Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Barnstable

England Devon  Devonshire Probate Records

The following article is about probate records in the county of Devon. For an explanation of probate records in England, click here.

Indexes
A few individuals compiled collections and indexes before the records were destroyed. References to them are in Devonshire Probate Records.

Records
Virtually all records for this court were destroyed in 1942, but don't give up until you have searched the manuscript collections and the all other possible courts. These include:


 * Court of the Bishop of Exeter (Episcopal Consistory)
 * Episcopal Principal Registry of Exeter
 * Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Copies of some post-1796 probates may have been deposited in the Estate Duty Registers.

Jurisdictions
This court has jurisdiction over most of the northern part of Devonshire. All of these records that were deposited in the Probate Registry at Exeter were destroyed in 1942.