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Register of baptisms, 14 May 1916 - 1 July 1923

Register of baptisms, 8 July 1923 - 29 June 1947

Register of baptisms, 6 July 1947 - 7 September 1969

Register of baptisms, 14 February 1908 - 11 May 1916

Register of marriages, 10 May 1909 - 20 March 1915

Register of marriages, 5 April 1915 - 19 October 1929

Register of marriages, 6 November 1929 - 23 March 1940

Register of marriages, 23 March 1940 - 20 March 1948

Register of marriages, 27 March 1948 - 4 January 1958

Register of marriages, 25 January 1958 - 5 March 1977

Register of marriages, 19 March 1977 - 28 August 2010

Register of banns of marriage, 25 April 1909 - 17 August 1919

Register of banns of marriage, 10 August 1919 - 1 June 1930

Register of banns of marriage, 18 April 1954 - 10 May 1981

Register of confirmations, 14 May 1915 - 11 February 1940

Register of services, 11 November 1908 - 28 May 1916

Register of services, 29 May 1916 - 5 March 1922

Register of services, 7 March 1922 - 6 January 1925

Register of services, 4 January 1925 - 17 July 1926

Register of services, 18 July 1926 - 4 February 1928

Register of services, 5 February 1928 - 7 April 1932

Register of services, 29 March 1932 - 16 August 1934

Register of services, 17 August 1934 - 3 July 1937

Register of services, 4 July 1937 - 31 December 1940

Register of services, 1 January 1941 - 24 September 1944

Register of services, 25 September 1944 - 20 January 1949

Register of services, 5 August 1952 - 27 August 1955

Register of services, 28 August 1955 - 26 December 1959

Register of services, 27 December 1959 - 29 April 1961

Register of services, 30 April 1961 - 15 September 1962

Register of services, 16 September 1962 - 7 January 1964

Register of services, 1 January 1964 - 29 May 1965

Register of services, 30 May 1965 - 10 March 1968

Register of services, 10 March 1968 - 25 November 1970

Register of services, 29 November 1970 - 24 November 1973

Register of services, 25 November 1973 - 1 May 1976

Register of services, 2 May 1976 - 25 July 1977

Register of services, 21 July 1977 - 28 October 1978

Register of services, 9 May 1982 - 26 January 1985

Register of services, 29 October 1978 - 23 February 1980

Register of services, 24 February 1980 - 8 May 1982

Register of services, 27 January 1985 - 5 September 1987

Register of services, 6 September 1987 - 9 June 1990

Register of services, 10 June 1990 - 21 November [1992]

Register of services, 22 November [1992] - 20 May 1995

Register of services, 21 May 1995 - 8 November 1997

Register of services, 9 November 1997 - 29 April 2000

Register of services, 30 April 2000 - 21 December 2003

Register of services, 21 December 2003 - 18 August 2007

Register of services, 19 August 2007 - 14 August 2010

Register of services, 15 August 2010 - 31 August 2013

Schedule by Ecclesiastical Commissioners for an Order in Council to set up the district of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, 24 December 1907

Copy Instrument of Approval of church, 26 March 1931

Letter from Church Commissioners to J.P. Carter, esquire, at Diocesan Office concerning boundaries of St. Mary Magdalene, 15 May 1950

Order in Council concerning reorganisation of: Pallion, St. Luke; Deptford, St. Andrew; Ayres Quay, St. Stephen; Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene; Millfield, St. Mark; Millfield, St. Hilda; and Bishopwearmouth, St. Gabriel, 6 April 1950

Map of parish of Millfield, St. Mark, 1950 Scale: 1:2500

Map showing alterations of boundaries of Pallion, St. Luke, 1950 Scale: 1:2500

Letter from G. Burges, assistant accountant to the Church Commissioners, to Rev. C.B. Renshaw concerning curacy endowment fund, 20 May 1954

Statement of amounts payable by Ecclesiastical Commissioners to benefice, 1 April 1939

Statement of gross payments to be made by the Church Commissioners to benefice, 5 June 1950

Letter from Rev. C.B. Renshaw at St. Mary Magdalene's Vicarage to "Ronnie" concerning details of benefice income, 3 November 1954

Licence for Walter Cyril Mudford, B.A., to become assistant stipendiary curate, 24 February 1926

Licence for Cypriann Marr, B.A., to become assistant stipendiary curate, 22 December 1929

Licence for Bernard John Gurney Fox, B.A., to become assistant stipendiary curate, 18 December 1932

Licence for Frederick Leslie Gould to become assistant stipendiary curate, 7 January 1933

Licence for John Kirkpatrick to become assistant stipendiary curate, 12 February 1936

Licence for Thomas Fish Taylor to become assistant stipendiary curate, 20 December 1936

Extract from Sunderland Echo concerning marriage of Rev. Thomas Fish Taylor, a former curate, 18 November 1950

Extract from Evening Chronicle concerning Rev. Charles Leslie Barron moving from Rowlands Gill to Millfield, 2 February 1955

Communicants' roll, 22 January 1933 - 29 December 1935

Form of service for consecration of church, 22 December 1930

Order of service for enthronement of Most Rev. Father in God Michael, Lord Archbishop of York, at York Minster, 25 April 1956

12 September 1914 (1) Luke Thompson, coal merchant, Consitt Elliott, marine engineer, Guy Potts, marine engineer, Vernon Ritson, solicitor, William Henry Hope, solicitor, Charles Booth, underwriter, and Herbert Sampson Payne Maitland, solicitor, all of Sunderland (2) Rev. Thomas Jones McKitterick of 239 Chester Road, Sunderland, clerk in holy orders (3) The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and Stanford Edward Downing, their secretary Conveyance of church site by (1) to S.E. Downing in trust for Ecclesiastical Commissioners Consideration: £1016 and £476 16s. by (2) to (1)

Letters from G.M. Sladden registrar of Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, to Messrs. Wake Bros. at 22 Athenaeum Street, Sunderland and W. Percy Sawyer, esquire, at 4 Valebrooke Gardens, Sunderland concerning manorial incidents on church and church hall, 18 December 1931 - 29 April 1932

5 August 1932 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Lords of the Manor of Houghton (2) The Official Trustees of Charity Lands (3) Rev. Charles Edwin Godhawk of St. Mary Magdalene's Vicarage, Ernest Maddison, joiner and Thomas Currer, smith striker, churchwardens Agreement for extinguishment of manorial incidents on land, c.241 square yards, on n. side of Wilson Street, e. side of Back Rutland Street, and s. side of Back Wilson Street, together with buildings there known as St. Mary Magdalene Church Hall

Notices and invoices by Sunderland Urban Sanitary Authority to Rev. T.H. Hurrell, Henry Groves and Harold Linton Heslop for levelling, paving and channelling Rutland Street, Willow Pond Terrace and Wilson Street (church), 16 February 1909

5 August 1930 (1) Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of County Borough of Sunderland (2) Rev. William Wright, vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, and churchwardens Agreement for (1) to construct a drain from heating chamber of church to sewer in Back Wilson Street

Letter from H. Craven, town clerk, to Rev. W. Wright concerning agreement re drainage of church heating chamber, 13 August 1930

Detail plan of choir vestry on n. side of church, 24 May 1935

Plan of proposed new gates and railings at church, November 1957

Letter from Hicks and Charlewood, chartered architects, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne to W.P. Sawyer, esquire, concerning church: wet in n.e. corner; iron wall brackets for barbed wire; cost of erecting porch; and cleaning artificial stone steps in chancel, 9 March 1932

Letter from Longden, Mann and Longden, solicitors, at Sunderland to Rev. T.H. Hurrell at Millfield concerning conveyance of land at Pallion, 15 July 1908

15 July 1908 (1) Rev. Thomas Henry Hurrell, vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene (2) Edwin Richardson of North Hall Farm, near Sunderland Memorandum of Agreement that (2) will lease land (plan attached) to (1) to build an organ chamber and that (1) can pull down party wall between (2)'s premises and site of Mission Hall and re-build s. wall of Mission Hall on site Consideration: £1 p.a. (1) to (2)

12 March 1909 (1) Arthur Fenwick of Boldon Hall, Northumberland, esquire (2) Rev. Thomas Henry Hurrell, clerk in holy orders and vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, Harold Heslop of Sunderland M.D. and Henry Groves of Sunderland, plater (churchwardens) Conveyance by (1) to (2) of land at corner of Rutland Street and Back Wilson Street, c.251 square yards, to be used as a Sunday School or Mission Room; as a class room, meeting room or lecture room; as a place of meeting for the clergy, district visitors, committees and other societies connected with Church of England Plan attached

6 September 1909 (1) Thomas Henry Hurrell M.A., clerk in holy orders, Harold Heslop M.D. and Henry Groves, plater, all of Sunderland (2) Arthur Fenwick of Bolam Hall, Northumberland Copy surrender by (2) of land in Back Wilson Street, plan attached, and admittance of (1)

4 November 1909 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Lords of the Manor of Houghton (2) Rev. Thomas Henry Hurrell, clerk in holy orders and vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, Harold Heslop M.D. and Henry Groves, plater, all of Sunderland Deed of enfranchisement by (1) to (2) of copyhold premises in Back Wilson Street, plan attached

Architect's report on St. Mary Magdalene Church Hall, Rutland Street, with covering letter, 19 December 1953 - 27 January 1954

1953 (1) Cecil Brammer Renshaw, clerk, vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, Ronald Leslie Brown and James Calvert, churchwardens (2) Edison Swan Electric Co. Ltd. of 155 Charing Cross Road, London Tenancy Agreement for Mission Hall and buildings in Rutland Street known as St. Mary Magdalene's Hall Consideration: £428 p.a.

20 January 1954 (1) Cecil Brammer Renshaw, vicar of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, Ronald Leslie Brown and James Calvert, churchwardens (2) Edison Swan Electric Co. Ltd. of 155 Charing Cross Road, London Tenancy Agreement for Mission Hall and buildings in Rutland Street known as St. Mary Magdalene's Hall, with covering letter

Letters from the Performing Right Society to E. Ross, esquire, at Sunderland concerning licence for concerts and socials in church hall, 29 April - 12 May 1960

Mortgage to cover cost of additions to parsonage house, with covering letter, 1 October 1951

Newspaper cutting, Sunderland Echo, concerning additions to vicarage, 9 October 1951

Inventories, September 1939

Quinquennial inspection report on the church by John A.G. Niven, registered architect, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, April 1995

Quinquennial inspection report on the church, by John A.G. Niven, registered architect, The Old Hall, 57 Front Street, West Auckland, June 2000

Papers concerning dilapidations, 15 October 1945 - 27 November 1950

Schedule of dilapidations and repairs required, noted at the quinquennial inspection of the vicarage, by M. Galley, diocesan surveyor, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, November 2000

Letter from Church Commissioners to Rev. C.B. Renshaw concerning money to be raised locally for work on church, 2 May 1952

Accounts of churchwardens, January 1945 - December 1954

Receipts, 3 June - 8 August 1961

Rent book, various properties, 6 July 1953 - 26 June 1961

Rules and constitution of Parochial Church Meeting and Council of Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene as amended and adopted by the first meeting, 14 April 1920

Minutes of Parochial Church Council, 4 November 1929 - 18 October 1937 Enclosure: EP/Mf.SMM 6/3

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 11 June 1956 - 25 November 1975 and Annual Church meeting minutes, 11 June 1956 - 25 November 1975

Minute book of Parochial Church Council, 20 January 1974 - 22 April 1990

Minutes of annual parochial meetings, 26 February 1934 - 13 February 1935 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SMM 6/2

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 5 February 1955 - 31 December 1957

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1958 - 31 December 1959 Enclosure: EP/Mf.SMM 6/9

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1960 - 31 December 1961

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 31 December 1961 - 31 December 1963

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1964 - December 1966

Account book of Parochial Church Council, 1 January 1971 - 30 April 1978

Cash book of Parochial Church Council, 3 January 1960 - December 1961

Cash book of Parochial Church Council, January 1962 - December 1966

Statements of account, 31 December 1956 - 31 December 1959 Originally enclosed in EP/Mf.SMM 6/6

Assessment of parishes for ruri-decanal fund, June 1936

Schedule of deeds concerning Sunday School or Mission Room, 3 November 1900 - 17 May 1901

Letter from the Secretary, Charity Commission to Rev. C.B. Renshaw concerning deed of Mission Room, 8 July 1953

Charity Commission Orders concerning Mission Room, 17 May 1901 - 7 September 1915

Letters from the Secretary, Charity Commission concerning Orders re Parish Room, 10 February 1954 - 12 July 1960

Letter from James Storey and Sons, solicitors, at Sunderland to Manager of the National Provincial Bank Ltd. at Sunderland concerning mortgage of Sunday School, 8 June 1938

Papers concerning Charity Commission Schemes for Parish Room, 27 June 1953 - 19 January 1954

Letter from MacDonald and Stacey, solicitors, at London to Rev. C.B. Renshaw concerning Mission Hall, 10 December 1953

Letter from the Accountant, Official Trustees' Department, Charity Commission to Rev. C.B. Renshaw concerning investment of interest from Parish Room charity, 25 March 1954

Minute book of F[ather's] U[nion]?, 3 May 1935 - 28 April 1939 and 23 March 1945

Parish magazine for Pallion, St. Luke and Millfield, St. Mary Magdalene, May 1908

Parish magazines, 1911

Parish magazines, 1912

Parish magazines, 1913 [No magazine was published in 1914]

Parish magazines, 1915

Parish magazines, 1916

Parish magazines, 1917

Parish magazines, 1918

Parish magazines, 1919

Parish magazines, 1920

Parish magazines, 1921

Parish magazines, 1922

Parish magazine, March 1932

Parish magazine, May 1932

Parish magazine, June 1932

Parish magazine, July 1932

Parish magazine, August 1932

Parish magazine, September 1932

Parish magazine, November 1932

Parish magazine, December 1932

Parish magazine, December 1934

Parish papers, November 1949 - March 1951

Parish scrapbook, 1912 - 1928

Parish scrapbook, 1929 - 1979

Newspaper cuttings, Sunderland Echo, concerning church breakfast, 7 June 1950 - 29 April 1951

Newspaper cutting, Sunderland Echo, concerning opinions of Rev. C.B. Renshaw on vandalism, 8 July 1950

Newspaper cuttings, Sunderland Echo, Sunday Sun and Weekly Chronicle, concerning sale of work, 13 - 20 October 1951

Newspaper cutting, Sunderland Echo, with photograph of Candlemass Service, 2 February 1953

List of men in the parish on active service during the First World War, compiled in 1920

Group photograph of B Company 7 DLI during the annual camp at Catterick, June 1923 One of the soldiers in the back row is George McGuire