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Find their will and probate record.
One search box, every official register across the UK and Ireland. We take you straight to the right page on the government archive, pre-filled with the surname and year.
Search the official England & Wales registers
GOV.UK — Find a Will
The official probate register for England & Wales. Search by surname and year of death from 1858 to today. Order a copy of any will for £1.50.
Pre-filled with your search
The National Archives — Wills before 1858
Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384–1858). Free to search, small fee to download the original document.
Found the record? Keep their candle lit.
A probate entry is a legal footprint. A tribute page is the human one — the stories, photos and voices that a will could never hold.
Where this data comes from
- GOV.UK Find a Will — the statutory probate register for England & Wales, run by HM Courts & Tribunals Service. Contains every grant of probate since 1858.
- ScotlandsPeople — the official government genealogy site run by National Records of Scotland; wills & testaments back to 1513.
- PRONI & nidirect — the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (1858–1965 calendars, fully digitised) and the modern nidirect probate calendar (1994+).
- National Archives of Ireland — the Calendars of Wills & Administrations 1858–1922, digitised and free to search.
- Why we don't hold the data ourselves. Probate registers are legal records — they must be read from source. We link you straight to the authoritative copy rather than a cached snapshot that could go stale.