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| Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Sussex. Search these indexes first: | | Here are some online indexes to probate records that include individuals who lived in Sussex. 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. | | *[http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php Probate Index] is an index of wills and related documents covering Lancashire north of the Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, 1748-1858. Specifically, it indexes all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858. The deaneries included are Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale. |
| *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. | | *[http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php]<br> |
| *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp?WT.hp=Wills Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384-1858)].
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| | *[http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5945 Westmorland, England: Parish and Probate Records] is a A collection of parish and probate records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s. |
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| | Westmorland, England: Parish and Probate Records is a [http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5945 collection of parish and probate records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s].<br> |
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| [http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php Probate Index] is an index of wills and related documents covering Lancashire north of the Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, 1748-1858. Specifically, it indexes all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858. The deaneries included are Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale.[http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php]<br>
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| [http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5945 Westmorland, England: Parish and Probate Records] is a A collection of parish and probate records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s.
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| Westmorland, England: Parish and Probate Records is a [http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5945 collection of parish and probate records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s].<br><br>
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