England Every Name Probate Indexes

England England Probate Records

National

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

• 1387-1439 - Furnivall, The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London, A.D. 1387-1439, with a Priest's of 1454. Online.
• 1620-1624 - Matthews and Matthews, Abstracts of probates and sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-4. FHL Book 942 P2ce.
• 1630-1655 - Probate Act Abstracts 1630-1655, 8 vols.
• 1630 - Morrison, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Register 'Scroope' (1630). FHL Collection.

Bank of England

• Bank of England Will Extracts Index 1717-1845

Bedfordshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Buckinghamshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
• Peck, Abstracts of Buckinghamshire Wills 1601-1652 at Probate Registry, Lincoln, England [Consistory Court of Lincoln]
• Elvey, The Courts of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1483-1523

Cornwall

• Orme, Cornish Wills, 1342-1540

Dorset

• Abstracts of Wills of Dorset Folk from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 7 vols.

Essex

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

• 1500s - Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. FHL Book 942.67 B4e no. 71.

Local Courts

• 1500s - Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Yeomen: Preserved in the Essex Record Office. FHL Book 942.67 B4e no. 75.
• 1558-1603 - Emmison, Essex Wills 1558-1603, 7 vols. FHL Books 942.67 P2e v. 1-7.

Gloucestershire

Mahler

Hampshire

• Hampshire Will Extracts: Extracted from the Consistory Court of Winchester [1492-1652] and the Archdeaconry Court of Winchester [1501-1653]
• Willis, Winchester Guardianships after 1700 from Diocesan Records [Consistory Court of Winchester 1700-1790]
• Pedgely, An Index of Personal Names in Isle of Wight Probate Records, 1378-1600 [records from Hampshire Record Office and some from the National Archives]

Herefordshire

• 1407-1581 - Faraday and Cole, Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1541 and Abstracts of Wills 1541-1581 in the Court Books of the Bishop of Hereford.
• 1407-1581 - Faraday, Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1550 in the Consistory Court of the Bishops of Hereford: With an Appendix of Abstracts of Register Copy Wills 1552-1581.

Hertfordshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Huntingdonshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Kent

• de Launay, The Weald of East Kent: Will Abstracts from the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Kent, Volumes 21-50 (KAO: PRC 17), Index of Will Abstracts [1536-1597]

Leicestershire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
• Abstracts of Proven Wills Formerly Kept at the Leicester District Probate Registry, 1563-1802, with Some Missing Years [Archdeaconry Court of Leicester].

Lincolnshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
• Maddison, Lincolnshire Wills [1500-1617], 2 vols.
• Baker, Wills Beneficiary Index [Lincolnshire 1383-1900], 9 fiche

London

Commissary Court

• 1558-1603 - Emmison, The Bishop of London's Commissary Court 1558-1603, 5 vols. FHL Books 942.67 P2e v. 8-12.

Mahler

Northamptonshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Oxfordshire

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Rutland

• Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills & Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

Somerset

• Brown, Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc., 6 vols.
• Moger and Webb, Somerset Wills II
• Rawlins, Somerset Wills from Exeter
• Weaver, Somerset Medieval Wills [1383-1558], 3 vols.
• Weaver, Wells Wills: Arranged in Parishes, and Annotated online

Suffolk

• Suffolk Probate Index (Testators and Beneficiaries) 1847-1857

Surrey

• Archdeaconry Court of Surrey 1470-1856
• Commissary Court of Surrey 1470-1856

Sussex

• Sussex Wills (Testators, Beneficiaries, Witnesses)

Wiltshire

• Wilson and Trace, Wiltshire Wills Beneficiaries Index, 1800-1858 [includes 14 peculiar courts], 2 CDs

Yorkshire

• North Country PCC Abstracts 1383-1558
• North Country PCC Abstracts 1558-1604
• Raine, Raine, and Clay, Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc., of the Province of York, from the Year MCCC Downwards [1316-1550], 12 vols.
• Clay, Abstracts of Yorkshire Wills in the Time of the Commonwealth: At Somerset House, London, Chiefly Illustrative of Sir William Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6