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Probates in Ireland are an absolute disaster zone, mostly all that survived post 1922 destruction of the Public Records Office in Dublin is a 1 line name sometime and address or occupation. This is an attempt to add to some of these listed from other sources or give information on the family.
Prerogative Wills
Prerogative and diocesan copies of some wills and indexes to others, 1596 – 1858
Before a will can take effect, a grant of probate must be made by a court. If someone dies without having made a will, the court can grant letters of administration for the disposal of the estate. Since 1858, grants of probate and administration have been made in the Principal and District Registries of the Probate Court (before 1877) or the High Court (after 1877). They are indexed in the calendars of wills and administrations (available on this website for 1858 – 1922).
Before 1858, grants of probate and administration were made by the courts of the Church of Ireland (the Prerogative Court and the Diocesan or Consistorial Courts). Almost all of the original records were destroyed in the Public Record Office in 1922. Most of what appears on this site are indexes to the original wills.
For the pre-1858 ecclesiastical courts, will books containing copies of the originals survive for the Prerogative Court (1664-1684, 1706-1708, 1726-1728, 1728-1729, 1777, 1813 and 1834) and some Diocesan Courts – Connor (1818-1820 and 1853-1858) and Down (1850-1858). The will books for Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry are in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
The records can be searched by name, date, residence and district or diocese.
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West Cork History 
Page 26 Thomas Young Cotter 1805 ~ 1883, this short Bio is incorrect.
His father Richard Cotter was not a purser in the West Indies per say. He he volunteered Royal Navy in Cobh 1795, then 1796 to 1803 onboard HMS Cerberus on the Irish Station as Ship’s Writer, Landsman Cork Entry whence from Cloyne aged 20. In 1797 kept onboard as Supernumerary.1800 made Captain’s Clerk pay rank Midshipman. Okay maybe he did a voyage to Jamaica. 1803 given warrant as Purser on English based ships. Then 1805 HMS Fly arriving off Carysfort Reef shipwrecked and returned home. Then Purser Prison ship Thames then shipwrecked off Trincomalee Ceylon. Periods on half pay and ships in ordinary until 1814 when secretary to Capt. Pownall Pellew MP. Next assigned to Prison service then 1824 HMS Antelope to Bermuda, where they signed off on arrival and ships stores removed as the ship became a prison ship. Richard took one year half pay and wrote the book Bermuda and Somers Isles published 1828. Now the only evidence of Thomas Young Cotter being there is he is the illustrator of the book. No he was not a Cadet, but probably apprentice ship’s writer then aged 19, such apprentices were not on the muster list, No he was not in in charge of Naval Stores, that was Thomas Irving, probably only given some work in recording the stores removed from the ship. They returned 1826. T.Y. Cotter apprenticed as apothercary Mr. John Stanton of The Strand London an Apothecary, for 5 years by indenture dated January 3rd, 1827. The Court of Examiners entry books of qualifications of candidates of the Society of Apothecaries Dated January 24th, 1833 , Then Western General Dispensary Lisson Grove T.Y. Cotter Secretary dated December 15th, 1833, No record of him being under Bisdee. In Adelaide 1851 he was Executor of the will of John Thomas Young, tobacconist, born 1805 Bantry, believed to be the youngest sibling of T.Y. Cotter’s mother who was only 18 when T.Y. Cotter born. The will refers to property left to J.T. young by his father Thomas Young of Bantry. Some of the links are still to be concluded, but have written up a detailed 180 page history for this Cotter family. and have a time line for the Young’s back to 1599.
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thanks Bryan wiil amend pat
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