Bedfordshire wills 1484-1533
These abstracts of 298 wills are based on transcriptions made by John and Isobel Thompson from the probate records of the Court of the Archdeacon of Bedford, held at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service as ABP/R 2 and 3.
The wills are mainly of the ordinary people of Bedfordshire villages and towns and a few local clergy.
As well as containing details of testators’ families, possessions, some property and bequests to the church, there are glimpses into people’s minds: ‘beyng seke in bodie dredyng the parell of death to fall unto me’; and a request for burial in the parish church ‘afore the sowth doore behynd the piller’.
Patricia Bell was Bedfordshire County Archivist 1968-1986 and also General Editor for BHRS. She both edited and contributed to many BHRS volumes.
Isobel Thompson (?-1985) was a teacher and volunteer at Bedfordshire County Record Office.
John Thompson was an aeronautical engineer, latterly at RAE Thurleigh. In retirement he was a volunteer in Bedfordshire County Record Office, transcribing and translating medieval, sixteenth and seventeenth century documents.
Bedfordshire wills 1484-1533, edited by Patricia L. Bell. Bedford, BHRS, 1997. v, 201p. illus. BHRS vol. 76
ISBN 0 85155 059 2
Out of print
Three volumes of later wills proved between 1531 and 1547 are available from Bedfordshire Family History Society (opens in a new window).
- Agar; Nigel E. (1)
- Allsopp; Anne (1)
- Armstrong; Aileen M. (1)
- Austin; William (5)
- Baker; A. R. H. (1)
- Baker; David (2)
- Bassett; Margery (1)
- Bell; Patricia (7)
- Bennett; Nicholas H. (1)
- Benson; Michael (1)
- Bishop; W. J. (1)
- Blundell; Jos. Hight (4)
- Brooks; Eric St. John (1)
- Brown; Rev. J. E. (2)
- Buck; Anne (3)
- Bunker; Stephen (1)
- Burrows; Donald (1)
- Bushby; David (3)
- Cashman; Bernard (1)
- Chambers; Betty (2)
- Chambers; C. Gore (2)
- Chambers; L. H. (1)
- Chapman; Colin (1)
- Cheney; C. R. (1)
- Cirket; Alan F. (5)
- Cockman; F. G. (1)
- Collett-White; James (5)
- Conisbee; L. R. (1)
- Crook; Barbara (1)
- Curtis; Evelyn (1)
- Dale; Marian K. (1)
- Deacon; M. G. (Martin) (2)
- Denny; Rev. Sir Henry L. L. (1)
- Dickens; A. G. (1)
- Dony; John (1)
- Dyer; James (1)
- Earl of Cardigan (1)
- Elliott; J. Steele (5)
- Emmison; F. G. (7)
- Emmison; Margaret (1)
- Emsley; Clive (1)
- Farmiloe; Rev. J. E. (1)
- Farrer; William (1)
- Finberg; H. P. R. (1)
- Fines; J (1)
- Flick; Carlos T. (1)
- Forster; Harley W. (1)
- Foster; C. W. (1)
- Fowler; G. Herbert (22)
- Fox; Cyril (1)
- Freeman; C. E. (2)
- Gaydon; A. T. (1)
- Gilmore; G. D. (3)
- Godber; Joyce (8)
- Gurney; Frederick G. (1)
- Hamson; J. (1)
- Henman; W. N. (1)
- Holden; Len (1)
- Houfe; Simon (1)
- Hughes; Michael W. (2)
- Hull; Peter (1)
- Hunnisett; R. F. (1)
- Jack; R. I. (1)
- Jamieson; Dorothy (1)
- Jenkinson; Mrs Hilary (5)
- Kealy; Rev. A. G. (1)
- Kimball; Elisabeth G. (1)
- Kuhlicke; F. W. (1)
- Lazenby; Keith (1)
- Lee; Ross (1)
- Linnell; C. D. (3)
- Loyd; Lewis C. (1)
- Lutt; Nigel (1)
- Malcolmson; Patricia and Robert (2)
- Manning; F. J. (2)
- Marks; Richard (1)
- Marshall; Lydia M. (1)
- Marsom; F. W. (1)
- McGregor; Margaret (2)
- Morgan; Richard (1)
- Moriarty; G. Andrews (1)
- Morris; John E. (2)
- Moser; Elizabeth (1)
- Mullett; Michael (1)
- Nicholls; Yvonne (3)
- Nixseaman; Rosita (1)
- Owen; Dorothy (2)
- Page-Turner; F. A. (5)
- Parsloe; Guy (1)
- Payne; Ernest Oscar (1)
- Peyton; S. (2)
- Pickford; Chris (6)
- Poynter; F. N. L. (1)
- Puttnam; Fred. (1)
- Richards; Margaret (1)
- Richards; P. S. (1)
- Richmond; Robert (1)
- Rodell; Jonathan (1)
- Roskell; J. S. (1)
- Serjeantson; R. M. (1)
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