Fishburn Civil Parish
Reference: CP/Fi Catalogue Title: Fishburn Civil Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1894-2001
Access: Access is restricted for up to 100 years under Data Protection legislation. Apply to County Archivist for access.
Related Information
Catalogue Index
Use 
and 
to reveal/hide the structure of the catalogue index (requires Javascript to be enabled in your internet browser options). Click to jump directly to information at a specific level of the catalogue.
- Fishburn Civil Parish
- Fishburn Parish Council (Ref: CP/Fi 1-56)
- Minutes (Ref: CP/Fi Section 01)
- Committee minutes (Ref: CP/Fi 38)
- Elected members (Ref: CP/Fi Section 02)
- Declarations of Acceptance of Office (Ref: CP/Fi 9)
- Attendance (Ref: CP/Fi 10)
- Financial records (Ref: CP/Fi Section 03)
- Correspondence (Ref: CP/Fi Section 04)
- Burials (Ref: CP/Fi Section 05)
- Allotments (Ref: CP/Fi Section 06)
- Charities (Ref: CP/Fi Section 07)
- Miscellaneous (Ref: CP/Fi Section 08)
- Numbers not used (Ref: CP/Fi Section 09)
Catalogue Contents
Fishburn Parish Council (Ref: CP/Fi 1-56)
Fishburn was a township of Sedgefield parish
- part of Sedgefield Poor Law Union 1834-1930
- civil parish 1866, with an elected council from 1894
- part of Sedgefield Rural Sanitary District 1875-1894
- part of Sedgefield Rural District 1894-1974
- part of Sedgefield District 1974-2009
1-4, 11-13
Ref: CP/Fi 1Parish meeting minutes, 1894 - 1915
including Relief Committee, 1914 - 1917
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 2Parish Council minutes, 1916 - 1930
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 3Parish Council minutes, 1937 - 1951
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 4Parish Council minutes, 1951 - 1961
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 11Minute book, 25 May 1961 - 11 June 1970
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 12Minute book, 20 August 1970 - 14 September 1978
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 13Minute book, 14 October 1978 - 8 October 1987
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Committee minutes (Ref: CP/Fi 38)Ref: CP/Fi 38Fishburn Memorial Playing Fields Committee minute book, 22 December 1947 - 23 April 1954
(1 volume, card bound)
Elected members (Ref: CP/Fi Section 02)Declarations of Acceptance of Office (Ref: CP/Fi 9)Ref: CP/Fi 9Declarations of acceptance of office by parish councillors, 30 December 1904 - 20 May 1970
(1 volume, card bound)
Attendance (Ref: CP/Fi 10)Ref: CP/Fi 10Attendance register, 12 October 1972 - 14 May 1981
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Financial records (Ref: CP/Fi Section 03)19-27, 29-36, 53-55
Ref: CP/Fi 19Receipt and payment book, 7 April 1931 - 31 March 1966
For enclosures: see CP/Fi 35
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 20Collection and deposit book, 29 May 1934 - 27 April 1973
(1 volume, cloth quarter-bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 21Receipt and payment book, 1 April 1946 - 31 March 1966
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 22Receipt and payment book, 5 April 1966 - 31 March 1972
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 23Receipt and payment book, 13 April 1972 - 31 March 1978
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 24Receipt and payment book, 12 January 1978 - 15 October 1983
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 25Receipt and payment book, 14 April 1972 - 31 March 1986
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 26Imprest account book, 10 April 1973 - 31 March 1983
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 27Account book, 1 April 1986 - 1 April 1987
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 29Receipt and payment book: lighting, 12 April 1954 - 14 June 1962
For e nclosure: see CP/Fi 33
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 30Receipt and payment book: burial account, 16 April 1966 - 31 March 1985
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 31Financial Statements, year ending 31 March 1931 - year ending 31 March 1950; year ending 31 March 1952 - 31 March 1974
For enclosure: see CP/Fi 34
(89 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 32Register of mortgages, 29 December 1936
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 33Public lighting receipt, March quarter 1956
(1 paper)
Ref: CP/Fi 34Receipt for binding two parish council financial statements, 20 August 1957
(1 paper)
Ref: CP/Fi 35Community Service Council receipts, 17 February 1960 - 16 March 1960
(2 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 36Precepts upon Rating Authority for expenses, 9 February 1967 - 10 April 1973
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 53Fishburn Parish Council balance sheets, 31 March 1999 - 31 March 2000
(14 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 54Fishburn Parish Council, audit opinion and certificates; G. Hunt for the District Audit, 2nd Floor, Nickalls House, Metro Centre, Gateshead, 4 September 1998 - 7 September 2000
(23 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 55Fishburn Parish Council, Income and Expenditure and Expenditure Forecast 1999 - 2001
(9 papers)
Correspondence (Ref: CP/Fi Section 04)15-18, 52, 56
Ref: CP/Fi 15Town Farm correspondence, 1 April 1969 - 6 September 1973
(41 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 16Clerk's correspondence, 18 June 1981 - 25 July 1981
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Fi 17General correspondence, 6 March 1984 - 29 May 1986
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Fi 18General correspondence, 25 May 1984 - December 1985
(190 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 52Correspondence between Fishburn Parish Council, 12 Millfield Road, Fishburn; Fishburn Youth and Community Centre, Butterwick Road, Fishburn; concerning the Fishburn Skills Project, 22 April 1997 - 12 June 1998
(13 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 56Correspondence between Fishburn Parish Council, 12 Millfield Road, Fishburn; Grace Landscapes Ltd., Nunbrook Farm, Mirfield, West Yorkshire; Groundwork East Durham, Seaton Holme, Hall Walks, Easington Village; concerning Millfield Community Play Area, Fishburn, 17 March - 19 November 1997
Includes: certificates of completion 17 and 25 March, 9 May, 13 October 1997
(27 papers)
Burials (Ref: CP/Fi Section 05)5-8, 37, 44-46
Fishburn Cemetery opened in 1934
Burial grant certificates counterfoils, 1941 - 1947
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 6Burial grant certificates counterfoils, 1948 - 1951
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 7Burial grant certificates counterfoils, 1951 - 1960
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 8Burial fees book, 1934 - 1962
(1 volume)
Ref: CP/Fi 37Burial Committee: scale of fees and charges, 1 June 1980
(3 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 44Register of burials, 18 December 1934 - 10 May 1957
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 45Register of burials of stillborn children, 1 January 1935 - 20 March 1959
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 46Register of memorials, etc., 21 April 1935 - 28 March 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Allotments (Ref: CP/Fi Section 06)14, 28
Ref: CP/Fi 14Correspondence concerning allotments, 13 October 1962 - 7 February 1980
(156 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 28Allotment rental, year ending 31 March 1953 - 31 March 1974
(1 volume, card bound)
Charities (Ref: CP/Fi Section 07)39-43
Ref: CP/Fi 39Minute book of Marianne Chilton's Charity, 31 August 1964 - 12 September 1968
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 40Scheme issued by the Charity Commission for the Dame Elizabeth Freville Charity, Sedgefield; the Brigg Dyke and other charities, Bishop Middleham; Howle Hope Estate and other charities, Sedgefield; William Sewell Charlton Charity, St. Edmund, Sedgefield; Cooper's Almshouses, Cornforth, 19 June 1972; statements of account of the Sedgefield Educational Foundation, Lady Freville's Estate and the Howle Hope Estate, 31 December 1970
(1 booklet and 3 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 41Bank book of the Chilton Charity, Sedgefield, 15 April 1920 - 7 October 1961
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 42Statement of accounts of Lady Freville's Estate, year ending 31 December 1968
(1 paper)
Ref: CP/Fi 43Statement of accounts of the Sedgefield Educational Foundation, year ending 31 December 1968
(1 paper)
Miscellaneous (Ref: CP/Fi Section 08)48-51
Ref: CP/Fi 48Sedgefield Rural District Council: Building Byelaws made under the Public Health Act, 1936, revised edition, 1939
For enclosure: see CP/Fi 49
(1 volume, paper bound)
Ref: CP/Fi 49Sedgefield Rural District Council: building byelaws under the Public Health Act, 1936 and information as to urban papers enjoyed by the council under the above act, 24 July 1939
(2 papers)
Ref: CP/Fi 50National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949, third review: Sedgefield Rural District Council's statement of rights of way in the parish of Fishburn, 29 February 1968
(1 file)
Ref: CP/Fi 51Certificate of award for first place in County Durham Tidy Village Competition, 1982
(1 card)
Numbers not used (Ref: CP/Fi Section 09)47
Ref: CP/Fi 47Number not used
