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Probate Records information for Peeblesshire and places above it in the hierarchy
Peeblesshire
The commissariot record of Peebles: register of testaments, 1681-1699 edited by Sir Francis J. Grant was published in 1902 in Edinburgh by the Scottish Record Society. It is listed in the LDS Family History Library catalogue in microfilm format, so is hopefully available worldwide in LDS family history centres.
Index to the inventories of the personal estates of defuncts: recorded in the Commissary Court books of Ayr, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Dumfries, Roxburgh, Berwick, Peebles, and Selkirk was published by HMSO in Edinburgh in 1868, and indexes inventories of personal estates of deceased people in these counties between 1846 and 1867. It is listed in the LDS Family History Library catalogue in microfilm format, so is hopefully available worldwide in LDS family history centres.
Note that testamentary records - where they survive - for this county are generally held in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh. The National Archives has unpublished testamentary indexes for some other periods, but many surviving records are unindexed. Please note there is a significant gap in the surviving testaments for this county between 1699 and 1785.
Scotland
- A searchable index to Scottish Wills & Testaments from 1500-1901, comprising over 500,000 names, is now available online at ScotlandsPeople.
- Most records of wills and inventories are held in The National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. Many published indexes can be consulted in local libraries in Scotland, and also through LDS Family History Centres around the world.
UK and Ireland
- Post-1858 wills: copies can be ordered from the Probate Service or from UKDocuments for a fee.
- Pre-1858 Wills: administrations and other probate records will be found in the Record Office holding the documents of the ecclesiastical (church) court where the will was proved.
- For English and Welsh records see TNA Leaflet: Will and Probate Records. Scottish testamentary records are held at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh.
- Copies of wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury can be obtained for a fee from the National Archives via their Wills 1384-1858 page.
- Official search facility for finding the will of a soldier who died while serving in the British armed forces between 1850 and 1986.
- Tom's Wills - the index to UK wills 1931-1949.