Probably stating the blindingly obvious but pre 1858 wills being under ecclesiastical courts, the jurisdiction of the relevant court covered different administration areas than just plain county boundaries This may help in that respect <https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Court_of_the_Bishop_of_Chester_%28Episcopal_Consistory%29> Over and above that for wills 1796 - 1903 the death duties index is a useful way of locating a given will Index To Death Duty Registers 1796-1903 is available on findmypast, not all wills are included but it can be a good pointer to those that attracted death duties A simple search for Lancashire gets 3,377,366 hits Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/02/2016 10:26, Adrian Bruce via wrote: > I think that those wills belonging to Lancashire were shipped from Chester > to Preston some years ago. This does beg several questions such as - who's > got the Probate Act Books? Who filmed what for the wills and where? I'm > simply being curious but there are numerous missing wills and it would be > infuriating to miss one simply because it's in the wrong place according to > my simplistic view of the world. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus