Catalogue

Register of baptisms, 1578 - November 1700; register of marriages, 1578 - April 1700, No entries 1652 - April 1658; register of burials, 1578 - April 1687 List of seating in the church, 1612, 1638 Note of a brief collected, 1653 Note of an induction, 1682 Part of a covenant against rebels of all kinds (transcribed) [See transcript/index 653 in microfilm room]

Register of baptisms, April 1700 - November 1812 List of the births of the children of Luke Ellison and George Allison, Roman Catholics, 1785 - 1798; register of marriages, April 1700 - February 1754; register of burials, May 1700 - October 1812 Notes of inductions, 1753, 1765 Copy of an agreement over west pasture between the vicar and the owners and tenant, 1755 Terrier of the glebe land and church, 1792 Notes of appointments of parish clerks, 1816, 1846

Register of burials in Woollen, September 1678 - November 1720, No entries 1701 - 1706; register of, marriages and baptisms, November 1700 - December 1721, Two entries for November 1734, No entries 1701 - 1706

Register of baptisms, January 1813 - January 1847

Register of baptisms, February 1847 - June 1948 Very few entries 1925 - 1948

Register of banns and marriage, April 1754 - May 1812; register of banns, February 1813 - May 1836 Notes for the clergy explaining the Marriage Act, 1754 Marriage licences, 1794, 1800

Register of marriages, February 1813 - May 1837

Register of marriages, July 1837 - November 1876

Register of marriages, December 1876 - February 1891

Register of marriages, April 1891 - December 1919

Register of marriages, December 1919 - July 1925 Note of the union of St. John's and St. Mary's, Monk Heselden, 1925

Register of burials, March 1813 - August 1857

Register of burials, September 1857 - June 1908

Register of services, 22 June 1907 - 26 December 1952

London Gazette, 1860, 1891, 1925 (1) Transference of rent charge to vicar of Monk Hesleden, 1860 (p. 3913) (2) Grant of stipend to vicar of St. Johns, 1891, (p. 2743) (3) Union of benefices of St. Mary and St. John, 1925 (p. 4940-41)

Account of expenses incurred by Edward Peele in negotiating the augmentation of the living of Monk Hesleden by the tithe rent charge of Monk Hesleden, July 1863 - 17 February 1864

Notice of Harvest Thanksgiving service, Mission Church, Castle Eden Colliery and Annual Missionary meeting, October, 1879

Correspondence re J. Brown Charity and the church, 1938 - 1939

Correspondence re Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act, 1937, Coal and Mines at Hutton Henry, and rough plan, 1939

Hutton Henry. Tithe apportionment and plan, 1838

Hutton Henry. Tithe re-apportionment and plan, 1900

Sheraton and Hulam. Tithe apportionment and plan, 1839

Sheraton and Hulam. Tithe re-apportionment and plan, 1880

Book of tithes, 1753 - 1763, 1765, 1806 - 1821

Conveyance of rent charge (copy) in lieu of tithes in Monk Hesleden. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Dean and Chapter of Durham, 1863

Annexation of tithe rent charges in Monk Hesleden (copy): Dean and Chapter of Durham to Vicar of Monk Hesleden, 1864

Hutton Henry. Certificate of redemption of tithe rent charge, 1912

Order-in-Council for the discontinuation of burials in the parish church and churchyard at Monk Hesleden, except in the case of unused reserved burial spaces which are free of water and allow burials at a depth of more than five feet, 13 May 1887

Miscellaneous items: Licence for Church Hall, 1962 Sunday School Accounts, 1951 - 1952 Bank Book (Yorkshire Penny Bank, West Hartlepool), 1949 - 1954 Letter from Church Commissioners re repair rate assessraent, 1962 Receipt from Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, 1951

Inventory, 1953

Churchwardens Accounts, 1685 - 1797 (including Vestry Meeting minutes and rate assessments, 1793 - 1796; collections for the poor and at the Sacrament, 1707 - 1709, 1719 - 1736, 1742 - 1762; collection for briefs, 1699 - 1719)

Account book, 3 April 1910 - 31 December 1953

Vestry book and Churchwardens accounts, 1797 - 1922

Letter from the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James' Square, London, to Rev. William Hayes, The Vicarage, Monk Hesleden, discussing, and enclosing, a report of 1830 on Mrs. Burn's charity, 7 June 1859)

Durham Coast Railway. Plans and Sections, 1893 - 1894

North Eastern Railway. Plans and Sections, 1894