Hello
There are two other things that you may be able to do from home:-
1) I am not saying it was Copyhold, but online newspapers may advertise a later Sale of a property and see what the advert states.
However it was Leasehold or another Tenure from the Manor, there will be no advert.
2) the other one that will cost about £30 or so, that may or may not, add a few notes to your Will.
There are some Inland Revenue Duty Registers for 1830 (the Probate Year) and these Volumes for 1830 seem to be under these headings:-
Will Register
Reversionary Register
Administration Register
1830 in the IR 27/213 Index (year and reference from f m p) Image attached
Your fella Joseph Gratton was Registered for the possible payment of Duty
The image (on f m p listed as 1830) says:-
GRATTON Joseph, Jos: Gratton, Brendwood Gate, Derby, Lichfield, Register 3, 372 [the last digit seems to be a tick]
See 2 attachment snippets (from f m p)
Because yours is a Will and TNA don't list the Register number, it might be in the IR Will Registers.
We have also found all our Wills in the IR Will Register Volumes and have ordered some from TNA, Kew, official gov.uk web site.
In their Discovery catalogue sign in, and find catalogue reference IR 26/1225 in the Discovery "Any of these references" box you should get ...
IR 26/1225
Will Register : Surnames E - G, folios 345 - 519
Date 1830
You can visit in person (with all the relevant photo and address ID they require) check if document requires advance order.
Or use the catalogue link and if you wish you can order a page check for £8.40 (to check if the entry is in this Volume) state the name place and information from the Index and especially the Folio reference number and the type of image you want a price for:-
Colour digital image sent by link, or
Colour or B & W paper print posted.
Within a month you will get an email saying the entry was found, sign in again on Discovery and a price is given if you wish to proceed.
I cannot guarantee 100% that your £8.40 spent will find it, but we have managed to order the correct entry each time and gain the odd snippet of extra information.
The scan may not add much more to the Will.
There are I.R. internal reference numbers starting with two number digits, which refer to year events e.g., 60/---------- referred to 1860, a death year of a family member.
On some of mine there are handwritten summary notes, as though the Inland Revenue are tracking where the money is going with family names, who is inheriting, their address and other bits of information and references to other volumes, surname initial, year and Folio number.
Mark
Slide the images over to see all columns
Added:
We usually find the digital Colour image/s are clear and readable and can be saved etc.
