Court of the Peculiar of Faringdon

England Berkshire  Berkshire 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 Berkshire 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.

Indexes
Indexes are included with the original records as listed above; also with the microfilmed records as listed above.

In addition, a manuscript index to the records of the peculiar courts of Berkshire is available on microfilm at the Society of Genealogists in London, and the Family History Library:


 * Index to the wills and administrations of the Peculiar Courts of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire &amp; Oxfordshire, 1550-1858

Records
The original records of this court are deposited at the Berkshire Record Office in Reading, Berkshire or at the Oxfordshire Record Office in Oxford. They include:


 * Filed wills and administration bonds, 1547-1853
 * Registered wills and administrations, 1730-1853
 * Wills and administrations, 1698-1733 (included with those for the peculiars of Banbury, Dorchester, Langford, Monks Risborough, and Thame)

You may contact the record offices for assistance. Click on the links above.

Many records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library and through family history centers. They include:


 * Wills and administrations, 1547-1853
 * Probate records, 1547-1858 (includes records of Faringdon for 1698-1733)

Jurisdiction
This court had jurisdiction in the parishes of Great Faringdon and Little Coxwell (and the villages of Littleworth, Thrupp, Kindell Weare, Wadley, Port, Puckety, Westbrooke and Little Wickensham) in the north of Berkshire. It was a prebendal court in the Diocese of Salisbury.