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Register of baptisms, 30 September 1588 - 4 September 1726; marriages, 3 September 1591 - 3 September 1724; and burials, 10 August 1589 - 4 January 1725/6

Register of baptisms, 11 September 1726 - 25 July 1758; marriages, 27 December 1726 - 14 August 1753; and burials, 11 October 1726 - 19 January 1742 For enclosure: see EP/Bri 1/3

Register of baptisms, 4 September 1779 - 4 October 1812; and burials, 18 October 1779 - 26 December 1812 Included at front: note of baptisms taken from loose papers of the late vicar, July - December 1758 For enclosures: see EP/Bri 1/5 and EP/Bri 2/37

Register of baptisms, 2 February 1813 - 14 February 1993 At beginning: note of the presentation by Mrs. Morritt of a silver gilt communion service and a pocket communion service, August 1855, and note that the silver cup had been mislaid by the time the Rev. W.G. Pritchard entered the parish, 1858

Register of banns of marriage, 27 April 1755 - 26 April 1761; marriages, 12 May 1755 - 3 June 1761; and banns, of marriage and marriages, 25 May 1762 - 15 November 1815 Included at back: the assent to the thirty-nine articles by the Rev. Francis Blackburne, 21 May 1780

Register of marriages, 13 February 1813 - 18 May 1837 For enclosure: see EP/Bri 4/13

Register of marriages, 22 December 1838 - 22 January 1989 [The register was closed ' by order of the Registrar General (pattern obsolete), 22 March 1991']

Register of marriages, 27 July 1996 - 17 October 2014

Register of marriages, 4 June - 16 July 2016

Register of banns of marriage, 21 November 1824 - 6 November 1994 [From 1970 the volume records banns called in the parish of Rokeby-with-Brignall]

Register of burials, 16 September 1813 - 15 April 1993 At beginning: note of registers, 10 October 1859; note and location of transcripts, 27 January 1857; note of fees chargeable in the parish, n.d.

Transcript of the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1588 - 1742, by Miss [Alice] Edleston of Gainford, n.d. [early 20th century]

Certificate by the Rev. James Farrer, vicar of Brignall, of the marriage of Francis Potts and Elizabeth Penmore by licence, 29 September 1746

Coroner's warrant for the burial of John Breaks, 26 August 1793 Includes, on reverse: details of the baptisms of the children of William and Mary Todd, September 1748 - July 1958 and the marriage of William Todd and Margaret Dixon, August 1748

Note of baptisms, 1765 - 1774 Originally enclosed in EP/Bri 1/9

Copy extract from the parish register of Gilling recording the birth on 20 August and baptism on 6 September 1789 of Sarah, bastard daughter of Jane Hopper and a certification of the churching of Jane Hopper on 6 September 1789

Register of services, 24 July 1910 - 1 November 1942

Correspondence between the Ecclesiastical Commission, the Diocesan Registry, Ripon and the incumbent of Brignall, concerning the union of benefices and the need to cease marrying at Brignall, 9 - 14 February 1922

Correspondence received from the Ripon Diocesan Registrar, regarding the irregular nature of marriages celebrated at Brignall since the union of the benefices of Brignall and Rokeby, 13 August - 14 October 1936

The London Gazette containing a copy of an Order in Council ratifying a scheme for effecting an exchange of the patronage of certain benefices (including Rokeby) between the Lord Chancellor and the Bishop of Ripon, 30 January 1874

The London Gazette containing an Order in Council uniting the benefices of Rokeby and Brignall at the next vacancy, 31 January 1922

10 April 1886 (1) Reverend Robert Tilbury, Incumbent of Brignall (2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty (3) Joseph Keech As on of Dean's Yard, Westminster, esquire Mortgage of benefice income to secure £335 and interest

Episcopal licence authorising the publication of banns and the solemnization of marriages at Brignall, 14 October 1936; consent of Hails ham L.C. as alternate patron of the living, 8 October 1936; plan of the parish, 1936

List of vicars and rectors of Saint Mary's Church Brignall, n.d. [after 1941]

List of Vicars and Rectors of St. Mary's Church, Brignall from 1200 - 1941, n.d. [c. 1940s] Se also EP/Bri 5/1

Correspondence received from the Home Office, with a copy of the Provisional Orders (Marriages) Confirmation Act, 1937 and of an Order under the Marriage Validity (Provisional Orders) Acts, January - February 1937

Letters from the Reverend William Oliver, Leeds, Yorkshire, to the Reverend A. Campbell Fraser, Rokeby, discussing old pictures of old Brignall church, the old manor house at Rokeby etc., 9 April and 22 December 1936

Letters from Lord Farrer, Abinger Hall, Dorking, to the Reverend A. Campbell Fraser, Rokeby, concerning the Reverend James Farrer, vicar of Brignall and the problem of Brignall marriages, 7 May 1937 and 18 February 1938

Statistical return of parochial work, 1910

Statistical return of parochial work, 1912

Statistical return of parochial work, 1915

Statistical returns of parochial work, 1919 - 1928

Statistical returns of parochial work, 1932 - 1933

Parochial statistics for the years ended 31 December 2000 - 2003

A form of service of thanksgiving upon Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 21 June 1887

A form of service of thanksgiving upon Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 20 June 1897

Form of service for the unveiling and dedication of a tablet and memorial cross at Brignall, 27 February 1921

A royal proclamation of a public thanksgiving for the end of the Napoleonic Wars, 17 June 1814

Advertisement for 'Back to Church Sunday', 26 September 2010

Prayer card, depicting a montage of symbols representing what Britain was fighting for in the First World War, including angels, a mother and baby, a battalion of soldiers marching through a rural landscape and a Crusader standing on a hill, captioned, 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and including a medallion with space to write the name of the 'Hero', which the card prays protection for, Christmas 1915

Notice from Tithe Redemption Commission concerning chancel repairs, 6 July 1950

Copy application from the Rev. O.W. Kilvington ' for aid from the Incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement building and repairing of churches and chapels towards rebuilding the church at Brignall on a new site ', 13 August 1833

Survey report on the old church of St Mary, Brignall by P.F. Ryder, Napper Collerton Parnership, 46 Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne, December 1986

Copy repairs grant application relating to St Mary's church, Brignall, n.d. [c1998]

Receipted account for an American organ by Mason and Hamilin supplied by Archibald Ramsden Ltd., of 47 Northgate, Darlington, 10 April 1900

Estimate for fully restoring, improving and installing a pipe organ by Casson at St. Mary's church, Brignall, by Principal Pipe Organs, The Raylor Centre, James Street, York, 29 September 1998

Handbill advertising Brignall church Christmas Bazaar to raise funds for the bell of St Mary's church, 21 November 1999

Sentence of Consecration of new church and cemetery at Brignall, 24 September 1834

Photograph of a print of 1805 of the old Brignall church, [1936]

Order in council discontinuing burials in St. Mary' s old churchyard, Brignall, 26 July 1979

Correspondence with various parties relating to the old churchyard at Brignall, 7 November 1975 - 17 June 1989

Correspondence between D. Atkinson and various parties concerning a missing gravestone in the churchyard, 2 May 2007 - 18 June 2008

Key to graves and burial records to accompany the graveyard plan drawn up by archaeology students of Darlington College of Technology, 1999

PowerPoint presentation for the proposed position of the garden of remembrance, November 2007

Statement of annual amounts payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (on invested proceeds from sale of vicarage), 1 April 1939

22 June 1855 (1) The Honourable and Reverend Frank Sugden, clerk, vicar of the parish church of Brignall in the North Riding of Yorkshire (2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage by (1) to (2) of glebe, tithes, rents and profits from benefice, the sum to be expended on the vicarage Consideration: £507 with interest

Faculty for a memorial tablet to the memory of the late Reverend Robert Tilbury, 10 March 1913

Faculty for placing a stone cross in the churchyard, and a tablet in the church, to the memory of fallen soldiers, 13 December 1920

Faculty for the erection of a stone memorial tablet, 24 July 1942

Faculty to erect a new vestry, to reglaze the windows, to refloor with concrete and to reseat the parish church of Brignall, 28 August 1891

Inventory of moveable goods, 24 August 1860

Inventory of moveable goods, n.d. [post 1873]

Inventory of moveable goods, 5 May 1925

Inventory of moveable goods, n.d. [addition to 1931]

Inventory of church property and glebe land, n.d. [early 20th century]

Terrier of 1737 See also EP/Bri 5/1 for information about date of terrier and terrier of 1859

Terrier of 1873, 9 September 1873

Terrier and inventory, August 1936

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mary' s church, by Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18A Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, September 1985

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mary' s church, by Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18A Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, August 1990

Quinquennial inspection report on St. Mary' s church, by Forsyth & Stastny, chartered architects, Britannia Chambers, 18A Horsemarket, Barnard Castle, July 1996

Quinquennial inspection (structure only) by Smiths Gore, Architects, July 2007

Accounts book of the churchwardens, constables and overseers of the poor of the parish of Brignall, 2 April 1700 - 27 March 1827 Including towards the back of the book an order for the foundation of a parish school at Brignall, 21 August 1794

Account book of the churchwardens, 14 October 1833 - 24 April 1900 For enclosures: see EP/Bri 2/41 and EP/Bri 12/2

Abstract of church accounts, 1951

Receipts and payments for church fete, 22 August 1964

Provisional valuations under the Finance (1909 - 1910) Act 1910 (Form 36 - Land) for the church and rectory at Brignall, 29 October 1914

Minute book of vestry meetings dealing with the building of the new church, 8 July 1833 - 15 September 1834 Including: A plan of the new church at Brignall 1834; A list of rectors and vicars from 1657 to 1910, including a copy of the terrier written between 1726 - 1738 [ See EP/Bri 4/15 for the original terrier], and details of the commutation of tithes in 1838; testimony of Mr. A. Bowman concerning the plantation at the beginning of the vicar ' s land by the Rev. Blackburne and of reputed settlements in connection with a right of way and a new road in the area of the plantation, 26 October 1861; A terrier of 21 March, 1859; An inventory of church goods, 24 August 1860; A list of church rates, 19 November 1858; A list of clergy at Brignall, 1873 - 1910; Correspondence between the Rural Dean and Rector of Barningham, the Rev. George Hales, the Bishop of Ripon ' s Secretary, Mr. Samuel Wise of the Diocesan Registry, Ripon and the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ripon, T.H. Tristram, 12 King ' s Bench Walk, The Temple, London E.C., concerning the correct legal designation of the vicar as rector of Brignall, 13 - 28 March 1885

Minutes of the Parochial Church Council and annual vestry, of Rokeby with Brignall (Rokeby only until 29 September 1966), 24 April 1964 - 22 October 1971; 15 March 1974 - 16 February 2000

Minutes of meetings of Brignall Church Community Fund Raising Committee, 9 December 1998 - 21 June 1999

Rokeby and Brignall Church Committee minutes of meetings, 13 November 2001 - 8 August 2007; Brignall Church Committee minutes of meetings, 7 November 2007 - 30 March 2009 Includes: correspondence, 3 November 2003 - 6 January 2009

Rokeby and Brignall Church Committee account, 2008 - 2009

3 June 1818 (1) Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the township of Brignall, North Riding of Yorkshire (2) James Hammond of Barnard Castle, shoemaker Indenture where Joseph Brunskill is apprenticed to (2) Originally enclosed in EP/Bri 1/11

1 July 1828 (1) Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the township of Brignall, North Riding of Yorkshire (2) Christopher Robinson of Barningham, North Riding of Yorkshire, tailor Indenture whereby William Appleby is apprenticed to (2) Originally enclosed in EP/Bri 1/11

Recognisance before birth by Benson Clarkson of paternity of a child to be born of Hannah Storey, 17 November - [in the reign of George III 1760 - 1820]

Commitment of Matthew Whitefield for refusing to obey an order of bastardy after birth, 5 September 1821

Warrant addressed to the constable of the township of Brignall for the apprehension of Matthew Whitefield for the non-payment of maintenance for the child of Mary Banks of Brignall, 5 May 1821 Originally enclosed in EP/Bri 1/9

Notification to the Constable of Brignall, Mr. Edward Kellet by the Chief Constable, Mr. J.O. Newby of an order at the General Sessions of the Peace that he is to be diligent in turning back 'wandering idle, straggling beggars' and to detect and report those householders who usually give them shelter, 13 May 1814

Appointment of Alexander Smith of Greystones, Cotherstone, M.D. as a trustee of The Bowes Cross Charity, 18 February 1928

Notice from the charity commission of the appointment of Alexander Smith, Doctor of Medicine, to be a trustee of the Bowes Charity, 18 February 1928

Parish history of St. Mary's Church, Brignall by the Rector of Rokeby, the Reverend W. Oliver, 1943

A history of Rokeby and Brignall by the Reverend A. A. Harrison, 1967 - 1969

Photograph of Hutton Magna church, [1936] See also EP/HM Hutton Magna, St Mary Parish

An Act for amending the Laws respecting the Solemnization of Marriages in England, 18 July 1823

An Act to alter the Mode of giving Notices for the holding of Vestries etc., 12 July 1837