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Register of baptisms, 1565 - December 1571, January 1578 - June 1717, November 1722 - February 1742/43; register of marriages, November 1564 - June 1646, November 1653 - July 1717, April 1722 - November 1742; register of civil marriages, December 1653 - May 1659; register of burials, May 1559 - June 1647, November 1653 - July 1717, April 1722 - December 1742 List of briefs, including one brief collected for London after the great fire. 1649 - 1666 Notes concerning a legacy. 1651 Note of appointment of the parish register.1653 Note of a plague. 1665 List of collections, 1753 - 1778

Register of baptisms, April 1743 - September 1783; register of marriages, May 1743 - January 1754, register of burials, April 1743 - February 1779 List of briefs including one for the Huguenots in Westphalia 1759 and for the colleges in Philadelphia.1762

Register of baptisms, December 1783 - November 1797; register of marriages, May 1784 - October 1812; register of burials, November 1783 - December 1797 Account of the sacrament money, 1791 - 1829 Note of rebuilding, 1791 - 1793 Note of the erection of a gallery, 1817 Receipt for Sir James Pennyman for money to apprentice poor children

Register of burials, March 1798 - December 1853; Population statistics, 1798 - 1849 Note of children having smallpox innoculations Index of burials Register of baptisms, March 1798 - March 1855 Index of baptisms Note of an agreement by owners and occupiers to repair the lane from Greatham to Greenabella, 1799

Register of baptisms, February 1813 - April 1857 Note of an induction, 1818

Register of Baptisms, April 1857 - April 1892

Register of baptisms, 15 April 1892 - 28 October 1927

Register of baptisms, 18 November 1927 - 16 March 1975

Register of banns and marriage, April 1754 - June 1783

Register of marriages, June 1813 - May 1837

Register of marriages, 25 November 1837 - 28 June 1941

Register of marriages, 20 August 1941 - 16 December 1953

Register of marriages, 17 July 1954 - 22 April 1972

Register of marriages, 29 April 1972 - 17 March 1990

Register of marriages, 16 June 1990 - 3 April 2018

Register of marriages, 4 August 2018 - 31 July 2020

Register of banns of marriage, 1 February 1824 - 25 December 1904

Register of banns of marriage, 11 December 1904 - 29 December 1963

Register of banns of marriage, 12 January 1964 - 26 September 1982

Register of burials, March 1779 - September 1783

Register of burials, February 1813 - April 1864

Register of burials, May 1864 - February 1914

Register of burials, 4 March 1914 - 13 February 1973

Marriage licences and residence declarations, 1810 - 1855

Marriage licence, Thomas Stonehouse and Ann Turnbull, 29 April 1837

Marriage licence, Henry Lamb and Dorothy Bowser, 28 March 1849

Marriage licence, Leonard Charles Williams and Doreen Waters, 26 October 1940

Marriage licence, Clarence Arthur Brine and Rita Cooke, 26 December 1941

Marriage licence, Walter Lilienthal and Margaret Smith, 15 February 1944

Marriage licence, John Eric Dixon and Elizabeth Annie Bell, 7 June 1944

Marriage licence, Albert Edward Fowler and Margaret Lillian Plumpton, 30 August 1944

Marriage licence, Walter Charlton Bell and Winifred Maude Crowe, 8 December 1944

Marriage licence, Alwyne Thompson Lambert and Muriel Smith, 19 March 1945

Marriage licence, Francis John Dawson and Elizabeth Thompson, 11 July 1945

Marriage licence, Norman Ross and Eva Thompson, 11 July 1945

Marriage licence, Frank Geoffrey Christie and Agnes Mary Mitchell, 2 October 1945

Marriage licence, Arthur Northey and Mary Doreen Herbert, 4 January 1946

Marriage licence, Laurence Edward Harris and Isabella Nevin, 14 August 1946

Marriage licence, Frederick Percy John Harrison and Mavis Peel, 5 September 1946

Marriage licence, Richard Thomas Flack and Florence Mary Stonehouse, 27 November 1946

Marriage licence, Frederick Victor Hunt and Eva Richardson, 10 July 1947

Marriage licence, Joseph Hewitt and Mary Hutchinson, 13 August 1947

Marriage licence, Douglas Barker Wilson and Mary Fleet, 5 November 1947

Marriage licence, Thomas Edward Abel and Mary Hauxwell, 1 March 1948

Marriage licence, Derek Gilling and Rachel Ann Smedley, 3 May 1958

Receipt listing registers, 1860

Acts relating to marriage registration, 1822 - 1836

Letter from the office of the Registrar General, New Cumberland Hotel, Blackpool, to Rev. R.A. Beddoes, Greatham vicarage, concerning an alleged bigamous marriage at Greatham Church, 23 July 1941 Enclosed in EP/Gre 126

Register of confirmations, 8 October 1879 - May 1909

Register of services, 3 December 1882 - 11 December 1904

Register of services, 9 February 1908 - 26 February 1920 Enclosure: see EP/Gre 118

Register of services, 29 February 1920 - 7 August 1927

Register of services, 14 August 1927 - 29 October 1933

Register of services, 1 November 1933 - 31 December 1939

Register of services, 1 January 1940 - 25 April 1947

Register of services, 1 January 1947 - 24 July 1968

Register of services, 28 July 1968 - 6 November 1975

The London Gazette, including declaration of grant of temporary annual stipend of £6, 26 May 1911

Statement of annual amounts payable by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1 April 1939

Particulars of funds to the credit of Greatham Benefice in the books of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, 18 December 1923

Correspondence between Ecclesiastical Commission and the Incumbent of Greatham with details of investments, 26 February 1924 - 1 February 1950

Letter from Bounty Office to Rev. A.C. Rose concerning sale of Seaton Carew Glebe, and the investment of the proceeds appropriated to the benefice of Greatham, 14 May 1937

Schedule of securities in respect of which orders have been made under the Benefices (Stabilization of Incomes) Measure, 1951, 1 July 1952

Seaton Carew estate (held jointly by the Vicars of Greatham and Dalton-le-Dale), letters and papers, incl. tenancy agreements and plan of proposed new road, 1929), 1792 - 1818, 1838, 1851, 1904 - 1938

Stranton parish (including Seaton). Book of reference to plan, 1864

Order and note re road repair, 1790

31 December 1907 (1) Rev. G.W.A. Firth, Incumbent of Dalton-le-Dale and Rev. Edgar Boddington, Incumbent of Greatham (with consents) (2) Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power Company Lease under the Ecclesiastical Leasing Acts of easements over joint glebe of the above benefices

1 September 1940 (1) Rev. Austin Charles Rose, Incumbent of Greatham (2) The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Mortgage for £45 for making up a road adjoining benefice property

22 February 1908 (1) Rev. George William Anson Firth, Incumbent of Dalton-le-Dale and Rev. Edgar Boddington, Incumbent of Greatham (with consents) (2) Cleveland and Durham Electric Power Company Conveyance of lands at Seaton Carew in the County of Durham under the Church Building Act, 1839

Letters from Bounty Office, Westminster to Rev. E. Boddington, Greatham concerning payments in connection with the sale of reclaimed land at Seaton Snook, 4 February 1912 - 3 February 1914

Plan of Greatham, n.d.

Licence for the Rev. John Brewster to live in the house of the Master of Greatham Hospital, 1826

Address by Canon S. Landreth delivered in Greatham Hospital Chapel on the occasion of the collation and induction of Canon D.E.F. Ogden as master, 9 May 1978

Vicar's pocket diary, 1857

Tithe account, 1606

Letters concerning the investment of a tithe redemption of £392 9s.2d.,16 - 29 May 1923

Certificate of redemption of tithe rent-charge of lands in the township of Claxton in the parish of Greatham, 29 August 1923

Declaration of merger of tithe rent-charges, 6 September 1932

Sittings in the church, note, 1844

Letters re church restoration and other matters.1845, 1851 - 1858

Estimate and specification for an organ by Brindley foster of Sheffield, 2 April 1881

Copy of petition to the Durham Consistory Court for repairs and alterations to the church including a new floor for the nave and chancel and a new ceiling for the chancel, 12 May 1966

12 April 1886 (1) The Master and Bretheren of the Hospital of God in Greatham (2) Rev. William Wilson Morrison, Vicar of Greatham Conveyance of 1 acre of freehold ground situated in the parish of Greatham as site for burial grounds

Letter from Temperley, Tilly and Hayward, solicitors, to Canon E.B. Adamson concerning churchyard extension, with enclosed letter from the Church Commissioners' solicitor, 12 - 18 October 1954

Register of gravestone inscriptions, 1979

Plan of churchyard showing the position of the gravestones, 1979 Scale: 1/10 inch to 1 ft [1:120]

Letters re erection of Institute, 1909

24 February 1912 (1) Rev. G.W.A. Firth, Incumbent of Dalton-le-Dale and Rev. E. Boddington, Incumbent of Greatham (2) Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power Company Agreement for laying underground telephone wires

21 June 1929 (1) Rev. Austin Charles Rose, Vicar of Greatham (2) Cleveland and Durham County Electric Power Company Wayleave agreement for overhead electric wires and stays at Greatham, with covering letter

Faculty to build a new vestry and organ chamber, 9 April 1881

Faculty for the erection of a stone cross in the churchyard and a tablet in the church, 31 May 1922

Faculty for a new peal of bells, 9 February 1931

Faculty for the installation of the electric lighting system, 12 September 1945

Faculty for general alterations and improvements, including: the erection of an oak door in the south aisle, and a stone tablet in memory of those who died 1939 - 1945; to replace the existing steps to the chancel; to install two new radiators; to alter the choir stalls and communion rails; to alter the principal entrance; to re-erect the white marble centre piece of the Brewster Memorial at the west end of the south choir stalls, 25 October 1951

Faculty to construct a carriage way in the churchyard, moving three headstones and providing an entrance into the new churchyard extension, 10 July 1953

Faculty for the insertion of stained glass in a window, 10 July 1953

Faculty for the erection of new altar rails, 31 January 1958

Faculty to introduce new oak pews, with related correspondence, 7 August 1971

Faculty for the erection of a lych gate with the inscription "H.M., L.M., C.W.J.", 13 February 1950

Archdeacon's Certificate for re-decorating the church interior, 7 December 1981

Letter from Church Commissioners to Rev. E.B. Adamson declaring that the Diocesan Dilapidations Board has cancelled an assessment for repairs dated 9 November 1944, 17 February 1950

Surveyor's report, schedule and order re Ecclesiastical Dilapidations, 20 May - 22 June 1971

Churchwardens' accounts, inc. plan of pews, 1716 - 1856

Churchwardens' account, 1876. 1878. 1921 and church restoration account, 1870

Churchwardens' accounts, Easter 1916 Originally enclosed in EP/Gre 89

Churchwardens' accounts, 14 April 1857 - 1 January 1970

Churchwardens' accounts, 1952

Churchwardens' accounts, 1965

Church Endowment Fund Committee minutes, 1924 - 1927

Financial statement for year ending 31 December 1957

Interim financial statement and final account for the garden fete, 25 July 1964

Vestry, Overseers' and parish meeting minutes, 1880 - 1905

Minute book of the Parochial Church Council, 12 April 1920 - 27 January 1944

Minutes of Vestry and Parochial Church Council Meetings, 18 April 1944 - 8 December 1980

Settlement certificate of Robert Corney. 1731

Greatham Schools, papers and plans, 1835, 1878, post 1902

Rand Charity (an apprenticing charity) accounts and papers, 1668 - 1940, (including Grant of land at Thornton in Stainton, Yorks., 1668; accounts 1790 - 1916; apprentice indentures, 1793 - 1911)

Carr's Charity (a widows' charity) accounts and papers, 1819 - 1926

Letter re legacy to the poor by Elizabeth Brewster, 1896

Will of Matthew Carr, 28 January 1818

Society of the Sons of the Clergy in Durham Diocese, report, 1957 - 1958

Brown v. Yeall (re bequest by Ralph Bradley of estate at Stockton for purchase of books to promote religion and virtue), letters and papers, 1789 - 1792

Forms of prayer during cholera epidemic, 1849

Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, 1860

Parish scrapbook, 1907 - 1912, with later inserts

Parish magazine, 1941

List of boys to say catechism, n.d.

Engravings of religious subjects, 18 century