Catalogue Item

Register of baptisms, 3 August 1871 - 12 August 1908

Register of baptisms, 13 August 1908 - 5 February 1939

Register of deaths, 24 November 1871 - 13 December 1939

Selective copy register of death, giving name, age, place of death and burial, 23 January 1928 - 29 May 1939

Register of marriages (Liber matrimoniorum), 11 November 1873 - 31 March 1951

Register of confirmations, 5 October 1873 - 25 March 1945

Mass intention book, 29 September 1941 - 25 June 1954 Includes lists of various incomes and expenditures of the church, January - April 1939

Mass intention book, 25 August 1954 - 29 April 1962

Mass intention book, 4 May 1962 - 5 August 1969

Church notice book, including banns, 5 January 1873 - [11] January 1880

Church notice book, including banns, 18 January 1880 - 28 September 1884 For enclosure see: RC/New 2/7

Church notices, 26 October [1884] - 11 January [1885]

Church notice book, including banns, 4 January 1885 - 21 November 1886

Church notice book, including banns, 28 November 1886 - 3 April 1898

Church notice book, including banns, 10 April 1898 - 29 April 1906

Church notice book, including banns, 6 May 1906 - 16 March 1913

Church notice book, including banns, 23 March 1913 - 20 June 1920

Church notice book, including banns, 27 June 1920 - 22 November 1925

Church notice book, including banns, 29 November 1925 - 1 March 1931

Church notice book, including banns, 8 March 1931 - 5 April 1936

Church notice book, including banns, 12 April 1936 - 11 January 1942

Church notice book, including banns, 4 January 1942 - 14 May 1944

Church notice book, including banns, 22 May 1944 - 16 November 1947

Church notice book, including banns, 21 December 1947 - 1 July 1951

Church notice book, including banns, 8 July 1951 - 4 December 1955

Church notice book, including banns, 18 December 1955 - 17 May 1959

Church notice book, including banns, 17 May 1959 - 4 August 1963

Church notice book, including banns, 11 August 1963 - 21 January 1968

Church notice book, including banns, 28 January 1968 - 5 April 1970

Church notice book, including banns, 12 April 1970 - 3 March 1974 Includes list of first communicants, 29 March 1964 and list of those confirmed, 28 June 1964

Church notice book, including banns, 10 March 1974 - 23 May 1976

Parish newsletters, 7 January 1979 - 19 December 1988

Certificate issued by the Registrar General allowing Our Lady Queen of Martyrs R.C. Church, Newhouse, to serve as a meeting place for religious worship, 8 October 1873

Certificate issued by the superintendent registrar of the district of Durham certifying that Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Newhouse, is registered for the solemnization of marriages, 14 October 1873

Notice by Fr. Fortin [of Newhouse R.C. Church] thanking those who assisted him in his bazaar at the church, 16 May 1883 Attached: photograph of Fr. Fortin, n.d.

Photographs showing the tombs of Fr. Fortin (d.1901) and Fr. Edward Joseph Beech (d.1932), former priests of Newhouse parish, in the burial ground at Newhouse R.C. Church, n.d.

'Ode on the silver jubilee of Rev. Father Fortin, Waterhouses', n.d.

Estimate of the total cost of works required for the completion of [Newhouse] R.C. Church, 2 October 1882

Specification by Blackett and Howden, Newcastle and Glasgow, organ builders, for the proposed organ at Newhouse R.C. Church, 12 May 1903 Attached: letter from Blackett and Horden to Rev. [E.J.] Beech, Newhouse R.C. Church, concerning the above proposed organ, 8 April 1903

Agreement between Imperial War Graves Commission and Rev. E.J. Beech, Newhouse R.C. Church, for the maintenance of three war graves in the church burial ground, 1924 Attached: letter from Imperial War Graves Commission to Rev. E.J. Beech sent to accompany the above, 10-19 December 1924

Correspondence between Rev. E.J. Beech, Newhouse R.C. Church; Hugh Cogan, Bishop's House, Tynemouth; Pease and Partners, Esh Colliery Office, Esh Winning; Pallister, Nicholson and Addison, Crook, estate agents; Rev. W.J. Mulcahy, Newhouse R.C. Church, concerning subsidence in the proposed cemetery at Newhouse R.C. Church allegedly caused by mining operations, 25 September 1925

Correspondence between Rev. R. Gibbons, Newhouse R.C. Church; W. Petre, Norwich, land agent; C.D. Forster and Magee, Newcastle, solicitors; Rt. Rev. Joseph [McCormack], Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle; Nicholson and Addison, Crook, estate agents, concerning the sale of the Newhouse Club and Institute, 14 April 1949 - 4 April 1950

Agreement between Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Rev. R. Gibbons, Newhouse R.C. Church, concerning the maintenance of three war graves in the church burial ground, 1968 Attached: letter from Commonwealth War Graves Commission to Rev. R. Gibbons, sent to accompany the above, 10-17 May 1968

Faculty issued by Rt. Rev. James [Chadwick], Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, allowing the creation of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ at Newhouse R.C. Church, 29 May 1875

Letter from A.M. [Coventry?], St. Mary's Priory, London, to Rev. [E.J. Beech], concerning the confraternity created at Newhouse R.C. Church in 1875, 3 March 1902

Minute book of the St. Cuthbert's Deanery meetings, 31 March 1937 - 7 March 1979

Log book, 1 March 1875 - 28 June 1887

Minute book of managers meetings, 20 December 1904 - 24 November 1948 Includes: minutes of managers of Newhouse, St. Mary R.C. School, 19 November 1937 - 23 February 1942

Returns to the Board of Education, 1921 - 1925

H.M. Inspector of schools reports, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1937

Religious inspection reports, 1930-1931, 1943-1949

Return made to Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan School Commission concerning St. Charles R.C. School, Cornsay, 15 April 1937 Attached: plan of St. Charles R.C. School, n.d. [1937] No scale

Headmasters' notebook, including weekly scheme of lessons and reports on termly examinations, 17 February 1921 - December 1924 Includes: copies of Religious Inspectors' reports, 13 December 1923 - 3 June 1949

Correspondence between Rev. R. Gibbons and Rev. W.J. Mulcahy, Newhouse R.C. Church and Durham County Council, discussing whether Cornsay R.C. School should be closed, 7 October 1937 - 23 April 1948

Minutes of managers' meetings, 20 December 1904 - 6 July 1978

Cash book of Newhouse, St. Mary R.C. School, of New Cornsay, St. Charles R.C. School, and of Ushaw Moor St. Joseph's R.C. School, May 1895 - 30 April 1899

Reports of the County Council's Inspector, 1907, 1921, 1930, 1936

Reports of H.M. Inspector of Schools, 1910, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1954

Returns to the Board of Education, 1921 - 1926

Religious inspection reports, 1930-31, 1936, 1938, 1943-1949, 1952, 1959-1963, 1965

Return made to Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan School Commission, 15 April 1937 Includes: plans of the new school and old school at Newhouse, n.d. Scale: 1 inch to 15 feet [1 : 180]

Plan of the old building at Newhouse School, July 1937 Scale: 1 inch to 5 yards [1 : 180]

Plan of St. Mary's R.C. School, Newhouse, showing the proposed canteen scullery, March 1960 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1 : 96] and 1 inch to 20 feet [1 : 240]

Plan of St. Mary's R.C. School, Newhouse, October 1973 Scale: 1:100

Plan of St. Mary's R.C. Primary School, Newhouse, showing adaptations of staff room and pupils' toilets, August 1978 Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]

Correspondence and copy correspondence between the various parish priests of St. Mary's, Newhouse; Education Committee, Durham County Council; Lanchester Rural District Council; Board of Education, Whitehall; Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan School Commission; T.M. Sexton, M.P., House of Commons, London; Brandon and Byshottles Urban District Council; David Brown, Newcastle, chartered architect; Harvey and Marron, Newcastle, solicitor; Wm. C. Harvey, Rowlands Gill, chartered surveyor; concerning matters relating to the fabric of the school, the proposed purchase of Esh Winning County Infants' School as a replacement for St. Mary's School and also other matters relating to the school, 10 November 1905 - 11 March 1983

Letter from [Diocesan Treasurer], Newcastle, to Rev. R. Gibbons, St. Mary's, Newhouse, advising on the matter of the proposed leasing of the New Church Hall to Durham County Council, 9 July 1975

[1976] (1) Rev. R. Gibbons, St. Mary's Presbytery, Newhouse (2) County Council of Durham Draft agreement by (1) to let the New Church Hall in Newhouse to (2) for the term of 2 years for the use by (2) as a school room and dining hall for children Rent: £400 p.a. Attached: letter from County Solicitor, Durham County Council, to Rev. R. Gibbon, sent to accompany the above, 16 June 1976

14 April 1978 (1) Durham County Council (2) Trustees of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Copy draft licence to allow (2) to occupy the Former Esh Winning County Infants' School for educational purposes Fee: £20 p.w. Attached: (1) copy draft amendments to the above, 20 April 1978

(2) Copy plan of Esh Winning County School, 1978 Scale: 3.5 inches to 70 feet [1 : 240] (3) Letter from Diocesan Schools Commission, Newcastle, to Rev. R. Gibbons, St. Mary's, Newhouse, concerning the above, 24 April 1978

Log book of mixed school, 18 January 1875 - 24 June 1898

Log book of infant school, 11 September 1876 - 30 September 1897

List of men from Newhouses parish who died in the First and Second World Wars, n.d.

Historical note concerning the background of Newhouse as a place of Roman Catholic worship, n.d.

Article taken from an unknown newspaper, concerning a bazaar at Waterhouses R.C. Church, n.d. [1883]

30 October 1923 Will of Thomas Middleton of Esh Winning, bequeathing to Rev. E.J. Beech six war saving certificates for the Society of the Propogation of the Faith and sixteen war savings certificates to pay for burial expenses and to offer masses for the good of his soul, 30 October 1923

Letter from Rev. T. Power, St. Mary's, Hexham, Northumberland, to Rev. [R] Gibbons, [St. Mary's, Newhouse], giving details of the population of the parish between 1939 and 1960 as published in the Northern Catholic Calendar, 23 March 1969

Return of men's attendance for 4 May 1969 and of entries in the various parish registers for year ending 31 December 1968, 6 May 1969