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Register of baptisms, 29 June 1845 - 30 June 1872

Register of baptisms, 30 June 1872 - 2 July 1905

Register of baptisms, 16 July 1905 - 25 September 2022

Register of marriages, 18 May 1848 - 1 September 1990

Register of marriages, 7 September 1991 - 15 April 2017

Register of marriages, 12 August 2017 - 17 August 2019

Register of banns of marriage, 30 April 1848 - 15 June 1997

Register of burials, 24 October 1846 - 26 January 1911

Register of burials, 28 January 1911 - 2022 (after 14 July, the last entry is for a service following cremation)

Register of confirmations, 5 May 1916 - 16 June 1922 [not filled in with any names] and 26 May 1949 - 18 January 2004

List of confirmation candidates for 1965

Register of services, 5 April 1896 - 19 May 1903, 29 March 1946 - 16 May 1948 Includes: lists of confirmations, 28 April 1898 - 26 May 1908

Register of services, 18 May 1903 - 9 July 1911

Register of services, 23 May 1948 - 26 December 1982

Register of services, initially for St Mary Magdalene Mission Church, Mickleton in the parish of Laithkirk, later for Laithkirk, Holy Barn, 1 January 1955 - 27 December 2015

Copy order-in-council assigning a district chapelry to the church of Laithkirk, known as the District Chapelry of Laithkirk, 12 October 1844; copy made 19th c.

Letter from John Bowes, 7 Rue de Berlin, Paris, France, to J.W. Holmes, esq., Barnard Castle, declining to make a decision concerning Laithkirk and Romaldkirk without more information and consulting Lord Strathmore, 19 May 1867

Letter from John Bowes, 7 Rue de Berlin, Paris, France, to J.D. Holmes, concerning the allocation of part of the revenues of the parish of Romaldkirk to the district chapelry of Laithkirk, and the imminent marriage of Mr. Cleveland's daughter to Lieutenant Cotton, son of General Cotton, 12 June 1867

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 10 Whitehall Place, London, to W.W. & G. Watson, Barnard Castle, concerning the granting of a perpetual annuity to Laithkirk and the transfer of the presentation of the living to 'Mr. Bowes', 30 September 1867

1868 (1) Rev. Henry Cleveland, M.A., Rector of Romaldkirk, Yorkshire (2) Rt. Rev. Charles Thomas, Lord Bishop of Ripon (3) John Bowes of Streatlam Castle, esq. (4) Rev. William Robinson Bell, clerk, incumbent of the church of the perpetual curacy of Laithkirk Grant from (1) to (4), with the consent of (2) and (3), of the £100 per annum payable out of a tenement known as Bale Green in the township of Mickleton, Yorkshire

Licence to the assistant curacy of the parish of Romaldkirk of James Frederick Culross, 11 May 1955

Copy licence to the assistant curacy of the parish of Laithkirk of James Frederick Culross, 27 May 1956

Register containing: statistical summaries of parochial work, organisation and finance; details of incumbents, licensed curates; details of insurances; receipts and expenditure of churchwardens; and notes of money expended on restorations, 1896 - 1906

Plan showing the area of the churchyard at Laithkirk, n.d. Scale: 1 chain to 1 inch

Certificate of the consecration by the Bishop of Ripon of the ground added to the churchyard at Laithkirk, 31 August 1880

Certificate of the consecration by the Bishop of Ripon of the ground added to the churchyard at Laithkirk, 26 May 1932

27 October 1898 (1) Claude, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Baron Bowes of Streatlam Castle, tenant-for-life in the Wemmergill Settled Estates, by virtue of the Settled Land Acts and an indenture of re-settlement of 9 April 1888 (2) The aforesaid Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne; Rev. George Ramsden, clerk, incumbent of the parish of Laithkirk in the North Riding of Yorkshire; William Henry Ralston of Streatlam House, land agent; John Brown of Bowbank, vicar's warden of the parish of Laithkirk; Thomas Dents of Newton Lodge, Mickelton, churchwarden for the township of Mickelton Conveyance from (1) to (2) of parcel of land in Mickelton (425 sq. yds.) with the iron building standing thereon and any other building to be substituted, the building to be used as an institute or reading room or for any other parochial purposes; arrangements for the running of the institute specified Plan in margin

Mickelton Church Institute Committee meetings minute book, 5 November 1906 - December 1942 The first date is given, in a later hand, as 1905. This is incorrect: the 5 November fell on Monday in 1906 not 1905

Mickelton Church Institute account book, September 1944 - 31 December 1960

Account book of Mickleton Church Institute, 1 January 1984 - 31 December 1987

Account book of Mickleton Church Institute, 1 January 1988 - 31 December 1991

Terrier, 28 March 1974

Terrier, n.d. [c. mid 1960s]

Faculty for the removal of the harmonium and for the installation of a new organ, 14 March 1910

Faculty for the installation on the south wall of the church of a tablet in marble in memory of Charles Peter Wilson, R.D.R.N.R., who died in the sinking, on 24 February 1917, of H.M.S. Verona, 16 August 1917

Faculty for the installation of a marble tablet on the north wall of the nave in memory of the twelve parishioners who died in the Great War and giving their names and branches in the armed forces in which they served, 15 September 1921

Faculty for the installation of a tablet in memory of Arthur Morton, R.E., who died, on 13 July 1943, during the invasion of Sicily, 24 December 1946

Faculty for the installation of eight electric lights, an electric organ blower, an oil-fed boiler and an oil storage tank, 22 May 1970

Faculty for the introduction of an oak font cover designed by John R. Thorpe, woodcarver, of White Rose Studio, Melmerby, Ripon, Yorkshire, 22 April 1975

Churchwardens' account book, 31 May 1915 - 31 December 1921

Churchwardens' account book, 1 January 1922 - 27 December 1925

Balance sheet, 1924 Originally enclosed in EP/Lai 4/2

Copy will of George William Collinson of Mickleton, Yorkshire, retired civil servant, bequeathing a quarter of the residue of his estate, after specific bequests have been paid, to the vicar and churchwardens of the parish of Laithkirk, 20 April 1935; copy made 1936

Realization account of the estate of George William Collinson, dec'd., 1936

Vestry meetings minute book, 4 April 1853 - 13 April 1942 At end: List of subscriptions to charities by John Bowes, February 1864 Copy letter from the Archdeacon of Richmond to the incumbent of the parish of Laithkirk concerning church rates, 11 May 1859 Account of a collection made for the relief of distress in Lancashire, 1862-1863 Lists of candidates confirmed at Romaldkirk, 3 September 1856, 9 September 1859 and 27 September 1862

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 8 April 1921 - 10 April 1951 Attend: annual meetings minutes, 21 April 1922 - 27 March 1951

Parochial Church council meetings minute book, 2 July 1951 - 31 January 1966 Includes: annual vestry and yearly meetings minutes, 7 April 1953 - 15 March 1965

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 4 May 1966 - 1 November 1979 Includes: minutes of annual general and vestry meetings, 7 March 1966 - 26 March 1979

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 26 March 1984 - 25 March 1985 Includes: Annual General Meeting and Vestry meeting minutes, 1984

Electoral roll, 1931 - 1955

Electoral roll, revised 31 March 1955 Originally enclosed in EP/Lai 6/4

Electoral roll, 1955-1971

The Mickleton Charity Minute book of the Trustees of Middleton Charity Houses, 15 February 1847 - 8 May 1848; Yearly Township meetings minutes, 23 March 1849 - 4 June 1860; copy trustees' meeting minutes, March 1860; copy order of the County Court of Durham at Barnard Castle in the matter of John Blarton's Charity in the township of Mickleton, 25 October 1860; Trustees of Blarton's Charity meetings minutes, 24 January 1861 - 16 December 1975 At beginning: copy of the will of John Blarton of Middleton-in-Teesdale, 23 April 1725; proved 11 June 1725; copied 30 July 1864; list of names of the Trustees of Middleton Charity Houses, 12 April 1852

Account book of the Trustees of the Mickleton Charities Property, 13 May 1846 - 6 December 1969

Parish history of Laithkirk Church, n.d. [c. 2008]