On further look at the Ancestry.com site, they show a continuous list of wills available for PROB 11: Will Registers. http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5111 >From this it is hard to see that there are any gaps in the coverage. Wayne Shepheard Cornwood OPC -----Original Message----- From: Michael J Hulme Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 10:41 AM To: devon@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DEV] Devon Wills Hello Tim Thank you for this information but looking on the Ancestry site my understanding is that they only have: Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1581-1619 and 1649-1660 Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1629, 1653-1660, 1671-1675 & 1686-1700. This leaves many gaps especially for Wills from 1700 to 1858. Please correct me if I have missed something here. The full set are of course available on The National Archives web site. Mike Shropshire, UK __________________________________________ On 07/01/2014 12:32, Tim Treeby (Genealogy) wrote: > Just in case no one has seen, Ancestry now has copies of PCC Wills, so > any one with an Ancestry sub should be able to see a copy of any PCC Will. > > Tim Treeby ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Can anyone suggest how someone in the US can get access to a will in the Devon Record Office? Specifically I am looking for the following from "Estate Duty Office Wills": "Thomas May of Brixham, Devon, 1833, 1078/IRW/M/460". I am trying to find a connection with the Thomas May who was a baker, and was a passenger in the barque "Mary Ann" from London and Plymouth to Australia, departing about 4 February 1833 and arriving in Sydney 15 November 1833. This Thomas had a younger brother Robert who, with wife Mary, departed from London or Plymouth in the "City of Edinburgh" November 1833 and arrived in Sydney March 1834. Thank you. Chuck May Pittsfield Massachusetts, USA ChuckMay@may-engineering.com http://www.may-engineering.com
Hi Chuck this is now called Devon Heritage Services and can be found at devrec@devon.gov.uk and Devon Heritage Services Great Moor House Bittern Road Sowton EXETER Devon EX2 7NL - See more at: http://www.devon.gov.uk/record_office.htm#sthash.Zl0e1lZ0.dpuf life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck May" <ChuckMay@may-engineering.com> To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 4:28 AM Subject: [DEV] Will from Devon Record Office (was Devon Wills) > Can anyone suggest how someone in the US can get access to a will in the > Devon Record Office? > > Specifically I am looking for the following from "Estate Duty Office > Wills": > "Thomas May of Brixham, Devon, 1833, 1078/IRW/M/460". > > I am trying to find a connection with the Thomas May who was a baker, and > was a passenger in the barque "Mary Ann" from London and Plymouth to > Australia, departing about 4 February 1833 and arriving in Sydney 15 > November 1833. > > This Thomas had a younger brother Robert who, with wife Mary, departed > from > London or Plymouth in the "City of Edinburgh" November 1833 and arrived in > Sydney March 1834. > > Thank you. > > Chuck May > Pittsfield Massachusetts, USA > ChuckMay@may-engineering.com > http://www.may-engineering.com > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >