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Coverage of the index, as at February 2008, is for wills proved in the following probate courts
in the period 1675-1858:
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ESSEX WILLS BENEFICIARY INDEX 1675-1858
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Court
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Notes
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Peculiar of the Deanery of Bocking
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Testators from various Essex parishes plus Hadleigh, Monks Eleigh and Moulton in Suffolk
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Bishop of London’s Commissary
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Essex & Hertfordshire jurisdiction - testators from 39 parishes in west and north Essex
and 25 parishes in east Herts
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Archdeacon of Colchester
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Testators from 107 parishes in south west, south and south east Essex
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Archdeacon of Essex
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testators from 140 parishes in north east and north west Essex
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Peculiar of Good Easter
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Archdeacon of Middlesex
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Essex & Hertfordshire jurisdiction - testators from 101 parishes in all parts of Essex and 6 in west Herts
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Peculiar of the Sokens
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Peculiar of Writtle with Roxwell
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N.B. Non-Essex residents with property or financial interests in the county may also have had wills
proved in any of the above courts.
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