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Bishop Auckland Preparative Quaker Meeting

Reference: SF/BA/PM Catalogue Title: Bishop Auckland Preparative Quaker Meeting Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1715-1970

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  • Bishop Auckland Preparative Quaker Meeting
    • SF/BA/PM Bishop Auckland Preparative Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/BA/PM)
    • Minutes (Ref: SF/BA/PM)
    • General meetings (Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/1-10)
    • Minutes of Women's Meeting (Ref: SF/BA/PM 3/1)
    • Minutes of Committee Meetings (Ref: SF/BA/PM 4/1-2)
    • Finance (Ref: SF/BA/PM 5/1-2)
    • Schools (Ref: SF/BA/PM 6/1-2)
    • Membership (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/)
    • Birth notes (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/1-4)
    • Registers of burials (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/2/1)
    • Burial notes (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/1-8)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/)
    • Photographs (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/1-2)
    • Other (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/3, 7, 9, 11-13)
    • Correspondence (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/4, 8, 10)
    • Subscriptions (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/5, 6)

Catalogue Contents

SF/BA/PM Bishop Auckland Preparative Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/BA/PM)Minutes (Ref: SF/BA/PM)General meetings (Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/1-10)Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/1

Minute book, June 1715 - November 1717 and December 1729 - January 1774 Includes list of subscriptions for 1722
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/2

Minute book, January 1774 - December 1805
(1 volume, spine vellum bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/3

Minute book, 24 February 1839 - 14 September 1856 Includes minutes of Durham Quarterly Meeting and Durham Monthly Meeting concerning re-opening the Preparative Meeting, 1834-1838 and list of members, 1834-1841
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/4

Minute book, 12 October 1856 - 18 April 1869 Includes list of subscriptions, 1859-1868
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/5

Minute book, 9 May 1869 - 4 November 1894 Includes list of collections, 1869-1894
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/6

Minute book, 6 January 1895 - 8 December 1907 Includes Meeting's accounts 1895-1907
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/7

Minute book, 5 January 1908 - 4 April 1920 Includes Meeting's accounts 1909-1919
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/8

Minute book, 9 May 1920 - 9 February 1941
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/9

Minute book, 9 March 1941 - 5 July 1964
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/9/1

Resignation of the Clerk to the Meeting, with notes on current accounts for 1958-1963, 25 May 1962 Originally enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/9
(8 papers)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/9/2

Notes on average income, 1963 Originally enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/9
(3 papers)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 1/10

Minute book, 6 September 1964 - February 1969 Includes details of disposal of meeting house and contents, December 1970
(1 volume)

Minutes of Women's Meeting (Ref: SF/BA/PM 3/1)Ref: SF/BA/PM 3/1

Minute book, 24 February 1839 - 6 March 1887
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Minutes of Committee Meetings (Ref: SF/BA/PM 4/1-2)Ref: SF/BA/PM 4/1

Overseers meetings minute book, 30 November 1915 - October 1919
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 4/2

Overseers meetings minute book, October 1935 - November 1947
(1 volume)

Finance (Ref: SF/BA/PM 5/1-2)Ref: SF/BA/PM 5/1

Cash book, 27 February 1952 - 10 December 1970
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 5/2

Note to the Bishop Auckland Friends concerning the accuracy of the accounts, 5 January 1895
(1 paper)

Schools (Ref: SF/BA/PM 6/1-2)Ref: SF/BA/PM 6/1

Minute book of Darlington Monthly Meeting and Bishop Auckland and Shildon Committee relating to trust fund set up under Edward Walton's will to endow schools at Bishop Auckland and Shildon, with transcript of documents relating to the schools and plan of Shildon School, 1824-1871
(1 volume, calf bound)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 6/2

Minute book of Management Committee of Edward Walton's Trust, 15 November 1920 - 28 October 1938
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Membership (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/)Birth notes (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/1-4)Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/1

Birth notes, 26 August 1842 - 15 September 1871
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/2

Birth notes, 22 February 1872 - 7 December 1897
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/3

Birth notes, 12 February 1898 - 15 June 1908
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/1/4

Birth notes, 31 January 1911 - 10 August 1954
(1 volume)

Registers of burials (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/2/1)Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/2/1

Register of burials, 3 May 1865 - 23 June 1891
(1 volume)

Burial notes (Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/1-8)Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/1

Burial notes, 19 March 1835 - 17 August 1837
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/2

Burial notes, 5 June 1839 - 2 September 1844
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/3

Burial notes, 7 February 1849 - 11 March 1861
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/4

Burial notes, 17 February 1862 - 30 May 1891
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/5

Burial notes, 19 June 1891 - 12 June 1905
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/6

Burial notes, 6 June 1907 - 14 March 1909
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/7

Burial notes, 23 January 1910 - 6 November 1939 Last entry out of sequence for William Adam Backhouse, who died on 27 February 1919
(1 volume)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 7/3/8

Burial notes, 24 November 1941 - 17 December 1968
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/)Photographs (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/1-2)Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/1

not deposited

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/2

Friends Meeting House, Bishop Auckland, 1913
(1 photograph, 30.5 cm x 23 cm, black and white)

Other (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/3, 7, 9, 11-13)Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/3

Anne Audland's work in South-West Durham, reprinted from the Northern Despatch, 26 January 1940
(3 papers, printed)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/7

Advertisement for Sabbath School for adults with aims of classes set out, 13 October 1872 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/9

List of names with positions held within the Society, initialled J.B., n.d. [c.1880] Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/11

Questionnaire covering the education of children of the wage-earning class, issued by the Yearly Meeting of 1891 to all Monthly and Particular Meetings, 1891 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/12

Rev. E. Price's lectures on confirmation [printed extract from newspaper], 20 February 1896 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/13

Receipt for £5 from Joseph Lingford to Ayton School for the board and education of Alfred Ernest Castree, 31 December 1894 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Correspondence (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/4, 8, 10)Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/4

Letter from the Home Office concerning the laws for the burial of the dead, with reference to the Friends' Burial Ground, n.d. [c.1860] Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/8

Letter from Thomas Sibbald acknowledging receipt of a copy of the minutes of a resolution passed on 4 August 1878, 6 August 1878 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/10

Letter from J. Proud to Joseph Lingford, concerning Friends' Burial Ground and the resolution passed on that matter the previous day, 2 March 1881 Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Subscriptions (Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/5, 6)Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/5

List of subscriptions towards reducing the debt due to treasurer, n.d. [c.1870] Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)

Ref: SF/BA/PM 8/6

List of subscriptions towards the [seats?] and [matting?] for the Meeting House, n.d. [c.1870] Enclosed in SF/BA/PM 1/5
(1 paper)



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