Court of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk

Suffolk Probate Records

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Jurisdiction
East Suffolk. Before 1837, the parishes in the Deaneries of Stow and Hartismere were excluded. Inhibited as the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

Records
The records for this court are housed in the Ipswich and East Suffolk Record Office.

The Family History Library has the following records on film. Films can be view in the library or in a family history center.


 * Probate records, 1444-1857 Note: Some indexes are included in the library's catalog record.
 * Original wills, 1459-1857 and miscellaneous wills not proved, 1554-1739
 * Probate inventories, 1582-1824
 * Administrations from act books in Ipswich Probate Office
 * Wills from the archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1629-1640, abstracted by Marion E. Allen and Nesta R. Evans
 * Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1620-1626, abstracted and edited by Marion E. Allen

Indexes
The Family History Library has copies of the following indexes.


 * Index of the probate records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Suffolk, 1444-1700
 * Index of beneficiaries in wills proved in the court of the Archdeacon of Suffolk, 1847-1857
 * Will card index, 1702-1857; probate inventories card index, and poor law card index