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Sunderland Preparative Quaker Meeting

Reference: SF/Su Catalogue Title: Sunderland Preparative Quaker Meeting Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description: part 3

Covering Dates: 1774-1968

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Catalogue Description

Records of the Sunderland Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends

INTRODUCTION

The documents in this group of papers have been arranged in such a manner as reflects the hierarchical organisational structure of the Society of Friends. The Yearly Meeting (held exclusively in London until 1904) is the highest constitutional authority of the Society of Friends in Great Britain. These meetings which are now open to all members, were until 1861 attended only by representatives appointed by Quarterly Meetings, Ministers and members of the Meeting for Sufferings. At the Yearly Meeting, general procedural rules and advice on spiritual and moral matters were formulated, to be passed down to the Quarterly Meetings.

The Quarterly Meetings, now called General Meetings, are the next step down in the hierarchical ladder. Initially, in England, there was roughly a Quarterly Meeting for each county but over the years many of the meetings merged. The main function of the Quarterly Meeting was to provide a channel of communication between the Yearly Meetings and the Monthly Meetings and to ensure that the advice of the Yearly Meetings was taken up by the members in general. Quarterly Meetings were attended by representatives appointed by the Monthly Meetings. Since the end of the nineteenth century Quarterly Meetings have declined in administrative importance. In the 1960s, Quarterly Meetings became known as General Meetings; by this time they had primarily become meetings of religious devotion.

The Monthly Meetings were, and still remain, the main administrative meetings affecting church affairs. The Monthly Meetings were made up of representatives from the Preparative Meetings. A Monthly Meeting usually had authority over three or four Preparative Meetings. The Monthly Meetings were in effect in charge of the administration of church property and charitable endowments. This was the meeting where most of the practical decisions affecting ordinary members were carried out. It also had responsibility for the registration of births, marriages, burials and removals of members within the Monthly Meeting area.

It is fairly important to note however that in many areas there were also Monthly Meetings for worship, in which business was not discussed. These were always held in addition to the Monthly Meetings for business rather than in the place of them and could be attended by any member.



Preparative Meetings, originally known as Particular Meetings are local meetings of members. They primarily met to discuss business to be referred to Monthly Meetings or to answer 'queries' referred to them from the Monthly Meeting. Preparative Meetings also usually had responsibility for the day-to-day running of the local meeting houses. In addition, Friends would usually meet at local meetings for worship, on Sundays and sometime also on weekdays.

Another important point to be remembered about the organisation of the Society of Friends is that men and women had separate meetings for business with separate hierarchical structures until the late 19th century. Women's administrative meetings did not merge fully with the men's meetings until 1897, and until then, women were not able to attend the Yearly Meetings. In some areas, women and men did meet on a joint basis for some Preparative Meetings and, from the 1870s onward, it became more common for Monthly Meetings to be held jointly.

Catalogue Contents

Yearly Meeting (Ref: SF/Su 112/1-23)

Copy minutes of the Yearly Meeting, including details of Ackworth School and also the fund for defraying the expense of new meeting houses throughout the country, n.d. [c.1793]
(1 paper)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting, including a request to Quarterly Meetings to make subscriptions to Friends in America for 'the improvement and gradual civilisation of the Indian natives', 1806
(1 paper)


Regulations for the conducting of appeals in Quarterly Meetings, as agreed at the Yearly Meeting, 1806
(1 paper)


Recommendations of the Yearly Meeting, concerning subscriptions to various funds and other matters, 1808
(1 paper)


Amendment to the second rule for removals and settlements from the Book of Extracts, as agreed at the Yearly Meeting, 1812
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting, including considerations on a proposition relating to the printing and distribution of Friends' books, 1813
(1 paper)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting, including consideration of the proposition from Durham Quarterly Meeting on the subject of the 5th Query, 1817
(1 paper)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting and report from the committee appointed to visit Quarterly Meetings with reference to their religious state and geographical boundaries, 1819
(1 paper)


Rules concerning removals and settlements, as agreed upon by the Yearly Meeting, 1820
(1 paper, printed)


Report from the committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Yearly Meeting, 1842
(1 paper, printed)


Epistle from the Yearly Meeting, 1863
(1 paper, printed)


Epistle on meetings for discipline, from Yearly Meeting, 1868
(1 paper)


Epistle from the Yearly Meeting, 1869
(1 paper)


Circular of the Yearly Meeting concerning subscription to the National Stock and giving list of what the National Stock is spent on, n.d. [1872]
(1 paper, printed)


An appeal from the Yearly Meeting concerning the drinking of alcohol, 1874
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting concerning subscription to various funds, general meetings, arrangements for holding the Yearly Meetings and other matters, 1875
(1 paper)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting concerning subscriptions to various funds, the proposition from Durham Quarterly Meeting regarding the teachings of Quaker principles, and other matters, 1877
(1 paper)


Advice of the Yearly Meeting concerning wills and personal accounts, February 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting concerning the need for protest against war, and other matters, 1879
(1 paper)


Minutes of Yearly Meeting and report of its committee on general meetings, 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of Yearly Meeting and report from the committee appointed to audit the accounts of the National Stock, with balance sheet, 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of the Yearly Meeting concerning the Zulu War, May 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Extract from Christian Discipline, part 3, giving the form of the Quaker marriage ceremony, as amended by direction of Yearly Meeting, 1923
(1 paper, printed)

Durham Quarterly Meeting (Ref: SF/Su 113/)Minutes (Ref: SF/Su 113/1/1-2)

See also SF/Su 114/2


Copy minutes from Durham Quarterly Meeting concerning the dissolution of Durham Monthly Meeting and the joining of the particular meetings of Durham and Benfieldside with Newcastle Monthly Meeting, 5 October 1784
(1 paper)


Copy minutes of Durham Quarterly Meeting, 5 July 1803
(1 paper)

Financial papers (Ref: SF/Su 113/2/1-10)

Account of balance due to Hugh Brantingham from Durham Quarterly Meeting in respect of various disbursements made by him on the meeting's behalf, February 1786
(1 paper)


Receipted account of balance due to Hugh Brantingham from Durham Quarterly Meeting, November 1786
(1 paper)


Balance sheet of Durham Quarterly Meeting, April 1787 - January 1788
(1 paper)


Receipt for balance due to Hugh Brantingham from Durham Quarterly Meeting, 30 August 1787
(1 paper)


Accounts of balance due to Hannah Appleby [of Claypath] by Durham Quarterly Meeting in respect of disbursements made by her on behalf of the meeting, 1788-1801
(29 papers)


Receipt for balance due to Hannah Appleby from Durham Quarterly Meeting, 12 January 1788
(1 paper)


Balance sheet of Durham Quarterly Meeting, July 1788
(1 paper)


Account of balance paid to Thomas Richardson [on behalf of Durham Quarterly Meeting] by Ja[mes] Backhouse, 2 January 1793
(1 paper)


Balance sheet of Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1858
(1 paper)


Copy statements of Shotton Property Account, as administered by Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1888 - 1892; also receipt issued by North Shields Meeting House for donation made to them from the Shotton Property Account for meeting house repairs, 19 December 1888
(2 papers)

Bills and Receipts (Ref: SF/Su 113/3/)Building Maintenance (Ref: SF/Su 113/3/1-29)

Receipted bill for repairs to the 'little' meeting house, 1774
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for joinery materials required at Durham Meeting House, 1775
(3 papers)


Receipted bills for repairs done at Benfieldside Meeting House, 1779 - 1793
(5 papers)


Account of John Fletcher for masonry materials and work required at Shotton Meeting House, 1785
(1 paper)


Bill for masonry work done at the meeting house at Shotton by John Fletcher, 24 May 1786
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for masonry work done at the Durham Meeting House, Claypath, 1788
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for alteration work at [Durham] Meeting House, Claypath, 23 August 1788
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for repairs and plastering work at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1789
(1 paper)


Bills for painting and glazing work done at [Durham] Meeting House [Claypath], 1790-1793
(3 papers)


Receipted bill for masonry materials and work done at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1793
(1 paper)


Bills for masonry materials and work done at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], by William Cumin, 1793; also receipt for the same, 17 August 1793
(3 papers)


Bill for ironwork done at [Durham] Meeting House, Claypath, 1793; also receipt for the above, 20 November 1793
(2 papers)


Bill for glazing and joinery work done at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1794; also receipt for the above, 11 February 1794
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for general repairs and materials at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1796
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for bricks required at [Durham Meeting House, Claypath], 1795
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for masonry work done at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], by Tho[ma]s Cummings, 1795
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for surveying [Durham] Meeting House, Claypath, 1798
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for general repairs and materials required at Durham Meeting House, Claypath, 1798 - 1799
(4 papers)


Bill for masonry work done at [Durham] Meeting House, Claypath, by Ralph Jackson, 1798; also receipted bill for the above, 1 December 1798
(2 papers)


Receipted account of E. Young, for joinery, general repair and maintenance work and material required at Durham Meeting House, [Claypath], 1799; also receipted bills for work listed on the above account which had been subcontracted to other tradesmen by E. Young, 1798 - 1799
(4 papers)


Account delivered to Durham Quarterly Meeting of the cost of repairs carried out by various tradesmen on Durham Meeting House, July 1799
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for masonry work and materials required at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1900 [recte 1800]
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for joinery work done at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1800
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for painting and cleaning at[Durham] Meeting House and Schoolroom, [Claypath], 1800
(1 paper)


Receipt for repair work on the roof of [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], n.d. [late 18th - early 19th century]
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for hardware required at [Durham Meeting House, Claypath], 1807
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for general repair work and materials required at [Durham] Meeting House, [Claypath], 1859
(1 paper)


Receipted bills of W. Charlton for masonry work and materials required at Durham Meeting House, [Claypath], 1859 - 1860
(3 papers)


Receipted bills for general repair work required at [Durham] Meeting House, Claypath, 1859 - 1860
(2 papers)


Estimate for painting work required at Durham Meeting House, Claypath, 12 April 1859
(1 paper)

Travel to other meetings (Ref: SF/Su 113/3/30-34)

Receipted bill for money due to Thomas Walton from Durham Quarterly Meeting in respect of the expenses connected to the travel by 4 named individuals to destinations in Scotland, 1786
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for money due to Thomas Walton from Durham Quarterly Meeting in respect of expenses on the road from Newcastle to Kelso for 2 named individuals, 31 July 1789
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for money paid by Durham Quarterly Meeting for 3 seats on the coach to Edinburgh and expenses on the road in respect of 2 named individuals and one other, June 1791
(1 paper)


Note of expenses paid by Durham Quarterly Meeting to Hadwen Bragg for conducting 2 named Friends from Newcastle to Kelso, June 1792
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for the expenses of several persons involved in accompanying and acting as guide to several named and un-named individuals travelling to Kelso, Edinburgh, Berwick and Sunderland, 1794 - 1799
(10 papers)

Payments to the poor (Ref: SF/Su 113/3/35-50)

Receipted bills for cloth purchased by Bernard Ogden [of Durham Quarterly Meeting], for the use of Christopher Bayles, 1770 - 1772
(1 file and 2 papers)


Notes of expenses relating to clothing for Christopher Ba[y]les, n.d. [1772]
(1 paper)


Receipt for six months' allowance paid by [Durham Quarterly Meeting], in respect of Stephen Moir, 1772
(1 paper)


Receipt for a sum paid to David Salvison by Bernard Ogden [acting for Durham Quarterly Meeting] in order to discharge the debts of Molly Moir, 1772
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for a suit made for Christopher Ba[y]les, May 1772
(1 paper)


Receipt for rent paid by Mr. Ogden [of Durham Quarterly Meeting] in respect of Mary Moor's accommodation, 11 August 1772
(1 paper)


Note of cloth purchased by Mrs. Dodshon [of Durham Quarterly Meeting], for the use of Sally March, n.d. [1780s]
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for the refund [by Durham Quarterly Meeting] of disbursements made by Tho[mas] Wilson to Betty Wilson, June 1780; also appended letter from Thomas Wilson, Hartlepool, to Thomas Richardson, Sunderland, [treasurer of Durham Quarterly Meeting?], advising that since the death of Mr. [Bernard Ogden] the writer is unsure of when to apply to the meeting for the advances to be made to Betty Wilson, 10 June 1780
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for shoes purchased by Mrs. March, 1784
(1 paper)


Note of clothes bought [by Durham Quarterly Meeting] for Peggy March, 19 April 1784
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for the refund [by Durham Quarterly Meeting] of disbursements made by Tho[mas] Wilson for clothing for Betty Wilson, 1785
(1 paper)


Receipts for Mary Moor's rent, paid by Miss Appleby [on behalf of Durham Quarterly Meeting], June 1789 - March 1790
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for cloth bought by Miss H. Appleby [of Durham Quarterly Meeting] for the use of Mary Moor?, 15 June 1789
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for cloth bought by Miss H. Appleby [of Durham Quarterly Meeting] for the use of Mary Moor, 1793-1799
(2 papers)


Receipted bills for cloth bought by Miss H. Appleby [of Durham Quarterly Meeting] for the use of Mary Moor, 1795 - 1796
(2 papers)


Receipt for money paid by Durham Quarterly Meeting to Benj[ami]n Boyes in respect of disbursements to the poor made by him on the meeting's behalf, 6 October 1801
(1 paper)

Others (Ref: SF/Su 113/3/51-57)

Receipt for money paid to Jacob Bowron for 'lending and keeping Robert Valantine's hors[e]', 9 January 1788
(1 paper)


Bill for printing of 'The Rule of Life', May 1791; also receipt for the same, 7 January 1792
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for 24 carts of water purchased by Mrs. Appleby [on behalf of Durham Quarterly Meeting], 1793
(1 paper)


Bills for books, epistles and other printed items supplied to Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1798 - 1801
(2 papers)


Bill for legal expenses arising from the surrender of copyhold land in Benfieldside from Brantingham, senior, to Brantingham sons, 10 July 1798
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for leather purchased on behalf of Durham Quarterly Meeting, 1800
(1 paper)


Bill for costs due from Durham Quarterly Meeting to Benson and Corder, Durham, solicitors, relating to the appointment of new trustees of E[dward] Walton's trust, 1894; also receipt for the above, 22 October 1894
(2 papers)

Letters (Ref: SF/Su 113/4/1-2)

Letter from John Dodshon, Durham to [Thomas Richardson?], concerning an allowance due to E. Burleigh which [Thomas Richardson?] had forgotten to leave at the last Quarterly Meeting, 16 July 1785
(1 paper)


Letter from James Backhouse, Darlington, to Thomas Richardson, Sunderland, mentioning Thomas Clark's request for the dividend [from Robert Forster's trust] in order to pay for the education of children [in Hawthorn]; also mentioning the accounts of the last Quarterly Meeting and giving news of various friends, 6 August 1788
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 113/5/1-6)

Covenant signed by Robert Clark and Thomas Clark, to pay Nicholas Dodshon, the executor to Robert Forster of Hawthorn, deceased, the sum of £20 with yearly interest, 1 May 1780
(1 paper)


Account (incomplete) of the time and location of Society of Friends' meetings in the county of Durham, n.d. [pre 1784]
(1 paper)


Account (incomplete) of the time and location of Society of Friends' meetings in the county of Durham, n.d. [pre 1784]
(1 paper)


Account of the time and location of Society of Friends' meetings in the county of Durham, n.d. [pre 1784]
(1 paper, printed)


Account of the time and location of Society of Friends' meetings in the County of Durham, annotated in ink, also showing on reverse, distances between meeting houses in the county, n.d. [pre 1784]
(1 paper, printed)


Proposed scheme for reading the queries, advices and general epistle in the various meetings comprising Durham Quarterly Meeting, n.d. [c.1870s?]
(2 papers, printed)

Newcastle Monthly Meeting (Ref: SF/Su 114/1-7)

Circular letter from London General Meeting concerning information required from monthly meetings regarding the frequency and whereabouts, etc., of the monthly and quarterly meetings, 1782
(1 paper, printed)


Fifth minute of Newcastle Monthy Meeting held at Sunderland, 12 July 1871; also minutes of Durham Quarterly Meeting held at Newcastle, 4 July 1871 See also SF/Su 113/1-2
(1 paper)


Letter from W.J. Baynes, North Shields, to J.W Mounsey [Sunderland], to acknowledge the receipt of a donation from the Shotton property account, as directed by the monthly meeting, for repairs to North Shields Meeting House, 18 December 1888; also appended receipt for the same, 19 December 1888
(1 paper)


Circular to the members of Newcastle Monthly Meeting concerning the regulations governing marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends, 13 April 1892
(1 paper)


Circular to the members and attenders of Newcastle Monthly Meeting concerning the regulations governing marriage according to the usages of the Society of Friends, 9 May 1906
(1 paper)


Notices of removal in respect of Sunderland [Preparative Meeting], members, 16 November 1932 - 11 November 1935
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Notice of removal in respect of Richard K. Brown, now of Durham, formerly of Leicester, 4 September 1966
(1 paper)

Sunderland Friends Meeting (Ref: SF/Su 115/)General Minutes of Preparatory Meetings (Ref: SF/Su 115/1/1-3)

Draft minutes of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 6 October 1849
(1 paper)


Copy of the fourth minute of the Sunderland Preparative Meeting, concerning a committee report on the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, 10 February 1884 See also: SF/Su 115/6/55-71
(1 paper)


Sunderland Preparative Meeting minutes, 9 June 1945 - 8 December 1968
(1 volume, leather bound)

Minutes of Meetings of Ministry and Oversight (Ref: SF/Su 115/2/1-2)

Copy of the first minute of a meeting on Ministry and Oversight for Sunderland, 12 March 1878
(1 paper)


Copy of second minute of meeting on Ministry and Oversight for Sunderland, 12 March 1878
(1 paper)

General Accounts (Ref: SF/Su 115/3/)Account Books (Ref: SF/Su 115/3/1)

See also: SF/Su 115/6/26-30


Accounts of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, April 1933 - January 1955
(1 volume, leather bound)

Cash Books (Ref: SF/Su 115/3/2)

Cash book of [Sunderland Friends'] Meeting House, May 1879 - 1 August 1895
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Bank Account Books (Ref: SF/Su 115/3/3-4)

Bank account book of Sunderland [Preparative] Meeting, 1843-1853
(1 volume, paper bound)


Bank account book of the [Sunderland Preparative] Meeting, 1874-1889
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Balance Sheets (Ref: SF/Su 115/3/5-11)

See also: SF/Su 115/7/1-2


Statement showing the income and expenditure of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 1 May 1875 - 15 March 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Cashier's balance sheet for Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 1876 - 1877
(1 paper)


Treasurer's balance sheets, 1 April 1905 - 31 March 1915
(10 papers)


Treasurer's balance sheets, 1 April 1916 - 31 March 1926
(10 papers)


Treasurer's balance sheets, 1 April 1927 - 31 March 1949
(22 papers)


Treasurer's balance sheets, 1 April 1950 - 31 March 1955
(5 papers)


Treasurer's balance sheets, 1 April 1956 - 31 March 1960
(4 papers)

General Organisation (Ref: SF/Su 115/4/)Meetings (Ref: SF/Su 115/4/1-10)

Draft notice of monthly non-denominational prayer meeting to be held on the first Monday of every month at the Hall School, Toward Road, [Sunderland], n.d. [1870s?]
(1 paper)


Draft notice giving the time and date of various Friends' meetings, n.d. [1870s?]
(1 paper)


Report of a committee set up to consider the most suitable times and places for holding the Quarterly Meeting, n.d. [1870s]
(1 paper)


Draft notice concerning the time and location of [Sunderland] Friends' meetings, n.d. [1877]
(1 paper)


Calendar of arrangements for the First Day morning meeting at the Pottery Buildings, Sunderland, 1877
(1 paper, printed)


Calendar of arrangements for the first day morning meeting at the Pottery Buildings, Sunderland, with amendments and annotations in ink and pencil, 1877
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from T.W. Backhouse [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] to G.W. Pearman [Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concering notification of [Sunderland Friends'] meetings, 24 August 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from J.B. Hodgkin, Darlington, to the Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, concerning the proposed general meeting at Sunderland, 22 October 1877; also appended Third minute of the General Meetings' Committee, held at Darlington, 17 October 1877
(1 paper)


Proof address to [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], concerning proposals to widen the scope of the young people's devotional meeting, February 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Report by C.J. Rowntree concerning a plan to widen the scope of the young people's devotional meetings, 7 February 1879
(1 paper)

Registration of Place of Worship (Ref: SF/Su 115/4/11-13)

Certificate of registration of the Friends' Meeting House, Bishopwearmouth, as a place of meeting for religious worship of Protestant dissenters, 4 May 1854
(1 paper)


Letter from General Register Office, Somerset House, London, to [Herbert Nicholson] advising that Society of Friends' Meeting Houses do not have to be certified for religious worship before marriages can be solemnized in them, 29 September 1884; also covering letter with the above, 30 September [1884]
(2 papers)


Certificate of registration of the building formerly known as The Pottery, North Moor Street, Sunderland as a place of meeting for religious worship, 22 September 1884
(1 paper)

Appointment of Officeholders (Ref: SF/Su 115/4/14-17)

Report to [Sunderland] Preparative meeting by Edward Backhouse and Jasper Mounsey who were appointed to examine the cashier's accounts and recommend the appointment of various Friends as meeting office-holders for the ensuing year, 4 May 1854
(1 paper)


Report to [Sunderland] Preparative Meeting by John Mounsey, Jnr., andW[illia]m Jos[eph] Tatham who were appointed to examine the cashier's accounts and recommend the appointment of various Friends as meeting office-holders for the ensuing year, 4 May 1878
(1 paper)


Report to [Sunderland] Preparative Meeting by Joseph Speciall and John Newby who were appointed to examine the cashier's accounts and recommend the appointment of various Friends as meeting office-holders for the ensuing year, n.d. [May 1879]
(1 paper)


Letter from T.E. Pumphrey to G.B. Gibbs, sent to accompany various records which were forwarded by the writer following the appointment by the Monthly Meeting, of the recipient, to the position of issuer of birth and burial notes and marriage adviser for Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 20 December 1910
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/4/18-20)

List of papers 'for Sunderland Preparative Meeting', 30 January 1852
(1 paper)


Letter from T.E. Pumphrey, Mayfield, Sunderland, to G.B. Gibbs, sent to accompany some documents relating to Society of Friends' marriage regulations, 25 November 1912
(1 paper)


Letter from Central Offices of the Society of Friends, London, to W.A. Mounsey, Sunderland, advising that the Friends Trust Ltd. would be glad to act as custodian trustee for an amount of a 3.5% War Loan to be purchased on behalf of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 14 January 1938
(1 paper)

Membership (Ref: SF/Su 115/5/1-21)

(for removals see SF/Su 114/6-7)

Burials (Ref: SF/Su 115/5/1-16)

(see also: SF/Su 115/6/55-71)


List of internments in the Friends' burial ground, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, 6 August 1824 - 20 April 1853
(2 papers)


Certificates of Registry of Death, 1837 - 1845
(27 papers)


List of Friends [interred in Nile Street burial ground], showing the relative positions of their graves, n.d. [c.1850?]
(1 paper)


Note showing various calculations relating to the average age of death of those named in SF/Su 115/5/1, n.d. [mid-late 19th c.]
(1 paper)


Memorandum concerning the expense to the meeting of a burial and headstone in the Friends' burial ground, [Bishopwearmouth Cemetery], n.d. [1870s]
(1 paper)


List of non-members buried in the [Friends'] new burial ground, [Bishopwearmouth Cemetery], n.d. [c.1876]
(1 paper)


Account of payments to be made to the burial board by the Preparative Meeting and relatives of the deceased in the event of a burial, 6 January 1878
(1 paper)


Orders for burial at Bishopwearmouth Friends' burial ground, 28 June 1894 - 13 December 1916
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Orders for burial at Bishopwearmouth Friends' burial ground, 16 December 1916 - 4 February 1935
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Orders for burial at Bishopwearmouth Friends' burial ground, 3 April 1935 - 4 March 1961
(1 volume, card bound)


Orders for burial at Bishopwearmouth Friends' burial ground, 18 November 1963 - 3 January 1966
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Burial notes, 11 February 1910 - 11 July 1923
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Burial notes, 24 October 1923 - 11 March 1937
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Burial notes, 17 March 1937 - 7 April 1942
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Burial notes, 3 June 1943 - 23 September 1951
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Letter from Ellen S. Lister, Scalby, Yorks to G. Bennett Gibbs, registrar, Friends' burial ground, Sunderland, advising that she wishes to renounce her claim to a burial place in the Friends' burial ground, [Bishopwearmouth Cemetery], 6 July 1918
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/5/17-21)

Proposals concerning the upkeep of the resident list of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 1847
(1 paper)


List of [members of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] to whom copies of the Epistles of the London Yearly Meeting were distributed, 1847
(1 paper)


'List of Friends and others to be informed' [purpose of list not known], n.d. [1850s?]
(1 paper)


Note of purchases of books of meetings, January 1876
(1 paper)


Correspondence, and copy correspondence, between Lavinia Hughes, Sunderland, and William Dixon, Sunderland, concerning the former's wish to resign her membership from the Society of Friends in Sunderland, 4 October 1946 - 11 November 1946
(4 papers)

Property (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/1-85)Trustees of Friends' property (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/1-8)

List of trustees of the new Friends' Meeting House in Nile Street, [Bishopwearmouth], 1841
(1 paper)


Report of a meeting of Sunderland Preparative Meeting at which deeds relating to the meeting house, burial ground and ground adjoining, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth and a burial ground in High Street, Bishopwearmouth were read and approved; list of trustees for the above properties given, 20 March 1851
(1 paper)


List of surviving trustees of the ground west of the Friends' Meeting House, Bishopwearmouth, n.d. [c.1877]
(1 paper)


Report to [Sunderland] Preparative Meeting by Thomas Blair, F. Pumphrey and Cha[rle]s John Rowntree, recommending the appointment of additional trustees for the ground west of the Friends' Meeting House, [Bishopwearmouth], 22 November 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from H. Herbert, on behalf of J.M. Ogden, solicitors, to Mr. [G.W.] Pearman, [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning the engrossment of the appointment of new trustees of the ground west of the Friends' Meeting House, [Bishopwearmouth], 19 December 1877
(1 paper)


Order of the Charity Commission approving the scheme proposed by the trustees of Sunderland Preparative Meeting House and Trust Properties, concerning the management of the said meeting house and trust properties, 26 April 1935
(1 paper, printed)


Memorandum from the accountant, Official Trustees' Department, Charity Commission, concerning the reinvestment of the proceeds of 2% conversion stock by the trustees of the High Street burial ground, [Bishopwearmouth], July 1945
(1 paper)


Copy of the order made by the Charity Commission on 26 April 1935, approving the scheme proposed by the trustees of Sunderland Preparative Meeting House and properties, concerning the management of the said meeting house and trust properties; with appended memorandum of a conveyance from Friends' Trusts Ltd., to County Borough of Sunderland, of a piece of ground in Back Nile Street, [Bishopwearmouth], 3 February 1961
(3 papers, card folder)

Property Taxes (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/9-18)

Draft letter from unsigned, Sunderland to A.Q. Ward, [Surveyor of Taxes, Durham], concerning a possible overpayment of income tax in respect of the Friends' Meeting House, 12 September 1853
(1 paper)


Draft letter from [E.C. Robson] to [Inland Revenue, London], outlining the reasons why the Friends' Meeting House ought, in the writer's opinion, to be exempt from all property tax other than a charge upon the ground rent, 22 September 1853
(1 paper)


Letter from Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London to Edw[ar]d Capper Robson, [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] acknowledging receipt of his enquiry, 23 September 1853
(1 paper)


Letter from A. Ward, Durham, [Surveyor of Taxes] to E.C. Robson [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting], concerning the exemption of the Friends Meeting House from property tax, 28 February 1853; also appended draft letter from H. Binns? to A.Q. Ward on the same matter, 29 September 1853
(1 paper)


Letter from A. Ward, Durham, [Surveyor of Taxes], to Edward Capper Robson [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning a late claim for a refund of property tax paid in respect of the Friends' Meeting House, 8 October 1853
(1 paper)


Draft letter from unsigned, Sunderland, to Inland Revenue, London, enquiring when property tax overpaid in respect of the Friends' Meeting House will be repaid, 4 April 1854
(1 paper)


Letter from A. Ward, Durham [Surveyor of Taxes], to E.C. Robson [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] advising that he had written to the Special Commissioners urging them to settle the claim by the Preparative Meeting [in respect of a refund of overpaid property tax on the meeting house], 9 May 1854
(1 paper)


Letter from Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, to Edward Capper Robson, [Clerk of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning an overpayment of property tax in respect of the Friends' Meeting House, 15 July 1854
(1 paper)


Letters from Inland Revenue, Sunderland, to W.A. Mounsey, [Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning an appeal made by the meeting against property tax assessments for two of their properties in Norfolk Street, Bishopwearmouth; also amended notice of assessment for the two properties, 26 April 1923 - 17 October 1923
(3 papers)


Correspondence between Sunderland Preparative Meeting; The Central Offices of the Society of Friends, London; H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Sunderland, and others, concerning assessment for war damage contributions payable by the meeting in respect of the meeting house and burial ground, the house at 13 Borough Road and the old school, Norfolk Street, all Bishopwearmouth, 24 June 1941 - 18 May 1942 Also: explanatory leaflet relating to the War Damage Act, 1941, Part 1, June 1941
(15 papers)

Sunderland Friends' Meeting House (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/19-54)Appointment of Caretakers (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/19-25)

Agreement between Ann Campbell and Sunderland Society of Friends regarding the care of the Friends' meeting house and offices, 31 July 1823
(1 paper)


Memorandum of the duties and conditions of employment of the caretaker at Sunderland Friends' meeting house, n.d. [c.1830s]
(1 paper)


Agreement between Elizabeth Sedgwick and Sunderland Society of Friends regarding the care of the Friends' meeting house and offices, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, 20 April 1837
(1 paper)


Draft agreement between Elizabeth Sedgwick and Sunderland Society of Friends regarding the care of the Friends' meeting house and offices, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, 20 April 1837
(1 paper)


Report by a committee appointed by the Women's Preparative Meeting to consider the question of heating and cleaning the meeting house, n.d. [1879]; also letter from K[atheri]ne Wilson, Clerk of the Women's Preparative Meeting to the Clerk of [Sunderland] Joint Preparative Meeting sent to accompany the above, 9 February 1879
(2 papers)


Report of the committee appointed by [Sunderland] Joint Preparative Meeting to consider the question of heating and cleaning the meeting house, 5 March 1879
(1 paper)


Report of the committee appointed by [Sunderland] Joint Preparative Meeting to consider the question of heating and cleaning the meeting house, recommending the appointment of Robert and Mary Jackson as caretakers, 4 April 1879
(1 paper)

Building and alteration (accounts) (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/26-30)

(for subscriptions see SF/Su 115/7


Account book relating to the building of the Friends' meeting house, [Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth], 1822-1828
(1 volume, leather bound)


Bank account book relating to the building of the Friends' meeting house [Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth], 1822-1828
(1 volume, paper bound)


Balance of Sunderland Friends' meeting house alteration account, 1859-1860
(1 paper)


Treasurer's balance sheet of Sunderland Friends' meeting house alteration account, 1877
(1 paper)


Treasurer's balance sheet of [Sunderland] Friends' meeting house alteration account, n.d. [1878?]
(1 paper)

Building (1823-1827) tradesmen's estimates and bills, etc. (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/31-53)

See also SF/Su 115/7/3


Estimates and specifications by J. Oyston for various works required in the building of the new Friends' meeting house, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, 1822-1823
(4 papers)


Bills for hardware, plumbing fittings and other finished metal items, 1822 - 1823
(12 papers)


Remarks and memoranda by J. Oyston on work required in altering the new meeting house and cottage, n.d. [c.1823]
(1 paper)


Bill for the supply and installation of [a heating system], shutters and blinds, 1823
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for timber purchased from various suppliers, 1823
(5 papers)


Receipted bill for the supply and laying of paving stones at the back of the meeting house, 1823
(1 paper)


Bills for cloth and upholstery materials, 1823
(7 papers)


Bills for attending the boiler and other miscellaneous items, 1823
(2 papers)


Bill for umbrella stands, 1823
(1 paper)


Bills for resin and wax, 1823
(2 papers)


Estimates submitted by the executors of the late John Oyston for extra masonry and joinery work required at the meeting house, [Nile Street], Bishopwearmouth, August 1823
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for upholstering and blindmaking, 1823 - 1824
(2 papers)


Bills for joinery materials and labour supplied by J. Roseberry, 1823 - 1824
(6 papers)


Bills for cast iron ventilators, 1823 - 1824
(2 papers)


Accounts for payment due to the executors of John Oyston for masonry work and materials, 1823 - 1824
(1 file and 6 papers)


Bills for painting and glazing work, 1823 - 1825
(5 papers)


Bills for masonry work carried out by Oyston and Tone, masons, 1823 - 1826
(5 papers)


Receipts for the sum paid to the executors of the late John Oyston in respect of masonry work carried out at the meeting house, 1823 - 1824
(3 papers)


Bill for blacklead and sperm oil, 1824
(1 paper)


Bills for roofing and guttering work, 1824
(3 papers)


Receipts for chandeliers [purchased on behalf of the meeting house], 1825
(2 papers)


Bill and receipted bill for an '8 day timepiece and case', 1827
(2 papers)


Bill for pumps used in connection with the meeting house, 1827
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/54)

Receipt for admittance of [the] heir of Thos. Croudace, deceased, to ground and premises at south end of Nile Street [Friends' Meeting House] and fees thereon, 18 February 1856; also letter from Mr. Snowball to John Mounsey [of Sunderland Preparative Meeting], 28 January 1856
(1 paper)

Burial Grounds (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/55-71)

(See SF/Su 115/5/1-16 for Burials notes etc.)

Burials Act 1852 (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/55-58)

Letter from the Home Office, [Whitehall, London], to the Friends' Meeting, Sunderland, sent to accompany a list of queries (not attached) concerning the Friends' burial ground, [Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth], as directed by the 'Act for amending the laws concerning the burial of the dead in England beyond the metropolis', 28 October 1853
(1 paper)


Letter from Henry Fitzroy, Whitehall, London, to Edward Capper Robson [Clerk and Cashier, Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning the reasons why the Society of Friends' burial ground at Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, is considered unfit for use as a graveyard, 29 June 1854
(1 paper)


Order in Council directing that burials should be discontinued at the Friends' burial ground, [Nile Street], Bishopwearmouth, from 1 May 1855, 31 March 1855
(1 paper, printed)


Order in Council directing the postponement of the order to discontinue burials at the Friends' burial ground, [Nile Street], Bishopwearmouth, until 1 May 1856, 21 November 1855
(1 paper, printed)

Reports (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/59-60)

(See also SF/Su 115/1/2, 115/6/2)


Copy report of the committee appointed to consider the best appropriation of the old burial ground, n.d. [1850s]
(1 paper)


Report to Sunderland Preparative Meeting concerning the old burial ground at Hawthorn, n.d. [c.1876]
(1 paper)

Plans (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/61)

'Plan of Sunderland Friends' burying ground, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth', n.d. [c.1835, with some later additions in pencil] Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet (1 : 48)
(1 plan, 134 cm. x 31.5 cm.)


Sketch plan showing the railings at the Friends' burial ground [at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery], 22 February 1923 Scale: 1 : 96
(1 plan, 50.5 cm. x 38 cm.)

Repairs and Improvements (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/63-67)

Receipted account of J.M. Ogden [solicitor] in respect of work carried out in connection with the Friends' new burial ground [Bishopwearmouth Cemetery], 1858
(1 paper)


Letters from the Cemeteries Office, County Borough of Sunderland, to G.B. Gibbs, concerning improvements required at the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, 2 September 1920 - 24 August 1922
(3 papers)


Report from James McMillan and Son, Sunderland, monumental sculptors and stonemasons, stating the present condition of tombstones in the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, and an estimate for the cost of their restoration, n.d. [1921]
(10 pages)


Letters and estimate concerning repair and renovation work required at the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, 24 February 1921 - 11 July 1921
(3 papers)


Memorandum from John McMillan and Son, Sunderland, monumental sculptors and stonemasons, to G.B. Gibbs, sent to accompany SF/Su 115/6/65, 1 March 1921
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/68-71)

List of gravestones in [Friends' burial ground, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth], finished by T.C. Tone, 1853
(1 paper)


Agreement of William Tone, Sunderland, bank manager, to pay 2s. annually to the Society of Friends in acknowledgement of permission granted by the Society for him to move a window in his house overlooking the Friends' burial ground, Bishopwearmouth, 13 August 1866; also overleaf, letter from William Tone, Sunderland, to J. Hills, esq., concerning the same matter, 11 August 1866
(1 paper)


Consent from the Society of Friends to an application made by Benjamin Colvin for leave to put in a window on a building overlooking the Friends' old burial ground, Bishopwearmouth, September 1866
(1 paper)


Letter from John M. Ogden, 4 Claremont Terrace, Sunderland, to John Mounsey, clerk, Sunderland Friends' Meeting, concerning the documents, plans and lists relating to the Friends' burial ground, Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, enclosed with the letter; also list giving brief descriptions of the enclosures, 5 April 1888 For enclosures see: SF/Su 115/5/1, 115/5/3, 115/5/4, 115/6/62 - 15/6/68
(2 papers)

Other Properties (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/72-83)

(including former school premises)


Receipted account of Collin and Smart, solicitors, for legal work done on behalf of the Society of Friends in the purchase of Armytage's and Davidson's plots, 1823
(1 file)


Memorandum concerning an agreement made between E. Mounsey [on behalf of Sunderland Preparative Meeting] and S. Alcock, in which a piece of land adjoining the property of S. Alcock, is let to him by the meeting, 1843
(1 paper)


Draft letter, unsigned [of Sunderland Preparative Meeting], to [Robert Vint, Herald Offices, Sunderland], concerning the possible leasing out of the infants' school, Garden Street, [Bishopwearmouth] and adjoining graveyard; also appended copy of part of a report [of 27 July 1854] to Sunderland Preparative Meeting by 'a committee appointed to consider the best appropriation of the old burial ground', n.d. [1854]
(1 paper)


Letter from Robert Vint, Herald Offices, Sunderland, to E. Backhouse, junior, [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], enquiring whether the meeting wish to sell the building in Garden Street [Bishopwearmouth] used as an infant school; and also whether a road could be built over the surface of the burial ground, 7 July 1854
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for legal fees in respect of the conveyancing of various un-named pieces of land between Mr. Fawcett and Sunderland Society of Friends, 23 April 1860
(1 paper)


24 September 1874 (1) Thomas William Backhouse (2) Secretary of the Temporary Home, Sunderland Memorandum of agreement in which (1) agrees to let 31 Nile Street, [Bishopwearmouth], to (2) at a rent of £25 p.a.
(1 paper)


Copy letter from T.W. Backhouse, Clerk to [Sunderland Preparative] Meeting to Mr. Reynold's, 24 Nile Street, [Bishopwearmouth], advising that the wall adjoining Mr. Reynold's premises is property of the Society of Friends, 21 February 1876
(1 paper)


Note from F[r]ed[erick] Taylor [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], to a 'friend', advising of the decision made by the annual meeting [of the Temporary Home?], to give up the tenancy of the Temporary Home, Nile Street, Sunderland, 12 May 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from William and T.R. Milburn, Sunderland, architects, surveyors and valuers, to W.A. Mounsey, [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], sent to accompany duplicate plans (no longer enclosed) of Friends' properties in Nile Street and Borough Road, Sunderland, 6 August 1930
(1 paper)


Letter from H.M. Office of Works, Leeds, to W.A. Mounsey, [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], acknowledging receipt of a plan of land in Norfolk Street, [Bishopwearmouth], Sunderland, 8 August 1930
(1 paper)


Draft letter from W.A.Mounsey of [Sunderland Preparative Meeting] to Stanley J. Forward, [The Central Offices of the Society of Friends, London], asking for verification of the lease conditions for the corner school building, Borough Road, [Bishopwearmouth], Sunderland, which is leased to the Office of Works, 13 February 1938
(1 paper)


Letter signed by William Dixon, assistant clerk, Society of Friends, Durham, in which he consents to give permission for Northern Rediffusion Services, Ltd., Newcastle, to erect a bracket to carry wires on the Labour Exchange, Norfolk Street, [Bishopwearmouth], Sunderland, which is owned by the Society of Friends, 14 February 1940
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/6/84-85)

List of deeds etc. belonging to Friends at Sunderland, which had been deposited in the safe at Newcastle in December 1834, (copied from a document written by the late Thomas Mounsey, March 1851)
(1 paper)


Letters [2] from Wright, Ellis and Martin, Sunderland, solicitor and notaries, to G.B. Gibbs [Sunderland Preparative Meeting] concerning the transfer of two of the Friendless Girls' Mortgages to the Parker Memorial Home, 29 July - 31 July 1929
(2 papers)

Subscriptions (Ref: SF/Su 115/7/)General Subscriptions (Ref: SF/Su 115/7/1-2)

Annual circular of Sunderland Preparative Meeting showing the subscriptions to various funds by Meeting members and also the cashier's account, July 1887
(1 paper, printed)


Subscription book of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, 1888 - 1949 Includes copy cashier's balance sheets, 1888 - 1894 and also copy treasurer's balance sheets, 1895 - 1949
(1 volume, leather bound)

National Subscriptions (Ref: SF/Su 115/7/3-7)

Receipt for money received by the Executive Committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting for the Relief of Freedmen, Richmond, Indiana, from Sunderland Particular [Preparative] Meeting, 3 September 1866
(1 paper)


Letter from Henry Wilson, Sunderland [Preparative Meeting] to J. Speciall, advising that an acknowledgement had been sent for the donation sent by the meeting to Isaac P. Evans [Richmond, Indiana for the Relief of Freedmeen], and also giving a note of recent settled bills for tracts, 12 September 1866
(1 paper)


List of subscriptions to Ackworth School and the National Stock, 1866 - [1877]
(7 papers)


List of subscriptions for Special and Ordinary National Stock, Ackworth School and Kansas, 1872
(1 paper)


List of subscriptions for Christian labour in France, 1874
(1 paper)

Local Subscriptions (Ref: SF/Su 115/7/8-17)

List of juvenile subscriptions towards the building of the Society of Friends' new meeting house in Sunderland, 1822
(1 paper)


Collecting book for subscriptions towards the building of a new meeting house at Sunderland, 1822 - 1824
(1 volume, paper bound)


List of subscribers, and amounts subscribed, towards building a new meeting house, 14 May 1822
(1 paper)


List of subscriptions made by Sunderland Friends to Sunderland Infirmary, 1852
(1 paper)


Letter from Thomas Croudace, Secretary of Sunderland Infirmary, to E.C. Robson of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, thanking him for the donation made by Friends towards the infirmary, 20 September 1852
(1 paper)


Lists of subscriptions to Sunderland Society of Friends' Tract Society, 1867 - 1876
(9 papers)


List of donations towards the erection of the additional rooms to the north of the Friends' Meeting House, 1873
(1 paper)


List of donations received for alterations required at the Friends' Meeting House, Bishopwearmouth, 1876
(1 paper)


List of subscriptions to the Friends' Temperance Committee, January 1877
(1 paper)


Letter from Wm. P. Wilson, Sunderland, to J.W. Mounsey, esq., Sunderland, sent to accompany a subscription to the meeting house fund, 12 September 1884
(1 paper)

Sunderland Friends' Tract Association (Ref: SF/Su 115/8/1-8)

(For subscriptions see: SF/Su 115/7)


Receipted bills for tracts supplied to Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1866 - 1867
(7 papers)


Receipted account of money due to Henry Wilson from [Sunderland Friends'] Tract Association in respect of tracts purchased by him on behalf of the association, 7 July 1866
(1 paper)


Balance sheet of Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1874 - 1875
(1 paper)


Copy of a minute of the committee of the Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 9 August 1877
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for the printing of tracts supplied to Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1878 - 1879
(1 file)


Receipted bills for tracts supplied to Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1878
(2 papers)


Report of Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1878 - 1879
(1 paper)


Draft report of the Sunderland Friends' Tract Association, 1 May 1878
(1 paper)

Abel Chapman's Trust (Ref: SF/Su 115/9/1-7)

Report regarding Abel Chapman's Trust monies, signed by Edward Backhouse and Thomas Mounsey [of Sunderland Preparative Meeting], 2 October 1849
(1 paper)


Proposed minute of Sunderland Preparative Meeting, concerning a donation by the late Abel Chapman, n.d. [1850s]
(1 paper)


Abel Chapman's Trust statement, 1852
(1 paper)


Abel Chapman's Trust statement, 1920
(1 paper, printed)


Abel Chapman's Trust statements, 1931 - 1939
(9 papers, printed)


Abel Chapman's Trust statements, 1940 - 1944
(6 papers)


Abel Chapman's Trust statements, 1949 - 1954
(6 papers)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 115/10/1-4)

Receipted bill for books purchased [by Sunderland Friends' Library], 1855
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for books purchased by [Sunderland] Friends' Library, 1877
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for the hire of The Victoria Hall by F. Taylor [Sunderland Preparative Meeting], 10 January 1878
(1 paper)


Letter from Rachel Woodman, 45 Cleveland Road [Sunderland], to Sunderland Friends thanking them for the gift of fruit from the harvest festival, 11 October 1961
(1 paper)

Education (Ref: SF/Su 116/1-3)

The Society of Friends in Sunderland and Shotton benefitted from two major educational endowments: Edward Walton's endowment and Robert Forster's endowment. Edward Walton's endowment was set up in 1768; the proceeds of the fund, although officially administered by Durham Quarterly Meeting, were split between Durham, Newcastle and Raby Monthly Meetings. The money paid to Newcastle Meeting was to be used for the establishment of a school in Sunderland, employment of a school master or school masters, and for the education of 12 poor children. Any residue was to be used for buying school books and binding boys and girls into apprenticeships. The money paid to Durham Monthly Meeting was to be used to provide education for 12 children in Shotton, any residue was also to be used for buying school books and binding boys and girls into apprenticeships. In addition Walton bequeathed a cottage in Shotton to be used as a school house. The money paid to Raby Monthly Meeting was to be used towards the education of 12 poor children in Shildon and an equal number in Bishop Auckland and the provision of schools in both places.

In 1784, the Durham Monthly Meeting was dissolved and the Durham and Benfieldside Preparative Meetings came under the jurisdiction of Newcastle Monthly Meeting. The Raby Monthly Meeting subsequently came to be held at Darlington and the Darlington Monthly Meeting took over responsibility for the Shildon and Bishop Auckland Schools. Over the years, the capital sum of the endowment grew larger, allowing increased expenditure on the education of children in the four towns.

The Society of Friends' School in Sunderland was to come under the auspices of the British and Foreign Society and was not limited to Quaker children. It was to occupy sites at Garden Street, Nicholson Street and, from 1858 onwards, Norfolk Street, Bishopwearmouth. In 1893, the school roll had fallen due to the introduction of free board schools. The school itself ceased to be maintained by the endowment and was taken over by the school board in late 1893, although it does not appear to have stayed open for very long afterwards. The endowment, however, continued to pay for the books of poor children at this school and for the fees of deserving children at other voluntary schools in the city.

Shotton school closed in 1890 and the school and adjoining buildings were let to the family of H. Fenwick, former school master at the school. The money from Walton's endowment and from the lease of the school house went to meet the cost of school fees and books for those children from Shotton, who had to be educated at Castle Eden and Easington, due to the closure of their local school.

Robert Forster's endowment fund was much smaller than the Edward Walton endowment. It was set up in 1737 to provide the land for, and to maintain, a school house and burial ground in Hawthorne. By 1864 the burial ground was unused and the school lay derelict. It was decided to sell the property and to put the income from the proceeds to more appropriate uses. It was resolved that part of the income was to be used for the education of poor children in Sunderland. By 1900 the terms of the endowment had become more specific and the educational element of the endowment was deemed to be for the payment of fees for pupils at higher grade school in Sunderland.

Society of Friends' members, both locally and nationally, also had an interest in Quaker boarding schools. These were supported by subscription from individual meetings and members. Schools mentioned in this catalogue are Great Ayton Agricultural School in Yorkshire, Ackworth School in Yorkshire and Wigton School in Cumbria.

Ayton, Ackworth and Wigton Schools (Ref: SF/Su 116/1/1-9)

(For subscriptions see: SF/Su 115/7)


Report from the general meeting for Ackworth School, including statement of accounts, as presented to Yearly Meeting, 26 May 1817
(1 paper, printed)


Report from the general meeting for Wigton School, including statement of accounts, as presented to the Quarterly Meeting for Cumberland and Northumberland, 28 March 1822
(1 paper, printed)


Ackworth School, annual statements of accounts, 1834 - 1837
(3 papers, printed)


Printed notice of Ayton School general meeting, to be held on 6 July 1877
(1 paper, printed)


Notice from North of England Agricultural School, Great Ayton, to Sunderland Preparative Meeting, advising that John J. Watson, a former pupil, is now resident in Old Shotton and also asking Friends in the area to 'show a Christian interest in him', 24 October 1877
(1 paper, printed)


Report and general statement of accounts of the North of England Agricultural School, Great Ayton, 1878
(1 paper, printed)


Report of the General Meeting for Wigton School, including statement of accounts, as presented to the Quarterly Meeting for Cumberland and Northumberland, 27 March 1879
(1 paper, printed)


Receipt for money paid by J.W. Mounsey [on behalf of Edward Walton's Trust fund?] to Ayton School for the board and education of Ethel Hay Marion McKechnie, a pupil at the school, 11 December 1895
(1 paper)


Receipt for money paid by E.B. Mounsey, treasurer of Durham Quarterly Meeting Ayton School Assistance Fund on Behalf of Edward Walton's Trust, to Ayton School [Great Ayton], towards the cost of the education of C.A. Ferry, a pupil at Ayton School, 11 October 1895
(1 paper)

Sunderland Schools and Pupils (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/)Reports (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/1-8)

Report of the committee of the Girls' British School, Sunderland, n.d. [c.1870s]
(1 paper)


Report of the Girls' British School, Sunderland, 1877
(1 paper)


Report of the Boys' British School, Sunderland 1877
(1 paper)


Draft reports of Boys' British School in connection with E. Walton's Trust, and also of Shotton School, 1889
(2 papers)


Draft reports of the British School, Sunderland, and Shotton School, 1891
(2 papers)


Account of attendance and fees of pupils of the Boys' British School, with report by R.M. Cameron concerning the changes required if the schools are to be brought within government inspection, 28 October 1891
(1 paper)


Half-yearly report for the Boys' British School to 30 June 1892; also giving tables of attendance, etc., 1 July 1892
(1 paper)


Half-yearly report for the Boys' British School to 23 December 1892; also giving tables of attendance, etc., December 1892
(1 paper)

Accounts (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/9-11)

Treasurer's account book for British School, [formerly subscription school] and Edward Walton's Trust, 1846 - 1859
(1 volume, paper cover)


Bank account book of British School, 1876 - 1890
(1 volume, leather bound)


Boys' British School cash book, January 1888 - January 1892; also including accounts of Edward Walton's Trust fund and Robert Forster's Trust fund, January 1893 - October 1895
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Tuition Fees (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/12-27)

Account for payment due to the Boys' British School, Sunderland, from the Girls' British School, Sunderland, in reinbursement for insurance, rates and utilities, 11 May 1885
(1 paper)


Sunderland British School free boys' account, 30 June 1893
(1 paper)


Account for fees in respect of free pupils at Norfolk Street Girls' School, Sunderland, 30 June 1893
(1 paper)


Receipted account for books and tuition costs in respect of [free] pupils at Norfolk Street Girls' School, 29 September 1893
(1 paper)


Account of free boys at the Boys' British School to quarter ending 30 September 1893; also accompanying letter from John Hetherington, British School, 26 September 1893
(2 papers)


Account of free boys at the Boys' British School, 30 December 1893; with attached bill for school books, 25 November 1893
(1 file)


List of scholars at various Sunderland schools whose fees were paid by E. Walton's Trust, 1894
(1 paper)


List of books supplied to boys at the Boys' British School, Sunderland, by Edward Walton's Trust, 1894
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for school fees in respect of Sunderland pupils at 34 Norfolk Street, Sunderland, May 1894 - November 1895
(6 papers)


Receipted accounts for books and fees in respect of Sunderland pupils at Hendon Girls' School, June 1894 - December 1895
(7 papers)


Letter from C. Chalmers, Valley Road Girls' School, to T.W. Backhouse, sent with account of school fees owed in respect of two pupils, 30 October 1894; receipt for payment also appended, 6 November 1894
(1 paper)


Postcard from T.W. Backhouse, Sunderland, to J.W. Mounsey, Sunderland, acknowledging receipt of cheque from E. Walton's Trust for the education of Sunderland children, 27 December 1894
(1 card)


Bill for fees due in respect of pupils at Villiers St. School, Sunderland, n.d. [c.1895?]
(1 paper)


Receipt for money paid from E. Walton's Trust to T.W. Backhouse in respect of school fees [for Sunderland pupils], 1895
(1 paper)


Receipted account for fees and books of [Sunderland] pupils at Valley Road Girls' School, 1 July1895
(1 paper)


Receipted bill for fees in respect of a pupil at Hendon Junior School, 19 September 1895
(1 paper)

Payments to Staff (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/28-33)

Receipts for salary payable to Robert Jackson [for work at the Boys' British School], 1888 - 1892
(16 papers)


Lists of quarterly staff salaries at the Boys' British School for quarter ending, June 1889 - 30 June 1892
(11 papers)


Headmaster's half-yearly account for the Boys' British School, 20 June 1891
(1 paper)


Receipt for a sum paid on behalf of the Boys' British School to Edith Corder for cleaning, 21 May 1891
(1 paper)


Receipt for sum paid [on behalf of Boys' British School] to Mary Jackson, 18 August 1892
(1 paper)


Letter from John Hetherington, Boys' British School [Sunderland] to [Committee for British School] acknowledging receipt of a cheque for salaries, 30 September 1892
(1 paper)

General Expenses (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/34-42)

Receipted bills for educational stationery and equipment purchased by the Boys' British School, 1889 - 1893
(30 papers)


Estimate for painting work at the Boys' British School, Sunderland, 12 July 1889
(1 paper)


Estimate for fitting desks and other joinery work at the Boys' British School, 15 July 1889
(1 paper)


Receipted bills for building maintenance and repairs carried out at the Boys' British School, 1890 - 1892
(7 papers)


Receipted bills for plumbing and gas fitting at the British Schools, Norfolk Street, [Sunderland], 1891-1892
(4 papers)


Receipted bills for glazing and decorating at the Boys' British School, 1891 - 1893
(5 papers)


Receipted bills for newspaper advertisements in the Sunderland Herald and Daily Post and the Sunderland Echo, to advertise the re-opening of the Boys' British School, April - May 1892
(2 papers)


Receipted bill for electrical work carried out at the British School, May 1892
(1 paper)


Estimate by M. Young and Sons, Bishopwearmouth, for painting the British Schools, July 1892
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 116/2/43-49)

Letter from the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company, Ltd., to Charles Wilson, Sunderland [Preparative Meeting] in which the company agree to pay [to the Preparative Meeting] an annual sum in return for their permission to erect a telegraph pole on the roof of the school house in Norfolk Street, 11 January1864
(1 paper)


Letter from Robert Cameron, c/o Mrs. Davies, Llandudno, to [the committee for the British School?] concerning his proposals regarding the future of the British School, 28 July 1892
(1 paper)


Draft testimonial of John Hetherington, assistant master at the Boys' British Day School, Sunderland, written by the committee for the British School, August 1892
(1 paper)


Letter from John Hetherington, Boys' British Day School [Sunderland], to J.W. Mounsey [committee for the British School], concerning his proposal to keep the day school open, 8 October 1892
(1 paper)


Letter from John Hetherington, Boys' British School, [Sunderland], to John W. Mounsey, Hon. Secretary [to the committee for British School] asking that a decision be given regarding his proposal that he and Mr. Hodgson keep the school running, 15 October 1892
(1 paper)


Letters from Sunderland School Board to J.W. Mounsey, Bishopwearmouth, concerning the transfer of management of British Schools, November 1892 - December 1892
(2 papers)


Copy of the resolutions adopted by Sunderland School Board regarding the transfer of management of the British Schools, 24 November 1892
(1 paper)

Shotton School (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/)

(See also SF/Su 113/4/2)

Reports (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/1-2)

(See also SF/Su 116/2/4-5)


Report of the committee [for Shotton School], concerning the attainment of the pupils at Shotton School, 3 August 1877
(1 paper)


Draft report of the Shotton Educational fund in connection with E. Walton's Trust, 1892
(1 paper)

Accounts (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/3-4)

Bank account book of Shotton School, 1878 - 1893
(1 volume, leather bound)


Copy statements of Shotton School [Trust] account and R. Forster's Trust account, 1890 - 1892
(1 paper)

Tuition Fees (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/5-32)

Account for fees due [from the Shotton School Trust] in respect of three pupils from the Old Shotton area attending Easington National School, 27 March 1891
(1 paper)


Accounts and receipts for school fees payable by the trustees of Shotton School in respect of Shotton pupils attending Castle Eden Girls' School, 31 March 1891 - 10 January 1898
(10 papers)


Accounts and receipts for school fees payable by the trustees of Shotton School, by H. Fenwick on the trustees' behalf, in respect of Shotton children at Castle Eden Boys' School, 31 March 1891 - 16 October 1895
(19 papers)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to T.W. Backhouse [Sunderland], stating the amount due in fees for the Shotton children at Castle Eden Boys' and Girls' Schools and Easington School, 14 April 1891; also list of the percentage school attendance of pupils whose fees are paid by the Shotton School Trust, n.d. [April 1891]; also letter from T.W. Backhouse, Sunderland, to J.W. Mounsey [Sunderland], sent to accompany both of the above, 21 April 1891
(3 papers)


Bills and receipts for school fees payable by the trustees of Shotton School in respect of Shotton pupils at Easington National School, 27 April 1891 - June 1895
(9 papers)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], stating the amount due in fees in respect of the Shotton children at Castle Eden Boys' and Girls' Schools and Easington National School, 3 August 1891
(1 paper)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], acknowledging receipt of a cheque for reimbursement of school fees, 7 August 1891
(1 paper)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, Sunderland, stating amount owed to local schools for school fees, 7 October 1891
(1 paper)


Accounts for fees due from the trustees of Shotton School in respect of children attending the Castle Eden Girls' School and the Castle Eden Boys' School in respect of three pupils, 4 January 1892; also accompanying letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, 5 January 1892
(4 papers)


Accounts for fees due from the trustees of Shotton School in respect of children attending Castle Eden Girls' School and Castle Eden Boys' School, 31 March 1892 - 3April 1892; also accompanying letter from H. Fenwick [Shotton], to J.W. Mounsey, esq., Sunderland, 23 April 1892
(3 papers)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, Sunderland, stating amount owed to local schools for fees, 15 July 1892
(1 paper)


Letter from J. Burdon, The Castle, Castle Eden, to H. Fenwick, Old Shotton, suggesting that part of the fees due in respect of pupils be paid yearly in the form of subscription to prevent the Education Board from withholding part of the school's grant, 28 October 1892
(1 paper)


Accounts of fees due from the trustees of Shotton School in respect of pupils at the Boys' School, Castle Eden and Castle Eden Girls' School, 30 September 1892; also including receipt for fees paid to Easington School in respect of three pupils, 28 October 1892
(1 file)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, Sunderland, sent to accompany accounts for school fees due in respect of Shotton children and also a letter from Rev. John Burdon of Castle Eden Girls' School, 7 November 1892
(1 paper)


Account for fees for Shotton pupils at Castle Eden Boys' School, 9 July 1893; also receipt for books and fees for pupils at Easington School, 12 July 1893
(1 file)


Account for fees for Shotton pupils [at Castle Eden Boys' School], 30 September 1893; also receipt for books and fees for pupils at Easington School, 30 September 1893
(1 file)


Receipts for fees due in respect of pupils at Castle Eden Boys' School and Castle Eden Girls' School, 11 November - 18 November 1892
(1 file)


File including receipt for books and fees in respect of [Shotton] pupils at Easington School, 31 December 1893; receipted account for fees and books in respect of [Shotton] pupils at the Castle Eden Boys' School, 23 December 1893; and receipted bill for mason work done at the Shotton School premises, 24 November 1893
(1 file)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], giving note of money owed [by trustees of Shotton School] in respect of pupils' fees and also repairs to the old school premises, 23 January 1894
(1 paper)


Receipt for fees paid by H. Fenwick [on behalf of the Shotton School fund], in respect of Shotton pupils at Easington School, 4 April 1894; also receipted account for school fees paid [by Mr. Fenwick on behalf of Shotton School fund] in respect of pupils at Castle Eden Boys' School, 6 April 1894; also letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland] sent to accompany the above, 6 April 1894
(3 papers)


Letters from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, sent to accompany accounts for school fees in respect of Shotton pupils, January 1893 - October 1894
(3 papers)


Account for school fees payable by H. Fenwick [on behalf of the Shotton School's Trust] in respect of Shotton pupils at the Boys' School, Castle Eden, 21 December 1894; also letter to accompany the above from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], 8 January 1895; also receipt for the above account issued to H. Fenwick by J.Stirk for the managers of Castle Eden Boys' School, 14 January 1895
(3 papers)


Account of school fees payable [by H. Fenwick on behalf of the Shotton School Trust] in respect of Shotton pupils at Castle Eden Boys' School, 31 March 1895; also receipted account for school fees paid by H[enry] Fenwick [on behalf of Shotton School Trust] in respect of Shotton pupils at Easington School, 30 March 1895; also letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], sent to accompany both of the above, 3 April 1895; also receipt issued to H. Fenwick by Mr. Stirk of Castle Eden Boys' School following settlement of the above account, 8 April 1895
(4 papers)


Letter from Rowland Burdon [manager of the Girls' School, Castle Eden], to H. Fenwick, concerning the payment of a subscription in lieu of fees in respect of the children from Shotton at the school, 29 May 1895
(1 paper)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, [Sunderland], concerning the payment of the subscriptions to Castle Eden Girls' School in respect of ten Shotton girl pupils, 1 August 1895
(1 paper)


Letters from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, Sunderland, concerning the provision of help with the school fees of the children of Mrs. Taylor, a widow from Castle Eden, 28 August - 14 September 1895; also receipt for money paid from Edward Walton's Trust fund for the education of the children of [Mrs.] Taylor, 21 November 1895
(3 papers)


Receipt for money paid from the Shotton Property Fund for the maintenance of the orphaned children of Charles Ferry, 11 October 1895
(1 paper)


Receipt for money paid from E. Walton's Trust for the education of the children of [Mrs.] Taylor, widow, of Shotton, 21 November 1895
(1 paper)

Payments to H. Fenwick (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/33-41)

(agent for the committee for Shotton School Trust)


Receipted account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and various disbursements made by him for work done at the Shotton School premises, 21 May 1888
(1 paper)


Receipted account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and various disbursements made for work carried out at Shotton School and house premises, 26 November 1888
(1 paper)


Receipted account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and various disbursements made by him relating to the Shotton School premises, 17 May 1889
(1 paper)


Receipted account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and reimbursement for school materials purchased, 25 November 1889
(1 paper)


Receipted account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and various disbursements made by him relating to Shotton School premises, 15 May 1890
(1 paper)


Receipted account for balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and reimbursement for school materials purchased, 26 November 1890
(1 paper)


Account of balance due from H. Fenwick to the trustees of Shotton School, 31 May; and also accompanying letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton to J.W. Mounsey, esq., [Sunderland], 23 May 1891
(2 papers)


Account of balance due from the trustees of Shotton School to H. Fenwick in respect of salary and various disbursements made by him from work done at Shotton School premises, 23 November 1891; also letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, esq., sent to accompany the above, 10 December 1891
(2 papers)


Letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, sent to accompany cheque for balance owed to the Shotton School Trust in respect of rent for the stables and garden at Shotton, 4 June 1873
(1 paper)

General Expenses (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/42-45)

Receipted bill for books for [the library in the former Shotton School], 11 May 1891
(1 paper)


Receipted bills in respect of repair and maintenance work at Shotton School premises and at South Garden, July 1891 - April 1892
(3 papers)


Receipted bills for repair and maintenance work done at Shotton; and also accompanying letter from H. Fenwick, Shotton, to J.W. Mounsey, November 1894 - December 1894
(4 papers)


Receipted bill for plumbing work done at Shotton School premises, 28 September 1895
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 116/3/46-48)

Draft letter from T.W. Backhouse, Sunderland, to Shotton School Committee, concerning the schooling of children from Old Shotton following the closure of the school there; and also concerning the possible funding through E. Walton's trust for such children to attend alternative schools in other towns, n.d. [c.1890?]
(2 papers)


Letter from Rowland Burdon [manager of Castle Eden Girls' School], to H. Fenwick, thanking him for a donation made by the trustees of the E. Walton Trust; also appended, receipt for the same, 16 August 1895
(1 paper)


Letter from T.W. Backhouse, Sunderland, to J.W. Mounsey, outlining the suggested content of the yearly report of the Edward Walton Trust Fund, [in respect of Shotton pupils], 27 December 1895
(1 paper)

National Meetings and Committees (Ref: SF/Su 117/1-9)

Report of a sub-committee for managing the donation fund for the relief of Friends in America, 15 November 1786
(1 paper, printed)


Report of the committee for the loan fund to the general meeting of subscribers held at Devonshire House, with list of subscribers, 21 May 1822
(1 paper, printed)


'East of Europe War Victims Fund', an article extracted from The Friend, concerning the war in eastern Europe and the activities of the committee of the meeting for sufferings for the relief of war victims in Eastern Europe, n.d. [c.1876]
(1 paper, printed)


Circular from the committee of the meeting for sufferings for the relief of war victims in Eastern Europe, n.d. [c.1876]
(1 paper, printed)


Third report of the committee of the Friends' War Victims Fund for non-combatant sufferers in Eastern Europe, 14 October 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Minutes of meeting for sufferings, concerning payment of expenses of ministering and other Friends engaged in religious service, 3 November 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Fourth report of the committee for the Friends War Victims Fund for non-combatant sufferers in Eastern Europe, including list of subscribers, 9 November 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Fifth report of the committee for the Friends War Victims Fund for non-combatant sufferers in Eastern Europe, including list of subscribers, 2 December 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Sixth report of the committee for Friends War Victims Fund for non-combatant suffers in Eastern Europe, including list of subscribers, 16 January 1877
(1 paper, printed)

Miscellaneous (Ref: SF/Su 118/1-4)

'A testimony concerning William Byrd and one concerning Ann Brewster', 1836
(1 booklet, paper cover)


Report of the directors of Victoria Hall and Temperance Institute, Ltd., Sunderland, with balance sheet, 30 December 1876
(1 paper, printed)


Copy will of Kathleen Mary Cummings, Fell View, Barbon, Westmorland, 5 April 1935
(1 file)


Correspondence between Bottarell, Roche and Spark, solicitors, W.R. Dixon, Sunderland, and various other parties, concerning the estate of the late Kathleen Mary Cummings of which W.R. Dixon is an executor, 29 September 1949 - 5 July 1951
(2 files and 37 papers)