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Durham St. Nicholas Parish

Reference: EP/Du.SN Catalogue Title: Durham St. Nicholas Parish Area: Catalogue Category: Ecclesiastical Parish Records Description: 05 Vestry

Covering Dates: 1803-1969

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  • Durham St. Nicholas Parish
    • Vestry minutes (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 01)
    • Membership (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 02)
    • Burial Board (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 03)
    • Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 04)

Catalogue Contents

Vestry (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/)Vestry minutes (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 01)

5/1-6, 8

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/1

Vestry and select vestry minutes
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/2

Vestry and select vestry minutes (including report on the church fabric in 1803)
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/3

Vestry minute book, 8 July 1818 to 20 August 1829
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/4

Vestry minute book, 9 April 1822 to 2 October 1856
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/5

Vestry and Burial Board minutes (1859 - 1878)
(1 volume)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/6

Minute book for Select Vestry, 15 March 1967 - 17 March 1969
(1 volume, card bound)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/8

Minutes of vestry meetings, 26 December 1856 - 10 March 1966; particulars of property belonging to the parish (see also EP/Du.SN 12/15-17)
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Membership (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 02)

5/7, 9

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/7

Rough list of members of Select Vestry, 1950 - 1952
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/9

List of members of the select vestry, their abodes and occupations, 5 April 1879
(1 paper)

Burial Board (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 03)

11-122
(see also EP/Du.SN 2 and EP/Du.SN 4 and EP/Du.SN 5/5)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/11-28

Notices and minutes of meetings of the rated inhabitants of St. Nicholas' parish for the elections to the Burial Board and minutes of that board, 16 March 1867 - 30 March 1881
(18 papers)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/29-51

Precepts from the Burial Board to the Overseers of the Poor for the Parish for the Parish of St. Nicholas, 21 March 1867 - 19 March 1890
(23 papers, each with an applied seal)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/52-59

Returns of receipts and expenditure of the Local Government Board for the years ending 25 March 1885 - 25 March 1892
(8 papers, printed form)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/60-65

Details of financial outgoings of the Burial Board in connexion with precepts, March 1867 - 1890
(5 papers and 1 file)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/66-68

Letter and instructions for payment from the Public Works Loan Board regarding the advance of £1,400 to the Burial Board, 2 April 1872, 1 April 1889 and 1 April 1890
(3 papers, printed form)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/69-93

Bills and receipts relating to the Burial Board, 20 July 1883 - 30 June 1892
(25 papers)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/94-103

Receipts for wages of the cemetary gate keeper and memoranda of payments on behalf of the Burial Board by Reverend H.E. Fox, April 1869 - 1891
(10 papers)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/104

Scale of fees at St. Nicholas' burial ground, August 1910
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/105

Table of fees and payments of St. Oswald's Burial Board, 5 October 1889
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/106-107

Copy of the Burial Act, 1900 with explanatory circular from the Home Office, 17 December 1900 (1 paper and 1 file, printed

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/108-110

Copies of instructions to the sexton and of other instructions regarding the burial ground, 27 June 1887 and n.d.
(3 papers)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/111

Letter from William Jackson, 47 Claypath, Durham, to the Burial Board seeking the appointment of Clerk to the Board, 5 February 1867

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/112

Letter from the Clerk to the Board to the Churchwardens and Vestry of St. Nicholas concerning resignations and the composition of the board, 26 July 1899

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/113

Letter of resignation from the Burial Board of Robert Bruce, 11 January 1904
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/114-115

Letters from J. Patrick, solicitor, Clerk to St. Nicholas' Burial Board to the Reverend W. Bothamley, Chairman of the Burial Board explaining the legal position of the board as a result of the Burial Act, 1900, 17-19 April 1905
(2 papers, typescript)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/116

Letter from the Diocesan Registry to the Reverend W. Bothamley concerning the chapel at the cemetery, 1 March 1907
(1 paper)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/117-118

Correspondence received relative to counsel's opinion concerning the Burial Board, 26 August and 12 September 1910
(2 papers)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/119-121

Correspondence received from J. Patrick, Clerk to Durham U.D.C. (Burial Acts Committee) concerning control of the burial ground, 29 September 1910 - 25 September 1913
(3 papers, typescript)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/122

Letter from Henry H. Bothamley, Middleton, Hassocks, Sussex to his brother the Reverend Westley Bothamley concerning appointment and remuneration of sexton, 26 December 1921
(1 paper)

Miscellaneous (Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/section 04)

5/10, 123

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/10

Newcastle report of the annual meeting of St. Nicholas' ratepayers, 5 May 1905
(1 paper, printed)

Ref: EP/Du.SN 5/123

Photograph of elderly woman wearing a bonnet, n.d. [late 19th century] (1 photograph, sepia)



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