Wills in Archives

Wills in Archives

Most wills for the inhabitants of Aughton are in the Borthwick Institute, in York University. However, with the cataloguing of family, estate, and solicitor collections in archives throughout Yorkshire,  and the availability of these catalogues online on the Access to Archives website, it has been possible to find a few more wills of Aughton inhabitants, some of which, if they are draft wills in solicitors' collections, may never have been proven and would therefore not show up in the standard indexes to wills.

The following wills have been located so far:

Surname Forename Place Year(s) Docs Archive Reference
Aske Christopher Aughton 1538 W BJL DX/55
Aske John Aughton 1606 W BJL DX/55
Aske Richard Aughton 1627 W BJL DX/55
Aske Richard Aughton 1683 W BJL DX/55
Aske Robert Aughton 1531 W BJL DX/55
Aske Robert Aughton 1689 W BJL DX/55
Aske William Aughton 1688 W BJL DX/55
Bridges family Ellerton and Aughton 17c-18c W ERYA DDX73
Dawson Samuel Aughton 1731 W BJL DX/55