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FamilySearch's online medieval wills

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Nathan Murphy

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Nov 14, 2017, 1:07:35 AM11/14/17
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Most image collections of wills from England I've encountered on the FamilySearch website cannot be viewed from home computers; however, I have come across the following open-access collections of pre-1500 wills (with earliest years extant):

-Peculiar Court of Dean and Chapter of Norwich (1291) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/625447?availability=Family%20History%20Library

-Archdeaconry Court of Norwich (1370) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/278818

-Consistory Court of Ely (1449; partially open-access) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/41418

-Archdeaconry Court of Norwich (1469) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/504379

-Peculiar Court of Southwell, Notts (1470) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/80381

Additions to this list are welcome.


Nathan

Tompkins, Matthew (Dr.)

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Nov 14, 2017, 2:37:46 AM11/14/17
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Thanks very much, Nathan - that's very useful.


Matt Tompkins

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Most image collections of wills from England I've encountered on the FamilySearch website cannot be viewed from home computers; however, I have come across the following open-access collections of pre-1500 wills (with earliest years extant):

-Peculiar Court of Dean and Chapter of Norwich (1291) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/625447?availability=Family%20History%20Library

-Archdeaconry Court of Norwich (1370) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/278818
FamilySearch Catalog: Probate records for the Episcopal Consistory Court, Archdeaconry of Norwich, 1370-1858 — FamilySearch.org<https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/278818>
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-Consistory Court of Ely (1449; partially open-access) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/41418
FamilySearch Catalog: Wills and administrations of the Diocese of Ely, 1449-1858 — FamilySearch.org<https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/41418>
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-Archdeaconry Court of Norwich (1469) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/504379

-Peculiar Court of Southwell, Notts (1470) https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/80381

Additions to this list are welcome.


Nathan

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Nathan Murphy

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Nov 16, 2017, 1:10:33 AM11/16/17
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On Monday, November 13, 2017 at 11:07:35 PM UTC-7, Nathan Murphy wrote:
> Most image collections of wills from England I've encountered on the FamilySearch website cannot be viewed from home computers; however, I have come across the following open-access collections ...

C16 updates, with thanks to Leslie Mahler for pointing out some of these. Why they're making some of these collections partially open-access is puzzling.

CORNWALL
Consistorial Court of Archdeaconry of Cornwall, 1579 (partially open-access), https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/329778

DORSET
Consistory Court of Bristol, Dorset Division, 1568 (partially open-access), https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/66809

DURHAM (also Northumberland, part of Cumberland)
Durham Diocese, 1526, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2365059
*Best to access these files through name index at North East Inheritance database: http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/data/advanced.php

HAMPSHIRE
Archdeaconry and Consistory courts of Winchester, abstracts, 1539, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2105106

HUNTINGDONSHIRE
Archdeaconry Court of Huntingdon, 1585 (original wills open-access), https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/283731

LONDON
All Hallows Barking, 1569, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/705086

OXFORDSHIRE
Archdeaconry and Consistory courts of Oxford, 1528 (partially open-access), https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/289461

The majority of FamilySearch's sixteenth-century England probate collections are under lock and key and must be viewed on family history centre computers.

Nathan

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Nov 16, 2017, 2:02:34 PM11/16/17
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The second collection in the list
is commonly called the Consistory Court of Norwich.


Leslie
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