Court of the Peculiar of Aylesbury

England Bedfordshire Probate Records, Buckinghamshire Probate Records

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 the "Probate Records Held in This Archive" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court. Also see "Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library". 3. Contact or visit the Essex County 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
The original records may include indexes. No indexes are known to be published.

Records
Wills and administrations, 1624-1858 Microfilm of original manuscripts housed at the Principal Probate Registry, London and the Oxford District Probate Registry

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Manor Court of Aylesbury. Court Rolls and Deeds 1350-1721. Manor Courts can have probate records in their court papers. Microfilm of originals (handwritten) at Birmingham Reference Library. The following should be looked at: 

Jurisdiction
While technically the Court of the Peculiar of Aylesbury did not have any jurisdiction over Bedfordshire, some wills from the following Bedfordshire parishes have been found among its records:


 * Billington
 * Eggington
 * Heath and Reach
 * Leighton Buzzard
 * Stanbridge

The primary court with jurisdiction over these parishes was the Court of the Peculiar of Leighton Buzzard.