Swanage

Calendar of Wills and Administrations

A Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to Dorset, Volume I, edited by Edward Alexander Fry The Index Library (volume 22) (The British Record Society 1900): wills and administrations up to 1793. Index to Dorset Wills 1793 - 1858 (extracts given by Richard J Travell from database. Index available at Dorset Record Office)

Consistory Court, Dorsetshire Division of late Diocese of Bristol Wills and Administrations 1681 - 1793 (Probate Registry, Blandford)

Archdeaconry Court, Dorsetshire Division of late Diocese of Bristol Wills 1568 - 1793, Administrations 1660 - 1793, Inventories 1686 - 1790 (except 1692, 1696-1697, 1700, 1702, 1707-1711, 1713, 1718-1721) (Probate Registry, Blandford)

Peculiar of Corfe Castle Court

Dean and Chapter of Bristol

A Calendar of Wills and Administrations relating to Dorset, Volume II, edited by Edward Alexander Fry The Index Library (The British Record Society): inventories, unproved original wills

Extracts for Church Knowle (excludes Orchard), Langton Matravers, Purbeck (selected), Studland, Swanage and Worth Matravers. Excludes most individuals on HMS ships where no parish given who may have come from these parishes

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* Abstracts of transcribed Wills

Name Surname Place Date Notes Crt. Proved Bundle Number
John Clarke * Sandwich 1742 Administration Archdeaconry 1742 34  
George Cull * Sandwich 1742 Will Archdeaconry 1742 63  
Titus Gray * HMS "Dragon" 1742 Administration Archdeaconry 1742 57 Mother-Eliz. Gray wid of Swan.
Martin Camell * HMS "Dragon" 1742 Administration Archdeaconry 1742 58 Brother - Peter
Thomas Cross * Sandwich 1744 Will Archdeaconry 1744 58  
Josiah Hort * Sandwich 1744 Will Archdeaconry 1744 59  
Josiah Hort * Sandwich 1744 Inventory Archdeaconry 1744 47  
Rachael Hort * Sandwich 1744 Will Archdeaconry 1744 60  
Edward Howard * HMS "Victory" 1744 Administration Archdeaconry 1744 39 Relict - Ann Howard/Hayward
Thomas Serrell * Sandwich 1745 Administration Archdeaconry 1745 26  
William Little * Swanage/ "Tygress" 1745 Administration Archdeaconry 1745 25  
Martin Camell * HMS "Rochester" 1745 Administration Archdeaconry 1745 54 Brother - Peter
Benjamin Kerley * Sandwich 1746 Will Bristol Consistory Court 1746 16  
James Keat * Sandwich 1746 Will Archdeaconry 1746 30  
James Keat * Sandwich 1746 Inventory Archdeaconary 1746 5  
Joan Bower * Sandwich 1747 Will Archdeaconry 1747 48  
William Carter * Sandwich 1747 Will Archdeaconry 1747 49  
John Cockram * Sandwich 1747 Administration Archdeaconry 1747 34  
Samuel Harding * HMS "The Mark"&
HMS "Rebecca Fender		 1748 Administration Archdeaconry 1748 51 Fa - Samuel
Thomas Cross * Sandwich 1750 Will Archdeaconry 1750 47A  
Anthony Phipard * Sandwich 1750 Will Archdeaconry 1750 47B  
John Bradford * HMS "Pembroke" 1750 Administration Archdeaconry 1750 50  
Peter Tedbury * Sandwich 1751 Will Archdeaconry 1751 51  
Peter Gover * Sandwich 1752 Will Archdeaconry 1752 19  
Catherine Thecks * Sandwich 1755 Will Archdeaconry 1755 52  
Thomas Haine * Sandwich 1755 Administration Archdeaconry 1755 32  
George Banister * HMS "Medway" 1756 Administration Archdeaconry 1756 38  
Matthew Towgood * Sandwich 1757 Administration Archdeaconry 1757 9  
William Melmoth * Sandwich 1758 Will Archdeaconry 1758 46  
Leonard Cooke * Swanwick late HMS "Enterprise" 1758 Administration Archdeaconry 1758 36  
Thomas Tarry * Swanwick HMS "Magnamine" 1758 Administration Archdeaconry 1758 33  
Hester Wakely * Sandwich 1758 Administration Archdeaconry 1758 18  
Thomas Alford * Sandwich 1759 Administration Archdeaconry 1759 24  
John Cockram * HMS "Swiftsure" 1760 Administration Archdeaconry 1760 19 Fa - Lewis
Lewis Cole * Sandwich 1761 Will Archdeaconry 1761 57  
Richard Corben * Sandwich 1762 Will Archdeaconry 1762 58
Elizabeth Tidbury * Sandwich 1763 Administration Consistory 1763 35
Richard Bowers * Sandwich 1763 Will Archdeaconry 1763 40
Joseph Cox * Sandwich 1763 Administration Archdeaconry 1763 21
John Linnington * Sandwich 1763 Will Archdeaconry 1763 39
Thomas Soper * Sandwich 1765 Will Archdeaconry 1765 60
Ann Phippard * Sandwich 1765 Administration Archdeaconry 1765 24
Thomas Wakely * Sandwich 1767 Will Archdeaconry 1767 61
Stephen Smith * Sandwich 1767 Administration Archdeaconry 1767 24
Thomas Burdan * Sandwich 1769 Will Archdeaconry 1769 59
John Barnes * Sandwich 1770 Will Bristol Consistory Court 1770 38
William Masters * Swanage 1770 Will Consistory 1770 31
Frances Warren * Swanage 1770 Will Archdeaconry 1770 28
George Pushman * Sandwich 1771 Administration Archdeaconry 1771 18
James Benfield * Sandwich 1772 Will Archdeaconry 1772 49
Mary Pushman * Swanage 1774 Will Archdeaconry 1774 60
John Bemister * Sandwich 1775 Administration Archdeaconry 1775 27
James Browne * Sandwich 1776 Will Archdeaconry 1776 42
David Clarke * Sandwich 1776 Administration Archdeaconry 1776 15
John Melmoth * Sandwich 1777 Will Archdeaconry 1777 56
Hannah Soper * Sandwich 1778 Will Archdeaconry 1778 45
Samuel Warren * Sandwich 1779 Will Archdeaconry 1779 33
John Frampton * Sandwich 1780 Will Archdeaconry 1780 55
John Frampton * Swanage 1780 Inventory: see also Will Archdeaconry 1780 1
Richard Best * Sandwich 1780 Will Archdeaconry 1780 55
Robert Sanders * Sandwich 1780 Will Archdeaconry 1780 56
John (senior) Warren * Swanage 1780 Will Archdeaconry 1780 57
John Warren * Sandwich 1780 Administration Archdeaconry 1780 12
Benjamin Rose * Sandwich 1780 Administration Archdeaconry 1780 11
John Melmoth * Sandwich 1781 Will Archdeaconry 1781 51
Elizabeth Keats * Sandwich 1781 Will Archdeaconry 1781 50
Grace Collins * Swanich 1783 Administration Archdeaconry 1783 31
Sarah (widow) Seymour * Sandwich 1783 Administration Archdeaconry 1783 23
James Collins * Swanage 1783 Will (unproved) Archdeaconry 1783 5a/120/101
Phineas Melmouth * Swanage 1784 Administration Consistory 1784 54
Susanna Chinchen * Swanage 1784 Will Archdeaconry 1784 32
Susanna Chinchen * Swanage 1784 Inventory: see also Will Archdeaconry 1784 4
Samuel Burt * Sandwich 1785 Will Archdeaconry 1785 49
Samuel Burt * Sandwich 1785 Administration Archdeaconry 1785 50
John Morison * Swanage 1786 Will Archdeaconry 1786 58
Hannah Best * Swanage 1787 Will Archdeaconry 1787 42
John Best * Sandwich alias Swanage 1788 Administration Archdeaconry 1788 20
Henry Parlett * Swanage 1788 Administration Consistory 1788 23
John Cull * Scoles, Purbeck 1788 Will Consistory 1788 213
John Meader * Hareston in Swanage 1788 Will Archdeaconry 1788 12
Edward Stoodley * Swanage 1789 Will Archdeaconry 1789 45
Sarah Smedmore * Swanage 1792 Will and Administration Consistory 1792 90
Elizabeth Warren * Swanage 1793 Administration Archdeaconry 1793 17
Benjamin Bower * Swanage 1794 Will Archdeaconry 1794 26
Joseph Edmonds* Swanage 1794 Will Archdeaconry 1794 51
Christopher Haysome * Swanage 1794 Administration Archdeaconry 1794 24
John Harden * Swanage 1795 Will Archdeaconry 1795 45
Moses Vivien * Swanage 1795 Will Archdeaconry 1795 46
James Flook * Swanage 1797 Will Archdeaconry 1797 58
Charles Pope Shank * Swanage 1797 Administration Archdeaconry 1797 9