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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1276 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Rev. William Oliver, rector of Rokeby with Brignall, and antiquarian

Covering Dates: 1086-1960

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Catalogue Description

Records given

6 June 2000 Acc: 2679(D)

The Rev. William Oliver was, for many years, rector of Rokeby with Brignall. Previously he was curate-in-charge at Startforth (1939 - 1941) and curate at Leeds, St. Simon (1932 - 1939)
A keen antiquarian, he was most interested in ecclesiastical history and spent many years researching the histories of churches in the dioceses of Ripon and Durham

Catalogue Contents

Records of Rokeby parish (Ref: D/X 1276/1-2)

Minute book of Rokeby, St. Mary's Parochial Church Council, 2 September 1924 - 10 January 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Account book, 22 October 1936 - 2 April 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Correspondence of William Oliver (Ref: D/X 1276/3-8)

Letter from Harold Proctor, 79 Galgate, Barnard Castle, to Mr. Oliver concerning the history of Barnard Castle, 2 July 1933
(1 paper)


Letter from the Rev. D[avid], J[ohn], A[lfred] Evans, St. Simon's Vicarage, Belle Vue Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, to 'Oliver' concerning parish affairs and bombing raids on Leeds, 2 September 1940
(2 papers)


Letter from B. Surtees Raine, Whorlton Hall, Barnard Castle, to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver declining an invitation to the next meeting of the Teesdale Record Society, 29 May 1944
(1 paper)


Letter from 'William' [Oliver], Windsor Nursing Home, 9 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, to 'my dear Lorie' [his wife] concerning his arrival at the new nursing home, which he prefers to the infirmary, 21 June 1945
(1 paper)


Letter from Post Sales Department, Newner and Pearson, Tower House, Southampton Street, Strand, London, to Rev. W. Oliver, Rokeby Rectory, Barnard Castle, concerning the difficulties of purchasing Country Life during paper rationing, 18 July 1945
(1 paper)


Letter from 'The Modern Torre', 16 Carter Mount, Whitkirk, Halton, Leeds, Yorkshire, to 'my dear Wizard' discussing church architecture, the sale of local history pamphlets, singing of church anthems, and the publication by 'M.T.' of a history of Wetherby parish church, 26 - 28 September 1947
(3 papers)

Antiquarian notes concerning Durham (Ref: D/X 1276/9-17)

Notebook containing transcripts of Startforth parish registers, 1656 - 1811; index of Startforth wills proved at Richmond, 1549 - 1605; and Commonwealth wills proved in London, 1654 - 1656
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)


Transcript of Startforth parish registers, 1656 - 1663 and 1701 - 1704; list of Startforth wills, 1577 - 1597; and photographs of Rev. Henry Kendall, vicar of Startforth, 1826 - 1867, and Rev. John Brockbank, vicar of Startforth, 1867 - 1881 Originally enclosed in D/X1276/9
(9 papers)


Transcript and index of the 1851 census for Rokeby and Brignall, n.d.
(1 volume, paper bound)


Lists of incumbents for the parishes of Barrington, Brignall, Laithkirk, Romaldkirk, Startforth, Wycliffe, Barningham, Lartington and Rokeby; details of burials at Rokeby of the Rokeby family; transcriptions of monumental inscriptions in Brignall churchyard, n.d., 1914
(1 volume, card bound)


Notes on the history of Whorlton, Hutton Magna, Barningham, and Croft; and transcriptions of monumental inscriptions at Wycliffe, n.d.
(1 volume, card bound)


Notes on the history of Bowes and extracts from the Teesdale Mercury, 1896 - 1910, 1922
(1 volume, card bound)


Extracts from the Teesdale Mercury, 1888 - 1891; sketches of monumental inscriptions in, and notes on, the parishes of Brignall, Grinton, Marrick, Marfield, Croft, Barningham, Stanwick, Barton St. Mary and Startforth, 1920 - 1925
(1 volume, card bound)


Transcriptions of monumental inscriptions in the churchyard of Barningham, St. Michael and All Angels, n.d. [20th c.]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Lists of monumental inscriptions in the churchyards at Bowes, Startforth, Romaldkirk, Wycliffe; and transcriptions of monumental inscriptions for Barningham, n.d. [20th c.] Originally enclosed in D/X1276/16
(8 papers)

Antiquarian notes on North Yorkshire (Ref: D/X 1276/18-21)

Notes on the histories of Coverham, Holy Trinity, and Downholme, St. Michael, 1086 - 1958, n.d. [post 1958]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notes and newspaper cuttings on the histories of Coverham, Holy Trinity, and Downholme, St. Michael, 1945 - 1960 Originally enclosed in D/X1276/18
(11 papers)


Diary containing notes on parishes in the north of Yorkshire, including Gilling, Marfield, Kirkby Fleetham, Smeaton, Danby Wiske, and Longton on Swale, n.d. [1915]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notes on the history of various parishes in the north of Yorkshire, n.d. [1915] Originally enclosed in D/X1276/20
(31 papers)