{"id":238,"date":"2014-12-10T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpaulevans.net\/fodfhtnew\/wills-index\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:22:22","slug":"wills-index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/data-to-search\/wills-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Wills Index 1858 &#8211; 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row us_custom_5cd26a65 height_medium width_full\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h2>Forest of Dean Wills &amp; Administrations Index 1858-1941<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forest-of-dean.net\/fodfht2023\/data-to-search\/wills-index\/wills-search-testators\/\">Search the Wills Indexes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/searchresources\/wills-index\/items-of-interest\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Items of Interest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>General Information<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Index is now completed and consists of 8,416 Wills &amp; Administrations of Forest of Dean people. The information in this database has been taken from the annual Will books held at Gloucestershire Archives. These Will books contain handwritten copies of wills granted probate at Gloucester between 1858 and 1941.<\/p>\n<h3>Beneficiaries and Others<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While wills always provide information about the deceased and his or her heirs, many of these will also mention other family members by name and often by relationship. You may find siblings, children, illegitimate children, nephews or nieces whose existence you never suspected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the names of other people mentioned in the Wills is of great value to the family history researchers we are also in the process of extracting the names of these people and putting them in an additional Index database and referencing them to the Will they appear in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Extracting the names of the other people that are mentioned in the Wills is of course going to take much longer to complete. Only a small proportion of the Wills have so far had the names of the &#8216;Beneficiaries and Others&#8217; extracted and put into the database, as more names are extracted the database will be updated.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obtaining copies of Wills (proved from 1858 onwards)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Copies of Wills and Probate can now be purchased online at a cost of \u00a310 each Sterling. For details please go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/guidance\/courts-and-tribunals\/courts\/probate\/copies-of-grants-wills.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Justice Probate service<\/a>. The search and order screen is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/probatesearch.service.gov.uk\/#wills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/probatesearch.service.gov.uk\/#wills<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Special thanks to David Drinkwater together with Glenn &amp; Lynne Robertson for creating these Indexes<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forest of Dean Wills &amp; Administrations Index 1858-1941 Search the Wills Indexes Items of Interest General Information The Index is now completed and consists of 8,416 Wills &amp; Administrations of Forest of Dean people. The information in this database has been taken from the annual Will books held at Gloucestershire Archives. 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