UK Find-a-Will charges

[smudwhisk]

Can you tell us what the other service they provide is ?

Storage and return of IT data backup tapes.  Had to email them a list of which needed to be returned and on a number of occasions one or more of the wrong tapes were returned.  It cost them because they had to send out another delivery the same day with the correct tapes and take the wrong ones back.  This was admittedly 10-11 years ago and the service probably doesn't exist now as most organisations now back up to disk but it was very frustrating.

[MarysInMyTree]

Newbie here, wish I'd found this thread 10 hours earlier!
Just spent £12.50 ordering a copy of a will from an archive centre! 

[melba_schmelba]

Newbie here, wish I'd found this thread 10 hours earlier!
Just spent £12.50 ordering a copy of a will from an archive centre! 

At least you'll get it quick .

[clairec666]

Woohoo - my first will has finally arrived, more than two months overdue! And it looks as though all the necessary parts are there.

But although it has confirmed for me when my 4xgreat-grandmother died, it has also posed some further questions. Why has she decided to leave all her money to her nephew when at least 3 of her children are still alive? I was hopeful that the will would name all of her children, so I would be able to trace two of her daughters who I have lost track of, but only the nephew is mentioned.

In her will it says "I revoke all former Wills by me herefore made". Does anyone know if this means a previous will existed, and if so how would I go about finding it?

[Tickettyboo]

No it doesn't indicate that there 'was' a previous will, I believe its a sort of caveat in case if anyone did come across an earlier dated will -  the later dated one would be the only valid one.

Perhaps, if her children had married they had been given money upon marriage , so had their 'share' in advance?

Boo

[BumbleB]

Not sure whether this has already been noted.

I've just had a response from GRO regarding a will I ordered in early August.  They are unable to provide a copy as there is no Folio number noted.  GRO are only able to provide copies for Wills with this number.

Folio number is the hand-written number against the printed list.

EDITED:  Perhaps this only applies to earlier wills, the one I had ordered was 1880.  I'm now prepared not to receive the other outstanding will dated 1894.

[Gigi]

Hi
I hope that folio numbers are not required! I am waiting for my wills ordered beg August and I don't think any of them had the handwritten folio number on them!
Gigi

[BumbleB]

Perhaps I've misread the attachment I received, and made an assumption because I've already received a will within the same timescale, and that had no Folio number. 

Problem is I can't readily see the mistake I appear to have made in my application. 

Apologies if I've mislead anyone - it wasn't intentional.   

[Craclyn]

I have received a couple where it is noted on the copy of the will that there are 3 folios. Could this mean that I am missing some useful information?