East Stoke

WILLS, ADMINISTRATIONS & INVENTORY'S

This index contains an extracted list of persons 'of East Stoke' who left wills, letters of administration or inventories to be found with the Probate Registry at Blandford Dorset, Archdeaconry Court of Dorset up to 1793. The names are extracted from indexes found in publications at the Dorset Record Office and elsewhere. Copies of these documents should be available from the Dorset Record Office. Also included are names of persons with wills proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, this comes from the PRO site National Archives Discovery Catalogue. The wills can be downloaded from this site for a small fee. To date there are more than 800,000 wills on this site.

Note: this is not a complete list of wills made by East Stoke residents. Wills may have been proved in places other than the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset or PCC, for example the Royal Peculiar of Sarum.   From 1858 all wills were indexed centrally and this index is widely available at Record Offices, Probate Registries and the LDS.

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