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Haverton Hill St. John Parish

Reference: EP/Hav Catalogue Title: Haverton Hill St. John Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 

Covering Dates: 1866-1986

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  • Haverton Hill St. John Parish
    • Bellasis, St Hilda Mission Church (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Lease (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Plans (Ref: EP/Hav 32, 53)
    • Haverton Hill, St John (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Registration (Ref: EP/Hav section 01)
    • Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Hav section 01)
    • Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Hav section 02)
    • Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Hav section 03)
    • Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Hav section 04)
    • Clergy (Ref: EP/Havsection 02)
    • Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Havsection 01)
    • Registers of services (Ref: EP/Havsection 02)
    • Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Havsection 03)
    • Closure of the church (Ref: EP/Havsection 04)
    • Correspondence (Ref: EP/Havsection 05)
    • Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Havsection 06)
    • Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Havsection 04)
    • Church (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Organ (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Photographs (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Church Institute (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Churchyard (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Correspondence (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Sequestration (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Vestry (Ref: EP/Havsection 05)
    • Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Havsection 06)
    • Schools (Ref: EP/Havsection 11)
    • Church Societies (Ref: EP/Havsection 13)
    • Church Missionary Society (Ref: EP/Hav)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Hav section 14)

Catalogue Contents

Haverton Hill, St John (Ref: EP/Hav)Registration (Ref: EP/Hav section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Hav section 01)Ref: EP/Hav 1

Register of baptisms, January 1866 - November 1887
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 2

Register of baptisms, November 1887 - February 1913
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 3

Register of baptisms, February 1913 - July 1923
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 4

Register of baptism, July 1923 - March 1933
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 5

Register of baptisms, March 1933 - March 1945
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 6

Register of baptisms, March 1945 - June 1953
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 33

Register of baptisms, 14 June 1953 - 6 October 1974
(1 volume, vellum bound)

Registers of marriages (Ref: EP/Hav section 02)Ref: EP/Hav 7

Register of marriages, January 1867 - April 1919
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 8

Register of marriages, May 1919 - January 1930
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 9

Register of marriages, January 1930 - June 1942
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 10

Register of marriages, July 1942 - August 1952
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 34

Register of marriages, 6 September 1952 - 10 November 1973
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of banns of marriage (Ref: EP/Hav section 03)Ref: EP/Hav 17

Register of banns of marriage, 1866 - 1903
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 18

Register of banns of marriage, 1903 - 1930
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 19

Register of banns of marriage, 1930 - 1946
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 35

Register of banns of marriage, 25 February 1951 - 18 August 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of burials (Ref: EP/Hav section 04)Ref: EP/Hav 11

Register of burials, March 1866 - December 1892
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 12

Register of burials, December 1892 - October 1917
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 13

Register of buria1s, October 1917 - February 1930
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 14

Register of burials, February 1930 - June 1944
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 15

Register of burials, July 1944 - March 1953
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 16

Register of burials, April 1953 - January 1973
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 36

Register of burials, 15 January 1973 - 29 July 1986
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Clergy (Ref: EP/Havsection 02)Registers of confirmations (Ref: EP/Havsection 01)Ref: EP/Hav 23

Confirmation register, 1935 - 1964
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 38

Register of confirmations, 2 April 1965 - 15 March 1973
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Registers of services (Ref: EP/Havsection 02)Ref: EP/Hav 20-22

Services registers, 1875 - 1929
(3 volumes)

Parish boundaries (Ref: EP/Havsection 03)Ref: EP/Hav 29

Plans - of the new parish boundary, 1937; the vicarage, n.d.
(1 bundle)

Ref: EP/Hav 41

Copy order-in-council uniting the benefices of Haverton Hill and Billingham to form the benefice of Billingham, St. Cuthbert, 17 March 1976
(1 paper)

Closure of the church (Ref: EP/Havsection 04)Ref: EP/Hav 40

Note concerning planning for future ministry in Billingham, occasioned by the closure of the church of Haverton Hill, by Peter Wright, member of St. Aidan and St. Luke Team Ministry, 9 July 1974
(2 papers)

Ref: EP/Hav 44

General correspondence addressed to H.J. Norman, 19 Lincoln Crescent, Cowpen Estate, Billingham, Parochial Church Council Secretary and churchwarden, concerning mainly the closure of St. Hilda's mission room and the closure of the church, 12 March 1965 - 9 September 1976
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Hav 45

Correspondence between Thomas Selby & Son, surveyors, 93 High Street, Stockton, Cleveland; The Church Commissioners, 1 Millbank, London; The Diocesan Office, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland; Rev. J.B. Browne, St. Cuthbert's Vicarage, Billingham; Richard Fawcett, 19 Turnberry Avenue, Eaglescliffe, concerning the closure of the church, 9 January 1975 - 10 February 1978
(22 papers)

Ref: EP/Hav 46

Copy order-in-council declaring the redundancy of the parish church of Haverton Hill and the fate of its records, 22 October 1975
(1 paper)

Correspondence (Ref: EP/Havsection 05)Ref: EP/Hav 28

Miscellaneous papers including copies of the London Gazette, 1862 re. the formation of the parish; faculties for an electric organ blower, 1945, altar desk, 1966, lectern, 1918; inventory of church property, c 1911; reports of the Diocesan Board of Finance, 1955 - 1962
(2 bundles)

Ref: EP/Hav 42

Letters addressed to Rev. J.H.B. Darling, The Vicarage, Haverton Hill, concerning, inter alia, the churchyard, the heating of the church, the organ, and land at Haverton Hill, 26 January 1954 - 18 April 1963
(1 file)

Individual clergy (Ref: EP/Havsection 06)Ref: EP/Hav 39

Order-of-service for the collation of the Rev. David Murphy to the vicarage of St. John, Haverton Hill, and his induction, 15 May 1967
(1 booklet)

Churchwardens (Ref: EP/Havsection 04)

see also Vestry

Church (Ref: EP/Hav)Organ (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 43

Specification and estimate for the overhaul of the organ, issued by J.W. Walker & Sons, Ltd., organ builders, Braintree Road, Ruislip, Middlesex, 1 January 1968
(1 file)

Photographs (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 47

Photograph of the exterior of the church showing the porch and part of the churchyard, c.1970
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: EP/Hav 48

Photograph of the interior of the church showing the altar and looking east along the nave, c.1970
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: EP/Hav 49

Photograph of the interior of the church looking north east into the sanctuary and showing the organ and altar, c.1970
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: EP/Hav 50

Photograph of the interior of the church showing the font and looking west along the nave, c.1970
(1 photograph, 21.5 cm. x 15.5 cm., black and white)

Correspondence (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 27

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1918 - 1954, re. repairs to the church and vicarage due to war damage, 1943 - 1948; sale of glebe land, 1918; parish mission, 1947; extensions to the graveyard, 1953 - 1954; sale of the site of the old National School, 1947 - 1949
(1 box)

Churchyard (Ref: EP/Hav)

N.B. surviving records transferred to Billingham, St Cuthbert when church closed. Check parish survey schedules.

Ref: EP/Hav 51

Letters addressed to Rev. J. Brown, St. Cuthbert's Vicarage, Billingham, concerning the closure of the churchyard at Haverton Hill, 14 November 1975 - 21 April 1978
(1 file)

Ref: EP/Hav 52

Order-in-council closing the extension to St. John's Churchyard, Haverton Hill, 25 July 1978 Endorsed: plan of extension plotted on O.S. plan of 1977
(1 paper)

Church Institute (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 55

Copy scheme issued by the Charity Commission for the Church Institute, Haverton Hill, 31 March 1978
(1 paper)

Sequestration (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 59

Copy balance sheet of sequestration account, 17 October 1973 - 12 May 1976
(1 paper)

Vestry (Ref: EP/Havsection 05)Ref: EP/Hav 24

Vestry meetings' minutes, with Churchwardens' accounts, 1866 - 1874
(1 volume)

Parochial Church Council (Ref: EP/Havsection 06)Ref: EP/Hav 25

P.C.C. meetings' minutes, and annual vestry meetings' minutes, 1934 - 1951, with electoral roll, 1948 - 1949
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Hav 56

Parochial Church Council meetings minute book, 11 January 1952 - 5 August 1975
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Hav 57

Account book, 1 January 1950 - 31 December 1974
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Ref: EP/Hav 58

Cash book, 1 January 1965 - 31 December 1974
(1 volume, card bound)

Schools (Ref: EP/Havsection 11)

See also Churchwardens

Ref: EP/Hav 54

Letter from Trotter, Bruce & Loft, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, to Rev. J.H.B. Darling, The Vicarage, Haverton Hill, enclosing a copy of a plan of the school site on a deed of 1883, 7 March 1963
(1 paper and 1 plan, 25.5 cm. x 14 cm., tracing paper, crayon)

Church Societies (Ref: EP/Havsection 13)Church Missionary Society (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 26

Church Missionary Society meetings' minutes, 1931 - 1951
(1 volume)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Hav section 14)Ref: EP/Hav 37

Programme for the centenary festival, 28 October 1962
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Hav 60

Parish magazines, June, November, December 1961
(3 booklets)

Ref: EP/Hav 61

Parish magazines, January - December 1962
(5 booklets; 7 papers)

Ref: EP/Hav 62

Parish magazines, January, March - December 1963
(11 papers)

Ref: EP/Hav 63

Parish magazines, January - December 1964
(12 papers)

Ref: EP/Hav 64

Parish magazines, January - May, July - December 1965
(11 booklets)

Ref: EP/Hav 65

Parish magazines, January - December 1966
(12 booklets)

Ref: EP/Hav 66

Parish magazines, January - December 1967
(12 booklets)

Ref: EP/Hav 67

Parish magazines, January - December 1968
(12 booklets)

Ref: EP/Hav 68

Parish magazine, Autumn 1973
(1 booklet)

Ref: EP/Hav 69

'Book of Remembrance to those who served in the Second World War, 1939-1945, Parish of Haverton Hill', c.1950
(1 volume, leather bound)

Bellasis, St Hilda Mission Church (Ref: EP/Hav)Registers of baptisms (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 30

Baptisms register, November 1919 - December 1940
(1 volume)

Lease (Ref: EP/Hav)Ref: EP/Hav 31

Papers re. the Sunday school and mission room charity, and lease of the mission room to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1948-1961
(1 bundle)

Plans (Ref: EP/Hav 32, 53)Ref: EP/Hav 32

Plans of St. Hilda's mission room, n.d.
(1 bundle)

Ref: EP/Hav 53

Copy plan of the site of the Belasis Mission Church, taken from a deed of 27 March 1922; copy made, n.d. Scale: 100 feet to 1 inch [1 : 1200]
(1 plan, 39 cm. x 26 cm., tracing paper, crayon)



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