Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Ketton with Tixover

England Rutland  Rutland Probate Records

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Indexes
The Family History Library has Index to the wills and administrations proved and granted in the Archdeaconry Court of Leicester, 1660-1750 : and in the Peculiars of St. Margaret, Leicester, and Rothley ; and the Rutland Peculiars of Caldecott, Ketton and Tixover, and Liddington prior to 1821. Films can be viewed in the library or in a family history center.

Records
The original records for this court are in the Lincolnshire Archives Office. Further records are filed in the Leicestershire Record Office.

The Family History Library has the Wills and administrations, 1666-1677 (12 documents). The following records are listed in the library's catalog for Caldecote but the films include Ketton with Tixover.


 * Will abstracts, 1580-1821
 * Wills, administrations and inventiories, ca. 1720-1840
 * Probate records, 1574-1820

Jurisdiction
Includes the parishes Tixover and Ketton with the Geeston.