Lancashire Probate Records: Difference between revisions

*The Court of Delegates was also a court of appeal for the provinces of Canterbury and York, including their peculiars, royal peculiars, and the Irish probate courts. This court is sometimes also referred to as the High Court of Delegates (records are held at The National archives); records are on [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=379246&disp=Records+of+the+Court+of+Arches%2C+1660%2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 microfilm] (from 1662-1837) and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=379246&disp=Records+of+the+Court+of+Arches%2C+1660%2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 microfiche] with an index, which are available at The Family History Library; ''The Genealogist'' has compiled an [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=14199&disp=The+Genealogist+%28England%29++ index] in vols. 11 and 12 covering the years from 1651-1857)

Before 1858, every town and parish in Lancashire was under the probate jurisdiction of a primary court and one or more secondary courts.  To see a list of places in Lancashire and the pre-1858 courts that had probate jurisdiction over them, click on a letter link:  

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