WILLS
Information
Given.
Testamentary
Authority before 1857.
Consistorial
Wills and Administrations.
Prerogative
Wills and Administrations.
Prerogative
Wills: Betham Abstracts.
Testamentary
Authority after 1857.
Calendars
of Wills and Administrations.
Abstracts and Transcripts.
Will Abstracts:
Inland Revenue Records.
Will Abstracts:
Land Commission Records.
Wills in
the Registry of Deeds.
Will Abstracts
in the Genealogical Office.
Will Abstracts
and Transcripts: Other Sources.
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Will Abstracts and Transcripts
As well as the original Consistorial and Prerogative wills and grants, and the transcripts made of them in the Will and Grant Books, a wide number of other sources exist, particularly for material before 1857. The most important of these is the collection of the National Archives itself, gathered after 1922 in an attempt to replace some at least of what had been lost. As well as original wills from private legal records and individual families, this ever-expanding collection also includes pre-1922 researchers' abstracts and transcripts. It is covered by a card index in the reading room, which also gives details of those wills and grants in the surviving pre-1857 Will and Grant Books. Separate card indexes cover the Thrift, Jennings and Crossley collections of abstracts, and the records of Charitable Donations and Bequests. The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has made similar efforts, and the copies it holds are indexed in the Pre-1858 Wills Index, part of the Subject Index in the Public Search Room.
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