Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration or CGPLA was an index published in the

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and

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that lists an alphabetical summary of

probate In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the e ...

documents such as wills.Glen, William Cunningham and Alexander Glen,
The Law Relating to the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England
' (1875) Knight (pub), Oxford, England. Republished at Google Books. (accessed 3 January 2008) The correct full title for Ireland is ''Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration Made in the Principal Registry and in the Several District Registries 1858-1920''.Probate in Ireland, Part 1: From 1858
at ancestry.com (accessed 1 January 2008) Every year from 1858, volumes of short summaries of grants of

and of

letters of administration Letters of Administration are granted by a surrogate court or probate registry to appoint appropriate people to deal with a deceased person's estate where property will pass under intestacy rules or where there are no executors living (and will ...

were created, in alphabetical order by surname. For each grant of probate, these include the name, address, and occupation (or other description) of the deceased, the place and date of the death, the date on which probate was granted and the value of the estate, and the names and addresses of any executors. For 1858 to 1877, there is also a consolidated index.

References

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