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 |
William | Baker | Knowle | 1668 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1668 | 24 | |
Elizabeth | Frost | Church Knowle | 1668 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1668 | 10 | |
George | Hayter | Knowle | 1668 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1668 | 25 | |
George | Browne | Church Knowle | 1670 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1670 | 12 | |
Roger | Osmond | Orchard in Knowle | 1670 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1670 | 34 | |
George | Haskell | Church Knowle | 1676 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1676 | 7 | |
Robert | Parrish * | Church Knowle | 1687 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1687 | 7 | |
John | Grace alias Accourt | Church Knowle | 1690 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1690 | 76 | |
John | Accourt alias Grace | Church Knowle | 1690 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1690 | 76 | |
Peter | Brown | Church Knowle | 1691 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1691 | 45 | |
Alexander | Cox | Knowle | 1696 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1696 | 20 | |
Elizabeth | Brien | Church Knowle | 1698 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1698 | 17 | |
William | Collins * | Church Knowle | 1701 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1701 | 12 | Yes |
William | Collins | Church Knowle | 1701 | Inventory: see also Will | Archdeaconry | 1701 | 88 | |
Daniel | Manes | Knowle | 1703 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | [Blank] | [Blank] | |
William | Hatchard* | Whitway in Purbeck | 1704 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1704 | 55 | |
William | Hatchard* | Purbeck | 1704 | Inventory: see also Will | Archdeaconry | 1704 | 19 | |
Shadrach | Croombs | Church Knowle | 1705 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1705 | 6 | |
Thomas | Bennett | Knowle | 1706 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1706 | 17 | |
John | Newman | Church Knowle | 1708 | Will | Consistory | |||
Jane | Hatchard* | Whiteway | 1709 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1709 | 45 | |
Thomas | Hatchard | Knowle | 1710 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1710 | 17 | |
Robert | Tubervill | Knowle | 1710 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1710 | 18 | |
Alexander | Cutler | Church Knowle | 1712 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1712 | 26 | |
George | Hayter | Knowle | 1712 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1712 | 11 | |
Richard | Collins | Church Knowle | 1712 | Inventory: not identified | Archdeaconry | 1712 | 24 | |
Alexander | Cutler | Church Knowle | 1712 | Inventory: see also Will | Archdeaconry | 1712 | 23 | |
John | Frampton | Church Knowle | 1723 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1723 | 13 | |
John | Frampton | Church Knowle | 1723 | Inventory: see also Will | Archdeaconry | 1723 | 10 | |
Sarah | Brown | Church Knowle | 1724 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1724 | 7 | |
John | Hatchard | Knowle in Purbeck | 1725 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1725 | 37 | |
George | Hatchard | Church Knowle | 1731 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1731 | 19 | |
Richard | Thombs | Church Knowle | 1733 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1733 | 24 | |
Robert | Sherren | Church Knowle | 1735 | Will (unproved) | Archdeaconry | [Blank] | [Blank] | |
John | Baker | Church Knowle | 1737 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1737 | 20 | |
Thomas | Speck | Orchard in Church Knowle | 1737 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1737 | 45 | |
Jonathan | Croomes | Church Knowle | 1737 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1737 | 11 | |
George | Hatchard | Knowle | 1740 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1740 | 20 | |
James | Meaden | Church Knowle | 1745 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1745 | 8 | |
Richard | Speck * | Church Knowle | 1747 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1747 | 17 | Yes |
Joseph | Croomes * | Church Knowle | 1748 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1748 | 27 | Yes |
Edward | Cutler * | Church Knowle | 1748 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1748 | 28 | Yes |
Thomas | Cockram * | Knowle in Purbeck | 1761 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1761 | 38 | Yes |
William | Bartlett | Church Knowle | 1763 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1763 | 24 | |
Christ. | Partridge | Knowle | 1774 | Administration | Consistory | |||
Ann | Voss | Church Knowle | 1784 | Administration | Consistory | |||
Edward | Baines | Church Knowle | 1787 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1787 | 28 | |
William | Whittle | Church Knowle | 1788 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1788 | 15 | |
Thomas | Elmes | Church Knowle in Purbeck | 1789 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1789 | 10 | |
Henry | Senneck | Orchard in East Knowle | 1790 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1790 | 45 | |
William | Galley | Church Knowle | 1800 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1800 | 29 | |
Robert | Elmes | Church Knowle | 1801 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1801 | 3 | |
John | Elliot | Church Knowle | 1806 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1806 | 15 | |
Richard | Hood | Church Knowle | 1807 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1807 | 6 | |
Thomas | Elmes | Church Knowle | 1809 | Will | Consistory | 1809 | 13 | |
Charles | Burden * | Church Knowle | 1815 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1815 | 13 | Yes |
Thomas | Trim | Church Knowle | 1824 | Will | Consistory | 1824 | 42 | |
Henry | Burden | Church Knowle | 1830 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1830 | 5 | |
James | Burden | Church Knowle | 1835 | Will | Consistory | 1835 - 1836 | 29 | |
Thomas | Elmes | Church Knowle | 1838 | Will | Archdeaconry | 1838 | 17 | |
Robert | Voss | Church Knowle | 1850 | Administration | Archdeaconry | 1850 | 24 |
* Abstracts of transcribed Wills