Dorset Wills.

[Paul Caswell]

That is interesting Nicola. Did you notice the same alias between my Mary Denziloe alias Bayley and your Thomas Denselow alias Bayley?

Paul

[smudwhisk]

Couldn't find the Mary you mentioned under either name, it's possible if it was an Administration that they've indexed it incorrectly under one of the people it was granted to.  Unfortunately there seems to have been a lot of that for the Dorset Probate records on there.

Nicola

[timothybramble]

I would be interested to know if you have any wills relating to any of the below names in the Dorset area:

John Pavey
John Long Bramble
John Bramble
Mary Bramble

The area I would be interested in would be 1790 – 1850, any wills from this time period with these names would be of great interest to me.

Any help you could provide would be greatly received!

Thanks.

[AngelaR]

Well, I only have an index to the wills from 1821 to 1858 - you need Paul for the earlier ones.

The only Paveys I have are :-

Elizabeth  - 1851 Oct - Thorncombe - W 810 - Spinster
Elizabeth/Betty 1822 June - Weymouth & Melc. Reg - A - Spinster
Phoebe - 1835 Jul - Lyme Regis - W 445 - Spinster
Samuel - 1843 May - Stockland - W 349

But I do have a Bramble that might match -

BRAMBLE Mary - 1826 Sep - West Farley - W 476 - Widow

Hope this helps

Regards

Angela

[timothybramble]

Thanks for your help, I think West Farley is way too far away to be the Mary Bramble I am looking for as she was born, raised and buried in Lyme Regis. So if you don’t have a will index for a John Bramble in Lyme Regis is that to say that there never was a will/been lost forever or do you know of any other avenues I could go down?

Thanks again 

[AngelaR]

What time frame are you thinking of for your John Bramble?

[timothybramble]

I have no exact year of death which makes this harder, I think it would be between 1825-1845.

[AngelaR]

That's unfortunate  If there was a will, in that time frame, it would have been in the index...

It looks awfully like there may have been no will and also not enough money to make it worth doing letters of administration either.... sorry

[smudwhisk]

I would be interested to know if you have any wills relating to any of the below names in the Dorset area:

John Pavey
John Long Bramble
John Bramble
Mary Bramble

The area I would be interested in would be 1790 – 1850, any wills from this time period with these names would be of great interest to me.

Any help you could provide would be greatly received!

Thanks.

I've had a look on the index to the images on Ancestry and none of these appear, however the indexing is a bit abysmal as has been previously mentioned as administrations are indexed under the name of the first person it was granted too rather than the deceased.  Unfortunately the pre-1812 Dorset parish registers that ancestry put online last week are about as bad and, as has been mentioned on other Rootschat postings, many of the images are muddled amongst the wrong parishes.   Hopefully they will revisit and resolve at some point.

Nicola