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From: Adrian Channing <>
Subject: Re: Irish wills
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:22:52 -0500


I suspect it is Phillimore's Will index which, for some dioceses, ends in
1858, although the earliest I can see is for 1536 not 1484, so if it is
Phillimore, it must be supplemented with something else, or I have just
missed it.

There is a nice collection of old deeds and some will extracts at "The
Irish Genealogical Research Soc", London called, I think, The Hussey-Walsh
collection. If any Londoner is looking for something to do, it would be
good to see this on CD or on line.

Adrian

© Adrian (Surrey, UK)

> In article <>, Matthew Harley
> <> wrote:
>
> >"WILLS TO LIVE: A cd-rom detailing Irish wills from 1484 to
> >1858 has been unveiled at the National Museum of Ireland.
>

Sean replied

> The National Museum was probably just a pretty backdrop for the
> launch. I can't imagine the relevance of wills to the National
> Museum when the National Archives is the main will repository.
>
> Does anyone have any idea whether this CD is an index to the
> surviving wills and will abstracts, or is it just the Phillimore
> indexes to Irish consistorial wills tacked onto Vicars
> prerogative will index? The former would be of much greater help
> than the latter.
>

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