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ST JOHN'S, WOKING: PARISH RECORDS, 1842-1983
Reference Number: WOKJ
Descriptive Information about the Record (click to expand) Provenance Deposited by the Vicar and Parochial Church Council in November 1965.
-The records - Arrangement This list was re-numbered in June 1996.
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series: WOKJ/1/ - BAPTISM REGISTERS Date: 1842-1932 Baptism register ... Title Baptism register Reference WOKJ/1/1 Unit Date 1842-1866 Start Date 18420101 End Date 18661231 Baptism register ... Title Baptism register Reference WOKJ/1/2 Unit Date 1866-1897 Start Date 18660101 End Date 18971231 Baptism register ... Title Baptism register Reference WOKJ/1/3 Unit Date 1897-1913 Start Date 18970101 End Date 19131231 Baptism register ... Title Baptism register Reference WOKJ/1/4 Unit Date 1914-1932 Start Date 19140101 End Date 19321231
series: WOKJ/2/ - MARRIAGE REGISTERS Date: 1849-1983 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/1 Unit Date 1849-1881 Start Date 18490101 End Date 18811231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/2 Unit Date 1881-1902 Start Date 18810101 End Date 19021231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/3 Unit Date 1902-1912 Start Date 19020101 End Date 19121231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/4 Unit Date 1912-1919 Start Date 19120101 End Date 19191231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/5 Unit Date 1919-1934 Start Date 19190101 End Date 19341231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/6 Unit Date 1934-1952 Start Date 19340101 End Date 19521231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/7 Unit Date 1952-1961 Start Date 19520101 End Date 19611231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/8 Unit Date 1961-1972 Start Date 19610101 End Date 19721231 Marriage register ... Title Marriage register Reference WOKJ/2/9 Unit Date 1972-1983 Start Date 19720101 End Date 19831231
series: WOKJ/3/ - BANNS REGISTERS Date: 1849-1976 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/1 Unit Date 1849-1869 Start Date 18490101 End Date 18691231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/2 Unit Date 1869-1876 Start Date 18690101 End Date 18761231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/3 Unit Date 1876-1887 Start Date 18760101 End Date 18871231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/4 Unit Date 1887-1895 Start Date 18870101 End Date 18951231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/5 Unit Date 1895-1909 Start Date 18950101 End Date 19091231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/6 Unit Date 1909-1920 Start Date 19090101 End Date 19201231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/7 Unit Date 1920-1931 Start Date 19200101 End Date 19311231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/8 Unit Date 1931-1939 Start Date 19310101 End Date 19391231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/9 Unit Date 1939-1943 Start Date 19390101 End Date 19431231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/10 Unit Date 1943-1948 Start Date 19430101 End Date 19481231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/11 Unit Date 1948-1953 Start Date 19480101 End Date 19531231 Banns register ... Title Banns register Reference WOKJ/3/12 Unit Date 1965-1976 Start Date 19650101 End Date 19761231
series: WOKJ/4/ - BURIAL REGISTERS Date: 1842-1954 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/1 Unit Date 1842-1874 Start Date 18420101 End Date 18741231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/2 Unit Date 1874-1886 Start Date 18740101 End Date 18861231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/3 Unit Date 1886-1896 Start Date 18860101 End Date 18961231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/4 Unit Date 1896-1902 Start Date 18960101 End Date 19021231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/5 Unit Date 1902-1913 Start Date 19020101 End Date 19131231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/6 Unit Date 1913-1932 Start Date 19130101 End Date 19321231 Burial register ... Title Burial register Reference WOKJ/4/7 Unit Date 1932-1954 Start Date 19320101 End Date 19541231
series: WOKJ/5/ - SERVICE REGISTERS Date: 1854-1972 Register of prayers and sermons ... Title Register of prayers and sermons Reference WOKJ/5/1 Unit Date 1854-1860 Start Date 18540101 End Date 18601231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/2 Unit Date 1876-1884 Start Date 18760101 End Date 18841231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/3 Unit Date 1884-1891 Start Date 18840101 End Date 18911231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/4 Unit Date 1891-1897 Start Date 18910101 End Date 18971231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/5 Unit Date 1897-1904 Start Date 18970101 End Date 19041231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/6 Unit Date 1904-1913 Start Date 19040101 End Date 19131231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/7 Unit Date 1913-1923 Start Date 19130101 End Date 19231231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/8 Unit Date 1924-1927 Start Date 19240101 End Date 19271231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/9 Unit Date 1927-1932 Start Date 19270101 End Date 19321231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/10 Unit Date 1933-1940 Start Date 19330101 End Date 19401231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/11 Unit Date 1941-1957 Start Date 19410101 End Date 19571231 Register of preachers, readers and collections ... Title Register of preachers, readers and collections Reference WOKJ/5/12 Unit Date 1957-1972 Start Date 19570101 End Date 19721231
series: WOKJ/6/ - FINANCE Date: 1912-1965 Printed financial statements of St John, with Holy Trinity, Knaphill,... Title Printed financial statements of St John, with Holy Trinity, Knaphill, St Saviour's Brookwood, and Saunders Lane Hall. Lacking 1925. 38 items Reference WOKJ/6/1 Unit Date 1924-1965 Start Date 19240101 End Date 19651231 sub series: WOKJ/6/ - Journals Date: 1912-1923 Journal: general and Brookwood accounts ... Title Journal: general and Brookwood accounts Reference WOKJ/6/2 Unit Date 1912-1917 Start Date 19120101 End Date 19171231 Journal: including offertories and subscriptions ... Title Journal: including offertories and subscriptions Reference WOKJ/6/3 Unit Date 1920-1923 Start Date 19200101 End Date 19231231
sub series: WOKJ/6/ - Ledgers Date: 1924-1929 Ledger of accounts. Indexed ... Title Ledger of accounts. Indexed Reference WOKJ/6/4 Unit Date 1924-1929 Start Date 19240101 End Date 19291231
series: WOKJ/7/ - CHURCHWARDENS Date: 1899-1963 Copy of case for the opinion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner for E... Title Copy of case for the opinion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioner for England, concerning the right of Christ church parishioners to be buried in St John's churchyard Reference WOKJ/7/1 Unit Date Mar 1899 Start Date 18990300 End Date 18990300 Ledger of accounts including offertories reserve fund, subscriptions,... Title Ledger of accounts including offertories reserve fund, subscriptions, churchyard upkeep and organ and choir Reference WOKJ/7/2 Unit Date 1920-1924 Start Date 19200101 End Date 19241231 Receipts and payments book, recording pew rents, Easter offering and ... Title Receipts and payments book, recording pew rents, Easter offering and Whitsun offering Reference WOKJ/7/3 Unit Date 1930-1963 Start Date 19300101 End Date 19631231 Register of pews and pew rents ... Title Register of pews and pew rents Reference WOKJ/7/4 Unit Date 1934-1956 Start Date 19340101 End Date 19561231 Ledger of freewill offering scheme ... Title Ledger of freewill offering scheme Reference WOKJ/7/5 Unit Date 1936 Start Date 19360101 End Date 19361231
series: WOKJ/8/ - CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT AND INCUMBENT Date: 1849-1960 Licence for solemnisation of marriages at St John's ... Title Licence for solemnisation of marriages at St John's Reference WOKJ/8/1 Unit Date 1 Mar 1849 Start Date 18490301 End Date 18490301 Receipt and expenditure accounts for 'St John's Parsonage and St John... Title Receipt and expenditure accounts for 'St John's Parsonage and St John's Chapel', with names of subscribers Reference WOKJ/8/2 Unit Date 1851-1862 Start Date 18510101 End Date 18621231 Letter enclosed in -/-/1 above from A H Bowles describing purchase of... Title Letter enclosed in -/-/1 above from A H Bowles describing purchase of ground during his father's incumbency Reference WOKJ/8/3 Unit Date 1851-1862 Start Date 18510101 End Date 18621231 Solicitor's charges for the purchase of the Parsonage House ... Title Solicitor's charges for the purchase of the Parsonage House Reference WOKJ/8/4 Unit Date 1885 Start Date 18850101 End Date 18851231 'Official Parochial Register' kept by the Rev J Montague Harris, reco... Title 'Official Parochial Register' kept by the Rev J Montague Harris, recording clergy, assistant clergy, churchwardens, contributions, parochial 'statistics', and 'record of events' Reference WOKJ/8/5 Unit Date 1894-1903 Start Date 18940101 End Date 19031231 Curate's licences for St John's, Holy Trinity, Knaphill and St Saviou... Title Curate's licences for St John's, Holy Trinity, Knaphill and St Saviours, Brookwood. 9 items Reference WOKJ/8/6 Unit Date 1898-1960 Start Date 18980101 End Date 19601231 Letter to the incumbent, the Rev W D Money, advising on an Order in C... Title Letter to the incumbent, the Rev W D Money, advising on an Order in Council for the revision of boundaries between St John's Horsell, Christ Church, Woking and Woodham Reference WOKJ/8/7 Unit Date 6 Apr 1925 Start Date 19250406 End Date 19250406 Correspondence concerning 'benefaction in suspense' towards the endow... Title Correspondence concerning 'benefaction in suspense' towards the endowment of an assistant curacy at St Saviour's; and later revision of donation to provide for an assistant serving generally in St John's Reference WOKJ/8/8 Unit Date 18 Aug 1930 - 21 Feb 1947 Start Date 19300818 End Date 19470221 Letter from Diocesan Registrar concerning licensing of St Saviour's, ... Title Letter from Diocesan Registrar concerning licensing of St Saviour's, Brookwood, for marriages Reference WOKJ/8/9 Unit Date 7 Mar 1933 Start Date 19330307 End Date 19330307 Licence for the solemnisation of marriages at Holy Trinity, Knaphill ... Title Licence for the solemnisation of marriages at Holy Trinity, Knaphill Reference WOKJ/8/10 Unit Date 30 Dec 1941 Start Date 19411230 End Date 19411230
series: WOKJ/9/ - VESTRY Date: 1884-1919 Minute book ... Title Minute book Reference WOKJ/9/1 Unit Date 1884-1919 Start Date 18840101 End Date 19191231
series: WOK/10/ - CHURCH FABRIC Date: 1878-1959 sub series: WOK/10/ - Faculties Date: 1878-1956 Faculty for enlargement of St John's ... Title Faculty for enlargement of St John's Reference WOK/10/1 Unit Date 18 Jul 1878 Start Date 18780718 End Date 18780718 Faculty for enlargement of St John's with a new north aisle and churc... Title Faculty for enlargement of St John's with a new north aisle and church organ chamber Reference WOK/10/2 Unit Date 17 May 1883 Start Date 18830517 End Date 18830517 Faculty to build a new choir vestry, and pulpit, and alter the sittin... Title Faculty to build a new choir vestry, and pulpit, and alter the sittings near the chancel Reference WOK/10/3 Unit Date 28 Nov 1899 Start Date 18991128 End Date 18991128 Copy citation for removal of west gallery ... Title Copy citation for removal of west gallery Reference WOK/10/4 Unit Date 27 Aug 1903 Start Date 19030827 End Date 19030827 Citation and faculty for the insertion of a stained glass window to W... Title Citation and faculty for the insertion of a stained glass window to Walter Charles Slocock in a window in the north east wall of St John's. 2 items Reference WOK/10/5 Unit Date 21 Mar-4 Apr 1928 Start Date 19280321 End Date 19280404 Citation, faculty and correspondence concerning design for the insert... Title Citation, faculty and correspondence concerning design for the insertion of a stained glass window in memory of Mr and Mrs G J Ingram. 4 items Reference WOK/10/6 Unit Date 14 Dec 1933 - 10 May 1934 Start Date 19331214 End Date 19340510 Faculty for the erection of a tablet on the exterior wall of the chur... Title Faculty for the erection of a tablet on the exterior wall of the church to the memory of Sophia Slocock Reference WOK/10/7 Unit Date 26 Jun 1941 Start Date 19410626 End Date 19410626 Faculty for the erection of a tablet recording a gift of tapestries a... Title Faculty for the erection of a tablet recording a gift of tapestries and carpets in memory of Mr & Mrs Barrett Reference WOK/10/8 Unit Date 11 Apr 1956 Start Date 19560411 End Date 19560411 Citation for the insertion of stained glass in the circular window of... Title Citation for the insertion of stained glass in the circular window of the Holy Table at St Saviour's, Brookwood, donated by Col and Mrs Fletcher Reference WOK/10/9 Unit Date 19 Nov 1926 Start Date 19261119 End Date 19261119
sub series: WOK/10/ - Sittings plan Date: 1883 Plan of sittings, 1883 ... Title Plan of sittings, 1883 Reference WOK/10/10 Unit Date 1883 Start Date 18830101 End Date 18831231
sub series: WOK/10/ - St John's Improvement Committee Date: 1908-1911 Minutes and reports concerning proposed improvements to church ... Title Minutes and reports concerning proposed improvements to church Reference WOK/10/11 Unit Date 14 Oct 1908 - Jun 1911 Start Date 19081014 End Date 19110600
sub series: WOK/10/ - Specification of work Date: 1948 Specification of work to be done on roofs, walls and exterior paintin... Title Specification of work to be done on roofs, walls and exterior painting of church Reference WOK/10/12 Unit Date Oct 1948 Start Date 19481000 End Date 19481000
sub series: WOK/10/ - Organ Date: 1947-1949 Agreement for reconstruction of organ by John Compton Organ Co Ltd ... Title Agreement for reconstruction of organ by John Compton Organ Co Ltd Reference WOK/10/13 Unit Date 15 Aug 1947 Start Date 19470815 End Date 19470815 Specification of reconstructed organ ... Title Specification of reconstructed organ Reference WOK/10/14 Unit Date Apr 1949 Start Date 19490400 End Date 19490400
sub series: WOK/10/ - Dilapidations assessments Date: 1954-1959 Two annual ordinary assessments in pursuance of the Ecclesiastical Di... Title Two annual ordinary assessments in pursuance of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures Reference WOK/10/15 Unit Date 17 May 1954 - 26 Oct 1959 Start Date 19540517 End Date 19591026 Plan for installation of gas heater ... Title Plan for installation of gas heater Reference WOK/10/16 Unit Date 1955 Start Date 19550101 End Date 19551231
series: WOKJ/11/ - CHURCH PROPERTY Date: 1949-1951 Plan of proposed new vicarage, with licences and correspondence. 11 ... Title Plan of proposed new vicarage, with licences and correspondence. 11 items Reference WOKJ/11/1 Unit Date 1950-1955 Start Date 19500101 End Date 19551231 Papers concerning the exemption of land belonging to Holy Trinity, Kn... Title Papers concerning the exemption of land belonging to Holy Trinity, Knaphill, from section 85 of the Town and Country Planning Act. 12 items Reference WOKJ/11/2 Unit Date 1949-1950 Start Date 19490101 End Date 19501231 Papers concerning exemption as above, belonging to Saunders Lane Miss... Title Papers concerning exemption as above, belonging to Saunders Lane Mission Hall Reference WOKJ/11/3 Unit Date 1951 Start Date 19510101 End Date 19511231
series: WOKJ/12/ - BOWLES CHARITY TRUST Date: 1910-1952 Letter to vicar, the Rev T W Graham, concerning the origin of the Bow... Title Letter to vicar, the Rev T W Graham, concerning the origin of the Bowles Trust, from Arthur Bowles Reference WOKJ/12/1 Unit Date 19 Dec 1910 Start Date 19101219 End Date 19101219 Draft of revised Charity Commission scheme for the Bowles Trust, foun... Title Draft of revised Charity Commission scheme for the Bowles Trust, founded 1863. With manuscript notes added Reference WOKJ/12/2 Unit Date 18 Nov 1911 Start Date 19111118 End Date 19111118 Copy of revised Charity Commission scheme for the Bowles Trust ... Title Copy of revised Charity Commission scheme for the Bowles Trust Reference WOKJ/12/3 Unit Date 1 Mar 1912 Start Date 19120301 End Date 19120301 Notice concerning use of Bowles fund for erecting a new vicarage ... Title Notice concerning use of Bowles fund for erecting a new vicarage Reference WOKJ/12/4 Unit Date 1950 Start Date 19500101 End Date 19501231 Papers concerning Bowles Trust. 6 items ... Title Papers concerning Bowles Trust. 6 items Reference WOKJ/12/5 Unit Date 1 May 1952 - 10 Jun 1952 Start Date 19520501 End Date 19520610
series: WOKJ/13/ - BOWLES MEMORIAL FUND Date: 1914-1924 Bundle of letters, subscription list and notice concerning the collec... Title Bundle of letters, subscription list and notice concerning the collection of £250-£300 for the erection of a church room on St John's Hill in memory of Eleanor Sophia Bowles, or a memorial lectern and bible Reference WOKJ/13/1 Unit Date 1914-1924 Start Date 19140101 End Date 19241231
series: WOKJ/14/ - CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEN'S SOCIETY Date: 1956-1961 Booklet of accounts ... Title Booklet of accounts Reference WOKJ/14/1 Unit Date 1956-1961 Start Date 19560101 End Date 19611231
series: WOKJ/15/ - WOKING CREMATORIUM Date: 1879-1884 Papers of the Rev Oliphant concerning opposition to the building of W... Title Papers of the Rev Oliphant concerning opposition to the building of Woking Crematorium, including case and opinion, newscuttings and copy letter Reference WOKJ/15/1-12 Unit Date 1879-1884 Start Date 18790101 End Date 18841231
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