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Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting

Reference: SF/Co/PM Catalogue Title: Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:

Covering Dates: 1588-1976

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Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting

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SF/Co/PM Cotherstone Preparative Quaker Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM)Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM)General minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/)Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/1-3)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/1

Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 22 April 1740 - 23 March 1792 At beginning and end: list of queries posed by the quarterly and yearly meetings, n.d. At end: list of books belonging to the meeting, n.d.

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/2

Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 27 November 1791 - 25 December 1796

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/3

Lartington Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 25 December 1796 - 23 April 1797; Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 25 June 1797 - 29 May 1808

(1 volume)

Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/4, 9)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/4

Cotherstone Men's Preparative Meeting minute book, 28 October 1849 - 6 July 1902

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/9

List of monthly meetings within the compass of Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1883

(1 card)

Minutes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/10, 3/6)Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/10

Minute book, 10 January 1926 - 6 June 1976

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/6

'Advices of the Yearly Meeting, 1791' 'To be read at least once in the Year, in each of the Men's and Women's Quarterly and Monthly Meetings', 1791

(1 paper)

Minutes of Women's Meetings (Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/1-5)Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/1

Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 27 September 1761 - 28 May 17

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/2

Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 25 June 1791 - 25 March 1804

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/3

Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 29 August 1813 - 25 October 1818

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/4

Lartington Women's Meeting minute book, 24 August 1817 - 6 March 1836

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 3/5

Cotherstone Women's Meeting minute book, 15 October 1865 - 6 December 1925

(1 volume)

Financial records (Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/)

1/5-8, 5/1-2, 8/4

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/5

Accounts for the building of Raby meeting house, 1732 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/1

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/6

Note of sums of money belonging to Philip Swale's legacy and stock-in-hand belonging to Lartington, 1 and 25 December, n.y. Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/2

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/7

Notes that the accounts of the preparative meeting have been examined, 2 August 1859, 8 May 1862, 15 June 1864, 1 June 1869 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/4

(4 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/8

Letter from J.M. Willis, Manor House, Carperby, Bedale, to Charles Chipchase, concerning the use of charity money by Cotherstone Preparative Meeting, 22 June 1869 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/4

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/1

List of contributions to the West of Ireland Distress Fund, February 1925 [Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 5/2

Draft list of subscriptions to Monthly Meeting fund for 1916 - 1917 and 1921 [Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/4

Joiner's bill for repairs to Cotherstone Meeting House, n.d. [c.1740]

(1 paper)

Membership (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)

See Miscellaneous section for birth, marriage and death information re specific families

Members (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/)

7/1, 8/8, 14

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/1

List of members, 1 July 1837 - 22 July 1867

(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/8

Lists of births, deaths and marriages of Friends at Cotherstone from 1653 to 1852, n.d. [c.1855] Includes 'Some Account of Friends at Cotherston ... ' and biographies of John Bowron (1627 - 1704) and Thomas Raylton (1671 - 1723)

(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/14

Copy register of births, marriages and deaths, 1588-1860 Includes: Cotherstone (births 1588-1843, marriages 1684-1859 and deaths 1663-1852) Lartington (births 1657-1778, marriages 1691-1700 and deaths 1689-1842) Bowes (births 1628-1821, marriages 1654-1771 and deaths 1696-1785) Barnard Castle (births 1654-1673, marriages 1647-1682 and deaths 1657-1773) Also includes: 'Some Account of the Rise etc. of the Meeting at Lartington and Cotherston'; biographies of John Bowron (1627-1704) and Thomas Railton (1671-1723 ); description of land at Cotherstone on which the Meeting House was built; accounts of receipts and expenditure of monies belonging to Cotherstone Particular Meeting, 1837-1962; copy of deed of appointment of new trustee, 1953

(1 volume, vellum bound)

Birth notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/1-3)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/1

Birth notes, 17 July 1838 - 23 October 1843

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/2

Birth notes, 17 July 1838, 1859, 1867 - 11 May 1902

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/2/3

Birth notes, 28 July 1916 - 14 December 1950

(1 volume)

Registers of burials (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/1-2)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/1

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/3/2

(1 volume)

Burial notes (Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/1-8)Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/1

Burial notes, 16 August 1831 - 29 September 1838

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/2

Burial notes, 9 April 1839 - 2 March 1860

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/3/1-8

Burial notes, 29 December 1839 - 4 September 1857 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/4/2

(8 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/4/4

Burial notes, 2 March 1862 - 20 June 1908

(1 volume)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/5/1-7

Certificates of registry of death, 9 April 1839 - 17 February 1868 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/4/2

(7 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/6

Death certificate for Thomas Samuel Chapman, died 22 February 1868, 26 February 1868 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/2/1

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/7

Certificate for the funeral for Thomas Samuel Chapman, 26 February 1868 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/7

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 7/8

Note by W. Fothergill. J.B. Pease and W. Robson concerning irregularities in keeping birth and burial notes, 13 April 1844 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 7/2/1

(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)Correspondence (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)

1/11, 8/3, 7, 10-13

Ref: SF/Co/PM 1/11

Letter from Ernest E. Evans, American Consular Service, to the Friends' Meeting, on behalf of John W. Bowron, who is living in the United States and is looking for contact with his relatives from Cotherstone, 24 March 1937 Originally enclosed in SF/Co/PM 1/10

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/3

Letter from Jacob Allanson to his brother, Joseph, in Philadelphia, concerning family matters, 7 May 1719

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/7

Letter from F.J. Harker to William Taylor concerning the recent death of John Thwaite Harker, 13 June 1861

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/10

Copy of the Epistle from the London Yearly Meeting, 23-30 May 1923 [Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/11

Letter from Clerk of Darlington Monthly Meeting to Edwin Andrews noting a correction in the appointment of Cotherstone Elders and Overseers, 17 December 1924 [Enclosed ST/Co/PM 3/5]

(1 paper)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/12(1-3)

Circular to Clerks of Preparative Meetings from Clerk of Monthly Meeting, listing the members of the Monthly Meeting committees, 8 January 1925 [Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]

(3 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/13

Letter from W.F. Nicholson, Recording Clerk, to Monthly and Preparative Meeting Clerks, explaining the adjournment of the 1925 yearly meeting, February 1925 [Enclosed in SF/Co/PM 3/5]

(1 paper)

Other (Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/)

8/1-2, 5-6, 9

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/1

Notes on Cotherstone Meeting One Hundred Years Ago by Harold E. Deacon, June 1957

(4 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/2(1-11)

Papers belonging to the late Mrs. Andrews of Cotherstone mainly relating to the Allanson family, 1675-1789 marriage certificates for: John Goundry and Margaret Coates (10 February 1705), Jacob Allanson and Margaret Goundry (9 May 1723), Joseph Allanson and Ann Watson (12 May 1748), George Wilson and Martha Pearson (27 April 1786); bargain and sale of tenement at Hoper Twaite in Firbank, Westmorland, to Robert Wilson for £100, 8 May 1675; bond of William Wilson of Cotherstone, 15 December 1683; bargain and sale of tenement in Horsemarket, Darlington, from Jacob Allanson of Cotherstone, weaver, and his wife, Margaret, to Appleby Brown of Cotherstone, yeoman, for 10s., 29 January 1738; fine between Appleby Brown and Jacob Allanson and his wife for land in Darlington, 12 February 1740; accounts of yearly meetings, 1784 and 1789

(11 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/5(1-4)

Papers concerning births and deaths of the Knight, Wilkinson and Lightfoot families, 1793-1886

(4 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/6(1-2)

Papers relating to gifts to Rebecca Smith from Elizabeth Rimington, 26 April 1828

(2 papers)

Ref: SF/Co/PM 8/9

Poems copied by Mary Graham of Flethersgill, together with records of births, deaths and marriages, from April 1588 to 1851, of members of the Allanson family, n.d. [c.1860] Includes a short history of the Friends of Cotherstone

(1 volume, card bound)