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Once you have identified the parish where your ancestor lived or died, learn which courts had jurisdiction over it then search indexes for those courts. Every town and parish in Rutland fell under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and several secondary courts. Click on a link below for the letter the parish begins with. | Once you have identified the parish where your ancestor lived or died, learn which courts had jurisdiction over it then search indexes for those courts. Every town and parish in Rutland fell under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and several secondary courts. Click on a link below for the letter the parish begins with. | ||
Before 1858, every town and parish in Rutland fell under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court or a secondary court. For an authoritative treatise on each Rutland probate court and the parishes comprising them in pre-1858, see Anthony J. Camp's ''Wills and Their Whereabouts'', available in select locations and in the Family History Library (FHL | Before 1858, every town and parish in Rutland fell under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court or a secondary court. For an authoritative treatise on each Rutland probate court and the parishes comprising them in pre-1858, see Anthony J. Camp's ''Wills and Their Whereabouts'', available in select locations and in the Family History Library (FHL {{FHL|413992|title-id|disp=book 942 S2wa}}). | ||
For a list of Rutland parishes and the pre-1858 courts that had jurisdictions over them, click on a link for the span of letters for the parish: [[Rutland Probate Jurisdictions Parishes A through M|A-M]] [[Rutland Probate Jurisdictions Parishes N through Z|N-Z]] | For a list of Rutland parishes and the pre-1858 courts that had jurisdictions over them, click on a link for the span of letters for the parish: [[Rutland Probate Jurisdictions Parishes A through M|A-M]] [[Rutland Probate Jurisdictions Parishes N through Z|N-Z]] | ||