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Return to the [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]] page.  
*Return to the [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]] page.


== Location of These Probate Records ==
== Probate Indexes of This Court ==


The London Metropolitan Archives & Library
First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find a will or administration (admon).<br>


40 Northampton Road
The&nbsp;Consistory&nbsp;Court of&nbsp;London probate records have to some extent been&nbsp;indexed&nbsp;with the following ones:


London EC1R 0HB
==== Online indexes  ====


ENGLAND&nbsp;  
The Metropolitan Archives and Library&nbsp;is currently compiling and posting online&nbsp;a&nbsp;will surname index covering wills and administrations from&nbsp;1363 to 1857. Currently, it&nbsp;is only a&nbsp;(partial) index for this probate court&nbsp;covering much of Middlesex County and is available [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/londonGenerations/ online].


Tel: (020) 7332 3820<br>Fax (020) 7833 9136
==== Printed and Published Indexes  ====


E-Mail: ask.lma@corpoflondon.gov.uk  
*A probate index for the Consistory&nbsp;Court of London from 1363 to 1700 has been compiled by the British Record Society in its extensive [http://www.britishrecordsociety.org/volumespublished-forpurchase.htm publications]&nbsp;(vols 89 and 98). These publications are likely available in most major United States (especially university libraries) and United Kingdom Archives and libraries as well as in&nbsp;The Family History [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=64094&disp=Index+to+testamentary+records+in+the+Arc%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Library].
*A&nbsp;comprehensive will&nbsp;and admon&nbsp;index to most of London's (including Greater L.) probate courts&nbsp;for the years covering&nbsp;1750-1858, is&nbsp;Dr David Wright's London Probate Index on CD and is&nbsp;on [http://www.davideastkent.canterhill.co.uk/lp-index.htm sale].&nbsp;He will perform&nbsp;"lookups" in his indexes for you for surnames covering from G-Z at a set fee.


Website is [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/scripts/htm_hl.pl?DB=col&STEMMER=en&WORDS=archives%20library&ALL=&ANY=&EXACTB=0&PHRASE=&EXACTP=0&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=Archives%20and%20Library&COLOUR=Red&STYLE=s&URL=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/#muscat_highlighter_first_match available]:
==== Original Handwritten Indexes  ====


Opening Times:&nbsp;Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9.30am - 4.45pm<br>Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am - 7.30pm
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ Calendars and Indexes]&nbsp;to&nbsp;Wills (1362 to 1858), and&nbsp;Index to probate registers (1514-1641), to this&nbsp;Probate court exist covering&nbsp;acts of Wills and Administrations (Admons). Calendars are a kind of index (of the first&nbsp;letter of each surname) to the&nbsp;probate records&nbsp;and admons (administrations). <br>


Saturday openings:&nbsp;9.30am - 4.45pm
The&nbsp;above calendars can be accessed by visiting&nbsp;The London Metropolitan Archives and Library. To view what precise probate records they hold before visiting [their archives], go to [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/results.aspx?tab=2&Page=1&ContainAllWords=St+John Access2Archives] and use their search engine for determining&nbsp;availability of records in The LMA.  


2009:
==== Microfilmed Indexes at the Family History Library<br> ====


&nbsp;January 10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May 9&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September 12 <br>January 24&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; June&nbsp;13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; September 26
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ Calendars and Indexes] of Wills and Admons (Administrations)&nbsp;to the Consistory Court fo the Bishop of London are available on microfilm at the Family History Library covering the years 1362-1857 and may be circulated to each of its satellite Family History [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp Centers].


February 14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; June 27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; October 10 <br>February 28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July 11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; October 24&nbsp;<br>March 14&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July 25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; November 28 <br>March 28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; August 8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;December 12 <br>April 25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;August 22&nbsp;
== Location of These Probate Records  ==


<br>
The London Metropolitan Archives &amp; Library


== Historical Background  ==
40 Northampton Road


Return to the [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]] page.
London EC1R 0HB


The Episcopal Consistory Court of the Bishop of London had jurisdiction over the whole diocese of London except the peculiars–including a concurrent jurisdiction with the smaller Archdeaconry courts of London and Middlesex, Colchester (Essex) and St Albans (Herts.). When a search of this courts’ probate records fails to provide the desired probate record, be sure to search the above Archdeaconry courts as well.
ENGLAND&nbsp;


<br>  
Tel: (020) 7332 3820<br>Fax (020) 7833 9136


== Starting Your Search in Indexes  ==
E-Mail: ask.lma@corpoflondon.gov.uk


1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.<br>2. Proceed then&nbsp;to the "Probate Records of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit The London Metropolitan Archives and Library,&nbsp;or,&nbsp;hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.<br>4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes (see the Family History Library's [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ cataloged entries] providing the microfilms so you can have them circulated to the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp center]&nbsp;near you for searching the wills). The information obtained from the index[es] will help you&nbsp; more quickly search the&nbsp;wills and admons which can also&nbsp;be circulated on microfilm via any&nbsp;family history .<br>
Website is [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/scripts/htm_hl.pl?DB=col&STEMMER=en&WORDS=archives%20library&ALL=&ANY=&EXACTB=0&PHRASE=&EXACTP=0&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=Archives%20and%20Library&COLOUR=Red&STYLE=s&URL=http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/#muscat_highlighter_first_match available]:


== Probate Indexes  ==
Opening Times:&nbsp;Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9.30am - 4.45pm<br>Tuesday and Thursday 9.30am - 7.30pm


The&nbsp;Consistory&nbsp;Court of&nbsp;London probate records have to some extent been&nbsp;indexed&nbsp;with the following ones:
Saturday openings:&nbsp;9.30am - 4.45pm


==== Online indexes  ====
Check website&nbsp;for specific&nbsp;saturdays to be open.


The Metropolitan Archives and Library&nbsp;is currently compiling and posting online&nbsp;a&nbsp;will surname index covering wills and administrations from&nbsp;1363 to 1857. Currently, it&nbsp;is only a&nbsp;(partial) index for this probate court&nbsp;covering much of Middlesex County and is available [http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/londonGenerations/ online].
=== Records Held in This Archive  ===


==== Printed and Published Indexes ====
*Calendar and Index of Wills 1362-1814
*Wills and administrations 1514-1640
*Registered copies of wills 1520-1857
*Inventories
*Vicar General Books - 1520- 1685
*Indexes - 1362-1857


*A probate index for the Consistory&nbsp;Court of London from 1363 to 1700 has been compiled by the British Record Society in its extensive [http://www.britishrecordsociety.org/volumespublished-forpurchase.htm publications]&nbsp;(vols 89 and 98). These publications are likely available in most major United States (especially university libraries) and United Kingdom Archives and libraries as well as in&nbsp;The Family History [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=64094&disp=Index+to+testamentary+records+in+the+Arc%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Library].
<br>
*A&nbsp;comprehensive will&nbsp;and admon&nbsp;index to most of London's (including Greater L.) probate courts&nbsp;for the years covering&nbsp;1750-1858, is&nbsp;Dr David Wright's London Probate Index on CD and is&nbsp;on [http://www.davideastkent.canterhill.co.uk/lp-index.htm sale].&nbsp;He will perform&nbsp;"lookups" in his indexes for you for surnames covering from G-Z at a set fee. <br>
 
==== Original Handwritten Indexes  ====
 
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ Calendars and Indexes]&nbsp;to&nbsp;Wills (1362 to 1858), and&nbsp;Index to probate registers (1514-1641), to this&nbsp;Probate court exist covering&nbsp;acts of Wills and Administrations (Admons). Calendars are a kind of index (of the first&nbsp;letter of each surname) to the&nbsp;probate records&nbsp;and admons (administrations). <br>
 
The&nbsp;above calendars can be accessed by visiting&nbsp;The London Metropolitan Archives and Library. To view what precise probate records they hold before visiting [their archives], go to [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/results.aspx?tab=2&Page=1&ContainAllWords=St+John Access2Archives] and use their search engine for determining&nbsp;availability of records in The LMA.
 
==== Microfilmed Indexes at the Family History Library<br>  ====
 
[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ Calendars and Indexes] of Wills and Admons (Administrations)&nbsp;to the Consistory Court fo the Bishop of London are available on microfilm at the Family History Library covering the years 1362-1857 and may be circulated to each of its satellite Family History [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp Centers].


== Searching for probates in this [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ court].  ==
== Searching for probates in this [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=263013&disp=Wills+and+administrations%2C+1362-1857++ court].  ==


CALENDAR AND&nbsp;INDEX OF WILLS vols 1-9
Search the following probate records in the order lsited below:


1362-1814
Registered Wills 1514-1857 Original wills, 1507-1546, 1552-1751 Calendars and index of wills, v. 1-2 1362-1858 Index to registers, 1514-1641 Registered Copy of Wills vols. 1-4 1514-1559 Calendar and Index of Wills vols 1-9


WILLS AND PROBATE ACTS&nbsp;
== Historical Background  ==


1514-1640&nbsp;
Return to the [[Middlesex Probate Records|Middlesex Probate Records]] page.


REGISTERED WILLS and ADMINISTRATIONS&nbsp;(ADMONS)  
The Episcopal Consistory Court of the Bishop of London had jurisdiction over the whole diocese of London except the peculiars–including a concurrent jurisdiction with the smaller Archdeaconry courts of London and Middlesex, Colchester (Essex) and St Albans (Herts.). When a search of this courts’ probate records fails to provide the desired probate record, be sure to search the above Archdeaconry courts as well.
 
1520-1857
 
WILLS AND ADMONS&nbsp; INDEX TO REGISTERS


1514-1640 vols 1-4
<br>


== Strategies, Tips, Other?  ==
== Strategies, Tips, Other?  ==
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See the above general countywide index online (see "online Indexes) or those available through the Family History Library's (see "Printed Indexes) many family history centers worldwide for an index to this court.  
See the above general countywide index online (see "online Indexes) or those available through the Family History Library's (see "Printed Indexes) many family history centers worldwide for an index to this court.  


<br>To view a list of parishes and their&nbsp;respective probate court jurisdiction, see the "Middlesex Parishes and Their Probate Jurisdictions" on the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Middlesex_Probate_Records main page] for Middlesex&nbsp;Probate Records.  
<br>To view a list of parishes and their&nbsp;respective probate court jurisdiction, see the "Middlesex Parishes and Their Probate Jurisdictions" on the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Middlesex_Probate_Records main page] for Middlesex&nbsp;Probate Records.  


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