Catalogue

Register of baptisms, marriages and burials 1709 - 1797; register of baptisms, 1797 - 1812 Note of a legacy for the poor, 1782 Statement by the Public Notary of South Shields of the vicar's refusal to recognise the right of Sir Ralph Millbank to hold a manorial court, 1796 Appointment of the parish clerk, 1815 Note of a vestry decision on the clerk's salary, 1815 Note of intention to use wood from Lintlings ? for a gallery in the church

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - November 1861

Register of baptisms, 19 January 1862 - 19 November 1999

Register of banns and marriage, April 1756 - December 1812; register of banns, 1822 - 1824, 1831

Register of marriages, June 1813 - December 1836

Register of marriages, 19 April 1838 - 25 August 1937

Register of marriages, 6 August 1938 - 27 May 1967

Register of marriages, 12 October 1968 - 31 May 2003

Register of marriages, 1 November 2003 - 25 August 2007

Register of marriages, 29 December 2007 - 21 September 2019

Register of banns of marriage, 7 April 1844 - 18 December 1938

Register of banns of marriage, 12 March 1939 - 21 February 1965

Register of burials, July 1799 - October 1812 Notes of changes affecting the living, 1824 - 1868 Account of maintenance of the church, 1909 - 1936 Notes of disputes between the vicar and Sir Ralph Millbank Receipts of the overseers

Register of burials, April 1813 - March 1861

Register of burials, April 1861 - November 1966

Register of preachers, readers, collections, etc., 2 August 1908 - 19 November 1916

Register of preachers, readers, collections, etc., 26 November 1916 - 13 January 1928

Register of services, 24 October 1965 - 8 November 2004

Seaton Schoolroom: register of services, 1938 - 1940

London Gazette, scheme for St. John's in Seaham Harbour to become a perpetual curacy with the transfer of rent charges to the benefice, 20 September 1844

London Gazette, scheme for the better provision of the benefice of Seaham Harbour, St. John with the transferral of patronage and right of nomination, 26 August 1845

London Gazette, scheme for additional provision for the benefice of Seaham Harbour with a grant to augment the income of the benefice, 7 October 1845

London Gazette, scheme authorising annual payments to the benefice of Seaham Harbour, St. John by the Church Commissioners, 3 July 1866

London Gazette, scheme for the union of the benefices of Seaham and Seaham Harbour, 28 July 1933

Proceeds of sale of Seaham glebe land under Ecclesiastical Leasing Act 1858 with accompanying statement of investment of mineral receipts, 19 March 1932

Drawing of the Reverend R. Wallis, 1783

Photograph of the Reverend A. Bethune, n.d. [c. 1800s]

Photograph of the Reverend T. Copley, 1908

Register of tithe rent charges, 1915 - 1930

List giving date and name of the bellringer at Seaham parish church, 3 April 1921 - 16 February 1940

Plan of the burial ground at St. Mary's Church, 15 November 1951 [Notes names of occupants of graves and spaces reserved for which faculties have been obtained]

List of faculties granted for the reservation of grave spaces, c. 1951 Originally attached to EP/Sea 29

Faculty for the erection of two stained glass windows in the church, 29 July 1909

Faculty for the erection on the north wall of the church of a marble tablet dedicated to the memory of Rev. Thomas Copley, curate of Seaham Harbour from 1880 to 1908 and vicar of Seaham Harbour from 1908 to 1932, 4 December 1933

Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Euphemia Forbes McLeod (d. 27 June 1945), Lizzie Paxton (d. 6 October 1945) and Loris Mildred Paxton, of Ben Vhraggie, Stockton Road, Seaham, 7 November 1946

Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Alice Bulmer of Stotfold Farm, Seaton, and John Bulmer (d. 30 September 1946), 31 December 1947

Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Richard Wilson, 10 Clark's Terrace, Seaton Lane, Seaton, New Seaham, and Dora Wilson (d. 1 March 1950), 29 August 1950

Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Annie Ethel Henderson, 5 St. John's Terrace, Seaton Lane, Seaton, New Seaham, and Thomas William Henderson (d. 30 October 1947), 29 August 1950

Churchwardens' and Overseers' accounts, vestry minutes, etc. 1857 - 1956

Letters from G. H. Wheeler, Parochial Church Council Secretary, to the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, London, SW1 concerning the scheme for effecting the union of the benefices of Seaham and Seaham Harbour with accompanying notice of certification by His Majesty in Council and accompanying draft scheme approved by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 12 June - 14 July 1933

Overseers' accounts, 1759 - 1805

Accounts and notes re the Brice and Martin Charity, 11 January 1860 - 3 December 1931

Parish Notes, June/July 2000 - December/January 2001

Parish Notes, January/February 2001 - December/January 2002

Parish Notes, January/February 2002 - December/January 2003

Parish Notes, January/February 2003 - December/January 2004

Parish Notes, January/February 2004 - December/January 2005

Parish Notes, January/February - November/December 2005

Bank statement, statement of accounts and list of subscribers to the Copley Memorial fund, 13 January 1934

Visitors' book, 12 August 1951 - 27 June 1955

Visitors' book, 13 April 1958 - 1 May 1994