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Ireland Diocesan and Prerogative Wills & Administrations Indexes 1595-1858

Did your Irish ancestor leave a will when they died before 1858? If they did it would have been proved before one of the ecclesiastical courts of the establishment Church of Ireland. These handwritten indexes and will books can give you your ancestor’s name and their occupation, and even details of what they left in their will and to whom.

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Did your Irish ancestor leave a will when they died before 1858? If they did it would have been proved before one of the ecclesiastical courts of the establishment Church of Ireland. These handwritten indexes and will books can give you your ancestor’s name and their occupation, and even details of what they left in their will and to whom.

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