Bill, They are at the Borthwick Institurte, York. See the following link: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/guideleaflets/guideprob.pdf (end of page 1 top of page 2) They are the Probate Act Books (not Administration Act Books - my mistake) and contain grants of probate of wills as well as grants of letters of administration. I guess that searching the indexes might be time consuming. I can't remember whether they are indexes in the modern sense of calendars arranged by year. They are manuscript and there are 29 vols for 1731-1858. They may have been filmed by the LDS but I'm not sure. Chris Watson --- On Fri, 8/1/08, Bill Webster <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > From: Bill Webster <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Intestacy - grants of administration > To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com > Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:19 PM > Thank you, Chris. > > Where might the Administration Act Books be for residents > of the > Hull/Beverley area in the Georgian era? > > Do you have any experience of searching through these, > presuming that they > are unindexed? For any 10 year period, say 1730-40 or > 1810-20, would there > be tens, hundreds, thousands or more names? In other > words, what is the > degree of difficulty or how much should you know before > looking? > > Thanks and regards > > Bill > Sydney > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris W" <cjw283@yahoo.com> > To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:05 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Intestacy - grants of > administration > > > | Bill, > | > | The National Probate Register lists grants of > administration after 1858. > | > | For the intestate, grants of letters of administration by > church courts > prior to this are recorded in the relevant Administration > Act Books for the > diocese concerned if they survive. Practice varied from > place to place I > think. Indexes to wills for some counties (e.g. that part > of Lancashire in > the diocese of Chester) also include an index to grants of > administration, > but this may not be the case elswhere. > | > | The majority of those dying intestate will have no grant > of > administration. > | > | Chris Watson > | > | --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Bill Webster > <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > | > | > From: Bill Webster <wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> > | > Subject: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Intestacy - grants of > administration > | > To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com > | > Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 6:40 AM > | > Could I be given some advice from experience of > searching > | > for ancestors, > | > with any estate to leave, who died intestate, both > prior to > | > and after 1858? > | > > | > I assume this may have been the case in a majority > of > | > estates. > | > > | > Were grants of administration recorded separately > from > | > wills? > | > > | > > | > Bill. > | > > | > > | > > | > ------------------------------- > | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > | > ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > | > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and > | > the body of the message > | > | > | > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > | > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message