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Before 1858, every town and parish in Lancashire was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and one or more secondary courts. To see a list of parishes (and chapelries) in Lancashire and the pre-1858 courts that had probate jurisdiction over them, click on a letter link: | Before 1858, every town and parish in Lancashire was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and one or more secondary courts. To see a list of parishes (and chapelries) in Lancashire and the pre-1858 courts that had probate jurisdiction over them, click on a letter link: | ||
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B. Nelson is creating an online index to Lancashire wills. This is an on-going project and the database will grow and become more complete with time. To access the index, go to: [http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm Lancashire Will Search]. | B. Nelson is creating an online index to Lancashire wills. This is an on-going project and the database will grow and become more complete with time. To access the index, go to: [http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm Lancashire Will Search]. | ||
<br>The Prerogative Court of Canterbury (also known as the PCC) has an [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp online index of wills] and if a will is found it can be ordered online. Those from Lancashire have already been indexed in the Lancashire Will Search site mentione above. The advantage of the PCC site is that you can order the will directly for a small fee. | |||
<br>An [http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php index] of wills and related documents for 1748-1858 has been prepared and covers Lancashire north of the Ribble River, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire. It indexes all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, which include the deaneries of Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale: | |||
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== Starting Your Search in Indexes == | == Starting Your Search in Indexes == | ||
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A country-wide surname index to the records is available, so it is much easier to look for post-1857 wills. The [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=208102&disp=Calendar+of+the+grants+of+probate+and+le%20%20&columns=*,0,0 indexes] for 1858-1957 and the records for 1858-1925 are available on microfilm at the Family History Library.<br> | A country-wide surname index to the records is available, so it is much easier to look for post-1857 wills. The [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=208102&disp=Calendar+of+the+grants+of+probate+and+le%20%20&columns=*,0,0 indexes] for 1858-1957 and the records for 1858-1925 are available on microfilm at the Family History Library.<br> | ||
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[[Category:Lancashire|Probate Records]] | [[Category:Lancashire|Probate Records]] [[Category:Probate_records_in_England]] | ||
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