Hi Roderick I don't know about 1630s wills for Llanwnog. I know that some Montgomeryshire wills are found at the Hereford registry, though. Also the National Archives hold some wills in categories other than PROB 11, which is what is searchable in Documents Online, for example some from the Commonwealth period. The latter are downloadable in huge files from their digital microfilm section. I don't know what other collections there are, but I think there are some. My real reason for writing is to draw your attention to a poem written on Lewis Evans of Plasau Duon by James Dwnn which is held by the National Library of Wales. Details at: http://bit.ly/TU3Nxu The search engine at this (LLGC Maldwyn) site also brings up some other Plasau Duon references. (search on Plasau in Pwnc (lle)). I have come across other families living at Plasau Duon, but much later - Gittins in the 1700s who moved from Llanllugan and later a branch of the Lloyds of Cefn Barrach, Trefeglwys, family. Best wishes Nicola BJ -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:25:25 -0400 From: Roderick Ward Subject: [POWYS] Where to find pre-1858 Powys wills. To: powys Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 A 1904 volume of Montgomeryshire Collections lists a number of wills from the 1630s and 1640s from Carno and Llanwnnog. It gives no source. One of the wills I have tracked down as a PCC will. A few others show up on the National Library of Wales website as having been proved at Bangor. But a few wills, including the one I am particularly interested in (Lewis Evans of Plasse Duon, Llanwnog, 1636) does not seem to turn up no matter spelling variations I try. Is there somewhere else a will from Llanwnog might have been proved in the 1630s? Roderick Ward