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The National Archives at Kew has the wills from the senior ecclesiastical court, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC), plus supporting records. Supporting records include court cases about disputed wills, inventories of goods, and accounts of executors.
Who left PCC wills?
- Mainly richer people from the southern half of Britain. There was usually a £5 property barrier before an estate became subject to the court.
- People dying overseas and leaving property in England or Wales. Therefore, there are lots of poor seamen's wills.
- Very few married women, as until the Married Women's Property Act of 1882, their property would have been deemed to belong to their husband.
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