Seaham St. Mary Parish
Reference: EP/Sea Catalogue Title: Seaham St. Mary Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1709-2019
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- Seaham St. Mary Parish
- Registration (Ref: EP/Sea Section 1)
- Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)
- Registers of banns of marriages (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)
- Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Sea section 05)
- Clergy (Ref: EP/Sea Section 2)
- Registers of preachers and services (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Registers of preachers (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Registers of services (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- St. Mary's Church (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Seaton Schoolroom (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- Benefice (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- Benefice income (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)
- Glebe (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)
- Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Sea section 05)
- Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Sea section 06)
- Visitations (Ref: EP/Sea section 07)
- Tithe (Ref: EP/Sea Section 3)
- Register of tithe rent charges (Ref: EP/Sea )
- Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Sea Section 4)
- Church (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Bells (Ref: EP/Sea )
- Churchyard (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- Faculties (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)
- Financial records (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)
- Vestry (Ref: EP/Sea Section 5)
- Minutes (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Sea Section 6)
- Correspondence (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Overseers of the poor (Ref: EP/Sea Section 7)
- Charities (Ref: EP/Sea Section 12)
- Brice and Martin Charity (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Sea Section 14)
- Parish magazines (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)
- Copley Memorial Fund (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)
- Visitors' books (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)
Catalogue Contents
Registration (Ref: EP/Sea Section 1)
The earliest volume of baptisms, marriages and burials, from 1646, mentioned in W. Fordyce History of Durham Vol. II (c. 1860) appears to have been lost.
Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)1
Ref: EP/Sea 1Register of baptisms, marriages and burials 1709 - 1797; register of baptisms, 1797 - 1812
Note of a legacy for the poor, 1782
Statement by the Public Notary of South Shields of the vicar's refusal to recognise the right of Sir Ralph Millbank to hold a manorial court, 1796
Appointment of the parish clerk, 1815
Note of a vestry decision on the clerk's salary, 1815
Note of intention to use wood from Lintlings ? for a gallery in the church
(1 volume)
Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)2, 31
Ref: EP/Sea 2Register of baptisms, January 1813 - November 1861
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 31Register of baptisms, 19 January 1862 - 19 November 1999
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)3-4, 11-12, 32-33, 40/1
Ref: EP/Sea 3Register of banns and marriage, April 1756 - December 1812; register of banns, 1822 - 1824, 1831
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 4Register of marriages, June 1813 - December 1836
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 11Register of marriages, 19 April 1838 - 25 August 1937
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 12Register of marriages, 6 August 1938 - 27 May 1967
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 32Register of marriages, 12 October 1968 - 31 May 2003
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 33Register of marriages, 1 November 2003 - 25 August 2007
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 40/1Register of marriages, 29 December 2007 - 21 September 2019
(1 volume)
Registers of banns of marriages (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)13, 17
Ref: EP/Sea 13Register of banns of marriage, 7 April 1844 - 18 December 1938
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 17Register of banns of marriage, 12 March 1939 - 21 February 1965
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Sea section 05)5-6, 10
Ref: EP/Sea 5Register of burials, July 1799 - October 1812
Notes of changes affecting the living, 1824 - 1868
Account of maintenance of the church, 1909 - 1936
Notes of disputes between the vicar and Sir Ralph Millbank
Receipts of the overseers
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 6Register of burials, April 1813 - March 1861
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 10Register of burials, April 1861 - November 1966
(1 volume)
Clergy (Ref: EP/Sea Section 2)Registers of preachers and services (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)Registers of preachers (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)18-19
Ref: EP/Sea 18Register of preachers, readers, collections, etc., 2 August 1908 - 19 November 1916
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 19Register of preachers, readers, collections, etc., 26 November 1916 - 13 January 1928
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Registers of services (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)St. Mary's Church (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)Ref: EP/Sea 35/1Register of services, 24 October 1965 - 8 November 2004
(1 volume)
Seaton Schoolroom (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)8
Ref: EP/Sea 8Seaton Schoolroom: register of services, 1938 - 1940
(1 volume)
Benefice (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)37/1-2, 5
Ref: EP/Sea 37/1London Gazette, scheme for St. John's in Seaham Harbour to become a perpetual curacy with the transfer of rent charges to the benefice, 20 September 1844
(2 papers)
Ref: EP/Sea 37/2London Gazette, scheme for the better provision of the benefice of Seaham Harbour, St. John with the transferral of patronage and right of nomination, 26 August 1845
(1 booklet)
Ref: EP/Sea 37/5London Gazette, scheme for the union of the benefices of Seaham and Seaham Harbour, 28 July 1933
(1 booklet)
Benefice income (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)37/3-4
Ref: EP/Sea 37/3London Gazette, scheme for additional provision for the benefice of Seaham Harbour with a grant to augment the income of the benefice, 7 October 1845
(1 booklet)
Ref: EP/Sea 37/4London Gazette, scheme authorising annual payments to the benefice of Seaham Harbour, St. John by the Church Commissioners, 3 July 1866
(1 booklet)
Glebe (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)Ref: EP/Sea 38Proceeds of sale of Seaham glebe land under Ecclesiastical Leasing Act 1858 with accompanying statement of investment of mineral receipts, 19 March 1932
(2 papers, typescript)
Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Sea section 05)43
Ref: EP/Sea 43Map showing the ecclesiastical parish boundaries of St. Mary the Virgin, Seaham; St. John the Evangelist, Seaham Harbour; Christ Church; New Seaham; St. Hild and St. Helen, Dawdon and St. Andrew, Dalton-le-Dale, n.d. [c. 1980s]
(1 plan, 83cm x 83cm)
Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Sea section 06)36/1-3
Ref: EP/Sea 36/1Drawing of the Reverend R. Wallis, 1783
(1 drawing, black and white, 20cm x 25cm, mounted on cardboard)
Ref: EP/Sea 36/2Photograph of the Reverend A. Bethune, n.d. [c. 1800s]
(1 photograph, mounted on card, sepia, 18cm x 23cm)
Ref: EP/Sea 36/3Photograph of the Reverend T. Copley, 1908
(1 photograph, mounted on card, sepia, 11cm x 16cm)
Visitations (Ref: EP/Sea section 07)Ref: EP/Sea 43Archdeacon's visitation articles 1993-2001
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 44Bishop's visitation articles 2002
- including agenda, minutes, balance sheet analysis and reports of annual parochial church meeting
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 45Archdeacon's visitation articles 2003
(1 sheet)
Ref: EP/Sea 46Archdeacon's visitation articles 2005
(1 sheet)
Ref: EP/Sea 47Archdeacon's visitation articles 2007-2010
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 48Bishop's visitation articles 2012
(1 sheet)
Ref: EP/Sea 49Bishop's visitation articles 2014
(1 sheet)
Ref: EP/Sea 50Archdeacon's visitation articles 2015-2017
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 51Bishop's visitation articles 2018
(1 sheet)
Tithe (Ref: EP/Sea Section 3)Register of tithe rent charges (Ref: EP/Sea )14
Ref: EP/Sea 14Register of tithe rent charges, 1915 - 1930
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Sea Section 4)Church (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)Bells (Ref: EP/Sea )26
Ref: EP/Sea 26List giving date and name of the bellringer at Seaham parish church, 3 April 1921 - 16 February 1940
(1 volume, card bound)
Churchyard (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)29-30
Ref: EP/Sea 29Plan of the burial ground at St. Mary's Church, 15 November 1951
[Notes names of occupants of graves and spaces reserved for which faculties have been obtained]
(1 plan, 52.5 cm. x 42 cm., tracing paper, colour wash)
Ref: EP/Sea 30List of faculties granted for the reservation of grave spaces, c. 1951
Originally attached to EP/Sea 29
(1 paper)
Faculties (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)15, 20, 22-25
Ref: EP/Sea 15Faculty for the erection of two stained glass windows in the church, 29 July 1909
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 20Faculty for the erection on the north wall of the church of a marble tablet dedicated to the memory of Rev. Thomas Copley, curate of Seaham Harbour from 1880 to 1908 and vicar of Seaham Harbour from 1908 to 1932, 4 December 1933
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/Sea 22Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Euphemia Forbes McLeod
(d. 27 June 1945), Lizzie Paxton (d. 6 October 1945) and Loris Mildred Paxton, of Ben Vhraggie, Stockton Road, Seaham, 7 November 1946
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/Sea 23Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Alice Bulmer of Stotfold Farm, Seaton, and John Bulmer (d. 30 September 1946), 31 December 1947
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/Sea 24Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Richard Wilson, 10 Clark's Terrace, Seaton Lane, Seaton, New Seaham, and Dora Wilson (d. 1 March 1950), 29 August 1950
(1 paper)
Ref: EP/Sea 25Faculty for the reservation of grave spaces for Annie Ethel Henderson, 5 St. John's Terrace, Seaton Lane, Seaton, New Seaham, and Thomas William Henderson (d. 30 October 1947), 29 August 1950
(1 paper)
Financial records (Ref: EP/Sea section 04)7
Ref: EP/Sea 7Churchwardens' and Overseers' accounts, vestry minutes, etc. 1857 - 1956
(1 volume)
Vestry (Ref: EP/Sea Section 5)Minutes (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)42/1
Ref: EP/Sea 42/1Minute book, 14 March 1957 - 28 January 2012
Includes: minutes of ordinary and annual general meetings, list of incumbents and a brief history of the church
(1 volume)
Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Sea Section 6)See EP/Sea 42/1 for minutes of ordinary and annual general meetings
Correspondence (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)39
Ref: EP/Sea 39Letters from G. H. Wheeler, Parochial Church Council Secretary, to the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, London, SW1 concerning the scheme for effecting the union of the benefices of Seaham and Seaham Harbour with accompanying notice of certification by His Majesty in Council and accompanying draft scheme approved by Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 12 June - 14 July 1933
(8 papers, typescript)
Overseers of the poor (Ref: EP/Sea Section 7)9
see also EP/Sea 5, 7
Overseers' accounts, 1759 - 1805
(1 volume)
Charities (Ref: EP/Sea Section 12)Brice and Martin Charity (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)16
Ref: EP/Sea 16Accounts and notes re the Brice and Martin Charity, 11 January 1860 - 3 December 1931
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Sea Section 14)Parish magazines (Ref: EP/Sea section 01)34/1-8
Ref: EP/Sea 34/1Parish Notes, June/July 2000 - December/January 2001
(7 papers)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/2Parish Notes, January/February 2001 - December/January 2002
(11 papers and 1 booklet)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/3Parish Notes, January/February 2002 - December/January 2003
(12 papers)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/4Parish Notes, January/February 2003 - December/January 2004
(12 papers)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/5Parish Notes, January/February 2004 - December/January 2005
(16 papers)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/6Parish Notes, January/February - November/December 2005
(14 papers and 1 booklet)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/7Parish Notes, January 2006 - December 2008
(1 file)
Ref: EP/Sea 34/8Parish Notes, January 2009 - January 2012
(1 file)
Copley Memorial Fund (Ref: EP/Sea section 02)21
Ref: EP/Sea 21Bank statement, statement of accounts and list of subscribers to the Copley Memorial fund, 13 January 1934
(3 papers)
Visitors' books (Ref: EP/Sea section 03)27-28, 41/1-3
Ref: EP/Sea 27Visitors' book, 12 August 1951 - 27 June 1955
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 28Visitors' book, 13 April 1958 - 1 May 1994
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: EP/Sea 41/1Visitors' book, 20 May 1994 - 11 September 2002
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 41/2Visitors' book, 14 September 2002 - 14 December 2010
(1 volume)
Ref: EP/Sea 41/3Visitors' book, 24 December 2010 - 27 July 2016
(1 volume)
