Site Updates

Original June 2006 - Plomer Parts 1 & 2, CCC registered wills, ADC registered wills Volumes 30-60

Update 1 January 2007 ADC registered wills extended to Volumes 30-83 (part)

Update 2 September 2007 ADC registered wills completed, All Canterbury registered wills now included in the index. 
Changes to PRC3 volume numbers since Henry Plomer indexed the Act. Books for periods 1487-1557 and 1640-1645. 
Ref Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC documentation records.

Update 3  January 2009 - Data reformatted to combine all records into 2 periods 1396-1659 and 1660-1858
Plomer files retained for additional information
Errors corrected
Original wills -
16,350 from PRC16 series and 186 from PRC31 series added to 1396-1659 file
Photo's added
New layout of site

Update 3a
Unreadable records 1557-1659 (15) updated from original documents
Temporary file added to 1660-1857 series for unregistered original wills post 1659

Update 3b temporary file updated to 1670 - March 2009
Update 3c temporary file updated to 1700 - April 2009

Update 4
Temporary file removed and 13000 Archdeaconry Court original/office copy wills from PRC16 series added (1660-1760)
Corrected discrepancies between index entries.

Update 5 January 2010
Archdeaconry Original wills index extended to include 1550-1556 & 1761-1858
Plomer transcription errors in file ekp1 corrected.
Corrected discrepencies between original & registered ADC index entries - Original will taken as master
Text format changed from black to red/blue
unfilmed entries in boxes 526 & 534 indexed at CKS from originals.

M J Cozens January 2010



PRC3 Volume number changes

Plomer Volume Number Reference Volume No. now Years Comments
1 1 1487-1503/4
2 2 1503/4-1511
3 3 1505-1512
4 4 1511-1521
5 5 1520-1524
5a 6 1523-1531
6 7 1524-1531
7 8 1531-1539
7a 9 1539-1544 Not in Plomer
8 10 1536-1545
9 11 1545-1550
10 12 1550-1552
11 13 1552-1554
12 14 1554-1557
13 15 1557-1560 Plomer only 1557
33 35 1637-1640 Plomer only 1640
34 36a 1640-1645
34 36b 1645-1663 Plomer only 1645