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Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	Heather	Report	12 Mar 2009 17:00
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	Thank you Potty! Of on another trail now! Heather
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 10,522 Send Message	Potty	Report	12 Mar 2009 16:54
	From the National Archives Documents online: Death Duty Registers (1796 - 1811) Death Duty Registers hold details of wills and bequests for estates liable to death duties. The Death Duty Registers on DocumentsOnline cover the 'country court' death duty registers (in other words, from Courts other than the Prerogative Court of Canterbury or PCC) for the period 1796 to 1811. So you can search on over 66,000 names. The guide below explains more about death duties, and how to search the registers available online. Use the links below to jump to the topics you are interested in. Many of the terms used may be unfamilar, so please refer to the Glossary There also some wills online at the National Archives
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	Heather	Report	12 Mar 2009 16:51
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 47 Send Message	Sorry to all of those people who will think I'm really thick, but what is a Death Duty Register? Does it mean the deceased owed money or that they left some sort of will? If they did leave a will how would I get a copy of it? Your help would be so appreciated! Heather