858
Genuki provides a gateway to these 1000 abstract Wills

Indexes in The Family History Library[edit | edit source]

The Records[edit | edit source]

Archive Location[edit | edit source]

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Cocklebury Road

Chippenham

Wiltshire SN15 3QN

ENGLAND

Email: archives@wiltshire.gov.uk

Tel: 44 (0)1249 705500

Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527 Website

Probate Records of This Court Held in This Archive[edit | edit source]

Registered Wills 1557-1603; 1659-1662

Original Wills & Administrations & Inventories 1587-1858

Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library[edit | edit source]

Registered Wills 1583-1661

Original Wills 1603-1857

Act Books 1572-1620

Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]

Held jurisdictions over most of the northern parishes in Wiltshire except in the smaller or "peculiar" courts. Inhibited triennially by the Consistory Court of Sarum.

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-Return to the [[Wiltshire Probate Records]] page.
 == Step By Step&nbsp;  ==
-. 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 of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or,&nbsp;hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.<br>4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records;&nbsp;then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the&nbsp;original wills and admons also&nbsp;on microfilm via any&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers]&nbsp;near you.
+. 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 of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or,&nbsp;hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.<br>4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records;&nbsp;then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the&nbsp;original wills and admons also&nbsp;on microfilm via any&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers]&nbsp;near you.<br>
 == Indexes  ==
-== Records  ==
+==== Online Indexes  ====
+Here are&nbsp;two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:
+*The Wiltshire County Record Office's [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php online Will Index 1540-1858]
+*Genuki provides a gateway to these [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BRKwills/ 1000 abstract Wills]
+==== Indexes in The Family History Library  ====
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Calendar of Wills, Acts &amp;&nbsp;Admons&nbsp;1557-1858]
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Index to Wills&nbsp;1557-1857]
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Index to Wills 1557-1799]; [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts%2E%2C+calen++&first=101&last=200&columns=*,0,0 1800-1858]
+== The Records  ==
-==== Archive Locations  ====
+==== Archive Location  ====
 Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
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 Tel: 44 (0)1249 705500
-Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527
+Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527 [http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archives.html Website]
+==== Probate&nbsp;Records of This Court Held in This Archive  ====
+Registered Wills 1557-1603; 1659-1662
+Original Wills &amp; Administrations &amp; Inventories 1587-1858
+==== Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library  ====
-[http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archives.html Website]
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts%2E%2C+calen++&first=1&last=100&columns=*,0,0 Registered Wills 1583-1661]
-==== Archive Records  ====
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Original Wills 1603-1857]
-==== Family History Library Records  ====
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=646318&disp=Court+records++ Act Books 1572-1620]
 == Jurisdictions  ==
-The Courts of the Archdeacons of Salisbury and of Wiltshire and also the Court of the Archdeacon of the sub-dean of Salisbury Cathedral were inhibited triennially by the Court of the Bishop of Salisbury.
+Held jurisdictions over most of the northern parishes in Wiltshire except in the smaller or "peculiar" courts. Inhibited triennially by the Consistory Court of Sarum.
 [[Category:Probate_records_in_Wiltshire]] [[Category:Wiltshire]]