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*[http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php Berkshire wills in Wiltshire] This index is in Wiltshire, but has over 11,000 probate records in this online court index! | *[http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php Berkshire wills in Wiltshire] This index is in Wiltshire, but has over 11,000 probate records in this online court index! | ||
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BRKwills/ Hungerford and Wantage]. This is a collection of about 1000 abstracts of probate documents relating to people residing in the neighbourhood of the towns of Hungerford and Wantage in Berkshire. Since Hungerford is on the County boundary there is some spread into Wiltshire and to a lesser extent into Hampshire and Oxfordshire. | *[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BRKwills/ Hungerford and Wantage]. This is a collection of about 1000 abstracts of probate documents relating to people residing in the neighbourhood of the towns of Hungerford and Wantage in Berkshire. Since Hungerford is on the County boundary there is some spread into Wiltshire and to a lesser extent into Hampshire and Oxfordshire. | ||
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1 Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384-1858)]. | *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=6&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1 Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384-1858)] | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F1928673 Berkshire Archdeaconry Probate Records 1480-1652] Contents: v. 15. Part 1, Index to personal names -- v. 16. Part 2, Index to place names -- v. 17. Part 3, Index to occupations | |||
*Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire An index to the surnames, other than those of testators ... occurring in the registered wills of the Archdeaconry of Berks ... : registers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I & 19 and parts of register J (pp. 1-578) & register M (pp. 1-245), ca. {{FHL|392490|title-id|disp=A.D. 1480-1710}} | |||
*Index to wills proved and administrations granted in the Court of the Archdeacon of Berks, {{FHL|208103|title-id|disp=1508 to 1652}} The link takes you to a book version of the index. The book has been microfilmed several times but the copy on the Family History Library microfilm number 88088 has additional comments in it. | |||
*Archdeaconry of Berkshire. Court Index of Wills and administrations, {{FHL|278280|title-id|disp=}} Wills, {{FHL|200522|title-id|disp=1525-1857}} Archdeacon of Berkshire | |||
*Index of the probate records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Berkshire : {{FHL|341898|title-id|disp=volume 2, 1653-1710}} | |||
Here is a list of Berkshire parishes with peculiar jurisdictions for probating wills at a more local level: | |||
* Registers of grants of admonitions, {{FHL|708256|title-id|disp=1547-1857}} Some of these films include indexes | |||
* Will index 1508-1653 for the parishes of Appleford and Sutton in Berkshire FHL Film {{FHL|593525|title-id|disp=1278815 Item 5}} | |||
* Will index 1508-1652 for the parish of Drayton in Berkshire FHL Film {{FHL|593677|title-id|disp=1278815 Item 8}} | |||
* {{FHL|291460|title-id|disp=Peculiar Court (Faringdon, Berkshire)}} The jurisdiction of this court included the parish of Faringdon which included Little Coxwell, Littleworth, Thrupp, Kindell Weare, Wadley, Port, Puckety, Westbrooke and Little Wickensham. This court is a Salisbury Prebend. | |||
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====Step 2. Identify when and where your ancestor died==== | ====Step 2. Identify when and where your ancestor died==== | ||