Peculiar Court of the Manor of Bishop's Ichington, Chadshunt and Gaydon

Step By Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.

2. Proceed then to "Records" (see below) to determine what probate records exist for this court.

3. Contact or visit the Lichfield Record Office (see address below), to hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf, citing information obtained from the indexes (see next heading). Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.

4. The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you.

Indexes
Surviving wills and admons to the Peculiar Court of the Manors Bishop's Ichington, with Chadshunt, and Gaydon have to some extent been indexed with the following ones:

Online Indexes
1521-1850 Dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry Wills and Probate at Findmypast (£). Includes index by name and residence that links to images of the actual records.

Printed and Published Indexes
The British Record Society's Index Library published a calendar for earlier years up to 1790 in, which may be accessed at many major archives in the United Kingdom, such as The National Archives, The British Library, etc.

The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you:

Archives Location
The original records are deposited at:

Lichfield Record Office (formerly Lichfield Joint Record Office) The Friary' Lichfield Staffs WS13 6QG England Telephone: U.K. 01543 510720 Overseas: (+44) 1543 510720

Obtaining a copy of a probate record:

Archive Records
You may visit the Lichfield Record Office or contact their research service and request a copy of a probate record (include an index reference in your request).

Original Wills, Administrations (admons) &amp; Inventories 1553-1858

Original Wills &amp; Administrations (Admons) 1701-1858 (Bishop's Ichington, Chadshunt &amp; Gaydon)

FamilySearch Library Records
The indexes and original records have been digitized and are available at a FamilySearch centre or a FamilySearch affiliate library near you:
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Jurisdiction
This peculiar court held jurisdiction over the parishes of Bishop's Ichington, with Chadshunt and Gaydon.

During the Commonwealth Interregnum from 1653 to 1660, the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the form of a civil court, had sole probate or testmentary jurisdiction over all of England and Wales.

The Court of the Peculiar of Bishop's Ichington, with Chadshunt,and Gaydon held jurisdiction over each one of these Warwickshire parishes. When a search of this courts’ probate records fails to provide the desired probate record, be sure to search the Consistory Court of Lichfield as well as the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.