Thanks Jeff
I do have JOHN PALMER's will 1812 ordered from glosarch but it took 2 weeks & c.A$16.
I also recd a will for THOMAS PALMER 1751 that cost the same but he died intestate!
I saw somewhere that a will can be ordered for less online & Marilyn has confirmed this.
thanks
Kath

As John PALMER was buried - 26 July 1812

was this Joseph his Son?

Baptism at Flaxley - 16 May 1813

Joseph PALMER - son of John (Farmer) & Mary

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I see no reason to suspect anything else (!)
Possible for Mary to be pregnant in July 1812 (by John)
and give birth Jan - Mar 2013 for a baptism in May 1813

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Yes Marilyn that is one of John Palmer's sons thanks.
I am sending family pedigree chart & family group sheets to you & Slowhands to add to your archives.
thanks again
if I live to 100 I will still be in debt to the 3Ms
Kath

Further to the recent PALMER threads, just to reinforce what MPG has recently stated, the National Archives website is well-worth searching as they are able to supply Wills by email so worldwide for very low cost from their "online" collection.

I think this is the search page to use, like many search engines I suggest "less is more" and best results are obtained by keeping the search text to a minimum.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Home/OnlineCollections

Re the PALMERS, the only Palmer Will I can find in the site is indeed for a Mary Palmer, this time "from" Mitcheldean, so possibly related to the nearby Flaxley Palmers ?.

Searching "Palmer Dean" gave seven UK-wide results including:

"Reference:PROB 11/1208/24
Description:Will of Mary Palmer, Widow of Mitchel Dean , Gloucestershire
Date: 04 August 1791
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record

"Buy online for £3.36, 5 pages totalling 1262 KB across 1 PDF file(s)."

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_col=2&_q=palmer+dean

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From this FoD site's PRs, I think these match the above Will ??

Record_ID: 319297
Entry_Number:
Year: 1791
Month: Jul
Day: 25
Surname: PALMER
Forenames: Mary
Residence:
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: Wid[ow]
Notes: Entry in BTs very feint
Register_Reference: P220 IN 1/2
Page_No: 12
Parish_Chapel: Mitcheldean
Soundex: P456

Or possibly ?? (there are a LOT of Mary Palmers in the PRs)

Record_ID: 319283
Entry_Number:
Year: 1790
Month: Jul
Day: 24
Surname: PALMER
Forenames: Mary
Residence:
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes: Not in the PRs. Entry not in correct date order in the BTs.
Register_Reference: GDR V1/160
Page_No:
Parish_Chapel: Mitcheldean
Soundex: P456

Thanks Anthony for clarifying the current situation, GlosArchives' use of the postal service is what I expected from reading their website. However the costs are much less than I had anticipated they might be, far less than their advertised photocopying costs etc. I therefore SURMISE that at least some of their Wills are already digitised, as with much of their service, so the apparent photocopy is actually a more-easily-produced print from a digital file; compared to the higher costs being directly related to time & labour of finding & photocopying a filed document. (The "old" xerox photocopying process now being a digital scan after all, the process of photocopying can automatically create a digital image file). If this the case then hopefully GlosArchives are not too far away from being able to send out these digital images as email attachments, much easier for all concerned and better preserves the original documents. The small engineering company I used to work for were communicating complex engineering drawings, artworks, sketches, photos etc around the world way via our desktop pcs over ten years ago to great effect and relatively low outlay.