Court of the Peculiar of Groby (Commissary Court)

England Leicestershire  Leicestershire Probate Records

Getting Started: Step by Step
1. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will, writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.

2. Proceed to the "Probate Records Held in This Archive" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court. Also see "Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library".

3. Contact or visit The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland 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 center near you.

Indexes
Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the county of Leicester, proved in the Archdeaconry Court of Leicester, 1495-1649 : and in the peculiars of St. Margaret Leicester, Rothley, Groby, Evington, and the unproved will, etc., previous to 1801

Card indexes to probate inventories, ca. 1500-1800, held in the Leicestershire Record Office

Records
The Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester &amp; Rutland Address: Long Street, Wigston Magna, Leicester, LE18 2AH Telephone: 0116 257 1080. Email: recordoffice@leics.gov.uk

Jurisdiction
This court had primary jurisdiction over the following parishes and places: Anstey, Bradgate Park and Hallgate, part of Charnwood Forest, Cropston, Glenfield, Newtown Linford, Ratby, Stanton under Bardon, and Swithland.