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Sussex wills
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Norfolkman
2018-07-05 10:52:27 UTC
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Where is the best place to find online Sussex wills (UK) I need 16th & 17th
century ones. Ancestry doesn't seem to have much for this county.

Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy, which
is free of all the porn!
S Viemeister
2018-07-05 11:30:29 UTC
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Post by Norfolkman
Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy,
which is free of all the porn!
I only see the porn if someone is foolish enough to respond to it.
Filters are wonderful things.
John Hill
2018-07-05 13:11:15 UTC
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Post by Norfolkman
Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy,
which is free of all the porn!
Is it still going on, then? My kill file fiters seem to be working
pretty effectively, then!
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broughps
2018-07-05 13:59:38 UTC
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Post by John Hill
Post by Norfolkman
Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy,
which is free of all the porn!
Is it still going on, then? My kill file fiters seem to be working
pretty effectively, then!
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Please reply to yclept at outlook dot com.
Yes unfortunately it's still going on.

Broughps
Charles Ellson
2018-07-05 23:00:53 UTC
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:52:27 +0100, "Norfolkman"
Post by Norfolkman
Where is the best place to find online Sussex wills (UK) I need 16th & 17th
century ones. Ancestry doesn't seem to have much for this county.
Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy, which
is free of all the porn!
They weren't classified by county rather than by religious boundaries
and have never been a UK matter, remaining under the three separate
legal jurisdictions in the UK (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland).
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sussex_Probate_Records
gives some information and links regarding wills of a defunct in
Sussex.
Ancestry has indexing and images of Prerogative Court of Canterbury
wills in the National Archives series PROB 11; if their indexing is
complete (these seem to be a recent addition) then probably either
there wasn't a will or the deceased might have had possessions within
the scope of the Prerogative Court of York :-
https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/holdings/guides/research-guides/probate-courts/
Norfolkman
2018-07-06 09:56:23 UTC
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Thank you!


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On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 11:52:27 +0100, "Norfolkman"
Post by Norfolkman
Where is the best place to find online Sussex wills (UK) I need 16th & 17th
century ones. Ancestry doesn't seem to have much for this county.
Just as an aside, is there another serious newsgroup for UK genealogy, which
is free of all the porn!
They weren't classified by county rather than by religious boundaries
and have never been a UK matter, remaining under the three separate
legal jurisdictions in the UK (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland).
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sussex_Probate_Records
gives some information and links regarding wills of a defunct in
Sussex.
Ancestry has indexing and images of Prerogative Court of Canterbury
wills in the National Archives series PROB 11; if their indexing is
complete (these seem to be a recent addition) then probably either
there wasn't a will or the deceased might have had possessions within
the scope of the Prerogative Court of York :-
https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/holdings/guides/research-guides/probate-courts/
Richard Smith
2018-07-06 12:55:57 UTC
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Post by Charles Ellson
They weren't classified by county rather than by religious boundaries
and have never been a UK matter, remaining under the three separate
legal jurisdictions in the UK (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern
Ireland).
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sussex_Probate_Records
gives some information and links regarding wills of a defunct in
Sussex.
Ancestry has indexing and images of Prerogative Court of Canterbury
wills in the National Archives series PROB 11; if their indexing is
complete (these seem to be a recent addition) then probably either
there wasn't a will or the deceased might have had possessions within
the scope of the Prerogative Court of York :-
https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/holdings/guides/research-guides/probate-courts/
Only a small proportion of wills were proved in the two prerogative
courts. Most wills were proved in the consistory court for the diocese
or the archdeacon's court for the appropriate archdeaconry. Findmypast
has an index of the Consistory Court of Chichester, covering the 16th
and 17th centuries. I'd start by looking there.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/sussex-chichester-consistory-court-wills-index-1482-1800

There's a printed calendar of wills proved in the Archdeaconry Court of
Lewes (covering East Sussex) for 1541-1659, together with a handful of
other more obscure jurisdictions in the county:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067288660;view=1up;seq=7

I can't immediately find anything similar for the Archdeaconry Court of
Chichester.

Richard

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