Hi Joan, I can't tell from the RO website but I'll give them a call tomorrow & ask for you. I would imagine they will be here in Taunton either RO or Library. Soon they are all to be moved together but I can't remember when.
There is an index online for wills between 1812 & 1857 if that is any good.
PCC wills are online but I wouldn't think a Somerset resident would register his will in Canterbury but you never know. More likely to be the Somerset Record Office.
Ben
Doesn't it depend on the value of the estate where the will was proved?
Do you mean the wills on the NA site? I have looked on there but no joy. His name was Thomas Murley; I don't know exactly when he died as yet, he was born in 1778 so he may have died prior to the 1837 registrations. It doesn't say he was deceased on his daughter's marriage cert in 1841 though. No burial that matches on the NBI & they moved around a lot so I am having fun tracking him down, lol!
and they'll tell you how to order a copy (if you've found an entry in the index)
By the way, click on the link on that search page I posted up because there is lots of info on there explaining what happened to the originals of the wills.
KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
Thanks Kite, I had a look & there is a John but no Thomas.
The only reason why I think there could be a will is that he is listed as a "Gentleman" on the marriage cert. My first one, they are normally ag labs, lol!
My first "gentleman" died 1846 and he didn't leave a Will. I managed to talk to ANthony Adolph once about what being a gentleman involved and he said by this time it didn't really mean anything significant - anyone could choose to call themselves one - but it generally meant someone who didn't need to work for a living.
I assumed this would mean owning land, so searched for a Will, but as it turns out his main source of income was from his time as an accountant to the wealthy, many of whom made him executors in their Wills, for which he received an income for managing estates after their deaths or a lump sum from the estate.
His lack of Will makes me think his 4 children and 33 grandchildren had bled him dry before he died.
Zoe in London
Cio che Dio vuole, io voglio ~ What God wills, I will
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