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Durham Quarterly Quaker Meeting

Reference: SF/Du/QM Catalogue Title: Durham Quarterly Quaker Meeting Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1613-1989

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Durham Quarterly Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/Du/QM)Minutes of Quarterly Meetings (Ref: SF/Du/QM 1/1-14)

see also SF/Su 114/2 minutes of Durham Quarterly Meeting held at Newcastle, 4 July 1871


Minute book, 2 January 1671 - 1 October 1754 Includes particular meetings of Lanchester, 2 January 1671 - 1678 and Durham, 1678 - 1 October 1754, and rules for removals and marriages
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 7 January 1755 - 1 October 1799 Includes particular meetings of Lanchester and Durham from 1770, and monthly meetings of Newcastle, Stockton, Staindrop and Durham (to 1784)
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 7 January 1800 - 2 April 1816 Includes monthly meetings of Newcastle, Stockton and Staindrop; indexed
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 2 July 1816 - 1 April 1834 Includes meetings of Newcastle, Stockton and Staindrop. Stockton and Staindrop meetings combined to form Darlington meeting in 1820; indexed
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 1 July 1834 - 4 January 1853 Includes meetings of Newcastle, Darlington, Sunderland and Guisborough (from 1850); indexed
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 5 April 1853 - 28 June 1864 Includes quarterly meetings of Newcastle, Darlington, Guisborough and Richmond (from 1861); indexed
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 4 October 1864 - 15 January 1874 Includes quarterly meetings of Newcastle, Darlington, Guisborough and Richmond; indexed
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 16 April 1874 - 17 January 1884 Includes general meetings of Newcastle, Darlington, Wensleydale, Guisborough and Richmond; indexed
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book, 17 April 1884 - 18 October 1894 Includes particular meetings of Sunderland, Darlington and Newcastle; indexed
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book, 17 January 1895- 19 October 1905
(1 volume)


Minute book, 17 January 1906 - 19 October 1921
(1 volume)


Minute book, 18 January 1922 - 19 October 1938
(1 volume)


Minutes, 25 January 1939 - 24 October 1959
(1 volume)


Minutes, 30 January 1960 - 18 November 1989 Includes Ayton Sunday School minutes and magazines
(1 volume)

Rough Minutes of Quarterly Meetings (Ref: SF/Du/QM 2/1-15)

see also SF/Su 1 Durham Quarterly Meeting, rough minutes, 1808 - 1818


Rough minute book, 9 January 1672 - 2 January 1727
(1volume, leather bound)


Rough minute book, 26 March 1727 - 31 March 1747
(1 volume, leather bound)


Rough minute book, 7 July 1747 - 4 October 1757
(1 volume, card bound)


Rough minute book, 3 January 1758 - 5 October 1779
(1 volume, card bound)


Rough minute book, 4 January 1780 - 1 October 1799
(1 volume, calf bound)


Rough minutes, 4 October 1748 - 26 March 1751
(5 papers)


Rough minute book, 9 January 1888 - 20 October 1892
(1 volume, leather bound)


Rough minute book, 19 January 1888 - 20 October 1892
(1 volume, leather bound)


Rough minute book, 19 April 1900 - 20 April 1905
(1 volume, leather bound)


Rough minute book, 20 July 1905 - 15 January 1914
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book, 17 January 1945- 28 October 1950
(1 volume)


Minute book, 20 January 1951- 29 October 1955
(1 volume)


Minute book, 28 January 1956- 23 October 1965
(1 volume)


Minutes, 25 April 1970-28 October 1978
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minutes, 28 April 1979 - 27 April 1985
(1 volume, leather bound)

Women's Quarterly Meetings (Ref: SF/Du/QM 3/)Minutes (Ref: SF/Du/QM 3/1-7)

Minute book, 6 January 1679 - 25 June 1751
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Minute book, 1 October 1751 - 3 October 1785
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Minute book, 1 April 1783 - 2 October 1804
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book, 1 January 1805 - 1 January 1850
(1 volume, calf bound)


Minute book, 2 April 1850 - 4 July 1811
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book, 3 October 1871 - 30 July 1893
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book, 19 October 1893- 19 January 1921
(1 volume)

Associated papers (Ref: SF/Du/QM 3/7/1-3)

Advice and queries adopted by the Yearly Meeting, 1875 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 3/7
(1 paper, printed)


Report of the Women Friends' Central Committee on Temperance, 1899 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 3/7
(1 paper, printed)


Triennial report to the Yearly Meeting, 18 January 1911 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 3/7
(1 paper, printed)

Draft minutes (Ref: SF/Du/QM 3/8)

Draft minute book of Women's Quarterly Meeting at Newcastle, 3 April 1781 - 7 January 1783
(1 volume, paper bound)

Committee Meetings (Ref: SF/Du/QM 4/)Minutes (Ref: SF/Du/QM 4/section 01)

4/1-10, 12-13, 15


Minute book of meetings of ministers and elders, 1 July 1805 - 5 October 1840
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Minute book of meetings of ministers and elders, 4 January 1841 - 15 January 1873
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Minute book of meetings of ministers and elders, 16 April 1873 - 19 October 1876 Includes minutes of meetings on ministry and oversight, 18 October 1876 - 15 January 1890
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of meeting on ministry and oversight, 15 April 1890 - 20 October 1897
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of Meeting on Ministry and Oversight, 19 January 1898 - 20 July 1904
(1 volume)


Minute book of Meeting on Ministry and Oversight, 19 October 1904 - 17 October 1906
(1 volume)


Rough minute book of meetings of ministers and elders, 1 April 1822 - 31 March 1828
(1 volume, card bound)


Rough minute book of meetings of ministers and elders, 30 June 1828 - 1 April 1833
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of committee appointed to arrange for the holding of general meetings, 21 October 1875 - 20 April 1887
(1 volume, card bound)


Minute book of Committee on Collections, 17 October 1887 - 26 January 1928
(1 volume)


Minute book of Committee on Trusts, 5 April 1859 - 20 April 1910
(1 volume)


Minute book of Junior Quarterly Meetings, 19 July 1952 - 29 June 1958
(1 volume)


Minute book for the meeting for revising the Schedule of Trusts, 19 April 1911 - 20 October 1956 Includes reports on trusts
(1 volume)

Associated papers (Ref: SF/Du/QM 4/section 02)

4/6/1, 4/15/6


List of members of Meeting on Ministry and Oversight, April 1897 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/6
(2 papers)


Reeth Friends' School. Statement of accounts, 30 June 1958 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(1 paper)

Reports (Ref: SF/Du/QM 4/section 03)

4/11, 15/1-5, 7


Reports of various committees to Quarterly Meeting, 1908-1911
(86 papers)


Report on Trust and Finance, 26 October 1957 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers)


Report on Trust and Finance, 25 October 1958 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers)


Report on Trust and Finance, 24 October 1959 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers)


Report on Trust and Finance, 22 October 1960 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers)


Report on Trust and Finance, 22 October 1961 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers)


Durham Quarterly Meeting's minutes, 22 October 1949 Originally enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/15
(2 papers, printed)

Financial records (Ref: SF/Du/QM 5/1-3)

Account book of receipts and disbursements, 1 October 1678 - 30 November 1785
(1 volume, vellum bound)


Account book of receipts and disbursements, 2 April 1861 - 31 March 1965
(1 volume, leather bound)


Dinner bills, 25 April 1876 - May 1878
(22 papers)

Membership (Ref: SF/Du/QM 7/)Record of sufferings (Ref: SF/Du/QM 7/1-4)

Record of sufferings, 24 January 1660 - 18 November 1753 Includes list of Quaker recusants made by order of Sheriff of Durham, 1686; account of tenure of meeting houses, 1690 and 1745
(1 volume, calf bound)


Record of sufferings, 4 March 1754 - 8 April 1792 Includes abstracts of title to meeting houses in Durham, September 1745 - October 1820
(1 volume, calf bound)


Record of sufferings, 16 November 1793 - 23 June 1829
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Not yet deposited

Births, marriages and burials (Ref: SF/Du/QM 7/5-17)

Copy digest of registers of births of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1613-1840 The register contains entries in alphabetical order. Under each letter the entries are in chronological order. The copy was made in 1840, when the original was surrendered to the Crown Commissioners of Non-Parochial Registers
(1 volume, leather bound)


Copy digest of registers of burials of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1655-1840 The register contains entries in alphabetical order. Under each letter the entries are in chronological order. The copy was made in 1840, when the original was surrendered to the Crown Commissioners of Non-Parochial Registers
(1 volume, leather bound)


Copy digest of registers of the marriages of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1644-1839 The register contains entries in alphabetical order. Under each letter the entries are in chronological order. The copy was made in 1840, when the original was surrendered to the Crown Commissioners of Non-Parochial Registers
(1 volume, leather bound)


Copy digest of supplemental registers of marriages, births, and burials of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1628-1837 The register contains entries in alphabetical order. Under each letter the entries are in chronological order. The copy was made in 1840, when the original was surrendered to the Crown Commissioners of Non-Parochial Registers
(1 volume, leather bound)


Copy digest of supplemental registers of marriages, births and burials of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1655-1816 The register contains entries in alphabetical order. under each letter the entries are in chronological order. The copy was made in 1840, when the original was surrendered to the Crown Commissioners of Non-Parochial Registers
(1 volume, leather bound)


Register of births (indexed), 15 January 1776 - 8 April 1793
(1 volume, calf bound)


Register of marriages, 5 February 1776 - 16 January 1794
(1 volume, calf bound)


Register of burials, indexed, 23 January - 19 December 1789
(1 volume, calf bound)


Not yet deposited


Numbers not used

Membership and attendance (Ref: SF/Du/QM 7/18)

Summary of membership and attendance at Quarterly Meeting, 1904
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Du/QM 8/1-61)

Advice and epistles of Yearly Meeting, 1752-1762
(1 volume, card bound)


Advice and epistles of Yearly Meeting, 1752-1781
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Advice and epistles of Yearly Meeting, 1738-1773
(1 volume, card bound)


Transcript of documents entitled A book of several things related to the service of truth appointed to be taken notice of by Friends at the Quarterly Meeting, with letter from Norman Penney to E.B. Mounsey about buying book for Quarterly Meeting, 1904
(1 volume, vellum bound)


History of Quarterly Meeting and its constituent meetings; list of ministers, 1750 - 1860; copy of letter from John B. Rowntree to Edna Barclay about the Mount School, York, etc., 1750-1860
(1 volume, leather bound)


History of Quarterly Meeting and its constituent meetings, 1671-1860
(2 volumes, paper bound)


Number of recorded and unrecorded ministers in Quarterly and Monthly Meetings, with summary of total in Great Britain and Ireland, 1866 With signature of Joseph Pease
(1 volume, printed, card bound)


List of ministers belonging to Quarterly Meeting, 1750-1860
(4 papers)


Catalogue of books in the Society of Friends Book Room [Durham], n.d. [c.1832]
(1 volume, paper bound)


Schedule of record books kept at Darlington belonging to Durham Quarterly Meeting, Darlington Monthly Meeting and Staindrop Monthly Meeting, 1864
(1 volume, paper bound)


Schedule of record books kept at Darlington belonging to Durham Quarterly Meeting, Darlington Monthly Meeting and Staindrop Monthly Meeting, 1879
(2 volumes, paper bound)


not yet deposited


Correspondence between E.B. Mounsey and John Hall Shield of Whitfield, concerning a minute book of Northumberland Quarterly Meeting (1680), October 1900
(5 papers)


not yet deposited


Inventory of property belonging to Quarterly Meeting, 1850
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Inventory of property belonging to Quarterly Meeting, 1868
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


not yet deposited


number not used


Report of the Endowed Quaker Charities Committee for the County of Durham to the Charities Commission, 23 May 1901
(1 file)


Papers concerning the extension of the Friends Meeting House, Norton-on-Tees, 11 April 1927 - 13 March 1939
(26 papers)


Papers and correspondence concerning triennial reports to Quarterly Meeting from Districts, 1883-1897 Includes triennial reports for 1877, 1881, 1884, 1887 and 1902
(48 papers)


Schedule of deeds and records relating to Quarterly Meeting and constituent meetings, n.d. [c.1900 - c.1949]
(1 volume, leather bound)


Photographs of Isaac Sharp (1806-1897); letter from Isaac Sharp to J.B. Hodgkin; photostat copy of certificates for journey to South Africa, Madagascar, Australasia and North America, 1877, with signatures of members of Darlington Monthly Meeting, Durham Quarterly Meeting and London Yearly Meeting on ministry and oversight, c.1877
(4 papers, 3 photographs)


not yet deposited


Plan of Quarterly Meeting and Monthly Meeting boundaries, 1892
(1 plan, leather bound, 62 cm. x 84 cm.)


Ordnance Survey map showing alteration of the boundary between Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting and Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1913
(1 plan, paper)


not yet deposited


List of fines, 1680-1695 [enclosed in SF/Du/QM 7/1]
(14 papers)


Table of disownments for Warwickshire North Monthly Meetings, 1750-1850 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(1 paper)


Note concerning omissions in the record of sufferings, 1660-1753 (see SF/Du/QM 7/1), n.d. [c.1753] [enclosed in SF/Du/QM 7/1]
(1 paper)


Note concerning contents of SF/Du/QM 7/1, n.d. [c.1753] [enclosed in SF/Du/QM 7/1]
(1 paper)


Licence for Lartington Farm to be used as a Meeting House for Quakers, 8 October 1793 Includes articles from York Herald about Bilsdale Meeting House, 3-15 March 1883
(1 parchment, 4 papers)


Notes on the death of Percival Spoor, 22 August 1805 [enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/1]
(1 paper)


Journal of a journey into West Riding of Yorkshire [author unknown], 10 November 1827
(1 booklet)


Account of a journey to Seaton [?], 1828 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(2 papers)


Rough minutes and notes from 1833 Yearly Meeting by John Pease, April - November 1833 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(6 papers)


Minutes and notes from Women's Yearly epistle meetings in London, 23 May 1838 - 1 June 1849
(8 papers)


Itinerary of places visited in Westmorland and parts of adjoining Quarterly Meetings, 22 June 1841 - 25 January 1842 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(1 paper)


Rough notes of a religious visit to the Quarterly Meetings of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, 26 August - 31 December 1846 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(1 paper)


Itinerary of a religious journey into Essex, February-March 1849 [enclosed with SF/Du/QM 8/52]
(1 paper)


Regulations for the relief of the poor adopted by Durham Quarterly Meeting held at Newcastle, signed by Joseph Spence (clerk), 1 January 1861 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 1/5]
(1 paper)


Titles of Religious Congregations Act, 1872 and Extension to the Burial Ground Act, 1869 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/12]
(2 papers, printed)


Memorandum to Hodgson Bigland requesting a deed of surveyance from Thomas Nelson, dated 21 March 1868, 25 March 1878 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/20]
(1 paper)


List of members of Quarterly Meeting on Ministry and Oversight, 1877
(1 paper)


Papers relating to Teesdale General Meeting, 28 April 1879 Includes schedules and reports [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/20]
(11 papers)


Letter from J.B. Hodgkin, Elm Ridge, Darlington, to fellow Friends requesting information on missing minute books, 26 February 1880 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/8(3)(ii)]
(1 paper)


Letter to Darlington Monthly Meeting from James Allison and Arthur Saunders, listing minute and account books held by Durham Preparative Meeting, 10 May 1880 Includes list of minute books, registers and documents belonging to Darlington Monthly Meeting and the Preparative Meetings of Bishop Auckland, Borrowby and Osmotherley, Cotherstone, Middlesbrough, Staindrop, Stockton and Yarm
(4 papers)


Notes on the rights of children in cases of second marriages, n.d. [c.1880] [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 4/1]
(1 paper)


Letter from J.B. Hodgkin to fellow Friends, concerning boundaries of Durham Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, 2 March 1891
(2 papers)


Schedule of documents relating to Ayton Friends' School 7 January 1890 - 29 May 1912, 18 June 1912
(2 papers)


Notes concerning conference on the boundaries of Durham Quarterly and Monthly Meetings, 13 March 1891
(3 papers)


Extracts from an agreement between Darlington Friends' First Day School and Darlington School Board, 25 May 1885 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/12]
(1 paper)


Programme of meetings at Friends' Meeting House, Great Ayton, August 1894
(1 paper)


Letter from Lucas, Hutchinson and Meek to Arthur Saunders, concerning two parcels of deeds of the North of England School Furnishings Company, 10 June 1901 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/20]
(1 paper)


Report on the holding of meetings for worship in Durham Quarterly Meeting, 17 June 1902
(1 booklet)


Letters from Watson, Burton and Corder, to Thomas Pumphrey and Arthur Saunders, concerning sale of Shotton Burial Ground and Shotton School, 16 May 1905 and 11 August 1913 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/20]
(3 papers)


Receipt from A. Herbert Sanders for documents from Monthly Meeting safe relating to Yarm Meeting House, 11 October 1919 [Enclosed in SF/Du/QM 8/20]
(1 paper)


Letter to members of Quarterly Meeting, from a fellow member concerning the passing of Friends, 5 April 1927
(3 papers)