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Dorset / Re: Will - Registered at Blandford
« on: Saturday 28 September 24 11:57 BST (UK)  »
LizzieL,

Yes, Dorset was in the Diocese of Bristol, but I'm pretty sure the court which was used for wills in West Knighton - and for most of Dorset - was the Court of the Archdeacon of Dorset.

I don't know whether the wills are still produced in the searchroom in these digital times.  They will, in any event, hold copies on microfilm.

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Dorset / Re: Will - Registered at Blandford
« on: Saturday 28 September 24 11:29 BST (UK)  »
LizzieL, Surely, that footnote 2 concerns the Cause Books and Cause Papers and related documents.  Kessa's enquiry is about a will, which should have survived.

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Dorset / Re: Will - Registered at Blandford
« on: Saturday 28 September 24 07:50 BST (UK)  »
Kessa, West Knighton lay in the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset, so I expect the will is deposited at the Dorset History Centre.  You could try e-mailing them. 

There was also the Consistory Court of Bristol (Dorset Division), but far less wills were proved there, and the jurisdiction did not cover West Knighton.

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England / Re: The National Archives
« on: Friday 27 September 24 14:36 BST (UK)  »
This may sound insensitive, but I think the charge for the quote is justified, since without it the cost would need to be absorbed by TNA., and it is fairer that the user should pay for it.

Depending on the nature of your search, an alternative plan could be to hire a record searcher to search the document for you.  The charge might be, roughly, in the region of £25 per hour, plus travelling expenses, though the latter should be mitigated if the agent is doing work for other clients at the same location.

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Lincolnshire / Re: John Balls 1816 - Prisoner Pentonville?
« on: Thursday 19 September 24 16:41 BST (UK)  »
There are registers of prisoners at Pentonville during the period you mentioned at the National Archives at Kew.  They are in the PCOM 2 series. I don't know whether the registers are on-line anywhere.

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Nottinghamshire / Re: St Leodagarius, Basford
« on: Tuesday 17 September 24 17:41 BST (UK)  »
Some M.I.s for St. Leodegarius were printed by Notts. F.H.S. in Vol. 64, described in the N.I.P.R. as "Relief Cemetery".  (Source: National Index of Parish Registers, Vol. VI: North and East Midlands, Part 2: Nottinghamshire, compiled by W.T. Stott, series editor Cliff Webb, Society of Genealogists, 1988, page 29)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help deciphering occupation 1881 Census
« on: Tuesday 17 September 24 11:56 BST (UK)  »
Could we have the address that the census entry relates to, please?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Wills of Islington 1508 not proved at Canterbury
« on: Monday 16 September 24 09:06 BST (UK)  »
Of possible interest is the following:

The Certificate of Musters for Buckinghamshire in 1522, edited by A.C. Chibnall, Buckinghamshire Record Society, 1973, contains this entry under High Wycombe on page 267:

"Thos. Pime tenaunte to ye colledge of Windesour           £5 -0 -0" [value of lands]

A Thos. Pym is also listed at Great Kimble, on page 91.


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Surrey / Re: JOHN PURVIER, COBHAM, SURREY
« on: Monday 16 September 24 06:08 BST (UK)  »
Inholder

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