What are the Bank of England Will Extracts?
The Bank used to maintain records of extracts from the wills of stockholders, detailing how their stocks should be disposed of. These ‘will extracts’ have been donated to the Society of Genealogists (see external links) and can be used to trace stock accounts. If you know that an ancestor held stocks and want to confirm how they were disposed of, you should check the will extracts first as our ledgers are arranged according to the specific stocks held.
