Does anyone on the list know how I can obtain copies of will/probate records at the Richmond depositories? Thank you Scott Kendall

Not quite sure if I'm answering the question you're asking, as you say "Archdeaconry" in the mail title and depository below.... But.... Lancashire Record Office produced a very nice .PDF booklet titled "Wills and Probate at Lancashire Archives" - this used to be on their web-site until someone redid the web-site but missed half of it out. No idea what the current situation is. P.11 of that booklet refers to the Archdeaconry of Richmond, which covered "the area of pre-1974 Lancashire north of the river Ribble as well as parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire." In the absence of a known current URL, I shall quote extensively: The Archdeaconry "comprised 3 deaneries wholly in Yorkshire - Boroughbridge, Catterick and Richmond - known as the Eastern Deaneries, and 5 others wholly or partly in Lancashire, known as the Western Deaneries. The deanery boundaries did not follow the county boundaries" The 5 Western Deaneries were: "AMOUNDERNESS DEANERY - wholly in Lancashire "COPELAND DEANERY - wholly in Cumberland "FURNESS DEANERY- wholly in Lancashire "KENDAL DEANERY - partly in Lancashire and partly in Westmorland "LONSDALE DEANERY - partly in Lancashire, partly in Westmorland and partly in Yorkshire" Lancashire RO "hold the wills for the Western Deaneries (reference: WRW), while the Eastern Deanery wills are held at West Yorkshire Archive Service, Chapeltown Road, Sheepscar, Leeds, LS7 3AP (www.archives.wyjs.org.uk)." *Logically* the Western Deanery wills at LRO should all be in their on-line catalogue - certainly they were there long before the Chester Archdeaconry ones for south of the Ribble. Adrian On 3 December 2015 at 20:26, Scott D Kendall via <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone on the list know how I can obtain copies of will/probate > records at the Richmond depositories? >

Scott, Find My Past have records of pre-1858 will references.For the Richmond Wills - from memory - copies can be obtained from the Borthwick Institute in York. The cost is normally £10.00.www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/contact/ Regards June From: Scott D Kendall via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 3 December 2015, 20:26 Subject: [LAN] Archdeaconry of Richmond. Does anyone on the list know how I can obtain copies of will/probate records at the Richmond depositories? Thank you Scott Kendall :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list.  No fees!  The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message