The following extracts are taken from the Indexes formerly at Somerset House, London but now at the Principle Family Registry Division, High Holborn, London. They include all of 1997 and up to and including week 8 of 1998.
£180,000 is the starting point for paying Inheritance Tax (at this date) and explains why this is a common figure.
The last last item in each entry is the reference number required to identify the Will or Letters of Administration.
Of 60 Conway Cresent, Perivale, Middlesex
Died 08/11/1997
Probate Oxford 15/12/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9752216184W
Of 16 Forrest Grove, Garswood, Ashton in Makerfield, Wigan, Lancashire
Died 24/11/1996
Letters of Administration Manchester 13/02/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9751903391V
Of 4 Brampton Meadows, Thurcroft, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Died 31/03/1997
Letters of Administration Leeds 23/06/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9781605644X
Of 24 Templar Court, Princes Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Died 01/03/1997
Letters of Administration Oxford 23/04/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9752206738E
Of 4 The Banks, Baird Hill, Broadstairs, Kent
Died 24/07/1996
Probate Oxford 10/12/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9752203492H
Of 166 Dingle Lane, Solihull, West Midlands
Died 06/04/1997
Probate Birmingham 23/09/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9751216197F
Of 114 Springfield Road, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham
Died 06/04/1997
Probate Birmingham 27/06/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9751212029D
Lynn Elizabeth Catherine Baughan-Howell
Of 12 Sanctus Road, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire
Died 10/11/1996
Probate Birmingham 27/03/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9751206882H
Of The Wilton Nursing Home, Wood Road, Hindhead, Surrey
Died 16/01/1997
Letters of Administration with Will Winchester 06/03/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9752408765R
Of 50 Fairisle Drive, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Died 17/06/1997
Probate Oxford 14/08/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9780906066M
Of 11 Moorcroft Road, Dewsbury Moor, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Died 08/12/1997
Probate Leeds 30/12/1997
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9751619778Q
Of 3 Gouldland Gardens, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Died 04/09/1997
Letters of Administration Winchester 15/01/1998
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9852400395H
Of 2 Middleway, Summertown, Oxford, Oxfordshire
Died 16/08/1997
Letters of Administration Winchester 02/01/1998
Effects £273,557
9852400659B
Pearl Gwendolen Boffin otherwise Pearl Gwendoline Boffin
Of 27 Warren Road, Halstead, Essex
Died 16/01/1998
Probate Ipswich 01/04/1998
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9851508801T
Of Gildawood Nursing Home, Manor Court Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Died 25/12/1997
Probate Oxford 02/02/1998
Effects not exceeding £180,000
9880902505B