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Gainford St. Osmund Roman Catholic Parish

Reference: RC/Gai Catalogue Title: Gainford St. Osmund Roman Catholic Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: 

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Catalogue Description

Records of the Roman Catholic parish of Gainford,

St. Osmund, deposited on long-term loan

21 May 1996 Acc: 2374(D)

County Record Office
County Hall
DURHAM
DH1 5UL

Catalogue Contents

REGISTRATION (Ref: RC/Gai 1/1-7)

Register of baptisms, 14 January 1861 - 16 September 1894
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of baptisms, 23 July 1895 - 3 July 1914
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Register of baptisms, St. Peter's Hospital [Catholic orphanage in Gainford, opened 1901], 21 December 1901 - 20 August 1930
(1 volume, card bound)


Register of deaths, 8 April 1874 - 20 April 1986
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Index, compiled by C.J. Towers, to baptisms, 1861 - 1914, marriages and deaths, 1874 - 1921
(1 file, typescript)


Index, compiled by C.J. Towers, to register of deaths, 1874 - 1986
(1 file, typescript)


Certificate of registration of the Catholic Chapel, Gainford, for the solemnization of marriages, 25 March 1874
(Parchment, 1 membrane)

Catholic Records Classification Scheme (Ref: RC/Gai 1-15)

Registration


Clergy


Church fabric and property


Parish accounts


Parish organisations


Fraternities and sodalities (including S.V.P.)


Charities


Deanery


Schools and education


Not used 11 Not used


Not used


Not used 14 Not used


Miscellaneous

 (Ref: RC/Gai 2/1)

CLERGY

Confirmations


Register of confirmations, 26 October 1862 - 4 May 1953
(1 volume, leather half-bound)

Church Notices (Ref: RC/Gai 2/2-19)

Notice book, including banns, 20 April 1901 - 4 December 1904
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notice book, including banns, 11 December 1904 - 26 January 1908
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notice book, including banns, 2 February 1908 - 24 November 1912
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Notice book, including banns, 1 December 1912 - 25 November 1917
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Notice book, including banns, 2 December 1917 - 26 November 1922
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Notice book, including banns, 3 December 1922 - 31 July 1927
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Notice book, including banns, 7 August 1927 - 9 April 1933
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notice book, including banns, 16 April 1933 - 13 July 1941
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notice book, including banns, 20 July 1941 - 25 March 1945
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Notice book, including banns, 20 February 1949 - 18 April 1954
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Notice book, including banns, 25 April 1954 - 20 January 1957
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, including banns, 27 January 1957 - 26 March 1961
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, 2 April 1961 - 22 August 1965
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, 29 August 1965 - 1 February 1970
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, including banns, 8 February 1970 - 26 November 1972
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, including banns, 3 December 1972 - 26 September 1977
(1 volume, card bound)


Notice book, including banns, 2 October 1977 - 2 November 1980
(1 volume, card bound)


Church notices, 23 November 1980 - 5 April 1987
(326 papers)

Mass Intentions (Ref: RC/Gai 2/20)

Mass intention book, 2 April 1966 - 25 December 1977
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Clergy Appointments (Ref: RC/Gai 2/21-22)

Pagella of appointment of Peter Stanley as parish priest, with covering letter from the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 1 November 1955
(2 papers)


Pagella of appointment of Vincent Duffy as parish priest, with covering letter from the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 3 March 1966
(2 papers)

Benefice (Ref: RC/Gai 2/23-25)

Letter to the Rev. G. Cayley from T. Slater, Diocesan Registrar and Secretary, informing him of the obligations of Gainford: 2 masses annually for the Rev. Thomas Witham and 2 masses annually for William Binks, deceased, 5 February 1861
(1 paper)


Notice of the creation of St. Osmund's mission and church as a fixed parish, according to the terms of Canon 216, 9 December 1918
(1 paper)


Certificate of consecration of St. Osmund's church and a principal altar enclosing the relics of SS. Modestus and Honorata, 27 May 1936 Includes: letter from the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle regarding arrangements for the ceremony, 20 May 1936
(2 papers)

Licences and dispensations (Ref: RC/Gai 2/26-28)

Licence for the blessing of the Holy Sacrament, with list of all prescribed festivals, 16 June 1894
(1 paper)


Dispensation for the marriage of first cousins, Robert Stainthorpe and Ann Raine, at Gainford, 25 August 1896
(1 paper)


Dispensation from the obligation of offering the Mass pro populo, granted to the Rev. Peter Stanley on grounds of poverty, 23 February 1956
(1 paper)

Visitations (Ref: RC/Gai 2/29)

Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle: visitation report, 20 May 1984
(1 file; 2 papers)

Parish Returns (Ref: RC/Gai 2/30)

Parish register returns and status animarum, 1959 - 1964, 1980 - 1986
(20 papers)

Sarah Edleston Bequest (Ref: RC/Gai 2/31)

Copy of the will of Sarah Alice Cummings Edleston of Gainford (d. 24 January 1956), containing bequest for the augmentation of the stipend of the priest at Gainford; with schedule of properties unsold, 1956 - 1960
(4 papers)

Parish Diary (Ref: RC/Gai 2/32)

'The parish record, or diary, of the parish of St. Osmund, bishop and confessor, situated in Gainford, near Darlington, in the south west of the county palatine of Durham, and in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle', [1855 - 1965], compiled by Peter V. Stanley, parish priest, 1965 [Temporarily withdrawn on 7 June 2002]
(1 volume, card bound)

 (Ref: RC/Gai 3/1-2)

CHURCH FABRIC AND PROPERTY

Faculties


Petition from Thomas Witham, priest of Gainford, to the Pope, for the grant of a faculty to erect the Stations of the Cross, following a previous grant of a privileged altar, 1855 Subscribed: grant of faculty by Fr. Vincent a Grano, Rome, 10 May 1855, with translation
(Latin, 1 paper, card mounted; 1 paper)


Faculty for the erection of a way of the Cross, issued to Thomas H. Knuckey, 14 March 1911
(1 paper)

Fabric (Ref: RC/Gai 3/3-9)

Report of repairs to church and presbytery by R. and S. Adamson, builders, of Gainford, with plan of drainage from presbytery, and letter regarding same, January - 18 February 1896 Scale of plan: 32 ft to 1 inch [1 : 384]
(1 plan, paper, 16 cm. x 36 cm.; 2 papers)


Accounts and correspondence regarding new altar and reredos, 6 December 1897 - 29 September 1898
(6 papers)


Specification, plan, invoices and correspondence regarding installation of heating in the church, sacristy and dining room, by Messrs. Dinning and Cooke, Percy Iron Works, Newcastle, 18 January 1898 - 31 December 1900 Scale of plan: 1 : 8
(13 papers, and 1 plan, paper, 46 cm. x 35 cm.)


Accounts for new oak pulpit and minor repairs to church fabric, May 1898 - 28 December 1899
(3 papers)


Note of the inscription of 20 October 1858, which was taken out on the consecration of a new altar, 22 August 1898
(1 paper)


Quotation and invoices for the repair of stained glass windows at St. Osmund's church by Teesdale Art Glass, of Barnard Castle, with related correspondence, 12 November 1984 - 3 April 1985
(17 papers; 6 coloured photographs)


Invoice for silver ciborium, 3 April 1901
(1 paper)

Cemetery (Ref: RC/Gai 3/10)

Rough plan of St. Osmund's cemetery [opened 1882] showing grave spaces, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 paper)

PARISH ACCOUNTS (Ref: RC/Gai 4/1-7)

Cash day book, 1 January 1965 - 28 February 1966
(1 volume, card bound)


Cash day book, 21 March 1976 - 11 December 1977
(1 volume, card bound)


Cash day book, 25 December 1977 - 31 July 1978
(1 volume, paper bound)


Cash day book, 1 October 1978 - 5 August 1979
(1 volume, paper bound)


Outdoor collection book, 6 February 1956 - 27 November 1977 At front: mass intentions, 1 January 1949 - 3 November 1955 At end: list of contributions to Ecclesiastical Education Fund, 1955, 1956, 1965
(1 volume, card bound)


Offertory collection book (including some day book entries), 4 January 1981 - 28 December 1986
(1 volume, paper bound)


Garden Fête account book, 1963 - 1965
(1 volume, card bound)

FRATERNITIES, SODALITIES AND CHURCH SOCIETIES (Ref: RC/Gai 6/1-6)

Rules of the Living Rosary Sodality, established May 1963
(1 paper)


Register of the Rosary Confraternity, 16 November 1899 Inserted at front: order for the institution of the confraternity, issued by the Master General of the Dominican Order, 24 October 1899 Included: list of members of the 'Eucharistic Hour', 9 June 1929, and list of persons promising to go to communion weekly, 8 September 1929
(1 volume, card bound)


Decretal for the institution of a sodality for the adoration of the Holy Sacrament, issued by the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 30 May 1929
(1 paper)


Notice of the institution of a sodality of girls [Children of Mary] at St. Osmund's church (to be recommended to the Father General of the Society of Jesus for affiliation), issued by the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 27 April 1944
(1 paper)


Order from the Society of Jesus for the institution of a congregation of women to be called B.M.V. Immaculate and St. Agnes, in St. Osmund's church, 27 December 1944
(1 paper, printed)


Order for the institution of the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament, issued by the Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, 26 November 1960
(1 paper)

MISCELLANEOUS (Ref: RC/Gai 15/1-6)

2 September 1858 Probate copy of will, 14 July 1858, of William Binks of Richmond, Yorkshire
(1 paper)


Transcript of inscription on the tombstone of Jane and William Binks (1823, 1858) in Romaldkirk churchyard, Yorkshire, copied by Fr. Knuckey, 1920
(1 paper)


Newspaper report of the funeral of Miss Elizabeth Pearson, aged 94, of Gainford, n.d. [1943]
(1 paper)


Church visitors' book, 25 December 1954 - 28 January 1955
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Centenary of Gainford R.C. Church, (including report reprinted from Teesdale Mercury, 4 July 1955), 1855
(1 paper, printed)


Christopher J. Towers, St. Osmund's Gainford - a history of the church and parish, 1992
(1 booklet)