Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury

England Wiltshire  Wiltshire Probate Records

This court is also known as the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum.

Step By Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry. 2. Proceed to "Records" (below) to determine what probate records exist for this court. 3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or, hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers. 4. Visit The Family History Library or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records; then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the original wills and admons also on microfilm via any centers near you.

Online Indexes
Here are two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:


 * The Wiltshire County Record Office's online Will Index 1540-1858
 * Genuki provides a gateway to these 1000 abstract Wills

Printed and Published Indexes
Indexes at the Family History Library include:


 * Wills Beneficiaries Index 1800-1854
 * Index Wills at Salisbury 1464-1858

Archive Location
The original records are deposited at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives and History Centre.

Archive Records
They include:


 * Original wills, administrations and inventories, 1600-1857

Family History Library Records
Original Wills &amp; Administrations 1625-1638

Jurisdiction
This court had jurisdiction within the following counties for the following places:

Dorset--


 * Stourpaine

Hampshire--


 * Bramshaw

Wiltshire--


 * Bishops Cannings with Southbroom
 * Britford
 * Homington

Its jurisdiction was uninhibited.