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Durham St. Nicholas Parish

Reference: EP/Du.SN Catalogue Title: Durham St. Nicholas Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 05 Vestry

Covering Dates: 1803-1969

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Vestry (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/)Vestry minutes (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 01)

5/1-6, 8


Vestry and select vestry minutes
(1 volume)


Vestry and select vestry minutes (including report on the church fabric in 1803)
(1 volume)


Vestry minute book, 8 July 1818 to 20 August 1829
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Vestry minute book, 9 April 1822 to 2 October 1856
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Vestry and Burial Board minutes (1859 - 1878)
(1 volume)


Minute book for Select Vestry, 15 March 1967 - 17 March 1969
(1 volume, card bound)


Minutes of vestry meetings, 26 December 1856 - 10 March 1966; particulars of property belonging to the parish (see also EP/Du.SN 12/15-17)
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Membership (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 02)

5/7, 9


Rough list of members of Select Vestry, 1950 - 1952
(1 paper)


List of members of the select vestry, their abodes and occupations, 5 April 1879
(1 paper)

Burial Board (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 03)

11-122
(see also EP/Du.SN 2 and EP/Du.SN 4 and EP/Du.SN 5/5)


Notices and minutes of meetings of the rated inhabitants of St. Nicholas' parish for the elections to the Burial Board and minutes of that board, 16 March 1867 - 30 March 1881
(18 papers)


Precepts from the Burial Board to the Overseers of the Poor for the Parish for the Parish of St. Nicholas, 21 March 1867 - 19 March 1890
(23 papers, each with an applied seal)


Returns of receipts and expenditure of the Local Government Board for the years ending 25 March 1885 - 25 March 1892
(8 papers, printed form)


Details of financial outgoings of the Burial Board in connexion with precepts, March 1867 - 1890
(5 papers and 1 file)


Letter and instructions for payment from the Public Works Loan Board regarding the advance of £1,400 to the Burial Board, 2 April 1872, 1 April 1889 and 1 April 1890
(3 papers, printed form)


Bills and receipts relating to the Burial Board, 20 July 1883 - 30 June 1892
(25 papers)


Receipts for wages of the cemetary gate keeper and memoranda of payments on behalf of the Burial Board by Reverend H.E. Fox, April 1869 - 1891
(10 papers)


Scale of fees at St. Nicholas' burial ground, August 1910
(1 paper)


Table of fees and payments of St. Oswald's Burial Board, 5 October 1889
(1 paper, printed)


Copy of the Burial Act, 1900 with explanatory circular from the Home Office, 17 December 1900 (1 paper and 1 file, printed


Copies of instructions to the sexton and of other instructions regarding the burial ground, 27 June 1887 and n.d.
(3 papers)


Letter from William Jackson, 47 Claypath, Durham, to the Burial Board seeking the appointment of Clerk to the Board, 5 February 1867


Letter from the Clerk to the Board to the Churchwardens and Vestry of St. Nicholas concerning resignations and the composition of the board, 26 July 1899


Letter of resignation from the Burial Board of Robert Bruce, 11 January 1904
(1 paper)


Letters from J. Patrick, solicitor, Clerk to St. Nicholas' Burial Board to the Reverend W. Bothamley, Chairman of the Burial Board explaining the legal position of the board as a result of the Burial Act, 1900, 17-19 April 1905
(2 papers, typescript)


Letter from the Diocesan Registry to the Reverend W. Bothamley concerning the chapel at the cemetery, 1 March 1907
(1 paper)


Correspondence received relative to counsel's opinion concerning the Burial Board, 26 August and 12 September 1910
(2 papers)


Correspondence received from J. Patrick, Clerk to Durham U.D.C. (Burial Acts Committee) concerning control of the burial ground, 29 September 1910 - 25 September 1913
(3 papers, typescript)


Letter from Henry H. Bothamley, Middleton, Hassocks, Sussex to his brother the Reverend Westley Bothamley concerning appointment and remuneration of sexton, 26 December 1921
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 04)

5/10, 123


Newcastle report of the annual meeting of St. Nicholas' ratepayers, 5 May 1905
(1 paper, printed)


Photograph of elderly woman wearing a bonnet, n.d. [late 19th century] (1 photograph, sepia)