Parish of Compton Abbas

WILLS, ADMINISTRATIONS & INVENTORY'S

This index contains an extracted list of persons 'of Compton Abbas' who left wills, letters of administration or inventories to be found with the Probate Registry at Blandford Dorset, Archdeaconry Court of Dorset up to 1793. The names are extracted from indexes found in publications at the Dorset Record Office and elsewhere. Copies of these documents should be available from the Dorset Record Office. Note that this index does not cover the period from the 1790's to 1858. Also included are names of persons with wills proven in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury [PCC], this comes from the PRO site Documents On Line. The wills can be downloaded from this site for £3.00 each. To date there are more than 800,000 wills on this site and the years from 1700-1858 are complete. There are weekly uploads to finish the years 1650-1699.

Note: this is not a complete list of wills made by Compton Abbas residents. Wills may have been proved in places other than the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset or PCC, for example the Royal Peculiar of Sarum and Dorset wills from 1793 are not indexed. From 1858 all wills were indexed centrally and this index is widely available at Record Offices, Probate Registries and the LDS.