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Darlington Methodist Circuit

Reference: M/Da Catalogue Title: Darlington Methodist Circuit Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: Individual churches S - Z

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  • Darlington Methodist Circuit
    • Darlington Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/Da)
    • Individual churches (Ref: M/Da S - Z)
    • Sadberge Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sad)
    • Sedgefield Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sed)
    • Shildon Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sh)
    • Skinnergate Methodist Church, Darlington (Ref: M/Da Sk)
    • Summerhouse Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Su)
    • Union Row Wesleyan Mission Hall, Darlington (Ref: M/Da UR)
    • Victoria Road Methodist Church, Darlington (Ref: M/Da VR)

Catalogue Contents

Darlington Methodist Circuit (Ref: M/Da)Individual churches (Ref: M/Da S - Z)Sadberge Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sad)

[formerly Wesleyan Methodist]

Ref: M/Da 117

Trustees' minutes, 1900 - 1963
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 293

Centenary brochure, containing a short history of the church and details of special events and Thanksgiving Services, 8-29 June 1969
(1 booklet)

Ref: M/Da 398

Trustees Minute book, 7 December 1964 - 21 October 1977
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1649

Minute book of Church Council meetings, 27 February 1977 - 22 October 1991
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1839

Register of baptisms, 15 March 1953 - 2 September 1990
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1840

Correspondence between Rev. David Rushton, Darlington; Black Horse Agencies, estate agents, Darlington; Rev. Ian Wilson, Darlington; Methodist Church Property Division; and Latimer Hinks, solicitors, Darlington; concerning the closure and sale of the church, 11 August 1990 - 14 June 2001
(80 papers)

Sedgefield Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sed)

Ref No: M/Da 118 Temp No: Acc No: 289 (D)
Trustees' minutes, 1914 - 1959
(1 volume)

Shildon Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Sh)

[formerly Methodist New Connexion and from 1907, United Methodist] M/Da 119-120

Ref: M/Da 119

Trustees' minutes, 1900 - 1908
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 120

Trustees' cash book, 1895 - 1908 with related papers infolded
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 121

Details of relief given (with remarks) by unspecified benevolent society covering Northgate, Priestgate and Skinnergate districts, 1880 - 1898, at the front are names of visitors, n.d., c.1880
(1 volume)

Skinnergate Methodist Church, Darlington (Ref: M/Da Sk)

[formerly Wesleyan Methodist]

Ref: M/Da 80

Treasurer's accounts, 1817 - 1856, with related papers infolded to 1886 and includes a copy of the minutes of a conference of supporters of Skinnergate British School re erecting new Wesleyan Day and Sunday Schools, 19 December 1856 and a list of books [300 volumes] in Darlington Sunday School Library, 1817
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1208

19 June 1819 (1) Thomas Pickering, Esq.; James Ianson, Esq.; Mathew Nayler, yeo.; James Thompson, watchmaker; Henry Smith, grocer; Christopher Dove, currier; James Dove, tanner; William Dove, currier; John Pomfret, currier; George Middleton, tanner; Robert Middleton, currier; Green Atkinson, bookseller; William Bywell, gent., John Davison, machine maker; Robert Bland, grocer and linen draper; Francis Kipling, carpet manufacturer; James Marshall, cabinet maker; and George Spencer, cabinet maker; all of Darlington and Jonathan Spark, Houghton le Spring, leather-seller (2) Edward Pease, merchant, Joseph Pease, merchant; Thomas Backhouse, Esq.; Jonathan Backhouse, banker; Jonathan Backhouse the younger, banker; William Backhouse, banker; Edward Backhouse, banker; James Backhouse, banker; and John Backhouse, banker; William Ianson the elder, manufacturer; John Ianson, manufacturer; James Ianson the younger, manufacturer; Thomas Pease, grocer; Thomas Clarke, wine merchant; Thomas Buttery, grocer; John Monkhouse, watchmaker; John Robinson, sadler; Frederick Henry Smith, schoolmaster; Robert Botcherby the younger, merchant; Jarvis Robinson, gent.; Isaac Waithman, manufacturer; Francis Mewburn, gent.; William Tate, currier) Humphrey Thompson, brewer; William Brantingham, grocer; Reg Pickersgill, carrier; John Baxter John Atkinson the younger, gent.; Thomas Smurthwaite, grocer; and George Heighington, grocer, all of Darlington Declaration of trusts of Darlington Skinnergate Day School
(parchment, 2 membranes, applied seals)

Ref: M/Da 1209

19 June 1819 Draft of Skinnergate School trust deed as at M/Da 1208
(1 file)

Summerhouse Methodist Church (Ref: M/Da Su)

[formerly Wesleyan Methodist]

Ref: M/Da 294

Trustees' Meetings minutes, 1894 - 1916
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 399

Register of baptisms, 6 July 1951 - 5 April 1964
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 400

Trustees Treasurers Account book, 20 March 1902 - 1 September 1963
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 401

Trustees Treasurers Account book, September 1963 - October 1973
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 402

Collection Journal, 4 January 1953 - 4 September 1966
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 403

Correspondence relating to closure and sale, 25 March 1974 - 20 August 1975
(61 folios)

Ref: M/Da 404

Good neighbour's club fund book, 17 December 1959 - 16 September 1964
(1 booklet)

Ref: M/Da 456

Minute book of the Trustees' Meeting, including notes on the history of the chapel for the diamond jubilee in 1956, 10 March 1919 - 20 January 1975
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1463

Souvenir programme for the Diamond Jubilee 1896 - 1956, 1 - 7 October 1956
(1 paper)

Union Row Wesleyan Mission Hall, Darlington (Ref: M/Da UR)

Darlington, Union Row Methodist Mission Hall, King Street

Ref: M/Da 380

Leaders meetings minutes book, 11 April 1929 - 3 February 1946
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 381

Trust minutes book, 14 January 1942 - 20 January 1947
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 599

Rough minutes of trustees' meetings, 14 January 1942 and 13 January 1943; report on the meeting of the trustees, 4 June 1946
(3 papers)

Ref: M/Da 600

Rough balance sheets, 1941 - 1943 and n.d.
(6 papers)

Ref: M/Da 601

Correspondence between Miss H. Bishop, Darlington, Bondgate Methodist Church, and the Methodist Chapel Committee concerning the future of the chapel, and eventual sale, 12 February - 10 October 1946
(4 papers)

Ref: M/Da 602

Letters from Norman C. Milner, secretary of Methodist Choirs and Orchestral Association, Darlington concerning the use of the mission room for rehearsals, 10 December 1941 - 11 December 1944
(11 papers)

Ref: M/Da 603

List of caretaker's duties etc., n.d. [c.1940's]
(2 papers)

Ref: M/Da 604

List of articles belonging to Union Row Mission, 19 February 1946
(2 papers)

Ref: M/Da 1253

Minute book of the trustees meetings, 13 July 1894 - 1 October 1941
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1254

Subscription accounts of the Union Row Mission Building Fund 1894
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1255

Correspondence concerning the trust, 30 December 1946 - 9 January 1952
(1 file)

Ref: M/Da 1256

Minute book of the Sunday School teachers meetings, 22 November 1929 - 25 January 1939
(1 volume)

Victoria Road Methodist Church, Darlington (Ref: M/Da VR)

[formerly Methodist New Connection, and, from 1907, United Methodist, known as Darlington Methodist New Connection Chapel before 1932]

Ref: M/Da 81

Register of baptisms [for Darlington Methodist New Connexion Chapel, described as Victoria Road from 1932], 1881 - 1937
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 82

Register of baptisms, 1960 - 1963
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 83

Leaders', Society and Committee meetings minutes, 1902 - 1915, includes minutes of combined Leaders and Trustees' meeting, 9 September 1910
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 84

Leaders' and Society Meetings minutes, 1915 - 1925
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 85

Leaders' and Society Meetings minutes, 1925 - 1931
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 86

Leaders', Society and Leaders' and Trustees Meetings minutes, 1931 - 1938, includes Bazaar Committee minutes, 20 December 1933, and Finance Committee minutes, 14 December 1936 and 7 December 1937
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 87

Leaders' and Society Meetings minutes, 1938 - 1947
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 88

Leaders' and Society Meetings minutes, 1947 - 1954, includes reports on sectional accounts, 1947 - 1949 and 1952 - 1953, and sectional balance sheet 31 December 1954
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 89

Leaders' and Society Meetings minutes, 1954 - 1958, includes minutes of Group Members meeting, 6 December 1958, and of Joint Leaders' and Trustees' meeting, 5 November 1958, infolded is a summary of circuit trust accounts, February 1959
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 90

Trustees' minutes, 1898 - 1933
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 91

Trustees minutes, 1932 - 1956, includes a note that the church opened for public worship 20 March, 1884
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 92

Society and Trustees' accounts, 1948 - 1966
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 93

Trustees' cash accounts, 1894 - 1932
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 94

Choir accounts, 1898 - 1967, with related papers infolded
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 95

Offertory book, 1929 - 1946
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 96

Lists of preachers, with dates of services, offertories, and numbers of adults, and children present, 1895 - 1929
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 382

Membership register, March 1910 - June 1954
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 383

Register of Baptisms, 20 October 1963 - 21 August 1966
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 384

Correspondence and minutes of trustees meetings, November 1965 - 24 July 1966
(6 papers)

Ref: M/Da 385

Resume of facts April 1880 - December 1937
(8 papers)

Ref: M/Da 386

Syllabus for 'Young at Heart' 1964 - 1965
(1 paper)

Ref: M/Da 387

Syllabus for 'Young at Heart' 1965 - 1966
(1 paper)

Ref: M/Da 388

Syllabus for 'Men's Fireside' 1965 - 1966
(1 paper)

Ref: M/Da 389

Photographic block of Boys Brigade, n.d.
(1 block)

Ref: M/Da 390

Photographic block of Youth Club, n.d.
(1 block)

Ref: M/Da 391

Photographic block of wedding, n.d.
(1 block)

Ref: M/Da 931

Roll book, September 1947 - June 1948
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 931

Roll book, September 1947 - June 1948
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 932

Roll book, September 1948 - June 1949
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 932

Roll book, September 1948 - June 1949
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 933

Roll book, September 1951 - June 1952
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 933

Roll book, September 1951 - June 1952
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 934

Roll book, September 1952 - June 1953
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 934

Roll book, September 1952 - June 1953
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 935

Roll book, September 1953 - June 1954
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 935

Roll book, September 1953 - June 1954
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 936

Roll book, September 1950 - June 1951
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 937

Roll book, September 1949 - June 1950
(1 volume)

Ref: M/Da 1053

Balance sheets, 14 January 1953 - 15 January 1955
(3 papers)

Ref: M/Da 1257

Correspondence and papers concerning sale of church, 13 December 1965 - 9 January 1967
(1 file)

Ref: M/Da 1524

Memorandum of the appointment of new trustees, 6 May 1898
(1 parchment file)

Ref: M/Da 1525

Memorandum of the appointment of new trustees, 15 May 1907
(1 parchment file)



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