Property, Taxation and the Law

Wills

England and Wales

• [115] Peter Christian: Introduction to Wills
• [115] FamilySearch Wiki: England Probate Records
• [115] FamilySearch Wiki: Wales Probate Records
• [115] National Archives: Looking for a person?
• [115] National Archives: Wills and probate records
• [115] Your Archives: Probate records
• [115] Wills, probate and inheritance - replaces the old Probate Service pages
• [115] Probate Service: Probate Records and Family History
• [115] Court Service: Review of Probate Business: Final Report
• [116] Findmypast: Probate before 1858 (originally on Origins.net)
• [116] FamilySearch: Probate Jurisdiction Search - now organized on a county basis, linked from Category:Probate records in England or search the wiki for "probate jurisdiction tables"
• [116] FamilySearch: England Jurisdictions, 1851
• [116] Your Archives: Online Probate Indexes
• [116] National Archives: Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384 - 1858)
• [116] Origins: National Wills Index
• [116] Ancestry: Extracted Probate Records
• [116] National Library of Wales: Welsh Wills Online,
• [117] Kent Genealogy: Probate Records
• [117] Norfolk Family History Society: Historic Wills and Will Transcripts
• [117] Castle Donnington Wills
• [117] Findmypast: Death Duty Registers 1796-1903
• [117] Findmypast: Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1932

Scotland

• [118] National Archives of Scotland: Wills and testaments
• [118] ScotlandsPeople: Wills and testaments
• [118] ScotlandsPeople: FAQs: Property & Inheritance - a partial replacement is Property ownership, renting and occupancy

Ireland

• [118] Irish Ancestors: Wills
• [118] PRONI: About Wills
• [118] Republic of Ireland: Probate Office
• [118] Republic of Ireland: Personal Application Section of the Probate Office
• [118] Irish Origins
• [119] Ancestry: Irish Wills Indexes
• [119] PRONI: Will Calendar Search
• [119] Index to Wills, Diocese of Raphoe 1684 - 1858
• [119] Indexes to Irish Wills
• [119] Cyndi's List: Wills and Probate

Land and taxation

• [119] FamilySearch Wiki: Introduction to Tax Records in
• [119] Wikipedia: History of the English fiscal system
• [119] National Archives: Taxation records before 1689
• [120] National Archives: Research Guides
• [120] National Archives: E179 Database
• [120] National Archives of Scotland: Taxation records

Tithes

• [120] National Archives: Tithes
• [120] National Library of Wales: Tithe Maps of Wales
• [120] Devon Record Office: Tithe Maps and Apportionments /a>
• [120] Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service: Worcestershire Tithe and Inclosure Map Project
• [120] Cornwall Record Office: Tithe Project
• [120] University of Portsmouth: Tithe Survey of England and Wales
• [120] Tithe Titles for Kelsall, Cheshire
• [120] Genuki: Tithe Book of Bolton with Goldthorpe, 1839

Lay subsidy and land tax

• [121] British History Online: Lay subsidy records
• [121] Genuki: Devon
• [121] Genuki: Taxes from Pembrokeshire
• [121] Sussex Record Society
• [121] The 1662 Hearth Tax Returns for Ploughley Hundred area in Oxfordshire

Land ownership and occupation

• [121] Family Relatives: Return of Owners of Land
• [121] Ancestry: Return of Owners of Land in Ireland 1876
• [121] Return of Owners of Land in 1873 (Scottish Welsh and irish)
• [121] UK Genealogy Archives: The Return of Owners of Land in England and Wales, 1873
• [122] UK Genealogy Archives: The Return of Owners of Land in England and Wales, 1873: Explanatory Statement
• [122] Return of Owners of Land: OxfordshireReturn of Owners of Land: Oxfordshire
• [122] Return of Owners of Land: Norfolk
• [122] Return of Owners of Land: County Carlow
• [122] National Archives: National Farm Surveys of England and Wales, 1940-1943
• [122] National Archives: Domesday Book
• [122] Open Domesday
• [122] Medieval English Genealogy: Feet of Fines: County List
• [123] Anglo-American Legal Tradition
• [123] British History Online: Feet of Fines
• [123] Medieval English Genealogy: Land taxes and feudal surveys

Griffith's Valuation

• [123] Ask About Ireland: Griffith's Valuation
• [123] Irish Origins
• [123] Genuki: Ireland
• [123] Census Finder: Ireland
• [123] PRONI: Valuation Records
• [123] James R. Reilly: Is There More in Griffith’s Valuation Than Just Names?

Insurance records

• [123] National Archives: A2A
• [123] Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section: Online index of Sun Fire Office policy registers 1808-39
• [124] Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section: Fire Insurance Records At Guildhall Library

Crime

• [124] National Archives: Looking for a person?
• [124] National Archives: Research Guides
• [124] Ancestry: Criminal Registers
• [124] Ancestry: Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books
• [124] Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• [125] Newgate Calendar
• [125] Capital Punishment UK
• [125] National Archives of Scotland: Crime and Criminals
• [125] Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies: Victorian prisoners - Aylesbury Gaol in the 19th Century
• [126] Warwickshire County Record Office: Calendars of Prisoners Database
• [126] National Library of Wales: Crime and Punishment
• [126] Jail and Bail Bond Books of Dumfries
• [126] Rossbret Prisons Website
• [126] RootsWeb: PRISONS-UK
• [126] Herefordshire Through Time: Herefordshire Prisons
• [126] National Archives: Research Guides
• [126] Cyndi's List: Prisons, Prisoners & Outlaws

Civil courts

• [127] National Archives: Looking for a person?
• [127] National Archives: Research Guides
• [127] National Archives: Equity Pleadings database - material now incorporated into the Discovery service
• [127] Ancestry: A calendar of chancery proceedings: bills and answers filed in the reign of King Charles the First
• [127] Ancestry: British Chancery Records, 1386-1558
• [127] Origins: Court Records
• [127] National Archives: Looking for records of a divorce
• [127] National Archives: Divorce records before 1858

Church courts

• [128] Else Churchill: Church Courts
• [128] Findmypast: The Church of England Courts - previously on Origins.net
• [128] British History Online: London Consistory Court Depositions 1586-1611
• [128] Findmypast: London Consistory Court Depositions Index 1700-1713 - previously on Origins.net
• [128] Borthwick Institute: Cause Papers

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This page was last revised by Peter Christian, February 11 2019.
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