Wills

Reference number	EP/J/4/6
Date(s)	1546-1858
Level	Sub-class
Extent	Approx 5,000
Description	Indexed in British Record Society (The Index Library), vol. XVII (1897), from 1572 to 1792 only. This volume also contains a calendar of wills in the Great Orphan Books, 1379-1674 [in Bristol Record Office]. Part of a register of Bristol and Dorset wills proved at Bristol, 1559-1572, is among the capitular records (DC/A/6/4/1). This has been indexed in British Record Society (The Index Library), vol. XXII (1900) The Bristol wills are printed in extenso in B. & G.A.S. Trans., vol. 64 (1943), pp. 118-147, and the Dorset ones in Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, vol. XXIV. pp. 69 et seq. An index of wills 1793-1858 is kept in the BRO searchroom; all wills 1546 to 1858 are now available on microfiche only. The will of Edward Mapham, 1750, is on loan for display in M Shed.
Publication note	Selected wills 1546-1603 for persons resident in the city and suburbs (i.e. not rural) have been transcribed or calendared and published by the Bristol Record Society (Volume XLIV - J/BRS/44) which is available as a PDF on the Bristol Record Society website
Archivist's note	Majority available on microfiche in searchroom. Pre-1858 are indiviudal loose items, post-1858 are in large bound volumes
Website link	www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications.htm

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