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 Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Shropshire. Search these indexes first:
-*a brand new index for 1650-1730 for Shropshire 12000 plus probate documents indexed at this link [http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/ Will and administsrations] This Court is the Consistory Court of Lichfield and covers the northern half of County Shropshire,
+*a brand new index for 1650-1730 for Shropshire 12000 plus probate documents indexed at this link [http://www.staffsnameindexes.org.uk/ Will and administrations] This Court is the Consistory Court of Lichfield and covers the northern half of County Shropshire,
 <br>Registered wills and original wills, administrations and inventories, 1494-1860, and, act books, 1532-1638 for Diocese of Lichfield Episcopal Consistory Court {{FHL|309060|title-id|disp=}} These are calendars
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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,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. [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4zYEAAAAIAAJ]
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