Durham City Council (1179 - 1974)
Reference: Du 5 Catalogue Title: Durham City Council (1179 - 1974) Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Freemen
Covering Dates: 1549-2018
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- Durham City Council (1179 - 1974)
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For Roll of honorary freemen of the City of Durham, 7 April 1886 - 22 March 2010, see DCC/CH 7/1Catalogue Contents
Durham City Council (1179 - 1974) - Freemen (Ref: Du 5)Minutes of guild meetings (Ref: Du 5/1/1-11)
Minutes of guild meetings held for the 'calls' of tradesmen in order to their being admitted freemen, giving names and trades of those called and whether approved or rejected
Ref: Du 5/1/1Guild minutes, 18 November 1728 - 3 August 1761
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/2Guild minutes, 2 November 1761 - 13 November 1769
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/3Index to guild minutes, Du 5/1/1-2
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/4Guild minutes, 13 November 1780 - 6 May 1793
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/5Guild minutes, 5 August 1793 - 7 February 1820
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/6/1Guild minutes, 8 May 1820 - 4 August 1851
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/6/2Index to Du 5/1/6/1, May 1820 - August 1851
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/7Guild minutes, 17 November 1851 - 4 May 1908
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/8Guild minutes, 10 August 1908 - 6 February 1949
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/9Copy of Du 5/1/1, 18 November 1728 - 3 August 1761
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/10Copy of guild minutes, 8 August 1763 - 4 August 1766
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/11Copy of guild minutes, 5 May 1800
(7 papers)
Admittances of Freemen (Ref: Du 5/1/12-184)Ref: Du 5/1/12Admittances of freemen, 1742 - 3 October 1763
At beginning: copy byelaws concerning the admission of freemen at the guilds as follows: a fine of 20s. per week to be imposed on those who are not members of a guild exercising a trade within the city; 1s. to be paid to Mayor on person's being admitted to a company; Mayor, one or more aldermen, and wardens to meet four times a year to call each person on three occasions to be approved; any warden or steward making any person a freeman contrary to this bye-law to be fined £30; town clerk to keep a record of those admitted for a fee of 6d. per person; any freeman taking an apprentice solely for the purpose of making him free of the city and not teaching him his trade to be fined £30, 8 November 1728
pp.25-28: copy byelaws re-enacting all provisions of byelaws of 8 November 1728 except that mayor, aldermen and wardens and stewards of companies to meet four times a year to call each person, and each person to be called once only, 13 October 1761
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 volume, vellum bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/13Admittances of freemen, 23 December 1830 -8 May 1939; includes Ordinances of 1780 and 1783 for admittances of freemen
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/14Admittances of freemen, 8 December 1766 - 21 July 1770
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 volume, paper cover)
Ref: Du 5/1/15Admittances of freemen, 12 October 1780 - 10 May 1797
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/16Index to Du 5/1/15
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/17/1Admittances of freemen, 7 May 1799 - 16 July 1802
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/17/2Index to Du 5/1/17/1
[See index 706 in microfilm room]
(1booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/18/1Admittances of freemen, 23 October 1823 - 3 August 1829
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/18/2Index to Du 5/1/18/1
(1booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/19Admittances of freemen, 2 November 1813 - 19 May 1834
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/20Index of admissions to freemen's roll, 1837 - 1919
(1 volume, calf bound)
Ref: Du 5/1/21Lists of freemen of the companies of Durham, 1751
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/22Lists of freemen of the companies of Durham and list of mayors, 1742 - 1761, n.d. [c.1761]
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/1/23Admissions of freemen, 1761
(1 file, parchment and paper)
Ref: Du 5/1/24Calls at guilds [of those to be made freemen], 1757 - 1761
(1 file)
Ref: Du 5/1/25-78Surrenders of freedom in the company of dyers and listers of the City of Durham, September 1763
(54 papers)
Ref: Du 5/1/79-184Surrenders of freedom in the company of goldsmiths, plumbers, pewterers, potters, glaziers and painters of the City of Durham, September 1763
(106 papers)
Bye-laws of Companies (Ref: Du 5/3/1-7)Ref: Du 5/3/1Copy of bye-laws of company of drapers and taylors, 7 November 1549
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/3/2Copy of bye-laws of company of drapers and taylors, 1628, 25 March 1696 and 26 March 1705
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/3/3Copy of bye-laws of company of drapers and taylors, 26 March 1705; extract from bye laws of company of drapers and taylors, 9 October 1628
(2 papers)
Ref: Du 5/3/4-5Extracts from bye-laws of companies of barbers, weavers, skinners and glovers, cordwainers, saddlers, blacksmiths, joiners, fullers, curriers, mercers, butchers and plumbers, relating to admissions to freedom, 1609 - 1766
(2 files)
Ref: Du 5/3/6-7Notes concerning bye-laws of company of masons, November 1766
(2 papers)
Freemen's Farm (Ref: Du 5/4/1-33)Ref: Du 5/4/1-11Receipts for trustees of freemen's farm from the various companies, 16 August 1830 - 2 August 1831
(7 papers, 4 file-s)
Ref: Du 5/4/12-16Receipts for trustees of freemen's farm from the various companies, August 1829 - 4 August 1831
(1 paper, 3 files, 1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/4/17-21Receipts for the trustees of the freemen's farm and notices of meetings of trustees and wardens, 31 January 1832 - 14 November 1832
(5 files)
Ref: Du 5/4/22-25Receipts for the trustees of the freemen's farm, 31 January 1835 - 3 August 1835
(4 files)
Ref: Du 5/4/26-28Notice of meetings of trustees and wardens and receipts for trustees of freemen's farm, 1 February 1836 - 1 August 1836
(3 files)
Ref: Du 5/4/29-30Receipts for the trustees of the freemen's farm, April 1835 - 2 February 1837
(2 files)
Ref: Du 5/4/31-33Conditions of husbandry for proposal to let Union Hall Farm, 21 January 1837
(3 papers)
Miscellaneous (Ref: Du 5/5/1-130)Ref: Du 5/5/1-14Lists of persons who are entitled to their freedom to be called at the Guild of the Companies of the weavers, curriers and tallow chandlers, masons, plumbers, dyers, drapers, barbers, cordwainers, skinners and glovers, carpentry and joyners, grocers, fullers and feltmakers, tanners and smiths, 2 November 1761
(10 papers, 2 booklets, 2 files)
Ref: Du 5/5/15-33Lists of persons to be called at the Guild, 4 January 1762 - 18 November 1765
(16 papers, 3 files)
Ref: Du 5/5/34-91Lists of the names of wardens representing the various companies, 1769, 1792, 1799 - 1802, 1806 - 1815, 1817, 1820, 1823 - 1831, 1833, 1838
(58 papers)
Ref: Du 5/5/92-95Guild slips of candidates for admission, 7 February 1814 - 1815
(4 files)
Ref: Du 5/5/96-99Certificates of baptism and identification papers of candidates, 1815, 1821, 1822, 1825
(4 papers)
Ref: Du 5/5/100Precept to sergeants at mace to summon to Guild, 11 November 1780
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/5/101List of persons [who gained membership of the Guild], 16 July 1802 - 3 August 1807
(1 booklet)
Ref: Du 5/5/102Minute of abusive language of John Nicholson at Guild, 6 February, n.y.
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/5/103Draft petition by wardens of several trades and companies to parliament for subscription towards expenses of mayor in case in King's Bench, George Pearson against the Mayor of Durham, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/5/104Draft of minutes of committee to preserve freemen's right:s of common, n.d.
(1 paper)
Ref: Du 5/5/105-122Lists of resident freemen of various trades and companies, January 1830 - 18 December 1837
(32 papers, 6 files)
Ref: Du 5/5/123Admission of Col. Kenneth George Nelson Miller M.C., T.D., as an honorary freeman, 2 September 1981
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: Du 5/5/124Case concerning Mayor's refusal to admit George Pearson as an honorary freeman, 1780
(1 file)
Ref: Du 5/5/125Case and opinion concerning the admission of Cuthbert, Christopher and Thomas Wilson as freemen, 1802
(1 file)
Ref: Du 5/5/126Case for opinion concerning rights of freemen not entered in trade admission books to participate in profits of freemen's lands, 1856
(1 file)
Ref: Du 5/5/127Draft demurrer re case in Durham Chancery, Attorney General at the relation of the mayor and aldermen of Durham v John Wray, concerning the right of the company of carpenters, joiners, wheelwrights, sawyers and coopers to make bye-laws excluding foreigners from practising trade in Durham, 26 November 1734
(2 papers)
Ref: Du 5/5/128Freemen's rent account book, year ended 31 December 1942 - year ended 31 December 1971
(1 volume)
Ref: Du 5/5/129Durham City Freemen Yearbook, 2017
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: Du 5/5/130Durham City Freemen Yearbook 2018
(1 booklet, printed)
