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BRAMLEY CIVIL PARISH: RECORDS, 1688 - 1958
Reference Number: P59
Descriptive Information about the Record (click to expand) Provenance Deposited by the Parish Council in 1972.
-The records This accumulation includes two parish books, one seemingly an original volume, containing churchwarden's accounts and other notes, 1688-1736, with vestry minutes and charity accounts for the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the other a volume created in 1900 by binding together the loose papers then extant. These include a group of settlement papers, 1700-1829, and a variety of other papers varying in date between 1690 (churchwardens' accounts) and 1849, as well as their manuscript labels, presumably also made in 1900. The deposit also includes poor rate assessments, 1748-1832, overseers' disbursements for various periods in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and parish council minute books for 1894-1958.
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series: P59/1/ - PARISH BOOKS Scope: A detailed calendar of poor law material in P59/1/1-2 is available. Date: 1688-1900 Volume, binding missing. One sheet loose at back, and 5 pages loose ... Title Volume, binding missing. One sheet loose at back, and 5 pages loose inserted. Labelled on front 'Vestry Meetings 1727-89' and on the next page [in an earlier hand] 'The Parish Book giving an account at this end of such persons as have served for the Highways and also when they began their office. Here is an account when the churchwardens and overseers served their office. At the other end of this book is the accounts of the churchwardens' Labelled at back [same hand as front] 'Smith's Charity etc. 1711 to 1767' The volume contains: [loose] Churchwarden's account, 1688 Note of officers appointed, 1689 Churchwarden's account, 1689 Account of collection of brief 'towardes the Relefe of the Poore Protastantes [Protestants] of Eyarland [Ireland]' [part only], 1689 Account of collection of brief for Bungay [part only], 1690 Note of officers appointed, 1690 [at front] Lists of officers elected, 1690-1789 [from 1762 these are noted in the form of vestry minutes, but no other business is minuted] Memorandum of lease, and note of receipt, 1725, [inserted after officers for 1721] Vestry minutes [in sequence], 24 Sep 1749 [at back] Churchwarden's accounts, 1711-1736, including accounts of disbursements of Smith's Charity, with memorandum re levying of rate to cover debts, 1726/7, and memorandum re purchase of account book, 1727 Account of disbursements of Smith's Charity, 1741 Memorandum re birth of child in the Wheatsheaf Inn, 1726 List of settlement certificates in parish chest, 10 May 1726 [The above two pages form a separate gathering, which is still attached to the rest of the volume by one cord. It was found after the entry for 1741, but could have originally been placed at 1725, or between 1728 and 1730, at both of which points new gatherings commence] Assessments to rates made to pay debts incurred inter alia by repairs to church, 20 May and 19 Nov 1742 Accounts of disbursements of Smith's Charity, 1744-1767 Reference P59/1/1 Unit Date 1688-1789 Start Date 16880101 End Date 17891231 Volume of books and papers bound together in 1900, and entitiled 'Bra... Title Volume of books and papers bound together in 1900, and entitiled 'Bramley - Surrey. Accounts and Various Papers, 1692 to 1829' The volume contains: Churchwarden's accounts, 1692, 1693, 1695, 1699, 1702-1710 Overseers' disbursements, 1727-1741 List of 'Proceedings before the Magistrates of the Guildford Division touching Bramley affairs from the years 1700-1829', of 'Orders signed by other Magistrates', and of 'Sundry Papers' [see below], [1900] Militia return [printed form], [1825] Examination of Benjamin Tod of Portsmouth, 26 Feb 1715 Label 'Sundry Papers', [1900] Inventory of goods of Henry Elyot, collar maker, 11 Apr 1723 Settlement certificates (2) from the parishes of Cranleigh and Shalford, 1730, 1726 Request for publication of banns, Richard Pittock, 10 Nov 1798 Act to amend certain provisions of the twenty sixth of George the Second, for the better preventing of Clandestine Marriages, 3 Geo. IV cap lxxv [printed], 1822 Notices (2) of Archdeacon's visitations, 1826, 1827 Coroner's burial permit. Anne Potter, found dead in Wey and Arun Canal, 4 Oct 1827 Churchwarden's account, 1745, with endorsed, an abstract of Henry Smith's deed of charitable uses, and memorandum of overseers, churchwardens and inhabitants that Mr Frances Eliot, attorney, is to sue for payment of the charity moneys, which are 3 years overdue, 6 Feb 1756 Label 'Poor Rates made in 1690 and 1691 and two somewhat unintelligible sheets', [1900] Churchwarden's accounts, 1690, 1691 Account of collection of brief (undated) endorsed with agreement for care of children, 19 Sep 1716 Note of overseers' disbursements [with notes re changes in price of flour and tabulation of food provided], [1801] Label 'Poor Rate 1731 to 1733', [1900] Poor rate assessments, Mar, Sep 1732, Mar, Sep 1733, Mar, Sep 1734 Note of overseers' disbursements [with tabulation of food provided], [1801] Label 'Papers signed by other Magistrates', [1900] 2 settlement certificates for persons now living in Bramley, 1727, 1760 3 orders of removal to Bramley, with examinations: Anne Jelly, 1787 (2), 1788 6 orders of removal to Bramley, 1802 (2), 1817 (2), 1827, 1828 Solemn declaration before a J P, attesting signatures of deed [below], 1 Dec 1849 Assignment of rates for repayment of £250, with interest, borrowed under 5 Geo. IV c.36 for paving and repair of church, 13 Nov 1849 Label 'Papers signed by Surrey Magistrates', [1900] 109 settlement certificates, removal orders and examinations [bound in chronological order], 1700-1829 Reference P59/1/2 Unit Date 1690-1900 Start Date 16900101 End Date 19001231
series: P59/2/ - CHURCHWARDENS AND OVERSEERS Date: 1748-1831 Poor rate assessments. 1 vol ... Title Poor rate assessments. 1 vol Reference P59/2/1 Unit Date 1748-1803 Start Date 17480101 End Date 18031231 Volume containing: Poor rate assessments, 1804-1831; Note of vestry m... Title Volume containing: Poor rate assessments, 1804-1831; Note of vestry meetings, 1813-1814; Church rate assessment, 1814; Population figures, 1811 and 1821, with breakdown of 1821 census Reference P59/2/2 Unit Date 1804-1831 Start Date 18040101 End Date 18311231
series: P59/3/ - CHURCHWARDENS AND OVERSEERS Date: 1725-1836 Overseers' disbursements. 1 gathering, found inside -/3/3 ... Title Overseers' disbursements. 1 gathering, found inside -/3/3 Reference P59/3/1 Unit Date 1725-1727 Start Date 17250101 End Date 17271231 Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol, including note of Vestry meeting, 1... Title Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol, including note of Vestry meeting, 1799 Reference P59/3/2 Unit Date 1741-1757 Start Date 17410101 End Date 17571231 Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol ... Title Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol Reference P59/3/3 Unit Date 1758-1774 Start Date 17580101 End Date 17741231 Overseers' disbursements and memoranda. 1 vol, including churchwarde... Title Overseers' disbursements and memoranda. 1 vol, including churchwarden's memoranda on church rate and church repairs, 1814 Reference P59/3/4 Unit Date 1777-1824 Start Date 17770101 End Date 18241231 Volume containing: Overseers' disbursements, 1827-1831; Poor rate ass... Title Volume containing: Overseers' disbursements, 1827-1831; Poor rate assessment, 1832; Census return, 1831 Reference P59/3/5 Unit Date 1827-1832 Start Date 18270101 End Date 18321231 Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol ... Title Overseers' disbursements. 1 vol Reference P59/3/6 Unit Date 1831-1836 Start Date 18310101 End Date 18361231 Fragment of overseers' disbursements [probably part of a page from -/... Title Fragment of overseers' disbursements [probably part of a page from -/3/2, though found loose] Reference P59/3/7 Unit Date Mar 1757 Start Date 17570300 End Date 17570300 2 notes of payment [the latter found in -/3/5], Michaelmas 1749 and M... Title 2 notes of payment [the latter found in -/3/5], Michaelmas 1749 and Michaelmas 1750 Reference P59/3/8-9 Unit Date 1749-1750 Start Date 17490101 End Date 17501231 Banns certificate ... Title Banns certificate Reference P59/3/10 Unit Date 17 Nov 1766 Start Date 17661117 End Date 17661117
series: P59/4/ - BENEFICE Date: [19TH CENT] Terrier, with later amendments ... Title Terrier, with later amendments Reference P59/4/1 Unit Date [19th cent] Start Date 18000101 End Date 18991231
series: P59/5/ - PARISH COUNCIL Date: 1894-1958 Minute book ... Title Minute book Reference P59/5/1 Unit Date 1894-1912 Start Date 18940101 End Date 19121231 Minute book ... Title Minute book Reference P59/5/2 Unit Date 1912-1941 Start Date 19120101 End Date 19411231 Minute book ... Title Minute book Reference P59/5/3 Unit Date 1941-1958 Start Date 19410101 End Date 19581231
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