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Correspondence with the Charity Commission, the River Wear Commission and others concerning expenditure on repairs to almshouses, authority of the Charity Commission for this, details of loan to the River Wear Commissioners etc., 29 June 1895 - 15 July 1904

Declaration of trust in respect of 38 Otto Terrace, Sunderland in favour of Bishopwearmouth Parochial Church Council, 23 July 1947; copy order of the Charity Commission for the sale of 38 Otto Terrace, 26 March 1954

Letters of application to enter the Bowes Almshouse, letters of recommendation for the applicants and comments on the applicants' circumstances and suitability, 1933 - 1935

Application of Eleanor Lowe for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 1 August 1932

Application of Ellen Tweddle for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 1 August 1932

Application of Mary Wood for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 30 August 1932

Application of Annie Millicent Fenwick for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 31 January 1933

Application of Hannah Waggott for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 8 February 1934

Application of Margaret Crawford for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 30 May 1934

Application of Agnes Mitchenson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 18 June 1934

Application of Mary Harland for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 19 June 1934

Application of Jane Ann Thompson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 19 November 1934

Application of Janet Morrison Greig for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 18 February 1935

Application of Ellen Wilkinson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 16 May 1935

Application of Elizabeth Lax for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 May 1935

Application of Maria Elizabeth Schofield for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 13 February 1936

Application of Margaret Morton for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 1 April 1936

Application of Mary Ann Crinson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 15 September 1936

Application of Henrietta Davison for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 6 November 1936

Application of Frances Augusta Davie for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 12 January 1937

Application of Emma Ann Butler for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 31 August 1937

Application of Adelaide Gray for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 December 1937

Application of Jane Reavely for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 1 May 1938

Application of Lizzie Miller for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 14 July 1932

Application of Janet Cumming for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 2 September 1938

Application of Jane Brown for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 9 February 1939

Application of Dora Metcalfe for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 3 March 1939

Application of Harriet Armstrong for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 10 November 1939

Application of Annie Gibson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 2 December 1939

Application of Eliza Pipe for pension from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 5 January 1940

Application of Eleanor B.M. Elliott for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 6 January 1940

Application of Frances Black for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 10 January 1940

Application of Olive Barratt for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 13 January 1940

Application of Sarah Hart for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 14 March 1940

Application of Ellen Gettings for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 30 March 1940

Application of Margaret Harper for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 23 April 1940

Application of Maria Smith for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 8 May 1940

Application of Margaret Jane Budd for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 2 July 1940

Application of Isabella Sarah Reece for pension from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 March 1941

Application of Margaret H. Glendenning for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 October 1941

Application of Mary Jane Anderson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 28 September 1942

Application of Henrietta Davison for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 25 January 1943

Application of Elizabeth Douglas for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 10 March 1943

Application of Mary Ann White for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 3 August 1943

Application of Dora Hannah Robinson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 27 March 1945

Application of Sarah Jane Craig for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 28 March 1945

Application of Mrs. E.A. Rayner for almshouse from the Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 16 April 1945

Application of Sarah Lamb Robson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 17 April 1945

Application of Alice Jane Paterson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 10 August 1945

Application of Mary Annie Pilkington for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 25 August 1945

Application of Alice Spedding for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 4 September 1945

Application of Matilda Trewhitt for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 5 November 1945

Application of Elizabeth Proud for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 15 March 1946

Application of Elizabeth Clarkson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 27 April 1946

Application of Isabella Stephenson for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, May 1946

Application of Miss E.M. Park for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 22 May 1946

Application of Elizabeth Ball for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 13 July 1946

Application of Margaret Cooper for almshouse from the Bowes' Almshouse Trust, Sunderland, 19 August 1946

Application of Ethel Thirkell for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 November 1946

Application of Mary Agnes Malone for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 21 November 1946

Application of Margaret Ann Brown for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 17 March 1947

Application of Mary Girdwood for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 28 April 1947

Application of Sarah Eleanor Major for almshouse from Bowes' Almshouse Trust, 18 August 1947

Restoration account, subscription list and appeal for subscriptions in aid of the Bishopwearmouth Almshouses (founded by Dr. Bowes), with illustration of same, 11 February 1880

Statements of account for the Bowes Almshouse, 1932 - 1937, 1939 - 1945, 1958 - 1966

Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, St. James, London and I.R. Chapman, 16 Lorne Terrace, Sunderland, concerning the income from the extraordinary repair fund, part of the Bowes Almshouse Trust, 1 June 1932, 16 January - 13 April 1935

Correspondence between Marjorie Ritson, The General's Orchard, Little Baddon, Chelmsford; Rev. R.W. Stannard, Bishopwearmouth Rectory, Sunderland; L.D. Chatt and Sons, Coal and Coke Merchants and Contractors, Sunderland; the Charity Commission, London; Walter and Milburn, 44 Frederick Street, Sunderland, concerning the legacy made by Lady Ritson to provide coal for the inhabitants of the Bowes Almshouse at Christmas, 1 June 1935 - 27 January 1936

Correspondence between Barclays Bank, Ltd., Sunderland, and Rev. A. Wynne Willson, Bishopwearmouth Rectory, Sunderland, concerning the opening of an account for the Bowes Almshouse Trust, 8 - 28 June 1932

Correspondence between Barclays Bank, Ltd., Fawcett Street, Sunderland and J.E. Hutchinson, 16 Lorne Terrace, Sunderland, concerning changes in the running of the account of the Bowes Almshouse Trust, 21 December 1934 and 17 January 1935

Bank book in account with Barclays Bank concerning the Bowes Almshouse Trust, 5 August 1932 - 1 January 1935

Correspondence between Rev. Prebendary A. Wynne Willson, Bishopwearmouth Rectory and the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, St. James', London, concerning the new scheme to run the Bowes Almshouse, 5 March - 24 May 1932 Includes: newspaper cutting describing the history of the almshouse charity, 1932

Correspondence between the Charity Commission, London; I.R. Chapman, 16 Lorne Terrace, Sunderland; T.T. Nesbitt, Stapylton, Hurstwood Road, Sunderland, concerning the appointment of the last-named as trustee of the Bowes Almshouse Charity, 7 December 1934 - 10 January 1935

Charity Commission authorisation of expenditure for Ogle's Charity for the almshouse founded by the Reverend John Bowes at Bishopwearmouth, 3 February 1905

Charity Commission authorisation for expenditure on repair of the almshouse, Ogle's Charity, 17 July 1928

Correspondence with the Charity Commission concerning endowments of Ogle's Charity etc., 9 November 1925 - 28 July 1928

Letter from the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, St. James', London to I.R. Chapman, 16 Lorne Terrace, Sunderland, concerning the investment of the funds held for Ogle's Charity, part of the Bowes Almshouse Trust, 6 April 1933

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1896 - 1899

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1899 - 1903

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1904 - 1905

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1908

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1909 - 1912

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle and Williamson Charities, 1913 - 1915

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle Charities, 1916 - 1918

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle Charities, 1918 - 1921

Statement of accounts of the Bowes and Ogle Charities, 1921 - 1925

Draft statement of account of Dame Dorothy Williamson's Charity, 1921 - 1925

Copy of the will of Jane Carins of 7 Grace Terrace, Bishopwearmouth, spinster (dated 19 November 1897) Codicil bequeathing (inter alia ) £25 to the Rector's Almshouses, Bishopwearmouth, 6 June 1900

Vouchers relating to improvements to the almshouses made with Miss Carin' s legacy etc., April 1902 - January 1904

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 20 October 1891

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 18 October 1892

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 16 October 1894

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 19 October 1897

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 11 October 1898

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 13 November 1900

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 3 October 1901

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 19 October 1903

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 31 October 1904

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 10 October 1905

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 4 October 1907

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 9 October 1908

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 23 October 1909

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 25 October 1910

Minutes of the annual meeting of the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 29 October 1912

Order issued by the Charity Commission that £100 of income from the Jane Gibson's Almshouses be invested in 2.5% consolidated stock, 26 July 1927

Letter from the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, Saint James's, London, confirming that £100 belonging to Jane Gibson's Almshouses have been invested in 2.5% consolidated stock, 27 August 1927

Order issued by the Charity Commission authorising the use of £6,341 5s.4d. on improvements to Jane Gibson's Almshouses and the replacement of the capital sum from the income of the charity, 17 May 1962

Jane Gibson's Almshouses cash book, 1 January 1890 - 13 November 1923

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1890

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December1891

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1892

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1893

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1894

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1895

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1896

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1897

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1898

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1899

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1900

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1901

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1902

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1903

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1904

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1905

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1906

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1907

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1908

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1909

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1910

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1911

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1912

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1913

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1914

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1915

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1916

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1917

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1918

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1919

Accounts of income and expenditure of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, returned to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 1920

Statements of account for Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 1921, 1923 - 1928

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1892

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1893

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1894

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers,1895

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1896

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1897

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1898

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1899

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1900

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1901

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1902

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1903

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1904

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1905

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1906

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1907

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1908

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1909

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1929

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1930

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1931

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1932

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1933

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1934

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1935

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1936

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1937

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1938

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1939

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1940

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1941

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1942

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1943

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1944

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1945

Jane Gibson's almshouses' vouchers, 1946

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1910

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1911

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1920

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1921

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1922

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1923

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1924

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1925

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1926

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1927

Jane Gibson's Almshouses vouchers, 1928

Bank book in account with J. Backhouse and Co. concerning Gibson's Almshouses, 13 July 1889 - 19 November 1900

Notice displaying the rules and regulations of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, 23 October 1909

Completed forms for leave of absence issued to inmates of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, 19 December 1896 - 11 September 1901

Sketch plan of proposed iron railings [possibly for Jane Gibson's Almshouses], November 1904

Sketch plan and estimates for proposed iron railings at Jane Gibson's Almshouses, n.d., [ c.1904]

Correspondence between George Hinde, Clerk to the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses, and J.W. Sutherland, Sunderland and South Shields Water Company, concerning a request for a reduction in water rates, 1 November - 20 November 1894

Correspondence between George Hinde, Clerk to the Trustees of Jane Gibson's Almshouses; R.G.C. Mowbray, Warennes Wood, Mortimer, Berkshire; Kidson, McKenzies and Kidson, Solicitors, Sunderland; and William Miller, Bondgate, Darlington, concerning tithe rent charges, 11 December 1890 - 5 April 1899

Scheme for the management of George Hudson's Charity, 1884

Estimates and tenders for the erection of iron railings at Mowbray Almshouses, Church Lane, Sunderland, issued by J.W. Ridgeway, Victoria Buildings, Sunderland, and C.T. Humble, Crowther Road, Bishopwearmouth, 8 October - 19 November 1904

Tenders and payment agreements concerning the erection of iron railings at Mowbray Almshouses, Church Lane, Sunderland, by Walter Scott and Sons, builders and contractors, Burn Park Works, Sunderland, and John Richardson, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, 27 October 1908 - 27 March 1909

29 August 1820 (1) Elizabeth Woodcock of Cheltenham, Gloucester, widow (2) The Reverend Robert Gray, D.D., Rector of Bishopwearmouth; the Reverend Robert Gray, Rector of Sunderland near the Sea; the Reverend Thomas Baker, Rector of Whitburn; and others Declaration of trusts of property (almshouses built by (1)) which she surrendered to (2) by the within recited deeds of 12 July 1820. The ten almshouses to be occupied by women aged 56 or upwards of irreproachable moral character, each a member of the Church of England, the widow or unmarried daughter of a master mariner who was resident in the parishes of Sunderland or Bishopwearmouth and commanded a vessel belonging to the port of Sunderland, not receiving any poor relief and not possessing an estate of more than £20 p.a. clear. Declaration of trusts of sum of £3,333 6s.8d. 3% Consols in favour of (2) to pay the income to the ten almshouse residents. Declaration of trusts of £836 6s.8d. 3% Annuities for the insurance of the buildings, payment of the matron of the almshouse etc. Regulation of the composition of the board of trustees. Rules and regulations for the conduct of the matron and other pensioners

Rules and regulations for Mrs. Woodcock's Marine Almshouses, Bishopwearmouth, n.d., c.1820

Scheme of endowment of the Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth Marine Institution founded and endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock, 1889

Charity Commission scheme for The Maritime Institution, 2 January 1906