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Hi all. I can't find an answer with a quick internet search, but am wondering what an * next to an entry in Ireland, Indexes to Wills, 1384-1858 would indicate. It is for Cashel and Emly diocese.
Thanks, Katharine.
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Hi all. I can't find an answer with a quick internet search, but am wondering what an * next to an entry in Ireland, Indexes to Wills, 1384-1858 would indicate. It is for Cashel and Emly diocese.
Thanks, Katharine.
Difficult to say without seeing it- is it something you can post a link to?
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https://www.ancestry.com.au/discoveryui-content/view/10345:9144?tid=&pid=&queryId=e3f60d06-fa79-409f-bead-7a9221df6a48&_phsrc=ZqB1500&_phstart=successSource
On the given link you can see there are a few entries with *
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Not to worry - I have just found the answer. I went back to the original and browsed from the beginning of the volume. At the bottom of page of first entries it states that the * indicates that no date of probate was given, so the date is that of the will.
And...that most of the wills are no longer extant - as we frustratingly know :'(
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Katherine, try searching the registry of deeds for the surname of the person who left the will… see my post in Ireland resources for the new Familysearch tool. You can select decade which will narrow down the search if there are lots of entries for that surname, I have been lucky to find quite a few wills etc that way.
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The date of Probate is not the date of the Will.
Some old Wills, the date of Probate is after the death, when the Executor or person acting as Administrator (occasionally years later) decides to apply for Probate and actually formally goes and Registers the Will, or Register an Admin with a Will annexed.
A relative of mine tells me, one Will in a line he was tracing did not go to Probate for 100 years (this is unusual).
If they owned property, have you tried that angle?
I recently came across a post by Rootschatter coombs and that link went to Famly Search where a new Search took me to Irish scanned documents, where they have used handwriting scanners (not 100% reliable at finding every name or place).
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=891814.msg7658381#msg7658381
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/full-text/results?count=20&q.text=%22Dennis%20helsdon%22
Mark