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• Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • A calendar of wills proved in the Consistory Court (City and Deanery of Bristol Division) of the Bishop of Bristol, 1572-1792 :

    Original source: A calendar of wills proved in the Consistory Court (City and Deanery of Bristol Division) of the Bishop of Bristol, 1572-1792 : and also a calendar of wills in the Great orphan books preserved in the Council House, Bristol, 1379-1674. London: British Record Society, 1897.

  • A calendar of wills proved in the Consistory Court of the bishop of Gloucester : with indices nominum et locorum

    Original source: A calendar of wills proved in the Consistory Court of the bishop of Gloucester : with indices nominum et locorum. London: British Record Society, 1895-1907.

• Bristol Archives - Index of wills, 1605 to 1864

  This index contains the names of almost 19,000 people whose wills were proved in Bristol.

• England Wills Exchange Database

  Collection of will submissions for England aranged by county.

  • Gloucestershire Wills

• FamilySearch Wiki - Court of the Bishop of Bristol (Episcopal Consistory)

• Forest of Dean Family History - Wills Index

  8,416 Wills & Administrations of Forest of Dean people. The information in this database has been taken from the annual Will books held at Gloucestershire Archives. These Will books contain handwritten copies of wills granted probate at Gloucester between 1858 and 1941.

• Gloucestershire County Council - Gloucestershire Archives

  • Wills, Inventories and probate records

    Searchable online database including Canal Boat Inspections Overseers, Gaol, Inventories, Non-conformist, Wills 1801 - 1858, Wills 1541 - 1800.