A very useful question and series of answers that has cleared up a little conundrum in my own research! Thanks to all concerned. Steve In a message dated 28/01/2016 15:56:46 GMT Standard Time, genbrit@rootsweb.com writes: > > > 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 ? verything - like a lot of other national collections and national civil service departments not closely linked to urgent war functions, the Principal Probate Registry was moved out of London to a safe distance for the duration. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENBRIT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message