Early Oxfordshire Wills

[Siamese Girl]

Is there anywhere online that lists early Oxfordshire wills proved in local courts (not PCC)? I'm interested in the Marmyon/Marmion family from Ewelme in the C16th and also the Child family from the same area. I believe they may have moved to Gloucestershire and am hoping that there are early wills that may prove the link.

Carole

[Iffley]

Is there anywhere online that lists early Oxfordshire wills proved in local courts (not PCC)? I'm interested in the Marmyon/Marmion family from Ewelme in the C16th and also the Child family from the same area. I believe they may have moved to Gloucestershire and am hoping that there are early wills that may prove the link.

Carole

Carole -

No, there isn't. 

But the wills are held at Oxfordshire Record Office, and the Record Office is always happy to answer questions about its holdings.

www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oro

There are index books of the wills, of which I possess copies.  I've had a look for you.  No entries for MARM(I/Y)ON.

For CHILD there are lots in the county.  Chalgrove has quite a few.  The earliest in Ewelme is Andrew CHILLS, 1690, which the compilers evidently believe should be grouped with CHILD. 

Oxfordshire Family History Society is building up a "Wills library" - see www.ofhs.org.uk , and encouraging folk to give us their transcriptions, which can then be searched by everyone.  Keep an eye on it!

And do put your interests on the Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - OXSIL - at www.oxsil.org.uk , which works with OFHS.

Wendy
Oxfordshire FHS www.ofhs.org.uk

[Siamese Girl]

Thanks. It looks as if I'll be unlucky with the Marmyons/Childs but I'll remember this for when I finally get round to sorting out my Oxfordshire Bowler and Hollier families.

Carole

[Iffley]

Carole -

Thanks. It looks as if I'll be unlucky with the Marmyons/Childs but I'll remember this for when I finally get round to sorting out my Oxfordshire Bowler and Hollier families.

Carole

HOLLIER is a name studied by Peter Walker, as a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies, www.one-name.org , so you may have useful  information to share.

Wendy

[Lesanne]

  Hiya,
I hope to go again to Oxfordshire in the next few months. First stop the Wills.... 

If you PM me with dates names etc.. I have a look see what's there...

Lesanne

[MosesDodd]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does PCC stand for in this context?

Maurice.

[supermoussi]

Hi Carole, If u haven't already, check out the docs listed for Marmions on the A2A under the Repository of "Oxfordshire Records Office"

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/advanced-search.aspx?tab=1

Note that if you are interested in early refs u need to look at a very wide selection of spellings; i.e. Marmion, Marmien, Marmian, etc, etc.

[newburychap]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does PCC stand for in this context?

Maurice.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury - the highest tier of the church probate courts.

[Valda]

Hi


Oxfordshire will index on Origins

http://www.origins.net/help/aboutNWI-oxf.aspx


Not sure where Oxford Record Office has got with this

'Oxfordshire wills
Negotiations are at an advanced stage with the Genealogical Society of Utah to digitise all the Oxfordshire Probate Records 1516-1857. It is hoped that this will be a joint project with Berkshire Record Office and the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies to digitize all the wills of the three counties. If successful, the project will involve images of all the wills, inventories, and related documents being placed on a commercial provider’s site, with indexes available through the Record Office sites, and accessed on a pay-per-view basis. Digitisation is expected to take place in 2010.'

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0axu/


Buckinghamshire wills are indexed at the Centre for Buckinghamshire website but nothing yet on Berkshire Record Office website.


Regards

Valda