On 30 Oct 2017, at 19:45, Beverly Roth <rothbeverly(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: It is digitized and can be found on Thegenealogist.com or ancestry.com for $$ but the gist of the will is Thomas Canntor - written 27 September 1595 - donates to the poor of Aishberton out of one meadow of his lying by Gullwill Bridge - has a deceased brother John Canntor that left a son Roger who must be a minor at school because he gets a yearly bequest for 16 years for maintenance at school... to be taken out of testators land at Stoverton & Ashberton - nephew Philippe Tape gets land within the land of Totnes but he can not sell them or they revert back to the heirs of the testator - wife is Elizabeth - Christopher and John Canntor are also son sof testator's deceased brother John Canntor and they also receive land but can not sell it - deceased brother John also left a daughter Johane Canntor - bequests to Margaret Toope & Mary Toope with no relationship given - bequest to "every of my godchildren" - overseers of the will are John Blundell, James Abraham, John Canntor of Halfworthie, and Thomas Canntor - probated 25 October 1595 to the relic Elizabeth who apparently dies before 12 May 1624 when Roger Canntor is placed at the administrator of the will Beverly ________________________________ From: DEVON <devon-bounces+rothbeverly=hotmail.com(a)rootsweb.com&gt; on behalf of Ruth Appleby <orange.wasps(a)live.co.uk&gt; Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 1:20 PM To: devon(a)rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DEV] PCC WILLS - Source JHW This will is not listed under PCC wills on Ancestry. Ruth Sent from my iPad > On 30 Oct 2017, at 17:39, Jane Lucas <janelucas(a)me.com&gt; wrote: > > Can anyone advise me about a Will that I can’t trace, listed in this Index please? I’ve read all the advice on GENUKI including Jean Harris’s own explanation of the Index. I hope I’m not being dim and have completely missed something obvious. Perhaps I need to use a local FHL centre, where it should be on LDS microfilm. > > The Will in question is of Thomas Cannter 1595 of Staverton, This is the Scott Register, Folio 63. Source JHW, Court PCC, Document/Type, Will, Copy. > > Additional information on FMP page is > Aishberton [Ashburton]; Towne of Totnes; 12 Mar 1624 comm. issued > > I’ve also tried putting all those bits of information in various ways into the search boxes at TNA e.g. keyword search, place search with name variants AND/OR searches. > > I read somewhere on the GENUKI Devon site that all PCC Wills are now digitised on TNA site. However, I cannot find it using the various permutations I’ve tried. Obviously spelling variants of the name, (Caunter, Canter, Counter) but also dates, variants of the place spelling etc. > > Some of the JHW Wills listed in the Index are in TNA database; I’ve searched a few (all early Wills) just to make sure, but out of the three I searched for I found only three. > > My question is, does anyone know if there are still some PCC Wills that have not yet been digitised at TNA? Perhaps it’s there and I just can’t find it. > > I’m going up to TNA next week and can of course ask, but if they don’t have the reference in their database I might not get any further. > > Thanks > Jane > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message