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| ==== Step 1. Search Indexes ==== | | ==== Step 1. Search Indexes ==== |
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| Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Warwickshire. Search these indexes first:
| | There are no known online indexes to pre-1858 probate records for persons in Warwickshire, with the exception of the following. |
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| *Registered wills and original wills, administrations and inventories, 1494-1860, and, act books, 1532-1638 for Diocese of Lichfield Episcopal Consistory Court [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=309060&disp=Registered+wills+and+original+wills%2C+a%20%20&columns=*,0,0 These are calendars] This diocese covers the northern and eastern parts of county Warwick. | | *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp?WT.hp=Wills Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury] which was the highest court in England. |
| *A general will index for the Diocese of Lichfield exists online, a scanned edition of P.W. Phillimore's publication by the British Record Society in 1892,''Calendars of wills administrations in the Consistory court of the bishop of Lichfield''. This single index consolidates most Staffordshire wills of the various probate court jurisdictions from 1514-1652 for the Diocese of Lichfield and to 1790 for Warwickshire's smaller [http://books.google.com/books?id=4zYEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false peculiar courts].
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| *The Episcopal Consistory Court of The Bishop of Worcester Covers the southwestern third of this county.
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| *Episcopal Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester Calendar of wills and administrations, 1661-1858 is a typscript and is available at The Family History Library, (FHL) book call no. 942.47 P2e vols 1-4. Contents : v. 1. 1661-1699 -- v. 2. 1700-1749 -- v. 3. 1750-1799 -- v. 4. 1800-1858; or, it is available via [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=255647&disp=Episcopal+Consistory+Court+of+the+Bishop++ microfilm] at its 4,600 Family History Centers worldwide. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=255647&disp=Episcopal+Consistory+Court+of+the+Bishop%20%20&columns=*,0,0]
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| *Worcestershire wills index, 1858-1928. "The index is arranged in alphabetical order of surname followed by the forename. Then the date of probate is cited, thus leading one to the register concerned, together with the relevant page number. It will be noted that there is some slight variation in style of the date of probate quoted. This is because this index was compiled from the existing indexes in each register and the amount of detail in each varied slightly, particularly in the first few volumes." -- from foreword.
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| *CD-ROM no. 1671 at the Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1172760&disp=Worcestershire+wills+index%2C+1858%2D192%20%20&columns=*,0,0]
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| *Calendar of wills and administrations in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Worcester, 1451-1652 : also marriage licenses and sequestrations now deposited in the Probate registry at Worcester
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| *The Index library (British Record Society) : v. 31, 39. (Family History Library book numbers 942 B4b v. 31 1968 and 942 B4b v. 39 1968.) Contents: v. 31. 1451-1600 -- v. 39. 1601-1652. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=234430&disp=Calendar+of+wills+and+administrations+in%20%20&columns=*,0,0] Also available in the Family History Library book 942.47 S2c [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=250567&disp=A+calendar+of+wills+and+administrations+%20%20&columns=*,0,0]
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| *A calendar of wills and administrations preserved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester, l45l-(l652) [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=250567&disp=A+calendar+of+wills+and+administrations+%20%20&columns=*,0,0]<br>
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| Here is an [[Index of Probate from January-March 1660-1 for the Bishop of Worcester Original Wills]]
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