Worth Matravers

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

* Abstracts of transcribed Wills

Name Surname Place Date Notes Crt. Proved Bundle Number Transcribed
George Cull Worth Matravers 1664 Will Archdeaconry 1664 58  
Thomas Edmonds alias Young Worth Matravers 1671 Will Archdeaconry 1671 89  
John Eyres * Worth Matravers 1671 Will Archdeaconry 1671 87 Yes
Thomas Young alias Edmonds Worth Matravers 1671 Will Archdeaconry 1671 89  
Henry Gillet Worth Matravers 1674 Will Archdeaconry 1674 56  
William Smith North Matravers 1675 Administration Archdeaconry 1675 82  
William Collins Worth Matravers 1682 Administration Archdeaconry 1682 46  
Matthew Barnes Worth Matravers 1684 Administration Archdeaconry 1684 135  
Edward Collins * Worth Matravers 1688 Administration Archdeaconry 1688 62 Yes
Edward Collins Worth Matravers 1688 Inventory: see also Administration Archdeaconry 1688 81  
William Chinchen Worth Matravers 1691 Administration Archdeaconry 1691 102  
Henry Collins * Worth Matravers 1693 Will Archdeaconry 1693 40 Yes
Margery Culliford Worth Matravers 1694 Will Archdeaconry 1694 53  
George Cull Renson in Worth Matravers 1695 Administration Archdeaconry 1695 65  
Samuel Veal Renson in North Matravers 1695 Administration Archdeaconry 1695 64  
George Cull Worth Matravers 1695 Inventory: see also Administration Archdeaconry 1695 73  
Isaac Clifford Worth Matravers 1696 Administration Consistory      
Alice Dolling Worth Matravers 1696 Administration Archdeaconry 1696 38  
William Barnes Worth in Purbeck 1705 Will Archdeaconry 1705 34  
Joseph Baten Worth in Purbeck 1705 Will Archdeaconry 1705 35  
John Collier Quarr in Purbeck 1705 Will Archdeaconry 1705 20  
Edward Abbot Worth Matravers 1708 Will Archdeaconry 1708 22  
Jane Burt Worth 1718 Will Archdeaconry 1718 55  
John Cook Worth 1718 Will Archdeaconry 1718 53  
Martha Cull Worth Matravers 1719 Will Archdeaconry 1719 28  
Alice Cook Weston in Worth Matravers 1733 Will Archdeaconry 1733 87  
Henry Curtis Worth Matravers 1740 Administration Archdeaconry 1740 42  
Robert Pyke North Matravers 1746 Will and Administration Consistory      
Daniel Masters North Matravers 1751 Administration Archdeaconry 1751 50  
Samuel Smith Worth Matravers 1766 Will Archdeaconry 1766 60  
Richard Bower * Worth Matravers 1767 Will Archdeaconry 1767 97 Yes
Edward Smith North Matravers 1779 Administration Archdeaconry 1779 19  
Mellicent Bower Worth Matravers 1790 Administration Archdeaconry 1790 35  
James Smith Eastington in Purbeck 1792 Will Archdeaconry 1792 21  
Ann Smith Worth Matravers 1795 Will Archdeaconry 1795 20  
John Curtis Worth Matravers 1801 Will Archdeaconry 1801 27  
John Windsor * Worth Matravers 1810 Will Archdeaconry 1810 10 Yes
William Nobbs Worth Matravers 1821 Will Consistory 1821 17  
Robert Cheesman Worth Matravers 1833 Administration Archdeaconry 1833 2  
William Salway Worth Matravers 1848 Will Consistory 1848 10  
David Caines * Worth Matravers 1852 Will Archdeaconry 1852 47 Yes

* Abstracts of transcribed Wills

Unknown Parishes

John Toope Purbeck 1664 Will Archdeaconry 1664 33
Ann Frew or Trew Purbeck 1667 Will Archdeaconry 1667 29
Ann Trew or Frew Purbeck 1667 Will Archdeaconry 1667 29
Sarah Petten [Blank] 1670 Will Archdeaconry 1670 42
Robert Skinner Matravers 1672 Will Archdeaconry 1672 38
John Melmouth [Blank] 1686 Will Consistory    
Samuel Udall Purbeck 1695 Inventory: not identified Archdeaconry 1695 83
William Hatchard Whitway in Purbeck 1704 Will Archdeaconry 1704 55
William Hatchard Purbeck 1704 Inventory: see also Will Archdeaconry 1704 19
Jane Hatchard Whiteway 1709 Will Archdeaconry 1709 45
William Loope Sloape in Purbeck 1713 Will Archdeaconry 1713 38
John Seamore [Blank] 1729 Inventory Consistory    
Thomas Bower HMS 'Nonsuch' 1742 Administration Archdeaconry 1742 61
John Cull Purbeck 1788 Will Consistory    
Thomas Elliot Isle of Purbeck 1790 Will Archdeaconry 1790 34