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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 08 October 19 22:58 BST (UK) »
Ordered my one on 27th July,due on 12th August,finally arrived today,learnt nothing new though ;D
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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 08 October 19 23:32 BST (UK) »
Nearly the same here, ordered 10 on July 29th, two came very quickly and then just one came today  of the remaining.
No great surprises but nice to have, a very last document of a favourite relative ... I actually get a mention in todays one!    :D.
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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 14:49 BST (UK) »
No, I've not received any that I ordered on the 27th. Is this a competition??

Gov.uk must be reading this thread, the first of mine arrived today!

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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 16:21 BST (UK) »
Implying that gov.uk reads. Funny. Kidding aside, that's a weird coincidence. haha


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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 16:59 BST (UK) »
Kidding
Skelcey (Skelsey Skelcy Skeley Shelsey Kelcy Skelcher) - Warks, Yorks, Lancs <br />Hancox - Warks<br />Green - Warks<br />Draper - Warks<br />Lynes - Warks<br />Hudson - Warks<br />Morris - Denbs Mont Salop <br />Davies - Cheshire, North Wales<br />Fellowes - Cheshire, Denbighshire<br />Owens - Cheshire/North Wales<br />Hicks - Cornwall<br />Lloyd and Jones (Mont)<br />Rhys/Rees (Mont)

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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 17:52 BST (UK) »
As I have said on other threads, I have chosen to wait until the rush dies down before ordering the wills I want. There was bound to be a flood of orders when the price dropped, other websites have  crashed under similar circumstances.

As someone has previously mentioned, the more recent  wills can be dealt with more quickly because they are already digitised, the older ones have to be done individually.

I know it is frustrating, but I believe the main problem was caused by greedy people ordering twenty or thirty wills at a time, this was bound to cause problems. The situation is further exacerbated by people then sending in queries about the delay. If everyone exercises a little more patience, and refrains from sending  in further orders  for a little while, it would give them a chance to catch up with the backlog and normal service would soon resume.
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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 17:56 BST (UK) »
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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 18:02 BST (UK) »
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Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
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Re: Have I waited the longest for my 1.50 wills??
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 09 October 19 18:36 BST (UK) »
I ordered 2 on July 27th, one arrived late Friday the otherI'm still waiting for. Both are early 1800s. At least the one that arrived confirmed I was following the correct family.
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