1850 Evidence of The Venerable Samuel Kyle, LLD, Vicar General of Dioceses of Cork and Cloyne, on Consistory (Probate) Court, Registrar Henry Stopford Kyle, Barrister, Resident in London, 6 Proctors, Advocates All Protestants. In Registry Attached to St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, Book of Wills since 1575, Classified wills from 1606-1850, Court Documents from 1755 (All Probably Destroyed in 1922).
The Registrar is probably related to him, as is the Vicar General of Cloyne, 1835, Rev. William Cotter Kyle LLD. Barrister.
The Consistory Courts were abolished and replaced by the Dublin Probate Office.
Summaries of will from 1865 are on line at :
http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/home.jsp
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