Kent Probate Indexes 1571-1857 on the National Wills Index
Kent has the largest collection of probate records of any English county but there are as yet no published indexes to much of this material. Indexes to all of these records will become available on the National Wills Index (NWI) in 2012.
The first Kent probate indexes to become available on the NWI include:- 13,413 wills from the Archdeaconry and Consistory Courts of Rochester,
- 27,812 surviving paper inventories of Kent testators.
