Probate Order Books contain the daily actions of the Probate Court. Actions include letters of administration (no will) or testamentary (will found), administrator and executor’s bonds, guardianships for minor heirs, partitions of land, estate sales, widow’s dowers, disputes between heirs, lawsuits brought by creditors, and more.
The following table details probate order books available for Wayne County, Indiana. Links to indexes available on Indiana’s Gore are given when available.
These volumes have been all digitized by Ancestry. They are available on microfilm from the Indiana State Library and Family History Library.
See Wayne County Probate Records for other records.
| Book | Index |
| Circuit Court Order Book 1, 1815-1822 [contains early probate records] | 1815-1822 Index |
| Probate Order Book A, 1818-1830 | 1818-1838 Index |
| Probate Order Book B, 1830-1838 | 1818-1838 Index |
| Probate Order Book C, 1838-1845 | 1838-1848 Index |
| Probate Order Book D, 1845-1848 | 1838-1848 Index |
| Probate Order Book E, 1848-1851 | 1848-1853 Index |
| Probate Order Book F, 1851-1853 | 1848-1853 Index |
| Probate Order Book G, 1853-1855 | 1853-1858 Index |
| Probate Order Book H, 1855-1858 | 1853-1858 Index |
| Probate Order Book I [Skipped] | |
| Probate Order Book J, 1859-1862 | 1859-1862 Index |
| Probate Order Book K, 1863-1865 | 1859-1862 Index |
| Probate Order Book L, 1866-1868 | 1866-1870 Index |
| Probate Order Book M, 1868-1870 | 1866-1870 Index |
| Probate Order Book N, 1871-1873 | 1871-1875 Index |
| Probate Order Book O, 1873-1875 | 1871-1875 Index |
| Probate Order Book 1 [Skipped] | |
| Probate Order Book 2, 1875-1877 | 1875-1878 Index |
| Probate Order Book 3, 1877-1878 | 1875-1878 Index |
| Probate Order Book 4, 1879-1880 | 1879-1881 Index |
| Probate Order Book 5, 1880-1881 | 1879-1881 Index |
| Probate Order Book 6, 1881-1882 | 1881-1883 Index |
| Probate Order Book 7, 1882-1883 | 1881-1883 Index |
| Probate Order Book 8, 1883-1884 | 1883-1885 Index |
| Probate Order Book 9, 1884-1885 | 1883-1885 Index |
| Probate Order Book 10, 1886-1887 | 1886-1889 Index |
| Probate Order Book 11, 1887-1889 | 1886-1889 Index |
| Probate Order Book 12, 1889-1890 | 1889-1892 Index |
| Probate Order Book 13, 1890-1892 | 1889-1892 Index |
| Probate Order Book 14, 1892-1893 | 1892-1895 Index |
| Probate Order Book 15, 1893-1895 | 1892-1895 Index |
| Probate Order Book 16, 1895-1896 | 1895-1898 Index |
| Probate Order Book 17, 1896-1898 | 1895-1898 Index |
| Probate Order Book 18, 1898-1900 | 1898-1901 Index |
| Probate Order Book 19, 1899-1901 | 1898-1901 Index |
| Probate Order Book 20, 1901-1902 | 1901-1903 Index |
| Probate Order Book 21, 1902-1903 | 1901-1903 Index |
| Probate Order Book 22, 1903-1905 | 1903-1907 Index |
| Probate Order Book 23, 1905-1907 | 1903-1907 Index |
| Probate Order Book 24, 1907-1908 | 1907-1910 Index |
| Probate Order Book 25, 1908-1910 | 1907-1910 Index |
| Probate Order Book 26, 1910-1911 | 1910-1912 Index |
| Probate Order Book 27, 1911-1912 | 1910-1912 Index |
| Probate Order Book 28, 1912-1913 | 1912-1915 Index |
| Probate Order Book 29, 1913-1915 | 1912-1915 Index |
| Probate Order Book 30, 1915-1916 | 1915-1917 Index |
| Probate Order Book 31, 1916-1917 | 1915-1917 Index |
| Probate Order Book 32, 1917-1918 | 1917-1919 Index |
| Probate Order Book 33, 1918-1919 | 1917-1919 Index |
| Probate Order Book 34, 1919-1920 | 1919-1921 Index |
| Probate Order Book 35, 1920-1921 | 1919-1921 Index |