Catalogue

Notice of the removal of documents from Newcastle, 29 November 1854 and the return of the documents after making office copies, 27 December 1855

Letter from J.M. Ogden and Edward Mounsey to the Preparative Meeting, Sunderland, concerning the removal of a parcel of deeds from Newcastle relating to the Old Meeting House, to be purchased by Robert Vint, 6 December 1856

Notice of removal of deeds from Newcastle relating to the ground on the east side of Nile Street, Sunderland, 12 December 1856

Extract from the first of ten surrenders at Durham relating to the surrender of the old burial ground in Garden Street, Sunderland, to Robert Vint, 27 December 1855

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and receipts between Watson Burton and Corder, solicitors, Newcastle; Alderson & Co. Ltd., High Street, Sunderland; Town Hall, Sunderland; and the Home Office, relating to the removal of remains from a disused burial ground in High Street East and their re-interment on the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth, 9 July 1919 - 9 October 1923

Copy draft agreement between George Stewardson Brady and others, trustees, and A. Alderson & Co. Ltd., preventing the acquisition of easement in respect of the burial ground at High Street West, Sunderland, belonging to the Society of Friends, 1921

Notes relating to the history of the old burial ground, Sunderland, 25 June 1923

Pay sheets for work carried out in the burial ground, High Street, Sunderland, 14-21 April 1923

Notice from the Charity Commission concerning the sale of the burial ground, High Street, Sunderland, 25 April 1924

Invitation card from the Joint Council for Adult Education for Sunderland to G. Bennett Gibbs to visit the Cathedral on Saturday, 23 June 1923 On reverse: list of names with dates referring to the old burial ground, Sunderland, 27 March 1717 - 11 June 1767

Plan of burial ground, with notes, relating to the number of persons buried, 18 April 1923 No scale

Plan of Friends' burying ground, Sunderland, divided into spaces of 6.5 feet by 2.5 feet, n.d. No scale

Plan of Friends' burying ground, Sunderland, showing the position of approximately 202 remains, 21 April 1923 No scale

Plan of Friends' burying ground, Sunderland, showing ownership of plots and alterations to ground, n.d. No scale

Plan of Friends' burying ground showing grave spaces, with notes relating to cost of burials and removal of remains, n.d. No scale

Plan of the area around Nile Street, Sunderland, showing properties in the south end of Rope Walk, n.d. No scale

Schedule of deeds and writings relating to the Friends' burial ground, High Street; the Meeting House and burial ground, Nile Street; the school, Norfolk Street; and the burial ground, Chester Road Cemetery, Bishopwearmouth, n.d. c.1935

Letter from J.W. Sharpe, to W. Dixon, 14 Queensberry Street, Sunderland, thanking Mr. Dixon and the Friends' Preparative Meeting for the gifts received, 26 October 1928

Letter from J.W. Sharpe to J. McGlen, 61 Ward Street, Sunderland, enclosing a list of names and addresses of trustees, 26 October 1928

Letter from William Dixon to Mr. Sharpe, concerning the transfer of the Finchale Terrace property, 16 January 1929

Letters from Burnicle and Morton, solicitors, 65 John Street, Sunderland, to W. Dixon and J.W. Sharpe, concerning the conveyance of Finchale Terrace, 9 October 1929 - 27 June 1930

12 December 1929 (1) The personal representatives of T.W. Backhouse, deceased, and others (2) The Trustees of Finchale Terrace Mission Room Copy conveyance of a parcel of land and premises situate at 9 Finchale Terrace, Sunderland

Letter from J.C. Morton and J.G. Reay Pacy concerning the closure of the firm of Burnicle and Thornton, 31 October 1930

Letter from William Dixon to William Price arranging a meeting, 7 October 1954

23 May 1816 (1) Trustees [named] in will of William Henry Lambton of Lambton, deceased (2) John Oyston of Bishopwearmouth, mason (3) John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster (4) Thomas Croudace of Lumley Thicks, gent. Copy conveyance (by covenant to surrender) from (2) to (4) in trust for (3) of copyhold land, house and schoolhouse on west side of Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth (measurements and abuttals given) Annual rent: £4 12s. Consideration: £630

24 May 1816 Surrender of trustees [named] in will of William Henry Lambton and admittance of Thomas Croudace of Lumley Thicks in Chester-le-Street, gent., to property as in SF/Su 79, as trustee of John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster Annual rent: £4 12s.

19 July 1816 (1) John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster (2) Thomas Croudace of Lumley Thicks in Chester-le-Street, gent. (3) Mary Simey of Sunderland, widow Mortgage (by covenant to surrender) by (1) to (3) of property as in SF/Su 79 Consideration: £300

19 July 1816 Surrender of John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster, and admittance of Mary Simey of Sunderland, widow, to property as in SF/Su 79

24 February 1818 (1) John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster (2) George Lowery Simey of Bishopwearmouth, mariner, eldest son and heir of Mary Simey, deceased (3) Mary Naylor of Bishopwearmouth, widow Mortgage (by covenant to surrender) by (1) to (3) of property as in SF/Su 79 Consideration: £300 from (3) to (2) and £50 from (3) to (1)

26 February 1818 Surrender of George Lowery Simey of Bishopwearmouth, mariner, and John Armytage of Bishopwearmouth, schoolmaster, and admittance of Mary Naylor of Sunderland, widow, to property as in SF/Su 79

Agreement between John Armytage and John Oyston for site to Oyston of two houses, school and garden at south end of Nile Street and garden in Tatham Street, 13 May 1822

Abstract of title, 23 May 1816 - 26 February 1818, to property as in SF/Su 79, belonging to John Armytage and mortgaged to Mary Naylor, deceased, 12 June 1822

Copy of will (12 September 1822 with codicil 30 May 1823) of John Oyston of High Street, Bishopwearmouth, builder and mason, c.1823

Abstract of title, 23 May 1816 - 26 February 1818, to property as in SF/Su 79, belonging to [John] Armytage and mortgaged to Miss Naylor, 1830

11 March 1830 Admittance of Thomas Croudace, eldest son and heir of Thomas Croudace of Lumley Thicks in Chester-le-Street, deceased, to property as in SF/Su 79

12 March 1830 Surrender of John Armytage of Clarence Gardens, Regent Park, Middlesex, schoolmaster; Catherine Naylor of Bishopwearmouth, widow, executrix of will of Mary Naylor, deceased; Edward Oyston of Bishopwearmouth, mason; and Samuel Turner of Salem House, Bishopwearmouth, dissenting minister; and admittance of Caleb Wilson of Bishopwearmouth, merchant; Thomas Mounsey of Bishopwearmouth, furrier; Caleb Richardson of Bishopwearmouth, miller; Thomas Richardson jun. of Bishopwearmouth, banker; John Mounsey jun. of Bishopwearmouth, furrier; and Jonathan Richardson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, banker; to land, house and schoolhouse on west side of Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth (abuttals and measurements given), part of property as in SF/Su 79

Memorandum of agreement between William Tone and Caleb Wilson, Edward Backhouse and Thomas Richardson for purchase by Tone of cottage and land in Nile Street (including schoolroom) for £175, 17 March 1830

6 October 1932 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners (2) Trustees [named] of Sunderland Meeting of Society of Friends Compensation agreement for extinguishment of manorial rights in 31 Upper Nile Street, Sunderland, and associated land (partly included in admittance of 11 March 1830 and remainder included in surrender of 15 July 1913 Consideration: £2

'Sketch of the Old Burying Ground and Premises belonging to Friends of Sunderland' [1829] Scale [1:150] With copy of minute of Sunderland Preparative Meeting concerning lease of burial ground to Thomas Robson, 11 January 1829

Memorandum of appointment of new trustees for burial ground in High Street and meeting house and burial ground in Nile Street, in place of those appointed on 8 August 1883, 7 January 1894

Notice of right of enfranchisement, under Copyhold Act 1887, of land held of manor of Houghton, 12 April 1894

25 May 1903 (1) Trustees [named] of Sunderland Particular Meeting (2) A. Alderson and Co., of Bishopwearmouth, hosiery manufacturers Agreement for preventing acquisition by (2) of easement in respect of burial ground in High Street, Sunderland

Licence for removal of human remains from burial ground in High Street and Garden Street West to Friends' burial ground in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, 9 January 1923

11 March 1835 (1) Ecclesiastical Commissioners (2) Trustees [named] of Sunderland Meeting of Society of Friends Compensation agreement for extinguishment of manorial rights in Friends' Meeting House, burial ground and parts of employment exchange and adult school in Borough Road, Sunderland (partly included in admittance of 28 February 1831, partly in surrender of 23 April 1894 and remainder included in another surrender of 23 April 1894) Consideration: £30 5s

Abstract of title, 31 January 1795 - 2 April 1838 (with manuscript addition 15 May 1845), to a freehold in Bishopwearmouth, 1839

Solicitor's bill from Robert Davison for purchase of land at south end of Norfolk Street [Bishopwearmouth], June 1842 (with receipt 8 July 1843)

'Plan of the Ground in Norfolk Street purchased of Hannah Isabella Maude', 2 July 1842 Scale: [1:1980]

29 June 1843 (1) Hannah Isabella Maude of Greenbank, Darlington, widow and devisee in will of Warren Maude, deceased (2) Thomas Freshfield Scarth of Keverston, esq. (3) Trustees for Society of Friends - Thomas James Backhouse of Bishopwearmouth, coal owner; Thomas Mounsey of Hendon Hill, Bishopwearmouth, coal owner; Caleb Richardson of Bishopwearmouth, flour merchant; Thomas Richardson of West Hendon, gent.; John Mounsey of Bishopwearmouth, coal owner; and Jonathan Richardson of Shotley Bridge, banker (4) Edward Backhouse of Ashburn, Bishopwearmouth, esq. Conveyance (by covenant to surrender) from (1) to (4) in trust for (3) of copyhold land, part of Sans Closes, in Bishopwearmouth (abuttals and measurements given), manginal plan Consideration: £200

20 December 1877 Appointment of new trustees for schoolhouse and ground to replace those appointed on 29 June 1849 and 8 June 1858

7 January 1894 Appointment of new trustees for schoolhouse and ground to replace those appointed on 20 December 1877

14 April 1894 Admittance of Edward Backhouse Mounsey of Blackwell, and James Edward Backhouse of Hurworth Grange, both bankers, to land, part of Sans Closes, in Bishopwearmouth (abuttals and measurements given) as trustees of Edward Backhouse, deceased

Sketch plan showing Meeting House and adjoining properties [c. 1860] Scale: 1 inch to 44 feet [1:528] (1 plan, 23 cm x 18 cm).

Letter from J. Mounsey, Sunderland, to R. Foster concerning property of Sunderland Meeting, 12 January 1869

Schedule of deeds relating to property of Sunderland Preparative Meeting (burial ground in High Street, 1717 - 1894; Edward Walton's school premises in High Street, 1768 - 1828; Meeting House and burial ground in Nile Street, 1822-1894; premises adjoining Meeting House and burial ground in Nile Street, 1816 - 1830; Friends' school in Norfolk Street, 1842 - 1894; burial ground in Chester Road cemetery, 1858 - 1894), 1894

Sketch plan showing Meeting House and adjacent property, [c.1900] Scale: [approx. 1:600]

Plan showing Meeting House and adjoining property taken from Ordnance Survey plan, 1971 Scale: 1:1250

Accounts for the mission fund, 1891-1892

Mission accounts, 1946-55

Certificates and accounts for new school buildings, Norfolk Street, Sunderland, 27 January - 8 October 1912

Receipts for rent and coal for Bridges End House, Startforth, Barnard Castle, 16 February - 5 October 1938

Rate demands and receipts for Sunderland Adult School, 29 April - 16 November 1938

Annual accounts for the Sunderland Adult School's Holiday Home, 1938, 1940

Bills and receipts for Sunderland Adult School's Holiday Home, 4 March - 19 November 1938

2 December 1929 (1) J.W.B. Heslop (2) Mrs. M. G. Corder Lease from (1) to (2) of a dwelling house at Deerbolt, Startforth, for 5 years at a rent of £13 p.a.

Accounts, subscription lists, bills and receipts of the Sunderland Branch of the Friends' Emergency Committee for Assisting Aliens in Distress, 5 July 1915 - 16 December 1921

Annual accounts of Abel Chapman's Charity for the years ending 31 December 1853 - 31 December 1860; 31 December 1862 - 31 December 1881; 31 December 1883 - 31 December 1909; 31 December 1911 - 31 December 1914; 31 December 1918 - 31 December 1925; 31 December 1927 - 1934; 1946; 1941/2

Edward Walton's Trust, Sunderland, accounts, 19 January 1905 - 26 January 1912

Edward Walton's Trust, Shotton, account, 14 January 1905 - 31 January 1912

Case for Lawyer Bradley's opinions on the terms of the last will and testament of Edward Walton of Sunderland, 10 November 1778

Letter relating to the sum of three thousand pounds in trust for the teaching of forty eight poor children in Sunderland, Shotton, Bishop Auckland and Shildon, under the terms of the will of Edward Walton of Sunderland, 1777

Minutes of the Newcastle Monthly Meeting held at Sunderland, concerning money left to them by Edward Walton, 'for putting 12 poor children to school, and for putting poor children apprentices', and the appointment of trustees to manage the trust, 1772

Edward Walton's trust: receipt for payment of loan and minute (copy) of Quarterly Meeting, 1915

Letter from J.B. McDonald, Sunderland to Herbet Corder, clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, concerning bequest of £2100 from John M. Ogden, 21 July 1893

Copy minute of Sunderland Preparative Meeting concerning John M. Ogden's legacy, 5 June 1910

Declaration of trust by Wilfred Mounsey (banker), Alfred Grimshaw (merchant), Stanley Pumphrey (wholesale grocer) and Sydney Robson (solicitor) all of Sunderland, concerning the investment of John M. Ogden's legacy of £1850, 6 June 1910, with memorandum of sale of investments, 18 March 1912

Letters to the Women's Monthly Meeting from Sunderland, 1759 - 1780

List of Sunderland Friends, 1809

Birth and Burial notes, 1798-1816, 1842-48

Report by S.C. Tatham on the activities of the Friends' Mission, Nesham Place, for 1891

Report by S.C. Tatham on the activities of Nile Street mothers' meeting for 1891

Report on the Pottery Buildings branch of Y.W.C.A. by J. Davison, n.d.

Annual report by Philip Day of the Friends' Mission to Sailors, 1891, 2 February 1892

Summary of work by E. Mounsey for the Friends' Sunday School, Nile Street, for 1891

Report by R.E. Davies on the Pottery Buildings Y.M.C.A., 26 February 1892

Report of work at Pottery Buildings by H. Corder, n.d.

Report of Nile Street Band of Hope by J. Newby, 3 March 1892

Report of the Bible Class, Nile Street by T.W. Backhouse, n.d.

Report of the men's classes by T.W. Backhouse, 3 March 1892

Report of the Sunday Morning School for boys and girls at Nile Street by H. Corder, n.d.

Report of the Band of Hope by E. Davies, 26 February 1892

Report of the adult school at Nile Street by T.W. Mounsey, 26 February 1892

Report of Young Women's Class, Nile Street, by E. Mounsey, 24 February 1892

Report on Pottery Buildings meetings, n.d.

Report of Friends First Day School, Nile Street, n.d.

Report of the Missionary Helpers' Union by Ethel Mounsey, 1892

Schedules of records in the custody of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 1866, 1907

Vouchers, receipts, and related papers, 1768-74, 1807, 1820-28

Catalogue of books belonging to the Society of Friends of Sunderland, 1856

Durham Quarterly Meeting, rough minutes, 1808 - 1818

Account of charitable trusts and other properties within the compass of the Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1886

Schedule of record books in Newcastle Monthly Meeting, c.1830

Newcastle Monthly Meeting: schedule of books in the safe, 1895

Supplement to the catalogue of the Friends' Library in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1900-15

The Yearly Epistle, 1714-1860 (incomplete)

Abstract of Yearly Meeting epistles recommended to Monthly Meetings from the Quarterly Meeting at Durham, 1703; advice on plain language, marriage, etc. 1700-1731

Women's Yearly Meeting, epistles, 1806-1835

Yearly Meeting, minutes, observations, advices, reports, 1752 - 1790

Book of recommendations and advice, n.d. [mid 18th century]

Rules and directions relating to removals and settlements among Friends, agreed by the Yearly Meetings, 1729, 1737

Advice to Friends under prosecution against the payment of tithes and other ecclesiastical demands, 1746

Abstract of information on the Militia Act in Burn's Digest as it may affect Friends, 1762

General Epistle to Friends, to be read at Quarterly and Monthly Meetings, 1762

Printed letter from William Weston asking Friends to watch over one another and keep the faith, 1769

Printed letter to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends in Great Britain, Ireland and America, concerning the Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year and Correcting the Calendar Now in Use, 1751

A Christian exhortation to the people from Thomas Carrington, Pennsylvania,1778

An epistle from the Meeting for Sufferings held at Philadelphia for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1776

"Tender Advice and Caution to Friends respecting their putting out lights and not opening shops on days appointed for publick fasts and feasts", 1760

The method to be observed in recording marriages, births and burials, pursuant to the directions of the Yearly Meeting, 1774

Rules for proceeding in relation to marriage, agreed upon by the Yearly Meeting in London, 1754

An epistle from the Women's Quarterly Meeting for the County of York, held at Leeds, 1781

Notice concerning the setting up of a school near Leeds for the proper education of the children of poor Friends, n.d.

Tract Association reports for the years, 1819, 1820, 1822 and 1833

Note of yearly meeting of Ackworth School, 1856 Includes: annual statement of accounts, 1855

Advice on the subject of marriage from the Yearly Meeting, 1857

Minutes from the Yearly Meeting, 1857

An appeal for financial help for Friends in North Carolina made at a meeting for Sufferings, London 1868

Second annual report of the Baltimore Association of Friends, 1868

List of persons belonging to Shotton Meeting for the year 1660

Copies of annual accounts for the years ending 31 December 1859 - 31 December 1887

Copies of annual accounts for Robert Forster's Trust for the years ending, 31 December 1885 - 31 December 1887

Copies of letters from Samuel Hare to Edward Backhouse Mounsey concerning the accounts for Shotton, R. Forster's donation, mentioning the new forms recommended for sufferings, and the ownership of Shotton property, 6 February 1862 - 6 May 1862

Copies of letters to S. Hare from T.W. Backhouse concerning the Shotton accounts, Chapman trust, Walton trust, and R. Forster's donation, 28 January 1863 - 13 February 1882

Copies of letters to W.J. Cudworth from Thomas William Backhouse, concerning the Shotton property accounts, Walton's trust, R. Forster's donation, Benfieldside accounts and Abel Chapman's trust accounts, 30 January 1883 - 25 February 1889

Copy of letter to James Ianson concerning his taking over the accounts in the absence of Samuel Hare, 21 January 1867

Letters from Abel Chapman to E. Backhouse and Thomas Mounsey concerning the interest on the mortgage of the late John Bell's premises, 30 June 1842 - 1845

Letter from William Snowball concerning the Abel Chapman trust, asking for the sum of £500 to remain as security on the late Mr. Bell's property which is to be purchased by Thomas Nixon, 25 May 1853

Statement of accounts relating to Abel Chapman's trust, 1886, 1891

Postcard from L. Clapham to Thomas William Backhouse concerning Robert Forster's trust, 16 February 1892

Opinion by the Charity Commission regarding Robert Forster's Charity, 9 July 1869

Speciman form for statement of accounts under the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Act 1853, and Amendment Act, 1855, n.d. c.1860

Draft of proposed circular to be sent to Monthly Meetings, concerning the new form for charity returns, 1861

An abstract of the writings belonging to the Meeting House in Durham, 16 February 1679 - 6 April 1707

A copy of names of Friends belonging to Durham Meeting, 1692

Copy deeds of "the Meeting house and Burying place of the people commonly called Quakers" in Claypath, Durham, 1679-1792

Durham Quarterly Meeting: specimen for the monthly meeting register of births, marriages and burials, 1769

Durham Quarterly Meeting: list of members and attenders, 1936

Durham General Meeting: agenda, 28 January 1967

Record of marriages in Britain and overseas, 1859-80

A Catalogue of Records, etc., belonging to Friends within the compass of Durham Quarterly Meeting now in the custody of Jonathan Backhouse Junr. Registrar, Darlington 1825

Durham Quarterly Meeting: list of Members and attendances, 1956