Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Canons of Windsor in Wantage

England Berkshire Probate Records, Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire and Swindon Archives and History Centre 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 and microfilmed records as listed above.

The Wiltshire and Swindon Archives is in the process of digitizing all of the wills in its collection and making them searchable online. For more information, so to their website.

Records
The original records are deposited at the Wiltshire and Swindon Archives and History Centre in Chippenham. They include:


 * Original wills, administrations and inventories, 1669-1840

Earlier records for 1582-1668 are deposited at the Oxfordshire Record Office in Oxford.

Some records have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through family history centers. They include:


 * Wills, 1582-1669; index to wills, 1613-1840

Jurisdiction
This court had jurisdiction over the following parishes:


 * Hungerford, West Ilsley, and Wantage in Berkshire.
 * Ogbourne St. Andrew, Ogbourne St. George, and Shabourne in Wiltshire.

The court was inhibited triennially by the Dean of Salisbury.