Bishop Auckland United Reformed Church
Reference: UR/BA Catalogue Title: Bishop Auckland United Reformed Church Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
Covering Dates: 1877-1999
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- Bishop Auckland United Reformed Church
- Bishop Auckland United Reformed Church (Ref: UR/BA)
- Registration (Ref: UR/BA section 01)
- Registers of baptisms (Ref: UR/BA section 01)
- Registers of marriages (Ref: UR/BA section 02)
- Minutes (Ref: UR/BA section 02)
- Managers' and annual congregational meetings minutes (Ref: UR/BA 2-6)
- Elders' minutes (Ref: UR/BA 37-39)
- Financial records (Ref: UR/BA section 03)
- Membership and attendance (Ref: UR/BA section 04)
- Correspondence (Ref: UR/BA section 05)
- Church Societies (Ref: UR/BA section 06)
- Newsletters (Ref: UR/BA section 07)
Catalogue Description
Records of Trinity United Reformed Church, Bishop AucklandThe Trinity Presbyterian Church was erected in 1865 in South Church Lane. According to Francis Whellan ('History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham ...', 1894), the church, for a few years before 1865, held meetings in the town hall.
Catalogue Contents
Bishop Auckland United Reformed Church (Ref: UR/BA)Registration (Ref: UR/BA section 01)Registers of baptisms (Ref: UR/BA section 01)
33
Ref: UR/BA 33Register of baptisms and blessings, 6 February 1877 - 24 October 1999
Includes: marriages, 27 April 1904 - 1 June 1907
(1 volume, card bound)
Registers of marriages (Ref: UR/BA section 02)31-32, 34-36
Ref: UR/BA 31Register of marriages, 28 December 1925 - 14 October 1939
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: UR/BA 32Register of marriages, 1 June 1940 - 2 September 1952
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: UR/BA 34Register of marriages, 5 July 1958 - 11 December 1968
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 35Register of marriages, 8 November 1969 - 19 September 1981
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 36Register of marriages, 20 August 1983 - 18 September 1999
(1 volume, card bound)
Minutes (Ref: UR/BA section 02)Managers' and annual congregational meetings minutes (Ref: UR/BA 2-6)Ref: UR/BA 2Minute book of managers' meetings and annual congregational meetings minute book, 2 November 1906 - 13 January 1911
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 3Minute book of managers' meetings and annual congregational meetings minute book, 16 January 1911 - 2 July 1915
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 4Minute book of managers' meetings and annual congregational meetings minute book, 8 April 1945 - 16 September 1951
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 5Minute book of managers' meetings and annual congregational meetings minute book, 10 October 1951 - 18 December 1963
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 6Minute book of managers' meetings and annual congregational meetings minute book, 15 January 1964 - 12 January 1972
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Elders' minutes (Ref: UR/BA 37-39)Ref: UR/BA 37Minutes of meetings of Elders, 10 June 1962 - 6 September 1983
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 38Minutes of meetings of Elders, 4 October 1983 - 13 July 1989
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 39Minutes (signed) of Joint Elders' meetings, 2 April 1980 - 14 September 1993
(1 file)
Financial records (Ref: UR/BA section 03)11-20, 29, 42
Ref: UR/BA 11Account book, January 1910 - December 1941
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 12Treasurer's cash book, January 1942 - January 1953
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 13Treasurer's cash book, 4 January 1953 - 30 December 1962
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 14Treasurer's cash book, 6 January 1963 - 31 December 1966
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 15Cash book, 1909 - 1933
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 16Offertory cash book, 1941-1944
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 17Offertory cash book, 1958-1960
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 18-20Bank pass books for the Women's Auxiliary Account, 1931-1943
Three books cover 1931-1932, 1932-1938 and 1938-1943
(3 booklets)
Ref: UR/BA 29/1-7Statements of account, 1933-1977
Annual statements for 1933, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1972 and 1977
(7 papers)
Ref: UR/BA 42Sustentation fund return for the Bishop Auckland congregation of the Presbyterian Church of England, 13 July 1934
(1 paper)
Membership and attendance (Ref: UR/BA section 04)1, 8-9, 41, 43
Ref: UR/BA 1Communicants roll, 1919 - 1954
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 8Church meetings attendance book, 14 March - 23 May 1979
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 9Disjunction certificate book, 10 October 1910 - 21 July 1966
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 41Statistical returns for the Bishop Auckland congregation of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1928-1930
(4 papers)
Ref: UR/BA 43Church records annual returns, 1973-1979
(7 papers)
Correspondence (Ref: UR/BA section 05)7, 21-28
Ref: UR/BA 7Copy letter book, 29 January 1908 - 12 August 1910
(1 volume, leather half-bound)
Ref: UR/BA 21File of papers, 1903-1955
concerning:
Work at church and manse, 1909-1954;
Organ tuning and repair, 1916-1953;
Purchase of freehold and capital redemption policy, 1913-1924;
Caretaker, organist and manse tenancy, 1903-1938;
Purchase of property adjacent to church, 1916-1918;
Trustees, 1937 and 1951-1952;
Duties on land values, 1912-1914;
List of church members, 1908;
Inventory of church property, 1953;
Legacies, 1925 and 1955;
Church extension appeal, 1954;
Deposit of trust deeds, 1906;
Circulars for the Presbyterian Church of England, 1906-1917;
Balance sheets, 1909-1929
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 22File of papers, 1941-1972
concerning:
The Presbyterian Church of England, 1951-1971
Statistical returns, 1941-1972
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 23File of papers, 1953-1971
concerning:
Lists of managers, elders, 1955-1972;
Minutes of sub-committees, 1958-1968;
Arrangements for joint pastorate of Bishop Auckland and Spennymoor churches, 1957-1968;
Correspondence, agendas and balance sheets, 1953-1971;
Tuning the organ, 1964-1969;
Balance sheets, 1955-1970;
Gifts and presentations, 1957-1972;
Letters of condolence, 1962-1970;
Letters of resignation, 1958-1970;
Letters of appointment, 1965-1970;
Correspondence concerning the use of the hall, 1961-1971;
Entertainments, 1963-1971;
Insurance, 1953-1971;
Inventory of church property, 1969;
Bishop Auckland Council of Churches, 1971
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 24File of papers, 1960-1971
concerning:
Minutes of Centenary Committee, 1962-1963;
Correspondence concerning the centenary celebrations, 1962-1963;
Alterations to the church and hall, 1954-1971;
Alterations to the manse, 1960-1968
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 25Miscellaneous correspondence, 1970-1974
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 26Correspondence concerning the proposed new road scheme in Bishop Auckland and its possible effect on Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1969-1972
(1 file)
Ref: UR/BA 27/1-14Correspondence concerning alterations to the manse, July-September 1974
(14 papers)
Ref: UR/BA 28/1-17Correspondence concerning a proposed stained glass window in memory of Georgina Ross, January-June 1972
(17 papers)
Church Societies (Ref: UR/BA section 06)10, 40
Ref: UR/BA 10Sunday School register, January 1933 - December 1937
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: UR/BA 4021 April 1939
(1) The Boys' Brigade, Abbey House, Westminster, London
(2) Richard Lawson Miller of Ayton House, South Church Road, Bishop Auckland; John Hunter of 30 Salisbury Place, Bishop Auckland; and Albert Jackson of 24 Grey Street, Bishop Auckland, the Trustees
Agreement concerning the use of a hut on Peel Street, Bishop Auckland, by the 1st Bishop Auckland Company of the Boys' Brigade
(1 paper)
Newsletters (Ref: UR/BA section 07)30/1-36
Ref: UR/BA 30/1-36Newsletters, 1972-1975
dated January-June 1972, September-November 1972, January-July 1973, September 1973 - October 1974, January-June 1975
(36 files)
