Clark County was created in 1792 from Bourbon and Fayette Counties. It was named after George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary War Soldier. County seat is Winchester, Kentucky.  |
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Nelson County was formed from Jefferson County, Virginia in 1784, shortly after the Revolutionary War. The county is named for Thomas Nelson, Jr., a Virginia Governor who signed the Declaration of Independence. The county seat is Bardstown. |
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Campbell County was formed on December 17, 1794 two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It was taken from sections of Scott, Harrison, and Mason Counties and was named for Colonel John Campbell (1735 to 1799), a Revolutionary War soldier and Kentucky Legislator. The original county included all of present Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Bracken and Grant counties. The county seat of Wilmington survived from 1794 to 1797 and its court house was built of logs, later replaced in 1815 by a brick structure. Newport was the county seat until 1823 when it was removed to Visalia. This site was unpopular and the county seat was returned to Newport in 1824, lasting until 1840. In 1840, Kenton County was created, primarily out of a significant portion of Campbell. The Kentucky General Assembly then forced the county to move its seat to Alexandria, closer to the center of the new, smaller Campbell County. In 1883, after years of lobbying, the General Assembly established a special provision to allow Newport to designate a Court House District separate from the offices in Alexandria.
Campbell County Probate Records available to members of Kentucky Pioneers
Indexes to Probate RecordsImages of Wills, Estates, Inventories 1894 to 1820
- Wills, Estates, Inventories 1794 to 1820
Testators: Allen (infant) | Allen, David | Ally, Samuel, Captain | Anderson, Jacob | Anderson, John | Armstrong, John | Arnold, Elisha | Bagby, Robert | Baker, John | Beall, Benjamin | Beall, Jeanette | Beaver, John | Benham, Peter | Berry, Washington | Blanchard, Abiel | Bobet, Randolph | Buckner, George | Cahill, James | Campbell, Colen | Campbell, John | Cleveland, Levi | Cloud, William | Colvin, Lewis | Cooper, Benjamin | Cooper, Christopher | Cormely, Michael | Coursey, William | Curry, William | Davis, Joseph | Dickens, Charles | Dickerson, William | Dickinson, Arche | Dixon, Henry | Duckworth, Robert | Eckert, Leonard | Edmonds, John | Fleming, James | Flournoy, Lucy | Foster, George | Fowler, Richard | Frier, Humphrey | Gano, John Stiles |Green, Betsy | Griffin, Thomas | Griffing, Ebenezer | Hamilton, Jesse | Harnett, Zachariah | Harper, Richard | Hume, Joel | Hume, John | Jenkins, Elizabeth | Jones, Margaret | Kennedy, Mary | Kennedy, Thomas | Kennedy, William | Kenney, Robert | Kent, Susanna | Kinkaid, Andrew | Klette, Frederick | Knight, Jacob | Leathers, John | Leathers, John Sr. | Leathers, Joshua | Leathers,Thomas | Leitch, David | Lindsey, Thomas | Lucas, Lewis M. | Lynn, Nathan | Mardes, Wilson | Martin, John | McCollum, John | McDonald, George | McKay, Jacob | Merman, John | Miller, Jacob | Miller, John | Miller, Philip Jacob | Morton, David | Moseley, John C. | Moseley, Thomas | Nelson, Anne Nelson, John | Nelson, Meredith | Nunamaker, Lewis | Osborn, James | Paul, John | Pearcefield, Vallentine | Peek, George | Perry, Samuel | Ponder, John | Powell, Micajah | Revelle, Randle | Reynolds, Jonah | Rice, Lewis | Richardson, John | Rosell, John | Rust, Enos | Sandford, Thomas | Stephens, William Sr. | Shepherd, Joseph | Smith, James | Spilman, James | Stewart, Hugh | Stubbs, Robert | Swan, Hugh | Swing, Samuel | Talbert, Abner | Talbot, John | Taylor, Caleb | Taylor, Edmund | Taylor, G. E. | Taylor, James | Terry, David | Thatcher, Daniel | Trail, Osburn | Turner, Alexander | Turner, Rowlen | Vadin, Hennery | Vickelthymn, Levi | Vice, Nathaniel | Vickers, Moses | York, John | Wagoner, Catharine | Wagoner, Phillip | White, Robert | White, Thomas | Willison, Richard | Wilson, Samuel
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Bullitt County was founded in 1796 and the county seat is Shepherdsville. It was named after the nephew of Thomas Bullitt, Governor Alexander Scott Bullitt, who served as the first Lieutenant Governor. The land was taken from Jefferson and Nelson counties through an act approved on December 13, 1796 by the Kentucky General Assembly. In 1811, the northwestern area of the county expanded to include land given by Jefferson County and in 1824 an eastern area of the county was given to help form Spencer County. |
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| The Substance of Genealogy = Old Wills and Estates There is more personal family information and clues contained in old wills and estates than a census record. And it is more accurate because it was written by an ancestor who wished to be remembered, and found later in time; after he had gone. It usually provides all yhe names of the children and their spouses, grandchildren, siblings, parents and could even include the names of relatives residing in foreign countries. Reading an old last will and testament, along with its inventories, sales, annual returns and other estate data is an open book into the life experiences of another person. Also, it provide multiple clues to discovering other relatives, should we examine it more closely. Not only do we get the whereabouts of family members, but also origins. One mention of a relative in a foreign country, for example, is worth thousands of research hours. Actually, estate details provide a parcel of clues in the Annual Returns. These returns commence with the last illness, funeral details, and as additional returns are filed (annually until the final settlement), tidbits appear of personal data appears, such as letters received from relatives in other places and all sorts of clues where to search next. Names of relatives, neighbors and friends are plastered all over those records. And do not forget to search for receipts! If you do this much, more family members will emerge and as well as a pattern of clues. |
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more on Breckinridge CountyBreckinridge County was established in 1799 from a portion of Hardin County. When Abraham Lincoln was seven years old, his father, Thomas Lincoln and his family spent a few weeks in Hardinsburg and occupied a small cabin near what is now the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Camp. The Lincolns left Kentucky by crossing the Ohio River at Cloverport on a log ferry operated by Jacob Weatherholt. The Confederate Army burned the local court being used by Union troops as barracks during the War Between the States. The third court house was burned in 1958. The county is known for its Victoria Coal Mines, named after Queen Victoria, when the Cloverport exported coal oil used to light Buckingham Palace.
Indexes to Probate Records
Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book No. 2, 1895 to 1935
Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book No. 3, 1936 to 1966 (Images) - 1-53 | 54-110 | 111-116 | 162-215 | 216-314 | 315-391 | 392-476 | 477-500 | 487-501 | 521-642
Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book No. 4, 1966 to 1975(Images) - 1-9 | 10-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-69 | 70-79 | 80-89 | 90-99 | 100-199 | 200-299 | 300-399 | 400-499 | 500-599 | 600-171
Images of Wills, Estates, Inventories, Appraisements, Guardianships, Appraisements, Book 1, 1800 to 1893
Addison, Robert | Ader, David | Adkisson, William Sr. | Aiken, Courtney | Alexander, Charles | Alexander, Hardin | Alexander, Philip | Alexander, Thomas | Allen, Allen | Allen, Joseph | Allen, Jeremiah | Alvey, Thomas | Amen, William | Anderson, George | Ascott, Margaret
Baker, George C. P. | Barber, John | Barger, Andrew | Barlow, Samuel | Barnes, Edmund | Barr, Adam Jr. | Barr, George | Basham, Francis | Basham, Hannah | Basham, William | Bassett, James Bassham, Littleberry | Bates, Benjamin | Bates, Samuel H. | Beacham, Bartlett | Beale, Elizabeth | Beard, James Sr. | Beard, Nehemiah Bealcher, Fielding | Bealcher, William | Beauchamp, Alexander | Beavin, Henry | Benley, Christiann | Bennett, Edgar | Berren, Jacob | Best, Joseph | Betbell, Samuel | Bevin, Felix | Bevin, Rachael | Bevins, Samuel | Blain, Michael | Blain, William | Blanford, John | Blevins, Thomas | Board, Harrison L. | Board, Henderson | Board, James | Board, William | Bomour, George | Bonner, Robert | Bosinger, Jacob | Brack, James C. | Branfield, John | Brasher, Peter | Bratcher, Buford | Brown, Gideon | Brown, Mary | Bruce, Catharine | Bruce, Hiram | Bruce, William Bruner, John | Burbage, Elizabeth Ann Waltern | Burch, Henley | Burch, James F. | Burditt, Stephen | Burnett, John L. | Burton, Edward | Burton, George | Butler, James Butler, Margaret
Cannon, John H. | Carman, George H. | Carter, Merry | Carter, Richard F. | Carwile, David | Cashman, Martin | Chadman, Joshua | Chambliss, Robert | Chappell, James W. | Clark, Henry A. | Clark, Joseph | Clark, Simeon | Claycomb, Nicholas | Claycourt, Conrad | Combs, Ignatius | Compton, William | Connell, Thomas | Conner, Dade | Conner, Edward | Cook, Elizabeth | Coombs, Henry Cowheard, Elizabeth | Cox, Benjamin | Craig, Emeline | Critchlow, Joseph | Cross, Robert N. | Cunningham, James
Daniel, Vivion | Davis, Thomas P. | Deal, William | Dean, Henry P. | Dean, Howard | Deane, Mary | Dennard, Susan | Dent, William | Dickerson, Winfield | Dowck, Micajah | Dowck, Thomas | Driggins, James | Duggins, Benjamin | Duncan, George P. | Duncan, James | Duncan, Thomas | Dunnett, John | Durpin, James
Eaders, Peter | Eidson, Mildred | Elliott, J. C. | Elliott, William | Etherington, Richard | Evans, Samuel
Fackler, Joseph | Faith, Ruth | Febesgan, Samuel | Fentress, Valentine | Fisher, John | Fisher, William | Fitzhugh, William | Flakes, Michael | Foote, Edwin | Frank, Elizabeth | Frank, Martha J. | Fraze, John | French, James | Frymire, Mary
Galloway, John W. | Gannaway, William | Garret, David | Gentry, Keziah | Gibbons, Fielder | Gibson, William | Gilbert, Aquila | Gilbert, Aquilla | Gilbert, Jacob | Gillenwates, Joel | Gilmore, James | Glasscock, George | Glasscock, Gregory | Glasscock, John Sr. | Glasscock, Redmond | Glasscock, Sally | Glasscock, William | Godsey, Solomon | Grant, Daniel | Gray, James | Green, R. F. W. D. | Green, Thompson | Greenwell, Wilfred | Gregory, George W. | Gregory, John R. | Gregory, Thomas | Gross, Abraham | Guggins, James
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There is a Sir Francis Drake last will and testament in Logan County dated 1814. He was born in Cumberland, Virginia and appear to be descended from the famous Sir Francis Drake of England. Probably this sort of naming with the first name as "Sir Francis" to a child is a reminder to the heirs of descent from a prominent figure in time. Even the less obvious names seem to have great meaning within the family structure. I recently analyzed the naming of every child in a certain family. Some were given surnames as the first name. The experience was eye-opening once I examined the families in the same county with those surnames. Eventually, I was able to discover the name of the grandmother who never married, but had seven children by the same father. Tracing that particular lineage took me to a Revolutionary War Soldier from Abbeville, South Carolina to Henry County, Georgia. Once I prepared his family group sheet listing all of the children, the identity of the unmarried daughter (who had the illegitimate children) became apparent. |
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