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Unless otherwise stated, original copies of Wills dated prior to 1858 are usually found in the appropriate Diocesan Record Office for the court where the Will was proved - for Derbyshire, this is the Lichfield Joint Record Office. Copies of Wills for which Probate was granted at the PCC (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) may be obtained via the DocumentsOnline website.
Registered copies of Wills dated after 1858 may be found at the Probate Department of The Principal Registry Family Division (Probate Search Room, First Avenue House, 42-49 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6NP), at local Registries, and sometimes on microfilm at County Record Offices. Further information on post-1858 Wills, and forms for obtaining copies by post may be found on the Government's "Court Service" Wills & Probate pages.
Abbreviations which may be used on this page are:-The following may also be of use in the study of Wills generally:-
(Ad) "Admon", or Letters of Administration. (I) Inventory (a list of the deceased's goods, and their value) (N) A Nuncupative Will is one declared by a legal representative, as being indicative
of the deceased's wishes, and will often refer to the Testator in the third person.(#) Indicates the Will is a 'duplicate' - that is, more than one person has submitted an
abstract from the same original Will.* An asterisk against a surname indicates the Executor(s) of the Will, or, in the case
of Administration (Ad), the Administrator(s)i/t/p "in the parish (of)". CELF Chapel en le Frith (Derbyshire) ECC Episcopal Consistory Court (Lichfield) HCC Hereford Consistory Court n.p. Notary Public R&R Rest and Residue (a common expression in Wills)
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KINGE LISTER LYNACRE TURNER WOOLHOUSE |
LYNACRE, George - of Plumbley, i/t/p Eckington, 30 Sep 1641.
Beneficiaries: wife Anne LYNACRE*; son George LYNACRE; son James LYNACRE; poor people of St Alkmund's, Derby; poor of Eckington; "dear and loving mother" Troth LYNACRE; sister Anne WOOLHOUSE. Witnesses: William TURNER, Ellen LISTER, Robert KINGE. Land: Closes in Eckington called the "Broad Flatts", the "Jenneywell", the two "Ashfields", the "Highfield", the "Newland Carr", the "Newland Meadow with the "wood ground thereto adjoining". Probate granted 15 Feb 1647 - PCC. |
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ANTLEY BIRKBECK CLARKE COOPER HOWSEDEN NEEDHAM REDFEARNE SITWELL WALKER |
SITWELL, George - of Eckington, co. Derby, yeoman, 12 Apr 1607.
Beneficiaries: Mr BIRKBECK, preacher; godson William WALKER son of Edward WALKER of Derby; servant Nicholas COOPER; Thomas REDFEARNE; brother-in-law John HOWSEDEN; his son John HOWSEDEN; Henry WALKER of Derby; son George SITWELL*, wife Mary SITWELL*. Supervisors: Thomas CLARKE of Chesterfield, and William WALKER of Derby. Witnesses: Thomas CLARKE, Henry WALKER, Edward NEEDHAM, Thomas REDFEARNE (x), Henry Henry ANTLEY (x). Probate granted 5 May 1607. |
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ALLEN CLIFFORDE CLOWES DAKYN DALBE DAYKIN DEVICK ETTER FITZHERBERT LAWE MOYNNE NEDHAM PLATT STUBBING SUTTON SWIFT WENSLIE WILMOTE WILSON WILSONN |
NEDHAM
(NEEDEHAM), Ottiwell - of Colley in co Derby, gent., 21 Dec 1570.
Beneficiaries and others: brother George NEDHAM; Richard WENSLIE; Richard NEDHAM; Henry NEDHAM; John CLOWES; father William NEDHAM; grandmother Elizabeth NEDHAM; father-in-law Anthony MOYNNE; mother Margaret NEDHAM; uncle Richard NEDHAM; uncle John DAKYN of Snitterton; Sir Ingram CLIFFORDE Kt and dame Anne his wife; sister Frances and Thurston PLATT her husband; sister Dorothy; sister Elizabeth SWIFT; Clement DEVICK; cousins Clemence DAYKIN, Clare DAYKIN, Katherine DAYKIN and Jane DAYKIN; godson and cousin Robert DAYKIN; aunt Dorothy wife of John DAYKIN; cousin William NEDHAM; Robert WILSON "once my servant"; Ottywell WILMOTE and Katherine his wife; John ALLEN my tenant and Ottywell his son. Executors: Richard NEDHAM, Henry NEDHAM, John DAYKIN, cousin Ottywell ALLYN, gent., cousin Robert FITZHERBERT of Tissington in co. Derby. Supervisors: Right Honorable the Earl of Shrewsbury, cousin Thomas SUTTON of Overhaddon, uncle Richard NEDHAM, Esq. Witnesses: John NEDHAM, Richard DALBE, Thomas LAWE, George STUBBING (x) and Isabell his wife, John ETTER, and Roger WILSONN. Probate granted 6 Jul 1571. |
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BALLERD BIRKBECK BROWNE CLIFTON DAND DARCY FRECHVILE GOUSTREY HEWITT HITCH MADIN MARSHALL NEWHAM OSBORNE RAMSDEN |
FRECHVILE, Peter - of Staveley in the co. of derby, knight, 16 Mar 1632.
Beneficiaries and others: John FRECHVILE*, Esq. only son; cousin and godson Raph FRECHVILE; Isabell "my well beloved wife"; "hospital and alms house lately built at Staveley Woodthorpe; "poor and impotent people" of Chesterfield, Eckington, Dronfield, Barlborough, Whittington Staveley and Clowne; St John's College Cambridge; Mr Robert HITCH late fellow of Trinity College; Mr Robert MARSHALL fellow of St John's College; executors of John BALLERD deceased; my grandmother Lady FRECHVILE, deceased; son-in-law Sir Edward OSBORNE Bt; godson Edward OSBORNE; godson and grandchild William RAMSDEN son and heir of Sir John RAMSDEN Kt; grandson John RAMSDEN; Roger NEWHAM clerk; servant John NEWHAM; servant Raph NEWHAM of Alvaston in co. Derby; servant Robert BROWNE; Mr Edward BIRKBECK, clerk, parson of Staveley; godson Peter BIRKBECK; all other household servants; cousin Rosamond OSBORNE, widow and her son Francis OSBORNE. Supervisors: brother-in-law Right Honorable Lord DARCY of Alton, and friend Sir Gervase CLIFTON Kt, and said Sir Edward OSBORNE. Witnesses: Edward BIRKBECK, Thomas DAND, Roger NEWHAM, Thomas BIRKBECK, John GOUSTREY, and Robert BROWNE. Lands and property: manors of Staveley and Staveley Woodthorpe ("lately purchased of William Earl of Newcastle, Henry HEWITT, gent. and Thomas MADIN, husbandman"), lands and tenements in Staveley, Staveley Woodthorpe, Staveley Netherthorpe, Nether Hanley, Middle Hanley, West Hanley, Eckington, Bramley, Apperknowle, Inkersell, "Hage Howbrooke", Barley, Cold Aston, Dronfield, Woodhouse, Stubley, Palterton, Stancliffe and Riley. Also lands in Barlborough, Killamarsh, Halthropp, Owswell, Whitwell and Clowne. Probate granted 29 May 1634. |
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ALSOPP BROWNE DAND DICKONS FRECHEVILLE MASON |
MASON, Robert - of Staveley Netherthorpe, co. Derby, husbandman, 2 Feb 1641.
Beneficiaries: loving wife Alice MASON*; son Peter MASON*; daughter DICKONS; second son Robert MASON; son-in-law Thomas DAND and daughter Dorothy his wife; daughters Margaret and Alice MASON; sisters Alice ALSOPP of Chesterfield and Grace MASON; son George MASON; poor in Staveley. Supervisor: Landlord Mr John FRECHEVILLE. Witnesses: Robert BROWNE and Peter MASON. Probate granted 5 Jul 1647. |
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DRAKE HEATHCOTT ROTHERAM STEPHENSON TRETON WUDDESWORTHE |
TRETON, John - of Eckington, Derbyshire, yeoman, 6th Aug 1586.
Beneficiaries: daughters Jane TRETON*, Ellin TRETON; Dorothie TRETON and Agnes TRETON; younger sons Richard TRETON and John TRETON; eldest son Henry TRETON; god children (unnamed); wife Alice TRETON. Supervisors: Edmond STEPHENSON, gent. and Thomas HEATHCOTT. Witnesses: Edward DRAKE, John ROTHERAM, and Henry WUDDESWORTHE. Probate granted 14 May 1588. |
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FRITH GARDINER MACHON PENNINGTON SHOOTER TREETON WHITE |
TREETON, Christopher - of Eckington co. Derby, yeoman, 30 Jun 1658.
Beneficiaries and others: William TREETON my brother; Anne TREETON and Easter TREETON daughters of my brother William TREETON; Timothy TREETON son of my brother John TREETON; Elizabeth TREETON daughter of my brother John TREETON; John FRITH youngest son of Richard FRITH* of Warsopp in the co. of Nottingham; Elizabeth TREETON and Mary TREETON daughters of Henry TREETON of Sheffield; my nephew Jonathan TREETON*; Ann FRITH, Katherine FRITH and Elizabeth FRITH daughters of the aforesaid Richard FRITH. Land and property: "house and a croft wherein one John WHITE now inhabits in Eckington aforesaid and one close of land meadow or pasture commonly called … Plats Meadow; "close of land meadow or pasture commonly called … Meadow on Whynney Close lying in Eckington … at a place called Foxbank"; three acres of meadow … "lying in a close called South Meadow in Eckington… as appeareth in the … Court Rolls" (of Eckington)". Supervisor: Mr Samuel GARDINER the Rector of Eckington. Witnesses: John PENNINGTON, Richard FRITH, William MACHON, Dorothy SHOOTER(x) Probate granted 27 Apr 1660. |
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FOLIAMBE GREAVES HOLME LEGGE METHAM STEVENSON THORPE TREETON VESSEY WATSON |
STEVENSON, Richard - of Ounston, in the co. of Derby, 14 May 1577.
Beneficiaries: Poor of Dronfield "half a hundred of herrings, and as much bread as could be made from a "strike" of good wheat"; sons Edmund and Christopher STEVENSON; daughter Margery HOLME wife of Christopher HOLME; daughter Alice wife of John TREETON; daughter Joan wife of Robert THORPE; daughter Jane wife of William GREAVES; daughter Elizabeth wife of William VESSEY; brother John STEVENSON, clerk; Agnes TREETON daughter of John TREETON; Elizabeth HOLME the daughter of Christopher HOLME. Land and property: "tan yard and leather yard"; "Mansion House wherein I now dwell"; "a messuage lying in the parish of Brampton lately purchased of Roger FOLIAMBE" Witnesses; John METHAM, Rowland WATSON, Richard STEVENSON, and Robert LEGGE with others. Probate granted 28 Jan 1588. |
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