Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of Salisbury (Sarum)

England Wiltshire Probate Records, Berkshire Probate Records, Dorset Probate Records

Jurisdiction
This court had jurisdiction over the following places:


 * Baydon, Heytesbury, Hill Deverill, Horningsham, Knook, Mere, Ramsbury, Salisbury Close, and Swallowcliffe in Wiltshire.
 * Arborfield, Blewbury with Upton and Aston Upthorp, Hurst, Ruscombe, Sandhurst, Sonning, Upthorpe, and Wokingham in Berkshire.
 * Alton Pancras, Anderson, Bere Hackett, Bere Regis, Bloxworth, Long Bourton, Castleton, Caundle Marsh, Charminster, Nether Compton, Over Compton, Folke, Haydon, Hermitage, Holnest, Kingston Chapel, Lillington, Maperton, Clifton Maybank, Turners Puddle, Ryme Intrinseca, Sherborne, Stockwood, Stratton, Thompson or Winterbourne Tomson, Thornford, Wobourne or Oborne, and North Wooton in Dorset.
 * Also during triennial inhibition, the parishes under the jurisdiction of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, the Lord Warden of Savernake Forest, and the Prebendal peculiars in Wiltshire and Faringdon in Berkshire.

Records
The original records are deposited at the Wiltshire Record Office in Trowbridge, England. They include:


 * Register copy wills, etc., 1538-1649, 1706-1730, 1770-1806
 * Original wills, administrations, and inventories, 1558-1857

Records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through family history centers. They include:


 * Wills, original and registered of the peculiar court of the Dean and parish of Sarum, Wiltshire, 1560-1857
 * Probate records, 1607-1694
 * Wills, 1583-1806

Indexes
Indexes are included with the original and mircofilmed records as listed above.

Also:


 * Index to the probate records for the parishes of Mere and Swallowcliffe in Wiltshire, England, 1692-1858 (from the records of the Peculiar Court of the Dean of Sarum)