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If you have ANY Herefordshire, or Herefordshire-related Wills, and are willing to share the details with us on this site, I would be delighted if you would be so kind as to send me details. The email address to use is at the end of the following notes.

I do not intend to publish full transcripts; but the minimum details I suggest are:-

• Name of Testator
• Parish, or Place of Residence (if available)
• Date of Probate (or of writing the Will if you don't have a date of Probate)
• Where Probate was granted (the Court at which the Will was proved)

• Occupation (or status - eg yeoman, widow)
• A list of Beneficiaries, with relationships to the deceased (if stated)
• Names of any Witnesses, Trustees, Sponsors, Overseers, &c.
• Any other information you feel is of interest.

Lastly, please tell me if you DO NOT want me to make an email, or website home page address available for others to contact you. Information you supply will be just as useful to us, although of course you may miss that all-important connection yourself, if noone is able to get in touch with you!.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. The email address to use to send me these details is:-

Please do NOT use this E-mail address for general research queries!

Additional Information

One of its purposes could be to assist in locating those hard-to-find female lines. Perhaps a father's Will may be the ONLY indication of parentage for a married daughter, when a baptism, or even her marriage, goes unrecorded. Or else you may be interested simply in extending your Family History, in the broadest sense, in learning which families were related, or how far some people travelled.

An example of the former is the Will of William BROOMHEAD, dated 1813 in which he names his married daughter Sarah, wife of William WILD. I had been unable to trace any recorded baptism for Sarah, so if it weren't for her father's Will, I would never have known her parents.

An example of the latter is in Jacob BAGSHAW's Will, dated 1785. He was a bachelor, but his Will names a lot of relatives, some of whom moved to London. If you were researching BAGSHAW from the London end, the Will may provide the very information you are looking for - telling you where the family you are researching came from!

The format I've adopted for the Wills collection as a whole, is :-

SURNAME, forename - residence and occupation, date the Will was WRITTEN (when known) followed by date of DEATH, again if known. Following this is a list of benefactors, and those mentioned in the Will, with Witnesses, Appraisers of Inventory, &c. The date of PROBATE comes at the end.

In probably 99% of cases in our collection, the Will has been written just a short while before death and probate. There is one case however, where it was 20+ years before, and plenty of examples where the Will has been made and a benefactor, or executor has died before the Will has been proved. So whilst on the fact of it a date of when a Will was written would appear to be meaningless, it could help pinpoint dates between which other events could have taken place.

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