North American Wills Registered in London, 1611-1857
North American Wills Registered in London, 1611-1857

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780806317731

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"In England, until 1858, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) had jurisdiction over all wills submitted for probate on behalf of English citizens who were temporary or permanent inhabitants of North America. Altogether there are over 2,000 such wills among the one million wills registered in the PCC, and their existence has ensured that all persons mentioned in the wills have not only found a permanent place in historical records but have a provable link to English ancestry. Until now the establishment of such a link was usually possible, if at all, only by an arduous examination of the unindexed probate records or by a review of the records published in such books as Mr. Coldham?s own American Wills & Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1610-1857, published in 1989. Recently, however, The National Archives (TNA) in London published digitized copies of all PCC wills on their website, in theory making all previously hard-to-find information accessible at the touch of a button." --

An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Court of Probate, at Chester
An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Court of Probate, at Chester

Author: J. P. Earwaker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-15

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781333238636

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Excerpt from An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Court of Probate, at Chester: From A. D. 1545 to 1620 When the wills were removed from the Bishop's Registry in 1847, the Record Keeper was at the trouble to make an Index to them, SO as to enable any will to be the more readily found. This Index was not based on any of the Older 0nes,1 nor copied from them, but was an entirely independent one, being an Index to those wills only, which were then and are now preserved in the Probate Court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.