Darlington St. William Roman Catholic Parish
Reference: RC/Da.SW Catalogue Title: Darlington St. William Roman Catholic Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
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- Darlington St. William Roman Catholic Parish
- Catholic Records Classification Scheme (Ref: RC/Da.SW 1-15)
- Church Notices (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/3-21)
- Clergy Appointments (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/22)
- Visiting (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/23-24)
- Relics (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/2-14)
- Building accounts (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/15)
- Reports on church property (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/16-19)
- Youth Centre, Barton Street (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/20-21)
- PARISH ACCOUNTS (Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/1-4)
- PARISH ORGANISATIONS (Ref: RC/Da.SW 5/1)
- St. William's R.C. School Managers (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/11)
- Harrowgate Hill School, Darlington (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/12)
- St. Thomas Aquinas R.C. School, Darlington (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/13)
Catalogue Description
Records of the Roman Catholic parish of Darlington,SS. William and Francis de Sales, deposited on long-term loan
18 June 1996 Acc: 2381(D)
County Record Office
County Hall
DURHAM
DH1 5UL
Catalogue Contents
(Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/1-7)
REGISTRATION
The church of SS. William and Francis de Sales opened at Barton Street, Albert Hill in 1870. The earliest baptism register appears to be missing as RC/Da.SW 1/1 is labelled no. '2'.
Register of baptisms, 3 June 1877 - 4 November 1882
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/2Register of baptisms, 5 November 1882 - 15 October 1898
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/3Register of baptisms, 23 October 1898 - 28 July 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/4Register of marriages, 6 November 1875 - 29 April 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/5Register of deaths, [ ] April 1873 - 15 May 1929
At front: list of deaths omitted from the register, September 1874 - April 1875
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/6Register of deaths, 23 May 1929 - 18 September 1964
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 1/7Register of deaths, 30 September 1964 - 20 April 1984
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Catholic Records Classification Scheme (Ref: RC/Da.SW 1-15)Ref: RC/Da.SW 1Registration
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2Clergy
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3Church fabric and property
Ref: RC/Da.SW 4Parish accounts
Ref: RC/Da.SW 5Parish organisations
Ref: RC/Da.SW 6Fraternities and sodalities (including S.V.P.)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 7Charities
Ref: RC/Da.SW 8Deanery
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9Schools and education
Ref: RC/Da.SW 10Not used
11 Not used
Ref: RC/Da.SW 12Not used
Ref: RC/Da.SW 13Not used
14 Not used
Ref: RC/Da.SW 15Miscellaneous
(Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/1-2)CLERGY
Confirmations
Register of confirmations, 4 July 1875 - 7 July 1929
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/2Register of confirmations, 6 May 1934 - 21 June 1959
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Church Notices (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/3-21)Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/3Notice book, including banns, 15 May 1887 - 17 November 1889
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/4Notice book, including banns, 24 November 1889 - 30 July 1893
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/5Notice book, including banns, 27 August 1893 - 30 May 1897
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/6Notice book, including banns, 6 June 1897 - 14 April 1901
(1 volume, leather bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/7Notice book, including banns, 21 April 1901 - 1 March 1908
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/8Notice book, including banns, 8 March 1908 - 15 March 1914
For enclosures see RC/Da.SW 3/15
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/9Notice book, including banns, 22 March 1914 - 22 August 1920
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/10Notice book, including banns, 28 August 1920 - 26 December 1926
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/11Notice book, including banns, 2 October 1932 - 28 May 1939
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/12Notice book, including banns, 4 June 1939 - 24 December 1944
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/13Notice book, including banns, 31 December 1944 - 20 April 1947
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/14Notice book, including banns, 27 April 1947 - 11 February 1951
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/15Notice book, including banns, 18 February 1951 - 1 February 1953
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/16Notice book, including banns, 8 February 1953 - 30 December 1956
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/17Notice book, including banns, 1 January - 8 December 1957
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/18Church notice book, including banns, 15 December 1957 - 6 November 1960
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/19Church notice book, including banns, 13 November 1960 - 6 October 1963
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/20Church notices, including banns, 28 August 1966 - 3 August 1969
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/21Church notices, 10 August 1969 - 24 September 1972
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Clergy Appointments (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/22)Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/22Pagella of appointment of James Douglas as parish priest of SS. William and Francis de Sales, 8 September 1965, with covering letters from James, bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 7-8 September 1965
(3 papers)
Visiting (Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/23-24)Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/23Sick call book, 4 January 1962 - 12 September 1965
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 2/24Visiting book (Liber Status Animarum), May 1964 - c.1972
At end: list of persons invited to Old People's party, 19 August 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)
(Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/1)CHURCH FABRIC AND PROPERTY
Faculties
Faculties to bless and erect the new stations of the cross in the chapel at St. William's convent, 1 December 1975
(1 paper)
Relics (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/2-14)Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/2Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Catherine the Virgin in an oval silver container, 7 September 1850
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/3Certificate of authentication of the relics of SS. Alphonsus of Liguria bp. and Philip Nerii in a round silver container, 7 September 1850
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/4Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas in an oval silver container, 27 June 1868
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/5Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Agnes the Virgin and Martyr in an oval gold container, 27 June 1868
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/6Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Alphonus of Liguria, bp. and St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, in an oval silver container, 12 July 1870
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/7Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Charles Bo[ ] bishop, and St. Philip Nerii, in an oval silver container, 12 July 1870
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/8Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Patricius, bishop, in an oval silver container, 5 February 1878
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/9Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Thomas Aquinas, enclosed in a silver cross, 30 December 1879
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/10Certificate of authentication of the relics of St. Francis of Assisi and others in a round silver gilt container, 30 March 1906
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/11Certificate of authentication of the relics of Pope Pius X, in a round container, 26 July 1958
For enclosure see RC/Da.SW 3/13
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/12Certificate of authentication of the relics of Pope Pius X, in a round container, 15 July 1962
For enclosure see Rc/Da.SW 3/14
(1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/13Relic of Pope Pius X, enclosed in pendant
(1 pendant, circular, 3 cm. diameter, brass with ornamented outer edge, glass fronted)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/14Relic of Pope Pius X, enclosed in pendant
Duplicate of RC/Da.SW 3/13
(1 pendant, circular, 3 cm. diameter, brass with ornamented outer edge, glass fronted)
Building accounts (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/15)Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/15Statements of account for St. William's new church fund, December 1907 and December 1912; statement of account for new school fund, December 1910; and list of subscriptions to organ fund, 17 May 1913
(4 papers)
Reports on church property (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/16-19)Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/16Report on the condition of parochial buildings, consisting of church, presbytery, church hall, meeting room and primary school, 1 July 1964 Attached: related correspondence regarding quotations for repair work, 4 February - 1 March 1965
(1 file and 3 papers)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/17Quinquennial report of the general condition and state of repair of the properties owned by the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in the parish of St. William and St. Francis de Sales, Barton Street, Darlington, 9 May 1974
(1 file)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/18Property inspection and report on St. William's parish, May 1979
Attached: covering letter from W.C. Harvey, chartered quantity surveyor, 15 May 1979
(1 file and 1 paper)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/19Inventory of parish property, 10 June 1979
(1 file)
Youth Centre, Barton Street (Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/20-21)Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/20Correspondence of Joshua Clayton and Deas, architects and surveyors, of Darlington, with Father Corboy regarding proposed extension to Youth Centre at Barton Street, and including copy correspondence with contractors, and invoices, 30 January 1950 - 17 July 1951
Includes: photograph of sample prefabricated hut, n.d.
(59 papers and 1 photograph, black and white)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 3/21Sections and elevation of proposed extension to youth centre at St. William's Church, Barton Street, 16 August 1950
Scale: 40 ft. to 5 inches [1 : 96]
(1 plan, 59 cm. x 33 cm., duplicated, coloured)
PARISH ACCOUNTS (Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/1-4)Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/1Parish account book, January 1950 - December 1957
For enclosures see RC/Da.SW 4/4
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/2Parish account book, January 1958 - December 1961
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/3Parish account book, January 1962 - April 1974
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 4/4Statements of account for St. William's parish, 31 December 1954 -
31 December 1960
(7 papers)
PARISH ORGANISATIONS (Ref: RC/Da.SW 5/1)Ref: RC/Da.SW 5/1Parish Council minute book, indexed (first year only), 8 January 1976 -
7 June 1980
Inserted at front: letter to Miss Ellis from W. Heseltine on behalf of H.M. the Queen, 7 October 1976
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
(Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/1-7)SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
St. William's R.C. School, Barton Street, Albert Hill, Darlington
Admission register [infants], indexed, 1 March 1898 - 2 November 1911
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/2Admission register (infant department), indexed, 1 April 1912 - 23 November 1931; 26 April 1933
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/3Admission register (boys), indexed, 1 March 1898 - 21 April 1926
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/4Admission register (girls), indexed, 1 March 1898 - 27 May 1926
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/5Admission register (mixed department), indexed, 24 August 1926 - 8 September 1943
Includes infant admissions from 1931
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/6Admission register (primary department), indexed, 6 September 1943 - 30 November 1970; 12 June 1972
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/7Statutory admission register [primary], indexed, 11 January 1971 - 27 April 1987
(1 volume, card bound)
(Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/8-9)see also statutory admission register RC/Da.SW 9/13 below
(In the period 1962 - 1964 St. William's R.C. School underwent a major building programme which involved the purchase of the Methodist chapel adjoining the school for conversion into a school hall and kitchens, and also the construction of new classrooms on the existing school site. During this period it appears that the infant school children attended St. Thomas Aquinas Infant School, Darlington. The minutes of St. William's School Managers' meeting held 21 November 1964 [RC/Da.SW 9/11] record the decision to retain children at St. Thomas Aquinas Infant School until they reached the age of 8 years, with effect from September 1965.)
Summary register of attendances (primary), week ending 8 September 1972 - 19 July 1974
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/9Summary register of attendances (nursery), week ending 7 September 1973 - 19 July 1974
(1 volume, card bound)
/10 Punishment register (mixed department), 10 October 1904 - 25 July 1961
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
St. William's R.C. School Managers (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/11)Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/11Managers' minute book, 20 April 1904 - 13 June 1981
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Harrowgate Hill School, Darlington (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/12)Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/12Bill of quantities for proposed new school at Harrowgate Hill, Darlington, for Darlington Borough Education Committee, June 1908
(1 file)
St. Thomas Aquinas R.C. School, Darlington (Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/13)Ref: RC/Da.SW 9/13Statutory admission register [infants, and nursery from September 1974], indexed, 2 September 1963 - 27 April 1987
(1 volume, cloth bound)
