Message: 5 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:09:10 +1000 From: "Carolyn and Darryl" <dazwilson@bigpond.com> Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] GARTHSIDE To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <002f01c6cd7c$60e70730$bea736cb@acer86e9bf2e61> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, All, Hi Carolyn, You wrote <Am I on the correct List for Rochdale and Oldham?> This list only covers Bolton and District. There are other Rootsweb lists for Rochdale and Oldham. You wrote< John left a will, 1793, proved at Chester as did his son Thomas whose will was also proved there in 1813. <Can SKS please tell me what site I would need to go to view them? (Would they be difficult to read?)> Before 1858, wills of people from the Bolton area were proved at the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Chester. Lancashire wills and other probate records, including inventories and letters of administration, 1545-1858 are now available at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. To search these records you would need to go in person, or appoint a researcher to do the work for you. <which is the best site for obtaining early BMDs for the areas I have mentioned.> If you require an actual physical record of the BMD's, again you would have to visit the record office in person, or appoint someone to obtain it for you. Have you looked at the OPC site for these records? http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/ Valerie