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Access to our Wills and Testaments including access to our famous Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) Wills, giving you access to the original Will Record Images, and a great insight into your relatives history.

Until the Court of Probate Act in 1857, probate was granted by ecclesiastical courts of England and Wales. The PCC was one of the largest of these courts and, as such, heard cases from relatively wealthy individuals, mostly from the south of the UK.

The records are copies off registered wills, which were written into volumes by the clerks at the church courts, and many earlier records are in Latin.

This dataset covers the years 1384 to 1858 and is an on-going project for us, with 474 years worth of wills currently online and over 1,010,000 records.

Bristol, Edinburgh and a variety of Yorkshire volumes have also been added to our will indexes, with more to follow soon.

Wills are a valuable source of genealogical information. They can give details of family members, places of residence and burial, as well as revealing details about their possessions.

We also have various Will Indexes which cover most areas of the country

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America

1626-1836 America, New York Calendar of Wills (Index)

1682-1800 America, Delaware New Castle County Wills (Index)

1733-1744 America, Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol.VIII (Index)

Berkshire

Berkshire Wills and Administrations 1508 - 1652 (Index)

Cheshire

Chester Wills 1545-1620 (Index)

Chester Wills 1681-1700 (Index)

Chester Wills 1701-1720 (Index)

Chester Wills 1721-1740 (Index)

Lancashire & Cheshire Funeral Certificates 1600-1678 (Index)

Devon

Devonshire Wills 1559-1799 (Index)

Dorset

Dorset Wills 1568 - 1799 (Index)

Index of Dorset Wills 1500-1799 (Index)

Gloucestershire

Bristol Wills 1572-1792 (Index)

Gloucestershire Wills 1660 - 1800 (Index)

Huntingdonshire

1479-1652 Huntingdon Wills (Index)

Irish

Irish Wills 1536 - 1810 (Index)

Kent

Genealogical Abstracts of Wills, Register 'Wootton' 1658 (Index)

Kent Records Vol.III - A Calendar of Wills (Index)

Lancashire

Lancashire & Cheshire Funeral Certificates 1600-1678 (Index)

Lancashire and Cheshire Wills 1301-1752 (Index)

Lancashire and Cheshire Wills 1660-1680 (Index)

Lancashire and Cheshire Wills 1681-1700 (Index)

Lancashire Wills 1621-1650 (Index)

Lancashire Wills 1681-1748 (Index)

Lancashire Wills 1748-1792 (Index)

Lancashire Wills proved at Richmond 1457-1680 (Index)

Lancaster Wills 1793-1812 (Index)

Leicestershire

Leicestershire Wills 1495 (Index)

Leicestershire Wills 1660 (Index)

Lincolnshire

Lincoln Wills 1540 - 1659 (Index)

London

London Wills 1258-1358 (Index)

London Wills 1358-1688 (Index)

National

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index 1383-1558 (Index)

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index 1558-1583 (Index)

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index 1657-1660 (Index)

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire and Rutland Calendar of Wills 1510-1652 (Index)

Oxfordshire

Oxford Wills 1436 - 1814 (Index)

PCC Wills Index and Images

Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers Covering dates 1384-1858.

Scottish

Edinburgh Wills 1601 - 1700 (Index)

Staffordshire

Lichfield Wills 1516-1652 (Index)

Suffolk

Suffolk, Bury, Calendar of Prereformation Wills (Index)

Suffolk, Calendar of Wills 1383-1604 (Index)

Surrey

Surrey wills (Index)

Surrey Wills 1484-1490 (Index)

Sussex

Chichester Calendar of Wills 1482-1800 (Index)

Wills & Testaments

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire Wills 1451 - 1600 (Index)

Worcestershire Wills 1601 - 1652 (Index)

Yorkshire

Wills in the York Registry, 1603-1611 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1389 - 1514 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1514 - 1553 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1554 - 1568 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1568 - 1585 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1585 - 1594 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1594 - 1602 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1612 - 1619 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1620 - 1627 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1627 - 1636 (Index)

Yorks Wills 1636 - 1652 (Index)

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