RAMSDALE Probate Records Database

England & Wales: 1383 - 1967

London Probate Courts: 1750 - 1858

The following wills and administrations have been extracted for the surname RAMSDALE and its close variants RAMSDAL(L), RAMSDAILLE AND RAMSDEL(L) from an index prepared by Dr David Wright of all the smaller probate court wills and administrations in London for the period 1750 to 1858:

1. The Royal Peculiar of St. Katherine by the Tower: entries 1750-1772
2. The Royal Peculiar of the Commissary Court of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster: entries 1750-1780s, plus a few later to 1829
3. The Archbishop of Canterbury's Peculiar of the Deanery of Croydon: entries 1750-1780s, plus a few later to 1832 (jurusdiction generally in the south-east, but only London entries extracted)
4. The Archbishop of Canterbury's Peculiar of the Deanery of the Arches: entries 1750-1780s
5. The Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral: entries 1750-1837
6. The Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex: entries 1750-1785, plus a few later to 1810
7. The Archdeaconry Court of London: entries 1750-1785
8. The Commissary Court of London: entries 1750-1858
9. The Consistory Court of London: entries 1750-1858

The entries have been taken from the annual calendars of each court, these being arranged in variously sized groups of years and, like the PCC, under the initial letter of the surname only. The total number of index entries is between 60,000 and 70,000. Of the nine courts, the seven smaller ones which were wound up by the late 1700s constitute a little under 10% of all entries. The Consistory Court, which was the superior one in having jurisdiction over the entire capital and inferior only to the PCC, has fewer entries in total than the Commissary Court.

1858 - 1967