Catalogue

Partial copy of Pontop baptism register, 8 November 1778 - 4 July 1806 Includes: list of those confirmed, 14 September 1788 list of priests serving the parish, 1778 - 1806 recipe for remedy for typhus and yellow fever, n.d. At end: list of baptisms carried out by J. Bell at Kippax, West Yorkshire, 1834 - 1836

Register of baptisms, 1 August 1841 - 2 March 1851

Register of baptisms, 2 March 1851 - 30 December 1855

Register of baptisms, including index, 1 January 1856 - 30 November 1861

Register of baptisms, 10 December 1861 - 5 May 1878

Register of baptisms, 12 May 1878 - 4 August 1897

Register of baptisms, 8 August 1897 - 6 May 1908

Register of baptisms, 10 May 1908 - 23 July 1922

Register of baptisms, 6 August 1922 - 17 January 1934

Register of marriages, 18 April 1842 - 3 December 1855

Register of marriages, 7 January 1856 - 7 April 1894

Register of marriages, 7 April 1894 - 16 July 1914

Register of marriages, 30 June 1914 - 7 January 1933

Register of marriages, 3 June 1933 - 30 October 1953

Register of deaths, 3 January 1856 - 5 October 1877

Register of deaths, 25 November 1877 - 2 April 1908

Register of deaths, 5 April 1908 - 21 September 1926

Register of deaths, 29 September 1926 - 24 March 1945

Register of deaths, 6 April 1945 - 18 May 1983

Index of baptism registers [RC/Brm 1/2-8], 1841 - 1922

Index of baptisms [incomplete], 1841 - 1924

Index of marriage registers [RC/Brm 1/10-12], 1842 - 1914

Notes relating to deaths and marriages among the congregation of Brooms, 8 January 1828 - 1842

Retrospective certification by Rev. Car. Hoghton of the baptism of Joanna Bell, born on 5 September 1767 and baptised on the same day at the house of her g odparents by Rev. Thomas Maynel, 9 June 1794

Register of confirmations, 8 September 1859

Mass Intention book, 1 June 1972 - 16 April 1982

Church notice book, including banns and school attendance figures, 21 May 1893 - 29 December 1895

Church notice book, including banns and school attendance figures, 5 January 1896 - 26 December 1897 Includes: statistical summary of parish, 1895 - 1897

Church notice book, including banns, 2 January 1898 - 1 January 1899 Includes: statistical summary of parish, 1898

Church notice book, including banns, 8 January 1899 - 13 December 1903 For enclosure: see RC/Brm 15/13

Church notice, 3 January 1904

Church noticebook, including banns, 10 January 1904 - 27 December 1908 Includes: statistical summary of parish, 1908 For enclosures: see RC/Brm 15/14

Church notice book, including banns, 2 November 1913 - 29 September 1918 For enclosure: see RC/Brm 15/15

Church notice book, including banns, 21 May 1933 - 13 May 1934

Church notice book, including banns, 16 June 1935 - 5 July 1936

Church notice book, 19 July 1936 - 1 August 1937

Church notice book, including banns, 15 August 1937 - 2 November 1941

Church notice book, including banns, 28 January 1945 - 17 February 1946

Church notice book, including banns, 24 February 1946 - 3 December 1950

Church notice book, including banns, 30 December 1956 - 31 December 1961

Church notice book, including banns, 1 January 1967 - 30 November 1969

Number not used

Pre-nuptial enquiry forms (completed), 1948 - 1950

Pre-nuptial enquiry forms (completed), 1950 - 1953

Pre-nuptial enquiry forms (completed), 1969 - 1971

Pre-nuptial enquiry forms (completed), 1972 - 1974

Order issued by the Court of Quarter Sessions at Durham for the recording of William Fletcher of Brooms as minister of the Roman Catholic Chapel at Brooms, 26 June 1837

Order issued by the Court of Quarter Sessions at Durham for the recording of the Roman Catholic Chapel at Brooms as a place of Roman Catholic worship, 26 June 1837

Certificate of registration with the Superintendent Registrar, of St. Cuthbert 's [R.C. church], Brooms, for the solemnization of marriages, 9 October 1837

Extract from the schedule of mission boundaries for Stanley, 29 March 1879

Notes relating to a proposed new mission church and school at Dipton, to be served initially from Brooms parish, n.d. [ c.1906?]

Book of sermons by Rev. James Thompson of St. Joseph' s R.C. Church, Stanley 1886 - 1888 For enclosures: see RC/Brm 2/29

Notes for sermons by Rev. James Thompson of St. Joseph' s R.C. Church, Stanley, n.d. [c.1886 - 1888]

Copy letter book of Rev. James Thompson, 5 December 1902 - 23 March 1914

List of clergy who have served the Brooms district, 1745 - 1926, n.d.

Register of 'anniversar ies of the faithful departed' of the parish, n.d. [pre 1925]

Copy memorandum of Mary Eliot stating that she had given to John Smith of Brooms various household items, endorsed on the same date by John Smith to the effect th at the said items were for the use of the priest at Brooms, 21 January 1832

Letter from [Rev. F.] Kearney, Brooms, to [Rt. Rev. James Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle], concerning the reason for his delay in completing the neces sary paperwork in preparation for the Bishop's visitation, 19 June [18]68 Includes: list of answers to questions [set by the Bishop' s Office prior to the visitation of the parish], 1868

Memorandum of opinion given by John Wm. Bewick, Wil liam Markland and Charles Eyre on the matter of certain questions pending between Rev. Francis Kearney and Rev. George Dunn as submitted to them by Rt. Rev. Dr. Chadwick, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 28 January1868

Copy plan of Lanchester Common of 13 June 1781, with additions showing [Brooms] R.C. Church, Brooms cottage and railway, additions taken from Durham O.S. sheet XI.II, 1855 edition, n.d. [ c.1855]

Specification by C. Walker, Newcastle, architect, for stone work to be done in enlarging two existing butresses and building new butresses at Brooms R.C. Church, n.d. [1895]

Correspondence between Jos[eph] Eltringham, Blackhill, builder; C. Walker, Newcastle, architect, and Rev. Fr. Magill, Brooms, 2 April [18]95 - 24 June [18]96

Copy letters from C. Walker, [Newcastle, architect], to J.E. Eltringham, Blackhill, builder, concerning the building work required at Brooms R.C. church, 17 May [18]95 - 16 July [18]95

M emorandum of observations of Charles E. Oliver, F.S.I.,[surveyor], upon the structure of the roof at Brooms R.C. Church, and also upon the proposed work to support the roof and aisle wall, 12 July 1895

29 July 1896 (1) Ralph Conyston of Shirley, Muswell Hill, London (2) Rev. Augustin Magill of Brooms Counterpart agreement in which (1) agrees to lease to (2) three fields at Broom Cottage for the term of three years Rent: £20 p.a.

Copy letter from Clayton and Gibson, Newcastle, solicitors, to Leadbitter and Haney, Newcastle, solicitors, advising that the Consett Iron Company had made no provision in the conveyance of land at the site of [Brooms] R.C. Church for leaving support for the building or paying compensation for any damage which may result in the future, 14 September 1896

Letter from Henry Palmer, Consett Iron Company, to Rev. Fr. Magill, [Brooms], concerning the conveyance of land on which it is proposed to build a school and other buildings at Low Westwood, and the coal underlying the site, 16 November 1896

Correspondence between Rev. Augustine Magill, Brooms; Consett Iron Company Ltd.; Jos[eph] Eltringham, Blackhill, valuer; and John McCartan, Durham, solicitor, concerning subsidence to church and cemetery caused by underground mine workings, 15 July 1907 - 16 March 1908

18 October 1918 (1) The North eastern Railway Company (2) Rev. Canon Augustine Magill, Brooms Agreement in which (1) is to allow (2) to build a new gas pipe and to maintain existing gas and water pipes which encroach on the property of (1) Plan attached Rent: 1s. per annum

Letter from Consett Iron Company, Ltd., to John Pallister and Son, Estate Offices, Crook, advising that it is willing to consider the purchase of land [at Brooms R.C. Church], 17 September 1921

30 November 1928 (1) The London and North Eastern Railway Company (2) Rev. William Rickaby, Brooms Agreement in which (1) allows (2) to build an electric cable over the railway at Brooms Plan attached Rent: £2. 10s. per annum

Photograph of interior of church, n.d. (endorsed '1930')

Ack nowledgement issued by the Eccesiastical Commissioners, London, for a sum paid by Rev. William Rickaby, Brooms, for the redemption of two manorial rents in respect of copyhold estates at Brooms, in the manor of Lanchester, 3 October 1936

Certificate of consecration of the new altar, 19 July 1991

Confraternity of Sacred Heart minute book, 4 July 1893 - 5 July 1902

Confraternity of Sacred Heart enrolment book, 1893 - 1900

Log book of infants' school, 2 May 1873 - 10 February 1911

Log book of infants' school, 17 February 1911 - 19 July 1974

Log book of mixed school, 9 January 1871 - 12 July 1895

Log book of mixed school, 19 July 1895 - 31 March 1925

Log book of mixed school, 1 April 1925 - 21 July 1978 For enclosures: see RC/Brm 9/37, 9/35, 9/40

Log book of evening continuation class, 4 October 1897 - 15 April 1904

Admission register of infants' school, 26 April 1897 - 8 April 1906

Admission register of infants' school, 23 February 1910 - 13 April 1928

Admission register of infants' and junior mixed school, 17 April 1928 - 3 September 1945

Admission register of infants' and junior mixed schools, 3 September 1945 - 15 May 1978

Admission register of junior mixed school, 1 October 1894 - 22 May 1900

Admission register of junior mixed school, 1 June 1900 - 3 May 1905

Admission register of junior mixed school, 1 May 1905 - 16 August 1910

Admission register of senior mixed school, 23 August 1932 - 3 September 1945

Admission register of senior mixed school, July 1945 - 27 June 1978

Punishment book of infants' school, 16 January 1921 - 12 December 1941

Syllabus book of infants' and junior school, April 1925 - October 1937

Staff Conference minute book, 15 November 1927 - 16 July 1936

Reports of H.M. Inspector of Schools on infants' school, 1921, 1924

Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Schools on mixed school, 1921-22, 1924

Report of H.M. Inspector of Schools on junior mixed school, 1926

Returns for infants' and mixed schools to Durham County Council Local Education Authority, 1904 - 1918, 1921 - 1922

Returns of mixed school to Durham County Local Education Authority, 1923 - 1924

Reports on infants' and mixed schools by H.M. Inspectors of Schools and Durham County Council' s Inspector of Schools, 1905 - 1911, 1913 - 1914

Religious inspection report on junior mixed school, 1926

Cash book, August 1874 - June 1892

Cash book, 14 November 1891 - 29 September 1900 Includes: balance sheets for years ending 30 September 1892 - 1900

Cash book, 1 November 1900 - 1 January 1907

Plan showing proposed extensions at school, 8 November 1927 Scale: 1 1/4 inch to 10 feet [1 : 96]

Plan showing proposed heating scheme at the school, 11 August 1934 Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot [1 : 96]

Photograph of class at Brooms school, n.d. (endorsed '1910?')

Photograph of school boys holding various horticultural implements with [Canon Magill] and female [teacher?], n.d. [endorsed '1921')

Photograph of senior pupils with Rev. Canon Magill, 1922

Photograph of staff at school, n.d. [endorsed '1933')

Photograph of Christmas party for Standards 5H, 5R and 4, with Rev. J. Thompson and Rev. Michael Corbett in attendance, 13 December 1974

2 July 1918 (1) Very Rev. Augustine Canon Magill of Brooms (2) County Council of Durham Agreement in which (1) agrees to lease to (2) a plot of ground as shown on plan for the purposes of a school garden at Brooms R.C. School Plan endorsed Rent: £1 per annum Attached: letter from Rt. Rev. Richard [Collins], Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, to Canon Magill, concerning the above matter, 28 July 1918

Press cuttings concerning the school, 1950 - 1974

Sermon delivered on the occasion of the centenery of Brooms R.C. School, 19 July 1960 Attached: press cutting [from unknown newspaper] concerning the centenery of Brooms School and the attendant celebrations, n.d. [July 1960]

Chronological notes [by unknown author] on the history of Brooms R.C. School from 1860 to 1966, n.d. [c.1966]

Order of service for a concelebrated mass of thanksgiving for Brooms R.C. School, 11 July 1978

Newspaper cutting from unidentified paper of an article ' History of the Brooms, the church of St. Mary and St. Joseph - turning back the pages of history ', n.d.

Notes on the history of the Roman Catholic seminaries at Douai, Crook Hall and Ushaw College, n.d.

Chronological notes relating to the history of Catholicism in the Brooms area from 1745 to 1849, n.d.

Notes on the history of the church at Brooms, including the Rt. Rev. Thomas Smith, D.D., Bishop of Bolina and Vicar Apostolic of the North District, who was born at Brooms in 1763, n.d.

Notes relating to the history of Medomsley parish church and of Brooms R.C. church, and the evolution of various parishes in the north-east of the county, n.d.

Notes taken from various sources relating to the history of Catholicism in the Brooms area, n.d.

Copy chronological notes relating to the history of Brooms R.C. parish from 1745 to 1926, n.d.

Transcript of the diary of Thomas Smith of Brooms from 1778 to 1811, n.d.

Notes [by unknown author] on the history of Brooms parish from 1748 to 1968, n.d. [ c.1968]

Extract from the Consett Guardian , showing article on p.8, cols. 1-4, entitled ' Great Day at Brooms-Diamond Jubilee of Church'. 1 November 1929

Letter from W. Vincent Smith, St. Andrew ' s Church, Newcastle, to [Rev. F] Rickaby, [Brooms], concerning various published and manuscript references relating to Roman Catholic history, 25 May 1932

Letter from Geo[rge] A. Bellam, Consett, to [Rev. W. Rickaby, Brooms], concerning local history matters, 23 June [19]33 - 3 February [19]35

Statistics relating to the parish for year ending 31 December 1903

Statistical summary of parish, 1904 - 1907

Statistical summary of parish, 1913

Sketches of Medomsley parish church, n.d.

Photograph of a drawing of Crook Hall, n.d.

Photograph of Pontop Hall, n.d.

Photograph of three nuns, n.d. (endorsed '1962')

Press cuttings book, containing cuttings relating to the Education Bill of 1906, the Irish University Bill 1908, and general news relating to the parish, 1906 - 1908

Note written by [Rev.] W. Fletcher concerning the loan of nine volumes of Calmet from Brooms Chapel Library to Cha[rle]s Amersham, Ushaw College, 3 October 1831

Copy letter from [Rev.] Thomas Eyre, Wooler, to [Rev.] J. Smith, Brooms, concerning a plan made between the correspondents, Mr. Silvertop and Mr. Rutter, and the writer 's intention of visiting Pontop Hall, 24 March 1794 [Copy made 20th c.]

List of parishioners arranged by street, giving age, place of work and other details, January 1909