Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 31 January 1841 - 30 December 1855

Register of baptisms, 1 January 1856 - 1 April 1864

Register of baptisms, 10 April 1864 - 2 August 1874

Register of baptisms, 2 August 1874 - 30 July 1885

Register of baptisms, 2 August 1885 - 21 February 1909

Register of marriages, 15 February 1841 - 24 November 1855

Register of marriages, 9 January 1856 - 28 August 1930

Register of deaths, 22 November 1855 - 10 March 1857; 29 June 1864 - 7 January 1881 [Gives name, place of residence, dates of death and burial and place of burial]

Notice of deaths and requests for prayers for Father James Dominic Aylward, 5 October 1872; Mary Anne Goldie, nee Bonomi, 26 October 1872; Mary Ann Lady Wolsely, 18 January 1873; Sister Cecilia Chadwick of Jesus, 4 February 1873 Enclosed in RC/Du.SC 2/11

Easter communicant lists at York, 1811 - 1824; Durham, 1825 - 1846 Also contains some notes of deaths each year [Volume most likely brought by William Croskell from York]

List of Easter communicants, 1847 - 1860

Census of Roman Catholics in Durham taken by James Todd, 20 September 1854 [Arranged by street and childrens' ages given]

Parish census arranged by street giving names of all Roman Catholics, ages of the children and their sacramental status as follows: Cf = First Confessions; Cm = First Communion; Cn = Confirmation; P.C. = Paschal Communion, census taken post 1858 Also includes at beginning of volume: accounts of Bishop Riddell, Vicar Apostolic of Northern District, who lived in the old house at 33 Old Elvet, 1833 - 1847

Census of Catholics in Durham, Gilesgate, Carrville, New Durham, West Sherburn, Sherburn, Sherburn Hill, Crossgate Moor, Auton Stile, Framwellgate Moor, Pity Me, Plawsworth, Nettlesworth, Findon Hill, Sacriston, Brasside, Shincliffe and Houghall, September 1861 [Gives ages of children and sacramental status]

Ledger entitled Status Animarum: a street by street schedule of the members of the parish indicating which Sacraments have been received by each member and noting any social, personal or religious observations on each person; volume dated 1881, contains definite entries for 1942 - 44

Church notice book, at Stella, 23 August 1856 - 11 July 1857, and at Durham, 12 July 1857 - 21 April 1861 [The volume was kept by Rev. Ralph Platt who moved from Stella to Durham in July 1857]

Church notice book, 28 April 1861 - 8 October 1865

Church notice book, 15 October 1865 - 1 August 1869

Church notice book, 8 August 1869 - 8 January 1871

Church notice book, 15 January 1871 - 1 March 1873

Church notice book, 1 March 1873 - 25 July 1874

Church notice book, 6 February 1876 - 3 March 1878

Church notice book, 10 March 1878 - 23 May 1880

Church notice book, 27 May 1880 - 23 September 1883

Church notice book, 23 September 1883 - 22 August 1886

Church notice book, 29 August 1886 - 1 January 1892

Church notice book, 1 January 1892 - 29 April 1894

Church notice book, 3 May 1894 - 19 January 1900

Church notice book, 21 January 1900 - 1 January 1905

Church notice book, 1 January 1905 - 5 February 1911

Church notice book, 8 July 1917 - 17 September 1922

Church notice book, 24 September 1922 - 30 November 1929

Church notice book, 7 December 1924 - 29 December 1929

Church notice book and banns of marriage book, 21 October 1928 - 13 October 1929

Church notice book and register of banns of marriage, 1 January 1930 - 31 December 1932

Church notice book and register of banns of marriage, 1 January 1933 - 31 December 1935

Church notice book, 1 January 1936 - 1 January 1939

Church notice book, January 1939 - 22 March 1942

The Catholic Directory, Ecclesiastical Register and Almanac..., 1887, including the Ordo Recitandi, London: Burns & Oates. This details the clergy of each diocese in England, Wales and Scotland and includes details of schools run by the religious orders throughout the country

Northern Catholic Calendar for the use of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, 1887. Includes notes by the parish priest on various events happening in the parish: meetings, retreats, missions etc. Contains printed clergy list, details of Religious Orders working within the diocese and other topics of local Catholic interest. Copy belonging to Provost Consitt. For enclosure: see RC/Du.SC 2/46

Notification to Provost Consitt to attend a Cathedral Chapter meeting at the Cathedral in Newcastle on 20 July [1887]

List of subscriptions for alterations to the church and for building the tower, 1868 - 1876; list of subscriptions to Altar Society, 1876 - 1924 At end: note of pupil teachers at St. Godric's School, 1869

List of subscriptions to New Catholic Cemetery Red Hills, Durham, 1865, and other subscription lists, 1861 [Signed R. Platt, 1865]

Day Book with account of all receipts and disbursements at the Gateshead Mission, compiled by [Fr. Consitt], 1 January 1860 - 24 August 1861

Accounts of sums contributed by members of the parish [at Sunday Mass], January 1880 - September 1885

Record of payment made by the female members of the parish [at monthly collections], January 1880 - September 1885

"The Register of the Sodales of the Immaculate Conception of the Ever Blessed and Glorious Virgin Mary Mother of God, 8 December 1702", p.1 "The names of the Sodales given to Mr. George Thorold on 7 October 1727", p.2 List of members of Jesuit Sodality De Bone Morte, c.1750 - 1766, p.3 "The names of those that are of the congregation de b. morte", 24 April 1749, pp.5-6 Distribution list of 'bona morte books', 1 May 1753 - 1 November 1767, p.7 List of members of Sodality of B.V.M., 1702 - 1728, pp.11-15 "The names of the Sodales of the Imm: V: M: taken by Mr. Waterton, Jan: 15 1738-9", p.17 List of names of members of Sodality of Bona Morte, 16 April 1762, p.18 List of names of those baptised in Jesuit Chapel, 1768 - 1827, list made c.1830, pp.19-21 Transcript of baptism register of Jesuits' Chapel, 16 February 1768 - 2 September 1825, pp.25-46 List of marriages in Gilesgate Secular Chapel, 12 December 1739 - 1769, p.57 List of baptisms in Gilesgate Secular Chapel, 1739 - 1769, pp.59-63 Baptisms in Durham Chapel of Secular Clergy, 27 February 1769 - 1826, pp.64-68; and duplicate, 1766 - 1799, pp.63a Transcript of register of baptisms in Secular Chapel, Old Elvet, 1800 - 1839, pp. 69-128 Baptisms, 3 January 1839 - 6 January 1841, pp.129-139 List of names omitted, 1 February 1806 - 12 July 1820, pp.140-143 List of members of 'The Congregation or Confraternity de Bona Morte', 4 December 1706 - 7 April 1745, pp.149-153 List of members of confraternity of de Bona Morte, 3 February 1765 - 9 September 1770, pp.155-156 List of Confirmations at St. Cuthberts, 27 July 1851, pp.158-162 List of Confirmations at St. Cuthberts, 25 July 1827, 11 December 1827, 4 September 1831, 21 May 1837, 'about the year 1822', 24 September 1843, pp.185-195 List of marriages, 15 May 1838 - 7 November 1840, pp.196-197 List of confirmations, 28 February 1847, pp.198-203 At end: Copy of schedule giving nos. of communicants and children attending catechism, nos. of sermons, children at Charity School, date of foundation, chapel furniture, July 1839 Enclosed: Transcript of baptisms in Bishop Smith's Ritual, 1805 - 1820

Membership lists of the "Confraternity of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the Conversion of Sinners established in St. Cuthbert's Church, Durham..... December 8 1869" ; title page for the "Catholic Association for the Suppression of Drunkenness under the protection of Our Blessed Lady ......," c.1870 ; membership list for those who have received the scapular of the Precious Blood, 1874; membership list for the "Confraternity of Our Lady and St. Joseph", 1869; list of those members of the parish who have received the brown scapular of Mt. Carmel [Carmelite tertiaries], 1875 - 1883; list of the "Confraternity of the Sacred Heart established during mission given by Frs. Vaughn and Graham, Lent 1878"; further lists of Carmelite tertiaries,1870; list of persons and objects recommended to the prayers of the Confraternity [of the Sacred Heart].

Reports on religious education in St. Cuthbert's School, 1950, 1958 and 1960 Enclosed in RC/Du.SC 2/36

Journal of the Religious Inspection and Examination of Schools in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle - "Provost Consitt and Canon Browne were appointed Inspectors and proclaimed in the Diocesan Synod held at St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday 9 March 1875." Notes and accounts kept by Provost Consitt on his religious inspections of schools in Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland and Northumberland and Newcastle, 1875 - 1876

Log book of St. Godric's School, 16 January 1865 - 10 November 1869, pp.1-76 and of St. Cuthbert's Girls' and Infants' School, Old Elvet, 1 February 1870 - 18 July 1907

Log book of St. Cuthbert's Boys' School, 21 September 1868 - 29 January 1880; Mixed (Girls') School, 26 August 1907 - 22 December 1938 [Includes infants from 1923]

St. Cuthbert's Infants' School log book, 2 February 1880 - 18 June 1923 [School became part of Mixed School, June 1923]

Log book of St. Cuthbert's J.M. & I. School, 10 January 1939 - 28 July 1968 [School closed premises at 33a Old Elvet and pupils and staff moved to school in St. Joseph's parish, 1960]

Minute book of managers of Durham St. Cuthbert's R.C. School, Old Elvet, Durham City, 21 April 1904 - 16 November 1953. For enclosures : see RC/Du.SC 2/48

Letter from the secretary of the City of Durham Education Committee, Saddler Street, Durham to Canon Brown, Old Elvet, Durham, concerning the status of St. Cuthbert's school for the purpose of calculating the salary of the Head Teacher, Miss Hill, and encloses a letter from the Board of Education, Whitehall, to the Local Education Authority, Durham, on this matter, 16 November and 11 December 1923.

Letter from J. R. Whiteside, Headmaster of St. Peter's School, Gainford, to Rev. W. I. Meagher, St. Cuthbert's church, Old Elvet, concerning plans for the establishment of an additional Catholic secondary school in Durham City and encloses a report on his suggestions for rhe organisation of such a school, 28 February 1945

Notes of average attendance at school and scholars not paying fees, n.d. and c.1872 Enclosed in RC/Du.SC 2/11