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A growing and unique set of indexes for pre-1858
English wills and probate documents.

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Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index 1700-1807 over 5,000 names

British Record Society Probate Collection 1320-1858 over 2.3 million names

Cheltenham Probate Abstracts 1660-1740 over 530 abstracts

Gloucester Wills Index 1801-1858 over 14,190 names

Hertfordshire Wills Index 1415-1857 over 27,600 names

Kent Probate Indexes 1440-1857 over 55,800 wills & inventories ADDITIONAL RECORDS!

Oxfordshire Wills Index 1516-1857 over 56,700 names

Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1688-1858 over 263,800 names

Surrey & South London Will Abstracts 1470-1858 over 562,700 names

York Medieval Probate Index 1267-1500 over 10,000 wills

York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883 over 25,000 wills

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