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Indexes

Catalogue reference: DCb/PRC/48

What’s it about?

This record is about the Indexes dating from 1396 - 1858.

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Full description and record details

Reference

DCb/PRC/48

Title

Indexes

Date

1396 - 1858

Description

Contains manuscript personal name indexes to the volumes of Archdeaconry Court accounts, inventories (detailed lists of the deceased's belongings and their values), will registers (official transcript copies of wills (written document by which a person declares his or her intent for the disposition of property and rights after his or her death) without the original signatures) and probate grant acts entered by the Registrar after probate was granted) and administrations (documents appointing individuals to supervise the estate's distribution when a person died intestate (without making a will) relating to the Diocese of Canterbury probate court records (referenced DCb/PRC) indicated in the catalogue.

Also includes indexes to Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills and administrations (1855 - 1857), the court with the highest jurisdiction in the Southern Province of the Church of England.

Related material

<span class="wrapper"><p>See volumes to which these indexes relate to in DCb/PRC/2, 3, 10, 17, 21 and 32.</p> <p>For will indexes 1517 - 1593 see DCb/K/1.</p></span>

Held by
Kent History and Library Centre
Language

English

Physical description

35 files

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/83352056-d4e7-475a-8cbe-637c0cb44ae3/

Catalogue hierarchy

236,709 records

This record is held at Kent History and Library Centre

30,081 records

Within the fonds: DCb

Diocese of Canterbury

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Within the sub-fonds: DCb/PRC

Probate/Court Records

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Indexes