Series SC12/37 - Commissary Court: Register of Confirmations, Inventories and Wills

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SC12/37

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Commissary Court: Register of Confirmations, Inventories and Wills

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  • 1859-1978 (Creation)

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Shetland Archives

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These volumes contain records of confirmations: powers conferred on the executor of a deceased person's estate to administer it. Prior to 1928 the volumes also contain inventories of property; from 1928 onwards they contain wills.

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      lerwick-sheriff-court-records.pdf

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      1926 - 1927, gap in Series.

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