Court of the Peculiar of the Manor of Dale Abbey

England Derbyshire  Derbyshire Probate Records

Jurisdiction
This court had primary jurisdiction solely over the extra-parochial parish of Dale Abbey.

Though technically the Court of the Bishop of Lichfield did not have superior jurisdiction over Dale Abbey, as the largest court of original jurisdiction in the county, its records may include the probates of persons who resided there.

Records
The original records for Dale Abbey are deposited at the Nottinghamshire Record Office in Nottingham. They include:


 * Original wills, 1753-1856 (only 19 total)

The records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Indexes
The Nottinghamshire Record Office has a card index to probate records and you can contact them for assistance.

An index to Dale Abbey probate records for 1753-1790 has been published by the British Index Library and is available at the Family History Library.

In addition, abstracts of the wills were made in 1967 and are indexed and on microfilm.