Talk:Probate Fees and Valuations in England and Wales

Probate Fees and Valuations in England and Wales
Each time a duty is imposed there is an opportunity to find records. I would suggest the addition of what type of information might be found under each type of duty.

For instance, I received a copy of a Stamp Duty when property was distributed to the heirs. Two of the daughters had married between the writing of the will and the distribution so each daughter's husbands were named.

Reply from Anthony Camp: You will find the records that you mention detailed in the article "Estate Duty Registers". These are also mentioned in the main lead article "England: Probate".

I have, in fact, mentioned in this article on "Probate Fees and Valuations" the main places where further records will be found, but that is not normally until 1796 when the financial records of the collection of the tax as such begin to survive. These can be, as you say, extremely informative. There may be earlier surviving records in the form of Probate Accounts and/or Inventories but that varies greatly from Court to Court.

I would think it best not to complicate this complicated article further, and to limit it to the two main topics - the charges which were made for probate and the way in which those charges for calculated.