Example - Will of Barzilla MEEK 1863 (Announce)
Here is a good example that shows how useful the Wills Index can be and how it adds information to a recent thread of Barzilla MEEK.
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=27511
In looking at the index of Beneficiaries and Others that were mentioned in the 1863 Will of Barzilla Meek the following people are mentioned.
At this stage you cannot access these details as quicly as I can but soon you will be able to as I am in the process of adding a further facility on the website which will enable you to do so.
HOLT Thomas - Witness
FROWEN Amos - John - Drybrook - Witness
STERRY Eliza - Beneficiary - Daughter
MEEK Ann - Beneficiary - Daughter
MORGAN Elizabeth - Beneficiary - Daughter
WEAVER Maria - Beneficiary - Daughter
HALE Charlotte - Beneficiary - Daughter
MEEK Barzilla - Beneficiary - Son
WELSH Maryann - Beneficiary
HODGES Harriet - Beneficiary
MEEK Charles - Executor
STERRY Abraham - Executor
MARFELL John - Witness
Complete thread:
- Forest of Dean Wills & Administrations Index 1858-1941 -
admin,
2010-09-26, 06:37
- Example - Will of Barzilla MEEK 1863 - admin, 2010-09-26, 08:38
- Three different ways of Searching the Wills Index -
admin,
2010-09-27, 05:25
- Of interest is Thomas Lowe's Will -
admin,
2010-09-28, 05:47
- 1858-1941 Wills: Items of Interest - admin, 2010-10-08, 05:38
- Of interest is Thomas Lowe's Will -
admin,
2010-09-28, 05:47
- Beneficiaries and Others - admin, 2011-03-14, 03:56