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Step By Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.
2. Proceed to "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court.
3. Contact or visit the Hampshire 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. You can 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
Surviving wills and admons to The Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester have to a great extent been indexed with the following ones:
Online Indexes
Here is an online index from 1500's-1857. This is mostly complete listing of all wills for this time period, and can be very helpful in searching Hampshire probate records during this time period.
Printed and Published Indexes
Original handwritten indexes:
There is an index (manuscript) from 1500's to 1857 covering most wills in Hampshire.
Microfilmed indexes at the Family History Library:
The indexes as listed above are also available in the collection of The Family History Library and they are on microfilm and may be circulated to each of its satellite Family History Centers worldwide. These indexes pertain to the following probate records:
- Administrations 1540-1559
- Wills 1501-1859
- Consistory Court entry in the Family History Library Catalog or FHLC):
- wills 1501-1857
- admons 1560-1858
- wills are alpha-arranged by range of years 1541-1792.
In addition, the Family History Library has a more comprehensive microfilmed index of the Hampshire probate records which indexes the surnames (by first letter of surname only) available for the years from 1540 to 1857.
The Hampshire Record Office has a type manuscript index for the years 1506-1645 (see next section below).
Records
Archives Location
Hampshire Record Office
Archives and Local Studies
Sussex Street
Winchester
Hampshire SO23 8TH
tel 01962 846154, fax 01962 878681
Contact the Archives and Local Studies
Opening times:
Monday to Friday, 9am-7pm
Saturday, 9am-4pm
Archive Records
Add information about the manuscript, printed and digital records in this location.
Pobate Records of This Court Held in This Archive
Original Wills 1501-1857
Unclassified Wills 1398-1560 (if a search in these wills fails, then search both the Archdeaconry and the Consistory courts for the will)
Administrations (Admons) 1547-1857
Act Books 1587-1693
Inventories & Miscellaneous Probate Records 1552-1810
Registered Wills 1501-1758
Family History Library Records
Unclassified Wills 1398-1560 (if a search in these wills fails, then search both the Archdeaconry and the Consistory courts for the will)
Administrations (Admons) 1547-1857Act Books 1587-1693
Inventories & Miscellaneous Probate Records 1552-1810
Archdeaconry Court:
Peculiar Courts:
Jurisdictions
The Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester held jurisdiction over most but not necessarily all the parishes in Hampshire for wills. However, administrations (admons) were granted only through the Consistory Court (not the Archdeaconry Court). When a search of probate records in this jurisdiction fails to provide the desired probate record, be sure to search the Peculiar Courts if one is found under the name of the parish in which you want to search. Also search the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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