England Every Name Probate Indexes

England England Probate Records

= National =

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

 * 1387-1439 - Furnivall, The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London, A.D. 1387-1439, with a Priest's of 1454. Online.
 * 1620-1624 - Matthews and Matthews, Abstracts of probates and sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-4..
 * 1630-1655 - Probate Act Abstracts 1630-1655, 8 vols.
 * 1630 - Morrison, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Register 'Scroope' (1630)..

Bank of England

 * Bank of England Will Extracts Index 1717-1845

= Bedfordshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Buckinghamshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
 * Peck, Abstracts of Buckinghamshire Wills 1601-1652 at Probate Registry, Lincoln, England [Consistory Court of Lincoln]
 * Elvey, The Courts of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1483-1523

= Cornwall =


 * Orme, Cornish Wills, 1342-1540

= Dorset =


 * Abstracts of Wills of Dorset Folk from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 7 vols.

= Essex =

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

 * 1500s - Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury..

Local Courts

 * 1500s - Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Yeomen: Preserved in the Essex Record Office..
 * 1558-1603 - Emmison, Essex Wills 1558-1603, 7 vols..

= Gloucestershire =

Mahler

= Hampshire =


 * Hampshire Will Extracts: Extracted from the Consistory Court of Winchester [1492-1652] and the Archdeaconry Court of Winchester [1501-1653]
 * Willis, Winchester Guardianships after 1700 from Diocesan Records [Consistory Court of Winchester 1700-1790]
 * Pedgely, An Index of Personal Names in Isle of Wight Probate Records, 1378-1600 [records from Hampshire Record Office and some from the National Archives]

= Herefordshire =


 * 1407-1581 - Faraday and Cole, Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1541 and Abstracts of Wills 1541-1581 in the Court Books of the Bishop of Hereford.
 * 1407-1581 - Faraday, Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1550 in the Consistory Court of the Bishops of Hereford: With an Appendix of Abstracts of Register Copy Wills 1552-1581.

= Hertfordshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Huntingdonshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Kent =


 * de Launay, The Weald of East Kent: Will Abstracts from the Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Kent, Volumes 21-50 (KAO: PRC 17), Index of Will Abstracts [1536-1597]

= Leicestershire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
 * Abstracts of Proven Wills Formerly Kept at the Leicester District Probate Registry, 1563-1802, with Some Missing Years [Archdeaconry Court of Leicester].

= Lincolnshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.
 * Maddison, Lincolnshire Wills [1500-1617], 2 vols.
 * Baker, Wills Beneficiary Index [Lincolnshire 1383-1900], 9 fiche

= London =

Commissary Court

 * 1558-1603 - Emmison, The Bishop of London's Commissary Court 1558-1603, 5 vols..

Mahler

= Northamptonshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Oxfordshire =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Rutland =


 * Gibbons, Early Lincoln Wills: An Abstract of All the Wills &amp; Administrations Recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, Comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester and Hertford, 1280-1547.

= Somerset =


 * Brown, Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, Etc., 6 vols.
 * Moger and Webb, Somerset Wills II
 * Rawlins, Somerset Wills from Exeter
 * Weaver, Somerset Medieval Wills [1383-1558], 3 vols.
 * Weaver, Wells Wills: Arranged in Parishes, and Annotated online

= Suffolk =


 * Suffolk Probate Index (Testators and Beneficiaries) 1847-1857

= Surrey =


 * Archdeaconry Court of Surrey 1470-1856
 * Commissary Court of Surrey 1470-1856

= Sussex =


 * Sussex Wills (Testators, Beneficiaries, Witnesses)

= Wiltshire =


 * Wilson and Trace, Wiltshire Wills Beneficiaries Index, 1800-1858 [includes 14 peculiar courts], 2 CDs

= Yorkshire =


 * North Country PCC Abstracts 1383-1558
 * North Country PCC Abstracts 1558-1604
 * Raine, Raine, and Clay, Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc., of the Province of York, from the Year MCCC Downwards [1316-1550], 12 vols.
 * Clay, Abstracts of Yorkshire Wills in the Time of the Commonwealth: At Somerset House, London, Chiefly Illustrative of Sir William Dugdale’s Visitation of Yorkshire in 1665-6