Hello List After reading Gus's post, it occurred to me that there is confusion over where to find records. You will read in various on-line sources that some WAR parishes were "Worcester diocese" - so you would automatically assume that the wills and probates were at Worcester. For north Warwickshire particularly this would be erroneous - that I know from my own delvings. Much of Warwickshire was within the old Lichfield & Coventry Diocese. A big chunk was handed over to Worcester Diocese in the 1830s (and later, parts of this moved to Coventry and Birmingham dioceses, but we'll not get too confused!). I checked the official words and this is a quote from the "Guide to the Contents of Lichfield Record Office" (my copy published 1999). "Some effects of boundary changes on Lichfield Record Office holdings: Warwickshire: After 1836, the ecclesiastical courts at Lichfield exercised for a time jurisdiction over the parts of Warwickshire which had passed to the diocese of Worcester. As a result, Lichfield Record Office holds wills of Warwickshire testators to 1857..." [then cites an example which is one of the Wills on Pickard's Pink Pages]...Also held are faculty papers such as those for the repewing of Coventry St Michael by Scott and Moffatt in 1847, and parish register *transcripts until, in most cases, the mid-1840s. On the other hand, Warwickshire tithe maps, which date from after 1836, and glebe terriers, which were presumably transferred with the parishes, being legal records of parochial lands and tithes, are not in the Lichfield Record Office." Probates/wills became a civil matter from 1857/8; a number of repositories and some libraries hold the National Probate Index/Calendars on microfiche. * These are commonly referred to as "Bishop's Transcripts" or BTs. HTH Jacqui