Discover your ancestor in administrations of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from 1660 to 1700.
Discover your ancestor in administrations of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from 1660 to 1700.
Both a transcript and image of the source material are returned with each result. From a transcript, you can learn all or some of the following details:
The source material for this collection consists of index slips and related documentation created from the original Prerogative Court of Canterbury administrations held by The National Archives (PROB 6 and PROB 15/72). This work was undertaken by the British Record Society and Friends of The National Archives. Learn more about the Church of England courts by following the link for The Church of England courts in the Useful links and resources.
This collection includes a high volume of mariners; approximately a third of these records refer to a mariner.
Begin your search broadly with just a name and year.
Occasionally, a full first or last name was not entered and only an initial was recorded. Try different combinations when searching for an individual.
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