Herefordshire Wills Collections
This page provides details of compilations of Herefordshire Probate Records (Wills),
either partial abstracts or indexes, online and in printed collections. The following are listed
in reverse order of their creation, or my discovery.
- The Longtown Historical Society Archive
has abstracts of over 1,000 wills from 1660-1854 for the former hundred of Ewyas Lacy,
including the parishes of Clodock (with the chapelries of Craswall, Llanveynoe,
Longtown and Newton), Cusop, Llancillo, Michaelchurch Eskley, Rowlestone, St
Margarets and Walterstone. Most of the area was within the Welsh Diocese of St
David until 1852, and copies of the original Wills may be obtained from
the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
[Information provided by Alan Stewart, 24 Jun 2007]
- Rob Burns invites submission of complete transcriptions of Wills for
his countrywide site 'Wills for All'.
-
DocumentsOnline, the National Archives (Public Record Office) collection of
digitised images of public records has all Wills
proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) available for download as .PDF files.
Generally these will be for the more wealthy testators holding land or property in more
than one county; in May 2003 there were 4,121 Wills of Testators resident in
Herefordshire listed.
- There are many abstracts of Hereford Court Wills in the "Montgomeryshire
Collections" (the Journals of the Powysland Club) compiled around
the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries. Specifically, Volume 19 has an index of all
Hereford Probates for Montgomeryshire parishes, plus a few for the borders
with England, mainly of testators living on the Shropshire/Monmouthshire borders.
Subsequent volumes, at least to Volume 27 contain selected abstracts of these wills.
Thanks to
for this information, and see also
The
Montgomeryshire Collections online for other selected items which may be
of interest in the Journals.
- Parry, Lieut-Colonel G.S. - Genealogical Abstracts of Parry Wills,
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury down to 1810 with the
Administrations for the same period. Published by George Sherwood.
Thanks to
for this reference.
- Barbados records, wills and administrations,
3 vols: 1639-1680, 1681-1700 and 1701-1725, compiled and edited by
Joanne McRee Sanders. Published Houston, Texas: Sanders Historical
Publications, c1979-[c1981]
Includes some mentioning relatives in Herefordshire. Thanks to
Leslie Mahler for this information.
- Jones, Nansi C. Archdeaconry of Brecon probate records /
Vol.1: Pre-1660. Published by the National Library of Wales,
ISBN: 0907158390.
- Hereford (Diocese. Bishop), Calendar of probate and
administration acts 1407-1541 and abstracts of wills 1541-1581 in the court
books of the Bishop of Hereford / edited by M.A. Faraday and E.J.L. Cole.
Published by the British Record Society. 1989. ISBN: 0901505242.
- Herefordshire Probate Records,
a collection of abstracts begun by Rosemary Lockie in October 2000.
- An index to Probate Records 1700-1858 has been
compiled by Eleanor Harris. This index is not online,
but is searchable for a fee - details on Eleanor's page
on
Herefordshire Family History Research.
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