Difference between revisions of "Court of the Peculiar of the Lord Wardon of Savernake Forest"
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Revision as of 13:48, 9 December 2009
Return to the Wiltshire Probate Records page.
Contents
Step By Step [edit | edit source]
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.
2. Proceed to the "Probate Records of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.
3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.
4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records; then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the original wills and admons also on microfilm via any centers near you.
Indexes[edit | edit source]
Online Indexes[edit | edit source]
- The Wiltshire County Record Office's online Will Index 1540-1858
- Genuki provides a gateway to 1000 abstract Wills
Indexes in The Family History Library[edit | edit source]
The Records[edit | edit source]
Archive Location[edit | edit source]
Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Cocklebury Road
Chippenham
Wiltshire SN15 3QN
ENGLAND
Email: archives@wiltshire.gov.uk
Tel: 44 (0)1249 705500
Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527
Probate Records of This Court Held in This Archive[edit | edit source]
Original Wills & Administrations & Inventories 1584; 1617-1829
Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library[edit | edit source]
Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]
The parishes of Great and Little Bedwyn in the Court of the Peculiar of the Lord Warden of Savernake Forest were inhibited triennially by the Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral. The parish of Collingbourne Ducis in the Court of the Peculiar of the Lord Warden of Savernake Forest was inhibited triennially by the Court of the Bishop of Salisbury.
