Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Batley

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Probate Courts

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Indexes
Indexes for 54 peculiar courts, 1383-1883, are available online on BritishOrigins. This is a subscription site.

Archive Location
Records are housed in the Borthwick Institute in York.

Family History Library Records
Transcripts of the wills, bonds and inventories, 1601-1698, are on film in the Family History Library. Films can be viewed in the library or in a family history center.

Abstracts of selected wills for this court were printed in a history of the parish pubished in 1894, pages 294-411. An index and further abstracts, 1651-1694, are found in volume 74 of the Records Series of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society (FHL film 599878 item 2).

Jurisdiction
Probate jurisdiction is over the manor of Batley. The court is not inhibited.