RAWCLIFFE, ST JAMES PARISH RECORDS

Comprising: Registration: Registers of Baptisms 1691-1958, Registers of Marriages 1689-1987, Registers of Burials 1753-1982, Registers of Banns 1826-1946, Registers of Services 1889-1954, Draft registers of baptisms and burials 1806-1863; Incumbent 1828-1989; churchwardens: assessments 1735-1766, accounts 1721-1807, 1910-1912, plans of proposed rebuilding by W H Brierley of York 1906 and bill of quantities 1908 and other fabric records 1927-1962; minutes of select vestry 1828-1856 (incl. poor relief applied for and awarded 1828-1837), accounts of mission church 1895-1960; parish magazines 1892-1968; Township: minutes 1784-1865; Overseers of the poor: assessments about 1720-1767, 1806-1815, 1834, accounts and vouchers 1740-1817, 1826-1833 with correspondence for certain years in the 1790s, annual 'calendars'of regular relief 1811-1834 (incomplete), apprenticeship indentures 1721-1796, removal orders 1748- 1812, settlement examinations etc 1766-1812, bastardy bonds etc 1744-1811; Constables: assessments 1722-1768, accounts and vouchers 1719-1812; highway surveyors, accounts 1757-1833 (few years); Charities 1838; other records 1759-1861, including militia 1759, land tax returns 1744, 1760, 1764 and assessed taxes, early 19th century, CB Robinson, 'History of the Priory and Peculiar of Snaith' (London, 1861)

The collection is divided into nine series as follows:

P60/1: Registration, Church Services, and Worship

P60/2: Incumbent

P60/3: Chapel and Churchwardens

P60/4: Vestry and Parochial Church Council

P60/5: Auxiliary Organisations

P60/6: Civil Records

P60/7: Charities

P60/8: Schools

P60/10: Miscellaneous

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Also available: Index: Bapt 1691-1911 Marr 1689-1836 Bur 1753-1902; Bishop's transcripts 1631-1878 (on microfilm)