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England > Devonshire > Devonshire Probate Records, Cornwall Probate Records

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 in This Archive" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.
3. Contact or visit the Devonshire 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]

Devonshire Wills online

Cornwall Wills online (see "Probate Records")

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

Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400

Calendars of wills and administrations of Devon and Cornwall : 1532-1800

Calendar of wills, administrations and accounts 1569-1799

Cornish probate records at Cornwall Record Office, 1800-1857

Records[edit | edit source]

Archives Location[edit | edit source]

Devon Record Office
Great Moor House
Bittern Road
Sowton
EXETER
Devon
EX2 7NL
Enquiry form +44 (0)1392 384253
+44 (0)1392 384256
devrec@devon.gov.uk

Website

Archive Records[edit | edit source]

Abstracts of Testamentary, Administrations and Accounts of Administrators 1532-1857

Probate Inventories & Administration Papers 16th to 19th Century

Inventories 1531-1699 in Deveon And Cornwall Record Society New Series vol 11

Family History Library Records[edit | edit source]

Wills and probate records, 1578-1700

Temerary (deceased estates) administrations, 1715-1838

Legacy causes, 1725-1829, 1693-1845

Original Wills, Administrations & Inventories 1579-1859

Account causes, 1668-1845

Jurisdiction[edit | edit source]

This court held jurisdiction over most of the following counties of Cornwall and Devonshire parishes:

St Agnes
Boconnoc
Braddock
Perranzabuloe
St Winnow

The Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory) had jurisdiction over the whole of the diocese when there was not "bona notabilia' within two or more subordinate courts, and 22 Cornish parishes which were peculiars of the Bishop. The records of the peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter were virtuall all destroyed in 1942. Indexes

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 [[Cornwall Probate Records]]
-[[England Genealogy|England]] &gt; [[Devon]] &gt; [[Devonshire Probate Records]],  [[Cornwall Probate Records]]
+[[England]] &gt; [[Devonshire]] &gt; [[Devonshire Probate Records]],&nbsp; [[Cornwall Probate Records]]
 == Step By Step  ==
-. 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 "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Devonshire 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.
+. 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 in This Archive" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Devonshire&nbsp;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.
-. Visit The[https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library],or, one of its 4,500 satellite FamilySearch centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records. Then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search the original wills and admons available online at a local [https://www.familysearch.org/en/centers/about FamilySearch center or affiliate library] near you.
+. 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 [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers]&nbsp;near you.
 == Indexes  ==
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 [http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject/ Devonshire Wills online]
-==== Printed and Published Indexes  ====
+[http://www.fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/England/cornwall.htm Cornwall Wills online] (see "Probate Records")
-{{FSC|179523|title-id|disp=Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400}}
+==== Indexes in The Family History Library  ====
-{{FSC|251593|title-id|disp=Calendars of wills and administrations of Devon and Cornwall : 1532-1800}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=179523&disp=Index+to+early+Exeter+wills+1286%2D1400+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Index to early Exeter wills 1286-1400]
-{{FSC|241992|title-id|disp=Calendar of wills, administrations and accounts 1569-1799}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=251593&disp=Calendars+of+wills+and+administrations+r%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Calendars of wills and administrations&nbsp;of Devon and Cornwall&nbsp;: 1532-1800]
-{{FSC|303843|title-id|disp=Cornish probate records at Cornwall Record Office, 1800-1857}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=241992&disp=Calendar+of+wills%2C+administrations+and%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Calendar of wills, administrations and accounts 1569-1799]
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=303843&disp=Cornish+probate+records+at+Cornwall+Reco%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Cornish probate records at Cornwall Record Office, 1800-1857]
 == Records  ==
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 ==== Archives Location  ====
-Devon Record Office<br>Great Moor House<br>Bittern Road<br>Sowton<br>EXETER<br>Devon EX2 7NL<br>UNITED KINGDOM
+Devon Record Office<br>Great Moor House<br>Bittern Road<br>Sowton<br>EXETER<br>Devon<br>EX2 7NL<br>Enquiry form +44 (0)1392 384253<br>+44 (0)1392 384256<br>devrec@devon.gov.uk
-Tel +44 (0)1392 384253<br>+44 (0)1392 384256<br>devrec@devon.gov.uk
+[http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/democracycommunities/neighbourhoods-villages/record_office.htm Website]
-[http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/democracycommunities/neighbourhoods-villages/record_office.htm Website]
 ==== Archive Records  ====
-Add information about the manuscript, printed and digital records in this location.
 Abstracts of Testamentary, Administrations and Accounts of Administrators 1532-1857
-Probate Inventories &amp; Administration Papers 16th to 19th Century
+Probate Inventories &amp;&nbsp;Administration Papers 16th to 19th Century
-Inventories 1531-1699 in Deveon And Cornwall Record Society New Series vol 11
+Inventories 1531-1699 in Deveon And Cornwall Record Society New&nbsp;Series vol 11
-==== FamilySearch Library Records  ====
+==== Family History Library Records  ====
-{{FSC|584802|title-id|disp=Wills and probate records, 1578-1700}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=584802&disp=Wills+and+probate+records%2C+1578-1700++ Wills and probate records, 1578-1700]
-{{FSC|753861|title-id|disp=Temerary (deceased estates) administrations, 1715-1838}}<br>
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=753861&disp=Temerary+administrations%2C+1715-1838++ Temerary (deceased estates) administrations, 1715-1838]<br>
-{{FSC|765558|title-id|disp=Legacy causes, 1725-1829, 1693-1845}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=765558&disp=Legacy+causes%2C+1725-1829%2C+1693-1++ Legacy causes, 1725-1829, 1693-1845]
-{{FSC|329778|title-id|disp=Original Wills, Administrations &amp; Inventories 1579-1859}}
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=329778&disp=Original+wills%2C+administrations+and+in++ Original Wills, Administrations&nbsp;&amp; Inventories&nbsp;1579-1859]
-{{FSC|441045|title-id|disp=Account causes, 1668-1845}}<br>
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=441045&disp=Account+causes%2C+1668%2D1845%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Account causes, 1668-1845]<br>
 == Jurisdiction  ==
-This court held jurisdiction over most of the following counties of Cornwall and Devonshire parishes:
+This court held jurisdiction over most of the following counties of Cornwall&nbsp;and Devonshire parishes:
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-The Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory) had jurisdiction over the whole of the diocese when there was not "bona notabilia' within two or more subordinate courts, and 22 Cornish parishes which were peculiars of the Bishop.  The records of the peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter were virtuall all destroyed in 1942. Indexes
+The Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory) had jurisdiction over the whole of the diocese when there was not "bona notabilia' within two or more subordinate courts, and 22 Cornish parishes which were peculiars of the Bishop.&nbsp; The&nbsp;records of the&nbsp;peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter were virtuall all destroyed in 1942. Indexes
- [[Category:Cornwall Probate Records]]
+[[Category:Probate_records_in_Cornwall]] [[Category:Cornwall]]