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| Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Staffordshire. Search these indexes first: | | Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Staffordshire. Search these indexes first: |
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| *[http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/database/SussexFHGprobate.shtml http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/database/SussexFHGprobate.shtml] -- compiled by the Sussex Family History Group which has transcribed the names of 12,300 individuals found in Sussex wills, including testators, executors, beneficiaries or witnesses. The information recorded includes name, date and place.
| | There is a brand new index for 1650-1700 for Staffordshire at this link [http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/ Will and administsrations] |
| *The [http://sussexrecordsociety.org/home2.asp?an=&ap= Sussex Record Society] has published four volumes of indexes to Sussex wills, and these can be viewed on their [http://sussexrecordsociety.org/bwills1.asp?an=&ap= website]. They are arranged by parish then by surname.
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| *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp?WT.hp=Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384-1858)].
| | A general will index for the Diocese of Lichfield exists online, a scanned edition of P.W. Phillimore's publicationby the British Record Society in 1892,[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4zYEAAAAIAAJ ''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 Staffordshire smaller peculiar courts.'' '' |
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| | ==== Printed Indexes ==== |
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| | See the above online indexes available at Google.books which is copy of a printed will index for Staffordshire. |
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| | The Smethwick Local history Society has published the ''Probate inventories of Smethwick residents, 1647-1747 : in the Lichfield Joint Record Office.''<br> |
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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. They cover most of the county of Stafford. <br> |
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| Before looking for a will, you should search an index. It will save time and give a reference to finding a copy of a will.<br>
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| There is a brand new index for 1650-1700 for Staffordshire at this link [http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/ Will and administsrations]
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| A general will index for the Diocese of Lichfield exists online, a scanned edition of P.W. Phillimore's publicationby the British Record Society in 1892,[http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4zYEAAAAIAAJ ''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 Staffordshire smaller peculiar courts.'' ''
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| See the above online indexes available at Google.books which is copy of a printed will index for Staffordshire.
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| The Smethwick Local history Society has published the ''Probate inventories of Smethwick residents, 1647-1747 : in the Lichfield Joint Record Office.''<br>
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