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• office administration; book-keeping; transactions of the day

• Financial.

Use for: Headteacher's log books

• Many school log books for the years 1870-1914 have been digitised and are available on the FindMyPast website (subscription service).

Use for: Marriage licence affidavits

Use for: Will

• The last wishes of a testator relating to their body and estate after their death.

• Grants or letters of administration issued by a court of probate to named individuals authorising the disposal of the goods and chattels of a deceased person also named.

Use for: Testamentary records

• Proven and unproven probate records. This can include wills, codicils, administrations, inventories, accounts, etc.
• Do not include extracts or copies made later for other purposes such as property transactions or genealogical research.

• A list of goods and chattels belonging to a deceased person usually compiled by executors or administrators with a view to valuing the deceased's personal estate for probate purposes.

• Seven series of lists of serving regular, militia or territorial British Army officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702.

Use for: Sound recordings