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    1. Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Old Wills
    2. Martin Briscoe
    3. Some time ago I put all the entries on that site into an Excel file (27MB) and then tried to filter out all the ones around Bolton into a smaller file (1MB). Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Hartley > Sent: 25 April 2008 00:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Old Wills > > Most wills from southern Lancashire were proved locally > (Cheshire diocese). They are held at the Lancashire Record > Office but don't seem to show on the A2A site. There is an > online index at the Lancashire Will Search site: > > http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm > > Some wills were proved at Canterbury or York. The PCC > (Canterbury) ones are available online from the National > Archives. This site: > > https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp > > explains it all. Click on 'search' in the last paragraph of > the Introduction to search the PCC wills. >

    04/24/2008 06:40:21