Butson Family Newsletter
Issue Number 3
Spring 1981

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Last updated: January 25, 1998
List of All Issues

The entire issue is on this one page, so that you can search or print the entire issue. Here are internal links to the articles:
  1. THE PAST: The English Records: Part I
  2. Letters
  3. Register (Recent Births and Deaths)
  4. THE PAST: The Emigrants
  5. Where Are They? (More Returned Newlsetters)
  6. Butson Accomplishments

THE PAST: The English Records: Part I

These records are from the British Record Society's Index Library series, begun about 1880. Each pair of numbers, i.e. (66,79), designates the volume (66) and page (79). My abbreviations are:

  • a = administration
  • b = book
  • c = copied
  • f = folio
  • m = missing
  • r = register
  • t = testament
  • w = will
  • - (hyphen) = marriage
Sources

  1. Country-wide: Prerogative Court of Canterbury
    • A. Index of Wills Proved
      • 1383-1558 (Volume 10)
      • 1605-1619 (Volume 43)
      • 1657-1660 (Volume 61)
    • B. Index of Administrations
      • 1649-1654 (Volume 68)
  2. Devonshire: Devonshire records at Exeter
    • A. Calendar of Devons