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Hertfordshire Wills Index: 1415-1857 now
free to search on the National Wills index, plus copies available for ordering
online!
Details of over 27,630 individuals can now be searched for FREE on the National Wills Index on Origins.net.
This index seeks to embrace in one alphabetical sequence all the wills (both
original and registered copies), inventories, administration bonds, accounts and
other related documents which survive among the records of the Archdeaconries of
Huntingdon (Hitchin Division) and St Albans now held at Hertfordshire Archives
and Local Studies.
Coverage may be summarised as follows:- Archdeaconry of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division):Original wills (together with some inventories), 1557-1857 (Ref, HW); will registers, 1557-1843 (Ref, HR); inventories, 1568-1789 (Ref, AHH22 includes some administration bonds); administration bonds and accounts, 1609-1857 (Ref, AHH23).
- Archdeaconry of St Albans:Original wills, including administration bonds and inventories filed with them, 1518-1857 (Ref, AW); will registers, also including grants of administration, 1415-1857 (Ref, AR); inventories, 1518-1764 (Ref, A25); no original probate accounts are known to have survived for this archdeaconry.
Copies of the originals can be
ordered online for £10GBP. These are supplied digitally by Hertfordshire
Archives and Local Studies and delivered via a PDF to your email address.
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