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Letter from Henry Taylor, on behalf of the Durham Bank, to Rev. J.D. Eade, Aycliffe, concerning the transfer of £97 17s. 8d. of government stocks, part of the property of one of the charities of the parish of Aycliffe, to the latter, 9 August 1838

Copy of an Act for the Better Administration of Charitable Trusts, 20 August 1853

Receipt from Official Trustees of Charitable Funds, 2 December 1856

Letter from the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, London, to Aycliffe Church of England Sunday school, concerning the transfer of charitable funds, 4 December 1856

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, enclosing a draft, 8 January 1886

Memorandum of the Charitable Trusts Act, 1894, from Charity Commission, 1 January 1895

Memorandum from the Charity Commission, correcting misapprehensions concerning the effect of the Local Government Act 1894, 22 January 1895

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to T. Garry, Oak Cliff House, Great Aycliffe, re the appointment of trustees for Ord's charity and Gibson's charity, 16 August 1895

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, enclosing a copy of a letter to T. Garry, re Gibson and Ord's charities, 16 August 1895

Order of the Charity Commission, giving the scheme for the future regulations of the national schools and property charities, 1896

Copy of the scheme for the administration of the National schools and property charities, 1896

Part of the copy of a scheme for the administration of National schools and property charities, 1896

Notes of standard forms to be used in the administration of charities, 1896

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, informing him of the publication of the report on the charities of the parish of Aycliffe, 27 September 190l

Letter from the Charity Commission, St. James's, London, to the vicar of Aycliffe, re the transfer of the jurisdiction of the commissioners of the Church of England Sunday school, William Bell and the national schools charities, 11 February 1904

Statement of the accounts of the charities called Gibson's, Ord's, Bell's and Sunday Schools, in the parish of Aycliffe, forwarded by the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, 13 August 1918

Receipt from the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, re the charities of Gibson, Ord, Bell and the Sunday School, 11 March 1919

Receipt from the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the Rev. J.C.A. Eade, re the Charities of Gibson and Ord, 4 April 1921

Letter from Great Aycliffe Parish Council, Aycliffe, Darlington, to the Rev. Canon Patterson, advising of the appointment of trustees for Ord's and Gibson's charities, 13 June 1922

Letter from the Charity Commission, The Elms, Morecambe, Lancashire, to the trustees of the Gibson's and Ord's charities, asking for accounts in arrear, re the Gibson's and Ord's charities, 12 June 1940

Letter from the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, to Rev. J.D. Eade, re Bell's charity, 22 July 1862

Letter from Education Department, Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, Aycliffe Vicarage, Darlington, requesting a statement of accounts for Bell's Charity, 15 December 1905

Letter from the Education Department of Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade asking for the forwarding of the income of the Bell's charity from 1 April 1904, 28 November 1908

Letter from the Education Department of Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, asking for details of sum of money sent in respect of Bell's charity, 24 February 1909

Letter from the County Council of Durham, Treasurer's Department, Shire Hall, Durham, to the trustees of the Bell Charity, concerning its income, 7 March 1949

Plan of Mill Holme bequeathed to the parish by Thomas Gibson on 3 February 1702 No scale

21 December 1756 (1) David Gibson of East Hartburn, yeoman (previously of Long Newton) (2) Abraham Gregory, vicar of Great Aycliffe, clerk Assignment from (1) and (2) of residue of lease for 21 years of a close called Mill Holme, in occupation of Ralph Thompson Consideration: £1 and ls. p.a. Recites: (a) will, 3 February 1702, of Thomas Gibson, in which the property is devised for the benefit of the poor of Great Aycliffe and the income is to be distributed as bread every Sunday (b) lease for 21 years, 14 January 1755, from Dean and Chapter of Durham to (1) of 2/3 of a tenement, a close (abuttals given) and 2 cottages in Great Aycliffe, of which the property assigned was a part

2 February 1762 (1) David Gibson of East Hartburn, yeoman (2) Abraham Gregory, vicar of Great Aycliffe Assignment of lease for the residue of a term of 21 years of the Mill Holme Close, in the occupation of Mr Thompson

17 April 1762 (1) Abraham Gregory, vicar of Aycliffe (2) Anthony Dunn and Robert Taylorson of Great Aycliffe, yeomen Lease for 6 years of the tithes of Preston Quarter in Aycliffe parish

25 July 1785 (1) John Gibson of Hurworth, gent (2) James Robson, vicar of Great Aycliffe Assignment of lease for the residue of a term of 21 years of the Mill Holme Close, in the occupation of Ralph Thompson

28 March 1833 (1) Thomas Scaile of Great Aycliffe, yeoman (2) William Smoult-Temple, vicar of Great Aycliffe Lease for one life of a piece of ground at Great Aycliffe

Letter from William Charles Chayter, Durham, to unidentified correspondent, concerning a right of way through Mill Holme, 26 April 1834

Letter from the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, to the minister and churchwardens of Aycliffe, re the school of Gibson's charity, 12 November 1855

Letter from White, Barrett and Co., 6 Whitehall Place, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, vicar of Aycliffe, concerning the granting of Millholme land to him, 17 December 1887

Circular from Charity Commission re charity of Thomas Gibson for the poor of the township of Great Aycliffe, 18 August 1888

Order of the Charity Commission appointing the vicar and churchwardens of the parish of Great Aycliffe as trustees for the administration of the charity of Thomas Gibson, 25 January 1889

Letter from White, Barrett & Co., 6 Whitehall Place, London, to the Rev. C.J.A Eade, re Millholme charity land, giving permission to change the garden ground into grass, 16 November 1894

Letter from C.J.A. Eade, Aycliffe vicarage, to the Charity Commission, asking if the terms of the Thomas Gibson Charity could be amended, 20 November 1894

Letter from White, Barrett & Co., 6 Whitehall Place, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, re the Millholme charity land, confirming his legal right to manage the land without consulting the trustees, 27 November 1894

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, advising that the Gibson's charity is not ecclesiastical and that instructions have been given for the appointment of two additional trustees, 9 October 1895

Order of the Charity Commission, allowing the appointment of additional members to the charity of Thomas Gibson, 29 October 1895

Letter from the Agricultural and Horticultural Association, Long Acre, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, referring to an enclosure of a pamphlet describing the work of the association, 4 January 1908,copy of a letter from the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, vicar of Aycliffe, re problems with the Gibson Charity and suggesting the sale of the land, 18 January 1908

Order from the Charity Commission allowing the sale of a piece of land of the charity of Thomas Gibson, and the investment of the money, 15 April 1908

Letter from the Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the trustees of the charity of Thomas Gibson, enclosing stock receipts, 23 July 1908

Memorandum from the Official Trustees' Department, Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the trustees of the charity of T. Gibson, asking for a new method of payment of dividends, following the change of vicar in Aycliffe, and suggesting the opening of an impersonal account, 28 April 1930

Description of the bequest of Alice Ord, n.d.

2 September 1856 Declaration of Benton Ord of Clarence Cottage, Aycliffe, gent., of investment of £100, the dividends on which are to be appropriated for the benefit of the poor persons resident in the township of Great Aycliffe

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, advising of the possibility of increasing the number of trustees of Ord's charity, 19 November 1896

Order of the Charity Commission increasing the number of trustees of the Benton Ord's Charity, 8 January 1897

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. C.J.A. Eade, asking for a new authority for payment of dividends re the charity of Benton Ord, 2 April 1897

Memorandum from the Official Trustees' Department, Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the Trustees fo the Charity of Benton Ord, asking for a new method of payment of dividends following the change of vicar in Aycliffe, and suggesting the opening of an impersonal account, 28 April 1930

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to Rev. C.J.A. Eade, advising that the scheme for the administration of the National School Charity is operative from 11 August 1896, 14 August 1896

Letter from Belton's Charity, Ironmongers' Hall, London, enclosing a draft for a grant to Aycliffe school, February 1903

8 November 1856 Declaration of Rev. John Davie Eade, vicar of Aycliffe, of the investment of £105, the dividends on which are to appropriated for the support and benefit of the Church of England Sunday School at Aycliffe

Circular from the Rev. J.D. Eade re Aycliffe Church of England Sunday school, 8 November 1856

Memorandum from the Official Trustees' Department, Charity Commission, Ryder Street, London, to the trustees of the charity called Church of England Sunday School, asking for a new method of payment of dividends following the change of vicar in Aycliffe, and suggesting the opening of an impersonal account, 28 April 1930