Court of the Peculiar of Craike

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Probate Records

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Indexes

• Personal names in wills proved at Durham, by by G. Nicholson and J.A. Readdie. Three volumes, 1787-1803.
  
• Index and abstracts to Durham wills, 1540-1590, for Newcastle upon Tyne including the Peculiar of Craike.
• Wills and administrations of York Peculiar, Prebendial and Manorial Courts, 1559-1858

Records

Archive Location

Until 1837, the records are in the Durham University Library, Special Collections. After 1837, they were transferred to the Archdeaconry of Cleveland and the records are in the Borthwick Institute in York.

Family History Library Records

The Family History Library has the following records. Films can be view in the library or in a family history center.

• Wills, administrations and indexes, 1526-1858 for the Episcopal Consistory Court with the Peculiar of Craike in the Diocese of Durham.
  
• Act books, administration  bonds, inventories, etc., 1571-1853 for the Palatine and Episcopal Consistory Court with the Peculiar of Craike in the Diocese of Durham.

Jurisdiction

Craike (also spelled Crayke) in the North Riding of Yorkshire was in the diocese of Durham until 1837 when it was transferred to the Archdeaconry of Cleveland in the diocese of York and freed from peculiar jurisdiction. Never inhibited.