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Durham St. Margaret Parish

Reference: EP/Du.SM Catalogue Title: Durham St. Margaret Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: Churchwardens: Financial records

Covering Dates: 1640-1996

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Durham, St Margaret (Ref: EP/Du.SM)Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Du.SM)Financial records (Ref: EP/Du.SM)Parochial accounts (Ref: EP/Du.SM )

784-786, 793, 888


Parochial accounts, 20 December 1967 - 3 January 1975
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial accounts, 4 January 1977 - 27 December 1979
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Parochial accounts, 1 January 1980 - 28 December 1984
(1 file)


Audited parochial accounts, 3 January 1985 - 31 December 1988
(1 file)


Audited parochial accounts, 2 January 1989 - 31 December 1991
(1 file)

Bills, vouchers and receipts (Ref: EP/Du.SM )

87/1, 96-98, 99/1, 100, 101/1, 102-103, 104/1, 105-119, 120/1, 121-129, 130/1, 172, 197-200, 233, 303

Bundles of bills, vouchers, receipts, etc. bound together, in the majority of cases, on a yearly basis.
These relate to the Chapelwardens accounts (see EP/Du.SM 53 - 57), and it seems that the bills were presented each Easter at the Annual Vestry Meeting for account and audit. Several bundles are marked with the names of the wardens for that particular year, and with the date Easter 18...
The bills cover such items of expenditure as payment of the sexton, organist, organ blower and choir, minor repairs to church effects and fabric, and cleaning, etc. The purchase of communion wafers and wine, and the laundering of surplices are also mentioned. Other purchases included foodstuffs, tea, coffee etc. and even meat, linen etc. Visitation and register fees are also included.


Receipts from John Charlton, John Hall and Mr. Ainsley, chapelwardens for half a year's salary as Parish Clerk, 1 October 1822 - 8 April 1830 and 22 March 1856
(8 papers)


Bills and receipts, including repairs to the bells, windows and altar piece, making model for iron chest, salaries and visitation fees, 30 April 1802, 15 October 1808 - 13 April 1813
(57 papers)


Bills and receipts, including cutting down trees and levelling new churchyard, repairs to lights, salary for parish clerk and out rents, 12 May 1820 - 26 June 1821
(24 papers)


Bills and receipts, including repairing chapel and cutting through arch, repairing the roof and windows, salary for parish clerk, out rents and visitation fees, and interest on Ralph White's legacy to the poor of South Street, 30 May 1816
(100 papers)


Bills and receipts, including fixing candlesticks in pulpit and mending bell wheel, salary for parish clerk and organist and out rents, 8 May 1829 - 30 April 1830
(28 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to steeple, salaries for parish clerk and organist, out rents and surveying and producing plans of the houses, gardens and allotments in Crossgate, 1 August 1829 - 29 March 1831
(32 papers)


Bills and receipts including new roofs on porches, out rents and salaries for parish clerk and organist, 5 January 1831 - 6 April 1833
(28 papers)


Bills and receipts including salaries for parish clerk and organist, 6 December 1834 - 25 August 1835
(9 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing church walls after the late storm, 23 June 1836, mourning for the Revd. P. George, 1834; leading blue stones from Sunderland Bridge quarry to Crossgate and claim from St. Oswald's parish on 1/3 part of St. Margaret's church rate, 31 May 1831 - 3 April 1838
(159 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing windows and bell wheel, salaries for parish clerk and organist and out rents, 25 June 1837 - 19 March 1838
(23 papers)


Bills and receipts including out rents with list of persons paying and amount paid and landmark rent due to the Lord Mayor of Durham, 4 February 1842 - 15 April 1843
(18 papers)


Bills and receipts including tuning and repairing organ, repairing windows, salaries and out rents, 29 April 1840
(29 papers)


Bills and receipts including shovelling snow from walks, out rents, salary for sexton, visitation fees and purchase of a pair of brass candlesticks, 28 December 1843 - 24 March 1845
(24 papers)


Bills and receipts including tuning organ, clearing snow, salary for sexton, out rents and visitation fees, 3 April 1847 - 19 April 1848
(24 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing church roof, salaries for vestry clerk, sexton and organist, visitation fees, 1835, power of attorney for dividend on stocks and insurance premiums 1899, 29 October 1835, 11 June 1848 - 9 April 1949, 10 July 1855 - 21 March 1856, 9 January 1892 and June 1899
(57 papers)


Bills and receipts including alterations to windows, out rents, salary for sexton, visitation fees and notice of vestry meeting, 25 June 1850 - 22 April 1851
(28 papers)


Bills and receipts including salary for vestry clerk and bellringers, visitation fees, and list of persons paying out rent with amounts paid, 11 January 1851 - 12 April 1852
(24 papers)


Bills and receipts including out rents, visitation fees, slating roof over staircase, salaries for bellringing, parish clerk, organist and notice of vestry meeting, 25 June 1852 - 26 March 1853
(26 papers)


Bills and receipts including making new walk, salaries for organist and bellringers, visitation fees, out rents and notice of vestry meeting, 4 June 1854 - 10 April 1855
(29 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing walls and roofs, tuning organ, out rents and churchwardens fees, 15 July 1852 - 14 April 1856
(31 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing lead on roofs, visitation fees, out rents and salaries, 29 June 1856 - 11 April 1857
(18 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to walls and windows, out rents, salaries and insurance premium, 15 May 1863 - 22 March 1864
(24 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to organ, making a new path, salaries, visitation fees and notice of chapel wardens meeting, 13 April 1868 - 23 March 1869
(38 papers)


Bills and receipts including attending lectures, repairs to windows, carpet and roof, and churchwardens salaries, 26 June 1870 - 25 March 1872
(33 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to pew doors, and windows, pointing walls, attending evening lectures, salaries, visitation fees and notice of vestry meeting [Easter] 1872 - 4 April 1874
(37 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to roof, drains, laying flags, installation of new gas meter, tuning and repairing organ, salaries and visitation fees, September 1834 - 24 September 1835; 5 April 1874 - 15 April 1879; 22 April 1899
(58 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to roof and windows, alterations to church gates, repairing and painting vestry, salaries, attending lectures and visitation fees, 12 April 1875 - 1 March 1877
(61 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to roof, laying gas pipes and lamps in churchyard, salaries, and retuning organ, 9 June 1877 - 24 June 1878
(55 papers)


Bills and receipts including new keys and locks for church doors, new reading desk and lectern, salaries, visitation fees and expenses for the visit of the Bishop of Columbia, 12 July 1878 - 25 March 1880
(63 papers)


Bills and receipts including clearing snow from roofs and walls, repairing lead on roofs, salaries, visitation fees, collections for Durham County Hospital and Church of England Temperance Society, December 1823 - 11 July 1824; 27 September 1867 - 9 April 1868; 25 December 1873 and 25 March 1877 - 1 April 1882
(118 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to drain and flagging and iron gates, repairing and cleaning heating apparatus and gas lamps, making and engraving inscription brass, salaries and notice of vestry meeting, February 1882 - 27 March 1883
(86 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to allotment gate, re-laying flags at church entrance, attending lectures, bread for the poor of St. Margaret's, salaries and advert for tenders for the extension to the burial ground, 2 October 1859, 23 April 1889 - 1 April 1893
(186 papers)


Bills and receipts including alterations to churchyard gate, raising wall, and re-erecting gate pillars to old and new cemeteries, repairing roof, use of the snowplough, salaries and bread for the poor of St. Margaret's, 31 May 1832, 25 June 1898 - 5 April 1899
(92 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairs to roof of house, salaries, bread for the poor of St. Margaret's and an advert for a sexton, 28 April 1846 - 24 April 1847, 1 October 1872, 6 April 1899 - 7 April 1900
(83 papers)


Bills and receipts including attending lectures, visitation fees, and salaries, 25 June 1828 - 1 July 1829, 27 May 1849 - 26 March 1850, 30 September 1881 - 3 April 1882
(94 papers)


Bills and receipts including repairing vestry fireplace, out rents, 1862 and 1869, receipt for dividers of money invested in sale of land to railway company, notice of vestry meeting, 22 November 1834 - 21 December 1835, 6 June 1862 - 19 July 1863, 8 January 1866 - 16 April 1870
(111 papers)


Cheque stubs for St. Margaret's Offertory Account, National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd., 29 October 1923 - 9 July 1924
(1 file)


Bills and receipts, including Special Assistant Clergy Fund Memorial Chapel restoration work, Durham Church Missionary Association annual report, burial fees and the closed churchyard, 20 June 1946 - 7 January 1949
(339 papers)


Bills and receipts, including Income and land tax payments, clergy widows pension fund, Bishop of Singapore's appeal, insurance and church repairs, 27 August 1947, 4 January - 31 December 1948
(103 papers)


Bills and receipts, including fuel and water supplies, and maintenance of the church and church fabric, 10 January - 31 December 1948
(43 papers)


Cheque stubs from Lloyds and Midland Bank accounts, October 1946 - December 1948
(8 booklets)


Receipts including the Assisted Clergy Fund, Christian Student Movement, Seamen's Mission, various bible and church societies, parish societies, homes for fallen women and waifs and strays, missions and hospitals etc., 1924
(42 papers)


Bills and receipts addressed to the chapelwardens for salaries, work carried out and materials, 7 November 1844 - 2 April 1861
(67 papers)

Church rates (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

90/1-17, 91/1-12, 182-184


Church Rate Book for Crossgate with occupiers and rent paid and assessed, 2 September 1809
(1 booklet)


Church rate Book for Crossgate, with occupiers in alphabetical order and rent paid and assessed, 14 May 1819 Poor rate lists, 15 April 1819, 9 March and 16 November 1820
(1 booklet, 3 papers)


Church Rate Book for Crossgate, with occupiers in alphabetical order, rents paid and assessed, 24 April 1821
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for Crossgate, with occupiers in alphabetical order, rents paid and assessed, 20 March 1822
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for Crossgate, with occupiers in alphabetical order, rents paid and assessed, 26 June 1822
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for Crossgate, with occupiers in alphabetical order, rents paid and assessed, 1 April 1823
(1 booklet)


Duplicate copy of church rate book for the township of Crossgate, 1823
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 1 December 1824
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate, with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 5 April 1825
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 17 April 1825 Crossgate Out Rents, 1826
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, and list of out rents, 8 April 1828
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, and list of out rents, 21 April 1829
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with alphabetical list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, with list of out rents, 5 April 1831
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with list of occupiers and rents paid and assessed and list of our rents, 4 April 1832
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, and a list of out rents, 20 April 1835
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 2 April 1861
(1 booklet)


Rate Book for the township of Crossgate with list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 23 April 1867
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate with list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 24 April 1821
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate, with list of occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 26 June 1822
(1 booklet)


Duplicate copy of the church rates for the township of Framwellgate, 1823
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate, includes occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 1 April 1823
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate, includes occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 1 December 1824
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate, includes occupiers, rents paid and assessed, and out rents, 5 April 1825
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed and out rents, 17 April 1827
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed and out rents, 28 March 1826
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed, and out rents, 8 April 1828
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed and out rents, 9 April 1833
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book for the township of Framwellgate listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed and out rents, 21 April 1835
(1 booklet)


Church Rate Book listing occupiers, rents paid and assessed, 1861
(1 booklet)


Return of church rates for St. Margaret's for 1861 and 1862
(2 papers)


Return of church rates for St. Margaret's by John Edwin Marshall, churchwarden, 1863
(1 paper)


Return of church rates for St. Margaret's by Richardson Peele, vestry clerk, 16 June 1869
(1 paper)

Balance sheets, statements of account, accounts of income and expenditure (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

88/3, 196


Balance sheet to 31 December 1896
(1 paper)


Statement of accounts and reports for St. Margaret's parish, 31 December 1933 - 31 December 1947
(22 booklets, 14 papers)

Insurance (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

87/13, 89


Insurance policies covering the risk of war and fire. 23 July 1915 - 20 June 1922
(6 papers)


Fire Insurance policy, Yorkshire Fire and Life Company, 11 July 1883
(1 paper)

Chapel wardens' accounts (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

50-55, 57


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1665 - 1720 (including copy of Baron Hilton's will, 1640)
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1721 - 1751
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1752 - 1774
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1774 - 1811
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1812 - 1842
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, rate assessments and vestry minutes, 1843 - 1876
(1 volume)


Chapel wardens' accounts, 1875 - 1910
(1 volume)

General accounts (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

65-66


General accounts, January 1946 - December 1952
(1 file)


Accounts with Midland Bank for Parochial Institute; rectory repairs; Rectory's and Churchwarden's Charities; and Restoration Fund, January 1951 - December 1952
(2 files)

Cash books (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

1061


Cash book, January 1992 - December 1996
(1 file)

Investments (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

77/17, 25


Consolidated Annuities, 9 January 1874 - 4 February 1879
(9 papers)


Papers relating to the purchase of consolidated stock, 13 August 1880
(2 papers)

Offertory accounts (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

171


Offertory Account, January - December 1924
(1 paper)

Christian Stewardship, Planned Giving (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

929-930


Brochure of St. Margaret's Christian Giving Campaign, 1960
(1 booklet)


Summary report on the Christian Stewardship Campaign, by Stuart Kitching, campaign and mission organiser, 2 July 1971
(1 file)

Bequests (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

142


Declaration of Trust from Rev. James Britton and Chapelwardens concerning bequest of Katherine Andrews, 2 April 1784
(1 parchment)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Du.SM)

77/29, 84/10, 87/4, 87/14, 170


Paper concerning compensation to be estimated, 18 September 1859
(1 paper)


Bank paying in book, 16 May - 21 November 1900
(1 booklet)


Bishop of Durham Presentation Fund, list of subscribers already paid or promised, with additional list, 16 October 1888
(2 papers)


Extracts from parish registers; an enquiry concerning Henry Brownly of Crook Hall; and extracts from churchwardens' accounts, n.d. [c.1898]
(25 papers)


Pass Book for Offertory Account, National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd., Arthur Harrison, Esq., South Street, Durham, June 1919 - 1924
(1 volume)