Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Dean of Hereford

England Herefordshire Probate Records, Breconshire Probate Records

Step By Step
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 Herefordshire 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 in The Family History Library
Probate indexes and abstracts, 1670-1858

Archive Locations
Herefordshire Archive Service

Herefordshire Record Office

Harold Street

HEREFORD HR1 2QX

England

Tel: 44 (0)1432 260750

Fax: 44 (0)1432 260066

E-mail: [mailto:archives@herefordshire.gov.uk archives@herefordshire.gov.uk]

Their Website

Probate Records of This Court Held in This Archive
Original Wills 1442-1836

Registered Wills1633-1858

Administrations &amp; Inventories 1662-1735/6

Act Books 1587-1858

Acts of Office 1407-1824

Probate Records of This Court Held in The Family History Library
Registered Wills 1649-1858

Death Duty Register for Abstracts of Administrations and Probates of Wills 1796-1811

Probate Indexes &amp; Abstracts 1670-1858

Jurisdictions
This court held jurisdiction over the following parishes:


 * Allensmore
 * Blakemore
 * Breinton
 * Brockhampton
 * Canon Pyon
 * Clehonger
 * Dewsall
 * Dinedor
 * Eaton Bishop
 * Hampton Bishop
 * Holmer
 * Huntington
 * Kingstone
 * Madley
 * Mardon
 * Moreton Jeffreys
 * Norton Cannon
 * Pipe
 * Preton upon Wye
 * Preston Wynne
 * Putley
 * Thruxton
 * Tyberton
 * Withington
 * Woolhope