Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting
Reference: SF/Co/PM Catalogue Title: Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1588-1976
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- Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting
- SF/Co/PM Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM)
- Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM)
- General minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/)
- Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/1-3)
- Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/4, 9)
- Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/10, 3/6)
- Minutes of Women's Meetings (Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/1-5)
- Financial records (Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/)
- Membership (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)
- Members (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)
- Birth notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/1-3)
- Registers of burials (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/1-2)
- Burial notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/1-8)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)
- Correspondence (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)
- Other (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)
Catalogue Contents
SF/Co/PM Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM)Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM)General minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/)Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/1-3)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/1
Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 22 April 1740 - 23 March 1792
At beginning and end: list of queries posed by the quarterly and yearly meetings, n.d.
At end: list of books belonging to the meeting, n.d.
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/2Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 27 November 1791 - 25 December 1796
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/3Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 25 December 1796 - 23 April 1797; Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 25 June 1797 - 29 May 1808
(1 volume)
Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/4, 9)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/4Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 28 October 1849 - 6 July 1902
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/9List of monthly meetings within the compass of Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1883
(1 card)
Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/10, 3/6)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/10Minute book, 10 January 1926 - 6 June 1976
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/6'Advices of the Yearly Meeting, 1791' 'To be read at least once in the Year, in each of the Men's and Women's Quarterly and Monthly Meetings', 1791
(1 paper)
Minutes of Women's Meetings (Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/1-5)Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/1Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 27 September 1761 - 28 May 17
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/2Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 25 June 1791 - 25 March 1804
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/3Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 29 August 1813 - 25 October 1818
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/4Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 24 August 1817 - 6 March 1836
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/5Cotherstone Women's Meeting minute book, 15 October 1865 - 6 December 1925
(1 volume)
Financial records (Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/)1/5-8, 5/1-2, 8/4
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/5Accounts for the building of Raby meeting house, 1732
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/1
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/6Note of sums of money belonging to Philip Swale's legacy and stock-in-hand belonging to Lartington, 1 and 25 December, n.y.
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/2
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/7Notes that the accounts of the preparative meeting have been examined,
2 August 1859, 8 May 1862, 15 June 1864, 1 June 1869
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/4
(4 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/8Letter from J.M. Willis, Manor House, Carperby, Bedale, to Charles Chipchase, concerning the use of charity money by Cotherstone Preparative Meeting, 22 June 1869
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/4
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/1List of contributions to the West of Ireland Distress Fund, February 1925
[Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/2Draft list of subscriptions to Monthly Meeting fund for 1916 - 1917 and 1921
[Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/4Joiner's bill for repairs to Cotherstone Meeting House, n.d. [c.1740]
(1 paper)
Membership (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)See Miscellaneous section for birth, marriage and death information re specific families
Members (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)7/1, 8/8, 14
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/1List of members, 1 July 1837 - 22 July 1867
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/8Lists of births, deaths and marriages of Friends at Cotherstone from 1653 to 1852, n.d. [c.1855]
Includes 'Some Account of Friends at Cotherston ... ' and biographies of John Bowron (1627 - 1704) and Thomas Raylton (1671 - 1723)
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/14Copy register of births, marriages and deaths, 1588-1860
Includes:
Cotherstone (births 1588-1843, marriages 1684-1859 and deaths 1663-1852)
Lartington (births 1657-1778, marriages 1691-1700 and deaths 1689-1842)
Bowes (births 1628-1821, marriages 1654-1771 and deaths 1696-1785)
Barnard Castle (births 1654-1673, marriages 1647-1682 and deaths 1657-1773)
Also includes:
'Some Account of the Rise etc. of the Meeting at Lartington and Cotherston';
biographies of John Bowron (1627-1704) and Thomas Railton (1671-1723 );
description of land at Cotherstone on which the Meeting House was built;
accounts of receipts and expenditure of monies belonging to Cotherstone Particular Meeting, 1837-1962;
copy of deed of appointment of new trustee, 1953
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Birth notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/1-3)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/1Birth notes, 17 July 1838 - 23 October 1843
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/2Birth notes, 17 July 1838, 1859, 1867 - 11 May 1902
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/3Birth notes, 28 July 1916 - 14 December 1950
(1 volume)
Registers of burials (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/1-2)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/1Register of burials, 3 February 1865 - 12 June 1879
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/2Register of burials, 12 June 1879 - 29 January 1903
(1 volume)
Burial notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/1-8)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/1Burial notes, 16 August 1831 - 29 September 1838
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/2Burial notes, 9 April 1839 - 2 March 1860
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/3/1-8Burial notes, 29 December 1839 - 4 September 1857
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/4/2
(8 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/4Burial notes, 2 March 1862 - 20 June 1908
(1 volume)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/5/1-7Certificates of registry of death, 9 April 1839 - 17 February 1868
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/4/2
(7 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/6Death certificate for Thomas Samuel Chapman, died 22 February 1868, 26 February 1868
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/2/1
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/7Certificate for the funeral for Thomas Samuel Chapman, 26 February 1868
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/7
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/8Note by W. Fothergill. J.B. Pease and W. Robson concerning irregularities in keeping birth and burial notes, 13 April 1844
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/2/1
(1 paper)
Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)Correspondence (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)1/11, 8/3, 7, 10-13
Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/11Letter from Ernest E. Evans, American Consular Service, to the Friends' Meeting, on behalf of John W. Bowron, who is living in the United States and is looking for contact with his relatives from Cotherstone, 24 March 1937
Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/10
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/3Letter from Jacob Allanson to his brother, Joseph, in Philadelphia, concerning family matters, 7 May 1719
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/7Letter from F.J. Harker to William Taylor concerning the recent death of John Thwaite Harker, 13 June 1861
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/10Copy of the Epistle from the London Yearly Meeting, 23-30 May 1923
[Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/11Letter from Clerk of Darlington Monthly Meeting to Edwin Andrews noting a correction in the appointment of Cotherstone Elders and Overseers, 17 December 1924
[Enclosed ST/Co/PM 3/5]
(1 paper)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/12(1-3)Circular to Clerks of Preparative Meetings from Clerk of Monthly Meeting, listing the members of the Monthly Meeting committees, 8 January 1925
[Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]
(3 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/13Letter from W.F. Nicholson, Recording Clerk, to Monthly and Preparative Meeting Clerks, explaining the adjournment of the 1925 yearly meeting, February 1925
[Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]
(1 paper)
Other (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)8/1-2, 5-6, 9
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/1Notes on Cotherstone Meeting One Hundred Years Ago by Harold E. Deacon, June 1957
(4 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/2(1-11)Papers belonging to the late Mrs. Andrews of Cotherstone mainly relating to the Allanson family, 1675-1789
marriage certificates for:
John Goundry and Margaret Coates (10 February 1705),
Jacob Allanson and Margaret Goundry (9 May 1723),
Joseph Allanson and Ann Watson (12 May 1748),
George Wilson and Martha Pearson (27 April 1786);
bargain and sale of tenement at Hoper Twaite in Firbank, Westmorland, to Robert Wilson for £100, 8 May 1675;
bond of William Wilson of Cotherstone, 15 December 1683;
bargain and sale of tenement in Horsemarket, Darlington, from Jacob Allanson of Cotherstone, weaver, and his wife, Margaret, to Appleby Brown of Cotherstone, yeoman, for 10s., 29 January 1738;
fine between Appleby Brown and Jacob Allanson and his wife for land in Darlington, 12 February 1740;
accounts of yearly meetings, 1784 and 1789
(11 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/5(1-4)Papers concerning births and deaths of the Knight, Wilkinson and Lightfoot families, 1793-1886
(4 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/6(1-2)Papers relating to gifts to Rebecca Smith from Elizabeth Rimington, 26 April 1828
(2 papers)
Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/9Poems copied by Mary Graham of Flethersgill, together with records of births, deaths and marriages, from April 1588 to 1851, of members of the Allanson family, n.d. [c.1860]
Includes a short history of the Friends of Cotherstone
(1 volume, card bound)
