A Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to Dorset, Volume I, edited by Edward Alexander Fry The Index Library (volume 22) (The British Record Society 1900): wills and administrations up to 1793. Index to Dorset Wills 1793 - 1858 (extracts given by Richard J Travell from database. Index available at Dorset Record Office)
Consistory Court, Dorsetshire Division of late Diocese of Bristol Wills and Administrations 1681 - 1793 (Probate Registry, Blandford)
Archdeaconry Court, Dorsetshire Division of late Diocese of Bristol Wills 1568 - 1793, Administrations 1660 - 1793, Inventories 1686 - 1790 (except 1692, 1696-1697, 1700, 1702, 1707-1711, 1713, 1718-1721) (Probate Registry, Blandford)
Peculiar of Corfe Castle Court
Dean and Chapter of Bristol
A Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to Dorset, Volume II, edited by Edward Alexander Fry The Index Library (The British Record Society): inventories, unproved original wills
Extracts for Church Knowle (excludes Orchard), Langton Matravers, Purbeck (selected), Studland, Swanage and Worth Matravers. Excludes most individuals on HMS ships where no parish given who may have come from these parishes
* Abstracts of transcribed Wills
Name | Surname | Place | Date | Notes | Crt. Proved | Bundle | Number |
Ephraim | Hayward * | Studland | 1661 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1661 | 56 |
William | Puckett * | Studland | 1663 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1663 | 49 |
Thomas | Grove * | Studland | 1665 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1665 | 30 |
Lucrece | Talbot * | Studland | 1667 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1667 | 33 |
Francis | Grove * | Studland | 1669 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1669 | 52 |
Alexander | Grove * | Studland | 1669 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1669 | 39 |
Ursula | Mowlam * | Studland | 1669 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1669 | 40 |
Edmund | Squibb * | Studland | 1671 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1671 | 68 |
William | Foard * | Studland | 1671 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1671 | 94 |
John | Ford * | Studland | 1679 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1679 | 41 |
Robert | Duke * | Studland | 1681 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1681 | 89 |
John | Sustins * | Studland | 1684 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1684 | 103 |
John | Havercombe * | Studland | 1685 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1685 | 63 |
John | Pushman * | Dean in Purbeck | 1686 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1686 | 17 |
John | Pushman | Studland | 1686 | Inventory: see also Will. Inventory does not appear on Ancestry. Not transcribed. | Archdeaconry | 1686 | 85 |
Martin | Talbot * | Studland | 1687 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 31 |
Martin | Talbot * | Studland | 1687 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 65 |
Marten | Talbut * | Studland | 1687 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 82 |
John | Talbot * | Studland | 1687 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 64 |
John | Tallbut * | Studland | 1687 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 83 |
Jane | Norman * | Dean in Studland | 1688 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1688 | 7 |
Jane | Norman * | Studland | 1688 | Inventory: see also Will | Archdeaconry | 1688 | 24 |
John | Ventury * | Studland | 1689 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1689 | 52 |
John | Ventury * | Studland | 1689 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1689 | 89 |
Elizabeth | Vye * | Studland | 1689 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1689 | 88 |
Robert | Turner * | Studland | 1691 | Administration | Consistory | ||
Thomas | Grove * | Studland | 1691 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1691 | 110 |
Richard | Pain * | Studland | 1692 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1692 | 54 |
Edward | Miller * | Studland | 1693 | Will | Consistory | ||
Robert | Fry | Studland | 1695 | Will - Bundle 1695 appears to be missing from Ancestry. Not transcribed | Archdeaconry | 1695 | 51 |
John | Vey * | Studland | 1698 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1698 | 50 |
Robert | Turner * | Studland | 1704 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1704 | 44 |
Henry | Corbin * | Studland | 1705 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1705 | 25 |
John | Partridge * | Studland, HMS 'Torbay' | 1705 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1705 | 20 |
Peter | Corbin * | Studland | 1706 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1706 | 50 |
Peter | Corban * | Studland | 1706 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | 1706 | 40 |
Henry | Havercomb * | Studland | 1706/07 | ||||
Christofer | Spragg * | Studland, HMS "Eagle" | 1707 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1707 | 30 |
John | Chadock * | Studland | 1709 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1709 | 36 |
Wm | Patridge * | 1710 | Inventory | Archdeaconry | |||
Susannah | Adams * | Studland | 1712 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1712 | 48 |
Angel | Corben * | Studland | 1715 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1715 | 33 |
Thomas | Duke * | Studland in Purbeck | 1722 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1722 | 38 |
Thomas | Deverd * | Studland | 1729 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1729 | 18 |
George | Franklyn * | Studland | 1732 | Administration | Consistory | ||
Rebecca | Seamore * | Studland | 1732 | Administration | Consistory | ||
Thomas | Jenkins * | Studland | 1734 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1734 | 70 |
Abner | Fall * [the younger] | Studland, HMS "Princess Amelia" | 1743 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1743 | 30 |
Giles | Grove * | Studland | 1744 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1744 | 23 |
Edith | Jenkins * | Studland | 1745 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1745 | 38 |
James | King * | HMS 'Norfolk' | 1747 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1747 | 92 |
Elizabeth | Layfield * | Studland | 1749 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1749 | 42 |
George | Hixon * | HMS 'Sandwich', Studland | 1749 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1749 | 60 |
Edward | Edmonds * | Studland | 1752 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1752 | 22 |
Mary | Edmonds * | Studland | 1754 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1754 | 63 |
William | Gould * | Newton Farm in Studland | 1755 | Will | Peculiar of Corfe Castle | 5 | |
John | Hardey * | Studland | 1756 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1756 | 65 |
Jane | Havercome * | Studland | 1757 | Will | Consistory | ||
Mary | Grove * | Studland | 1758 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1758 | 53 |
Betty | Vinson * | Studland | 1759 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1759 | 57 |
Thomas | Summers * | Studland | 1760 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1760 | 48 |
John | Seymour * | Studland | 1764 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1764 | 36 |
James | Duke * | Studland | 1766 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1766 | 44 |
Thomas | Elby * | Studland | 1768 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1768 | 21 |
Thomas | Elby * | Studland | 1768 | Inventory: see also Administration | Archdeaconry | [Blank] | [Blank] |
John | Ridman * | Studland | 1769 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1769 | 30 |
John | Summers * | Studland | 1797 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1797 | 57 |
John | Pond * | Studland | 1810 | Will | Archdeaconry | ||
Matthew | Gould * | Studland | 1822 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1822 | 33 |
John | White * | Studland | 1822 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1822 | 39 |
Edith | Summers * | Studland | 1835 | Will | Consistory | 1835 - 1836 | 26 |
George | Damon * | Studland | 1844 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1844 | 34 |
Mary | Galpin * | Studland | 1850 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1850 | 42 |
Joseph | Horlock * | Studland | 1857 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1857 | 37 |
* Abstracts of transcribed Wills