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Calendar of wills & administration

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    #32
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Very good. Now if they could bring out the pre-1800 wills that would be brilliant.


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    montgo
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    Thanks Enda for additional information.

    I will have to order some to be posted on me. At €15 for a copy of the Will, I will only be ordering the more important ones.


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    ifconfig
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    owenc wrote: »
    Very good. Now if they could bring out the pre-1800 wills that would be brilliant.

    If I am not mistaken the vast majority of pre-1800 will records that were in Dublin General records office were destroyed in 1922 ??
    All that survives are indexes with some abstracts (in rare cases).
    I think I read as such on the PRONI website which said that there may be possibility that they are in some solicitor archives or family archives (mostly wealthy families).

    Am I correct or is this a glib assessment ?
    In my own case I have found a highly relevant 1760 will record in an index but I don't believe the will original exists or that there might be a transcript anywhere.


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    RGM
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭RGM


    How common or uncommon was it for families in Ireland to register wills in the late 1800s to early 1900s? I've only found records from one family and I would have thought there would be more.


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    #36
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Well if your family is just an average farming family you wont find many. My family only has two wills.


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    RGM wrote: »
    How common or uncommon was it for families in Ireland to register wills in the late 1800s to early 1900s? I've only found records from one family and I would have thought there would be more.

    Extremely uncommon. A genealogist I know estimated it at only 5% of the population up until the mid 20th century.

    And yes, very little pre-1858 survived. There's about 10000 wills in the registry of deeds, which have been published in a 3 volume book by the Irish Manuscript Commission.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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