Ireland Probate Records: Difference between revisions

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*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Places/Europe/Ireland/Default.aspx?category=36 Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857 (five volumes); Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810; A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills. ] ($)  
*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Places/Europe/Ireland/Default.aspx?category=36 Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857 (five volumes); Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810; A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills. ] ($)  
*[http://www.findmypast.com/articles/world-records/full-list-of-the-irish-family-history-records/life-events-birth-marriage-death/index-of-irish-wills-1484-1858?ukwid=1085100&sourceID=240&utm_source=Google+FMP-US_CPC&utm_medium=SEM_CPC&utm_campaign=us+-+ie+specialist&bsop_brand=FMP-US&ns_mchannel=SEM_CPC&ns_source=Google+UK&ns_linkname=+irish+wills&utm_term=+irish+wills&ns_fee=0.30&gclid=CLiVstmlkLQCFcaDQgodsDEAkg Index of Irish Wills, 1484-1858. ]
*[http://www.findmypast.com/articles/world-records/full-list-of-the-irish-family-history-records/life-events-birth-marriage-death/index-of-irish-wills-1484-1858?ukwid=1085100&sourceID=240&utm_source=Google+FMP-US_CPC&utm_medium=SEM_CPC&utm_campaign=us+-+ie+specialist&bsop_brand=FMP-US&ns_mchannel=SEM_CPC&ns_source=Google+UK&ns_linkname=+irish+wills&utm_term=+irish+wills&ns_fee=0.30&gclid=CLiVstmlkLQCFcaDQgodsDEAkg Index of Irish Wills, 1484-1858. ]
*[http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/wills-testamentary-records Will calendar, 1922-1982] and [http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Will-calendar-search-guide.pdf Instructions] for searching the online will calendars; 
*[http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/wills-testamentary-records Will calendar, 1922-1982] and [http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Will-calendar-search-guide.pdf Instructions] for searching the online will calendars
*[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/betham-genealogical-abstracts Betham Genealogical Abstracts] - abstracts of genealogical records collected by Sir William Betham. Useful substitute to records lost in the 1922 Public Record Office fire in Dublin.
*[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/crossle-genealogical-abstracts Crossle Genealogical Abstracts] - abstracts of genealogical records collected by Dr. Francis Crossle
*[https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/thrift-genealogical-abstracts Thrift Genealogical Abstracts] - abstracts of genealogical records collected by Gertrude Thrift. Records include wills, parish registers, freeman lists, and pedigree charts. Records date as far back as the 16th century.
 
Some types of Irish probate documents are:  
Some types of Irish probate documents are:  


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*'''Grant or act book'''s, which provide a day by day account of all grants issued in a probate court including the records of grants of probate and included administrations, marriage licenses, faculty of notary public, letters of tutelage and acquittance, commissions and some decrees. The grant books for Ireland dated from 1593 1858, but were mostly destroyed by the fire in the Public Record Office in 1922. The surviving Grant Books are for the years 1684-1688, 1748-1751 and 1839.
*'''Grant or act book'''s, which provide a day by day account of all grants issued in a probate court including the records of grants of probate and included administrations, marriage licenses, faculty of notary public, letters of tutelage and acquittance, commissions and some decrees. The grant books for Ireland dated from 1593 1858, but were mostly destroyed by the fire in the Public Record Office in 1922. The surviving Grant Books are for the years 1684-1688, 1748-1751 and 1839.


For a discussion of probate documents and their availability, see Rosemary Ffolliott and Eileen O'Byrne, "Wills and Administrations" in ''Irish Genealogy: A Record Finder'', edited by Donal F. Begley. (Family History Library {{FHL|941.5 D27i|disp=book 941.5 D27i.)}}  
For a discussion of probate documents and their availability, see Rosemary Ffolliott and Eileen O'Byrne, "Wills and Administrations" in ''Irish Genealogy: A Record Finder'', edited by Donal F. Begley. (Family History Library {{FHL|941.5 D27i|disp=book 941.5 D27i.)}}


== Post-1857 Probate Jurisdictions; ==
== Post-1857 Probate Jurisdictions; ==
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