Catalogue

6 January 1701/02 (1) Ralph Wright and Richard Sober, overseers of the poor of Darlington and Robert Ward and Robert Norton, churchwardens of Darlington (2) Charles Thorp, a poor child (3) Henry Priestman of Darlington, [taylor] Apprenticeship indenture of (2) to (3) for 10 years. Penalty of £5 payable by (3) to (1) upon failure to perform this agreement.

23 May 1767 (1) Francis Holmes and Robert Wastell, churchwardens of Darlington and William Dent and Joseph Hedley, overseers of the poor of Darlington (2) William Teasedale of near Darnton Yates, parish of Houghton, husbandman (3) Ann Wilson, daughter of Benjamin Wilson, deceased, a poor girl of Darlington Apprenticeship indenture of (3) to (2) by (1) as a servant for 3 years. Consideration: £1 7s

Bill from the Overseers of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, to the overseers of Darlington for relief provided to Margaret Atkinson for the period 26 December 1809 to 29 January 1811

Settlement certificate issued by the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Easby, Yorkshire, to the churchwardens of Darlington concerning Hannah Graham (who is pregnant with child) at Easby, 17 December 1832

Order to the constable of Gainford to apprehend George Harewood of Manfield in the North Riding of the County of York, a cartwright, (alleged father of the bastard child of Margaret Wilson) to indemnify the township of Gainford upon whom the child is chargeable, 20 October 1834

"Parochial list and statement of account": being a list of paupers whose relief is charged against Gainford parish in the Poor Law Union of Teesdale and summary statement of amounts respectively credited and debited against Gainford parish in the Union accounts for the half year ending 29 September 1849; gives details of the number of days maintenance given to those receiving indoor relief, and the names, parish of settlement, cause for requiring relief and the half yearly expenditure on those receiving outdoor relief.

Receipted invoice from Thomas F. Hedley, valuer, Sunderland, to the overseers of the township of Darlington concerning a valuation of the water works, 6 September 1869; with an attached certificate from the Assessment Commitee of the Darlington Union to the overseers authorising payment chargeable on the rate for the relief of the poor, 6 August 1869