On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:56:35 +0000, Iain Archer <ianews.12@gmail.com> wrote: >Andy Candlish <andycandlish@ozemail.com.au> wrote on Wed, 27 Jan 2016 at >22:52:04: >>On 27/01/2016 8:44 AM, MargM via wrote: >>> >>> >>> Just found ref to my gt grans brother , William ATKINS d Aug1940, Plymouth >>> in the UK Probate Calendars on Ancestry . Probate was Feb 1941 at >>> Llandudno ?? >>> >>> Ran my eye down just this page and quite a few wills for people who died >>> in many different places were also probated Llandudno . Seems odd ? Was >>> it perhaps to do with the Blitz ? >>> >> >>I believe the main London Probate Registry moved to Llandudno during WW2 >> >Indeed. >http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/Probate+registry+Llandudno > AFAIAA the probate registry used can also depend on which one the executor has applied to.

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:00:45 +0000, Charles Ellson <ce11son@yahoo.ca> wrote: [...] >>>I believe the main London Probate Registry moved to Llandudno during WW2 >>> >>Indeed. >>http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/Probate+registry+Llandudno >> >AFAIAA the probate registry used can also depend on which one the >executor has applied to. Nowadays the executor is told to use the local Probate Registry. https://www.gov.uk/wills-probate-inheritance/applying-for-a-grant-of-representation