Archive wills, just need lookups to order

[KT]

Good Morning Ireland,
I want to order wills, if someone going to the Archives could please lookup the following people and tell me if they have wills.

Dorothea Jane Evans Disney died 15 Dec. 1896 ( I know, this may have been destroyed, but?)
Henry Robert Evans Disney died 17 Dec. 1932
Violet Patience Disney died 25 Dec. 1972
All about Dublin area.

Many thanks for any help, from Katie in California

[RonnieG]

Katie,

I had a look on Originsnetwork.com as they have an index of Irish wills 1484-1858.

There are ten references to Disney wills (some mentioned twice, date of will, date of grant etc.) but all are males and none are Henry.

I'm not certain that this index is comprehensive. Perhaps another Rootschatter could enlighten us all.

I would be interested in looking at some other family wills that are included in this index. Does anyone have any experience of searching for and reading wills?

RonnieG

[TF13]

i had a look at the national archives site and it doesnt have an online index
(unlike proni),that i could find, but i typed disney in the search and it came up with 1 result.
its in the private sources at the national archives 1972-1997. you can download it as a pdf document but be warned, its huge, with over 1400 pages!

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/pdf/smallprivateaccessions.pdf

ronnieg,

"index to the prerogative wills of ireland 1536-1810"  by sir arthur vicars.
before the fire that destroyed the wills,and the early censuses ,
a sir william betham made abstracts of the genealogical data which was put
into this index in 1897. apparently it includes 40,000 entries! i wouldn't mind having
a look through that book!

tony

[TF13]

incidentally katie there is a probate for a will in proni for a margaret disney

late of ballymena, co. antrim who died 17-dec-1905.

www.proni.gov.uk

tony