Devon Wills Project

Contents & Search

This DRO-U index provides information concerning wills, administrations and inventories held at the Devon Record Office, in collections whose detailed contents have not yet been entered into any available DRO catalogue. Most of the collections recently acquired by DRO that contain testamentary material consist either of papers gathered by one family or of documents formerly held in solicitors' offices. The Reference column provides the DRO's reference number for the particular collection an item was found in, and where possible some indication of its location within this collection.

As DRO collections are catalogued, then each item therein (including will copies found by our volunteers) will receive its own individual reference number. DWP endeavours to keep up-to-date with DRO's cataloguing project, adjusting or adding references as we learn of them. Additionally, the staff at DRO occasionally re-sort the items in a box prior to cataloguing, though it may be a few years before the box is finally catalogued. Thus, as has happened already, the items in a box which has already been searched for wills by one of our volunteers may get re-sorted and the titles of folders within that box may get changed. So, please be aware that titles on folders may not always appear exactly as they do in our index.

To obtain information about the possibility of viewing the documents listed, photographing them or acquiring photocopies of them by post, you should contact the Devon Record Office directly.