Court of the Peculiar of the Prebendal of Hurstbourne and Burbage

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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 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.

Online Indexes
Here are two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:


 * The Wiltshire County Record Office's online Will Index 1540-1858
 * Genuki provides a gateway to these 1000 abstract Wills

Indexes in The Family History Library
Index to Wills 1634-1799

Archive Location
Wiltshire and Swindon Archives

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Cocklebury Road

Chippenham

Wiltshire SN15 3QN

ENGLAND

Email: [mailto:archives@wiltshire.gov.uk archives@wiltshire.gov.uk]

Tel: 44 (0)1249 705500

Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527 Website

Probate Records of This Court Held in This Archive
Original Wills & Administrations & Inventories 1635-1856

Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library
Original wills, 1577, 1635-1780 Probate Records 1635-1815

Jurisdictions
While the Peculiar supposedly had jurisdiction in Hurstbourne and Burbage, it really covers only Burbage. According to Wills and their whereabouts by Anthony J. Camp, there are no wills for Hurstbourne kept in this court. Hurstbourne is in Hampshire.