Inheritance Disputes Index 1574-1714

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This dataset is an index to over 26,000 lawsuits in the English Court of Chancery concerned with the inheritance of money or real estate. These cases typically involved several members of the same family so are of particular value to family historians.

The Index to Inheritance Disputes identifies whose estate the case is concerned with, where that person lived, the parties to the dispute, the date the case started, and The National Archives (TNA) reference(s) to the original documents.

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