Antigua and Barbuda Probate Records

Antigua and Barbuda   Probate Records

Proved in Delaware
Richard Oliver of Antigua received a bequest in the will of Baldwin Johnson, of Appo. Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, dated 1720, and proved 1721 in Delaware, see:


 * The Historical Research Committee of the Colonial Dames of Delaware. A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County 1682-1800. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1911. Digital version at Family History Archives. [See pp. 23-24.]

Proved in London
At least 275 residents of Antigua sent their wills to London to be proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC).

Oliver abstracted some wills and administrations proved in the PCC in Volume 3 of:


 * Oliver, Vere Langford. The History of the Island of Antigua: One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time. 3 vols. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1894-1899. ; digital version at Internet Archive [See pp. 401-405, 458-460.]