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Doncaster Archives Department

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The National Archives THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS

Report on the records of the

METHODIST CHURCH, DONCASTER

deposited in Doncaster

(North East, West and Priory Place Circuits)

Reproduced for the National Register of Archives (South Yorks. Committee) hy THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP

1973

All rights reserved.

No. 75/211 National Register of Archives (South Committee)

Owner: The Methodist Church, Doncaster.

Custodian: The Borough Librarian, Central Library, V/aterdale, Doncaster.

Where kept: Library strong room.

Condition: Good.

Access: Reference library service.

RECORDS OP THE METHODIST CHURCH

Doncaster West Circuit Doncaster North-east Circuit Priory Place Circuit

Reproduced by the NATIONAL REGISTER OP ARCHIVES from typescripts supplied by The Department of Local History and Archives, Central Library, SHEPPIELD

19 7 3 DONCASTER WEST CIRCUIT (nov/) (was Oxford Place Circuit)

No. of Title vols, Oxford Place Circuit Stewards Account Books, 1949-68 2 Oxford Place Sunday School Attendance Book, 1908-29 1 Oxford Place Sunday School Attendance Book, Junior Mixed Department, 1933-44 1 Oxford Place Sunday School Register, Beginners and Primary Department, 1958-63 1 Oxford Place Methodist Church Class Book, 1957-58 1

Oxford Place Sunday School (Girls) Admission Register, 1904-14 1

Oxford Place Sunday School (Girls) Register, 1905-34 7

Oxford Place Sunday School Scholars Roll (Girls and Boys) 1960-68 1 Oxford Place Sunday School, Group Register, 1964-65 1 Oxford Place Sunday School Junior Department Register, 1920-52 5

Oxford Place Sunday School Scholars Roll, Junior Mixed Department, 1953-56 1 Oxford Place Sunday School Scholars Roll, Mixed Department, 1947-57 2 Oxford Place Sunday School Scholars Roll, Primary Department, 1950-53 1 Oxford Place Sunday School, Teachers Roll, Junior Mixed 1942-58 2 Oxford Place Sunday School Register, Senior Section, 1928-32 1 Oxford Place Sunday School, Teachers Roll, 1923-59 4

Oxford Place Sunday School, Teachers Roll (Boys), 1934-56 3 Baptismal Register of Oxford Place Methodist Church, 1866-1898 .3

DONCASTER WEST CIRCUIT (now) (was Oxford Place Circuit, originally Spring Gardens Primitive Methodist Circuit) Road Methodist Church Roll Books, 1920-27 7

Spring Gardens, Hyde Park, Hampole, Norton and Roll Books, 1928-34 6

- 1 ­ No. of Title vola.

Doncaster Primitive Methodist Church Circuit . Reports, Chapel Schedules and Sunday School Reports, 18U8-1950 7k

Names of the Trustees of the Primitive Methodist Chapel in the Doncaster Circuit 1

Hampole, Norton, Campsall, , , Woodlands, Carcroft, Methodist Church Roll Books, 1913-1U 1

Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry, Austerfield, Woodlands, Methodist Church Roll Books, 191U-26 12

Hexthorpe Methodist Church Roll Book 1

Hexthorpe, Hyde Park,'Warmsv/orth and Hampole Methodist Church Roll Book 1907/8 1 Hexthorpe, Hyde Park Methodist Church Roll Book, 1908-26 17

Hyde Park Methodist Church Register of weekly contributions, 1922-37 1

Spring Gardens Methodist Church Class Book, 1931-36 1

Spring Gardens Methodist Church Minutes o'f Quarterly

meeting, 19h3-k8 1

Spring Gardens Methodist Church Roll Book, 1907-3, n.d. 2

Spring Gardens, Balhy Road Methodist Churches Roll

Books, 1908-20 10

Spring Gardens. Methodist Church Roll Books, 1920-28 8

Warmsworth, Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry and Austerfield Methodist Churches Roll Book, 1908-9 1 , Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry, Austerfield and Woodlands Methodist Churches Roll Book, 1909-10 1 Warmsv/orth, Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry, Austerfield, Woodlands, Skellow and Bullcroft Methodist Churches Roll Book, 1910-11 1 V/armsworth, Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry, Austerfield, Woodlands, Skellow-Bullcroft, Carcroft and New Methodist Churches Roll Book, 1911-12 1

Warmsworth, Hampole, Norton, Campsall, Bawtry, Austerfield, Woodlands, Carcroft, Nev/ Sdlington Methodist Churches Rol l Book, 1912-13 1

- 2 ­ DONCASTER NORTH EAST CIRCUIT (now) (originally Netherhall Road Circuit) No. of

Title vols.

Netherhall Road Methodist Church Ledger, 1899-1925 1 Abstainers Roll, Netherhall Road, 1934-38 1 Abstainers Roll, Netherhall Road, 1939-43 1

Abstainers Roll, Junior Section, Netherhall Road, 1937- 40 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1892-97 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1897-1903 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1903-09 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1909-14 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1914-19 1 Netherhall Road Collection Journal, 1924-54 1 Pew Rents, 1904-20 1

Netherhall Road Wesleyan Church Society Stewards Minute Book, 1915-39 1 Netherhall Road Wesleyan Church Society Stewards Minute Book, 1939-54 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Attendance Register, Teachers, 1936-52 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Primary Department Attendance Register, Teachers, 1928-43 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Admission Register, 1910-37 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School, Admission Register, 1938- 52 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Attendance Register, 1949-53 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Intermediate Department Attendance Register, 1944-48 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, 1949-54 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, Girls Department, 1934-43 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Teacher*s Roll, n.d. 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Teacher's Roll, 1940-46 1

Netherhail Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, 1945-48 1 - 3 ­ No. of Title ygls.,

Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, 195U-58 ' 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, 19U9-33 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, Junior Department, 1959-60 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School,Star Register Roll, Intermediate Department, 1959-6h 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roll, Junior Department, 1956-59 1 Netherhall Road Sunday School Star Register Roil, 1959-60 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Scholars Roll, 1955­ 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School Scholars Roll, 1959­ 1

Netherhall Road Sunday School, Cradle Roll, 1911 Mounted

Netherhall Road Sunday School, Cradle Roll, n.d. rol l

Poster: Doncaster Religious Services l86h Poster: Sunday plan of the Wesleyan Preachers in the Doncaster Circuit, 1828

Poster: Sunday Plan of V/esleyan Prayer Meetings in Doncaster and the neighbourhood, 181+3

Poster: Doncaster Circuit 1822

Cheque Books showing payments (i) 19U9-1963 (l cheque book, No.2 account); (ii) 1956-196

(9 cheque hooks)

Paying-in book ­ 27 April, 1955 ­ 30 November, 1959

Bank Statements, January 1958 ­ December 1961 Netherhall Road Trust Fund Donations Receipt Book, 2 March, 196U to 31 August, 1966 1 North East Circuit Quarterly Assessments 1970/71 - with letter

Envelope containing typescript minutes of quarterly meeting of Doncaster North East Circuit, 2 March, 1970 2 copies

Collection slips - 5 September, 1961 - 20 December, 3 196h envelopes

Receipts from 1 September, 1961 to 31 August, 1962

Minutes and correspondence of "Monday Club", concerns various outings during the period 19h8-1953

- h ­ Title No: o f yols. Typescript list of Church members - undated Methodist youth festival 1952 - ms. song notebook. The Bate Library (Hetherhall Road Methodist Church) Issue book 19^5 - 1965 1 Typescript list (undated) of Trustees for:­ (a) Thorne Level Trust (b) Hatfield Station Road (c) Beckett Road (d) Barhby Dun Trust (e) Church Road, Tliorne Netherhall Road Methodist Church Collection Journal: a record of collections made in the Y/esleyan Methodist Church, Nether Hall Road, in the Doncaster Priory Place Circuit, 192h-l95h. Netherhall Road Methodist Church. Netherhall Road Chapel Trust Account Book 189k - 1911 1 Hatfield Woodhouse, Bawtry Road Methodist Church Trustees Minute Book 1912-19^9 1 Hatfield Woodhouse V/esleyan Sunday School Minute books, C.1930- 19U1 1 Stainforth Silver Street Methodist Church Trustees Minute Book 1937- 1950 1 Thorne Y/esleyan Methodist Chapel, Thome, Trustees 1 Minute Book 1895 - 1925 Nether Hall Road Methodist Church, Doncaster; Jubilee Celobrations, October, 1953 2 Hether Hall Road Methodist Church: Hether Hall Road Chapel Trust Act Account Book (189U-19H) 1 Horth East Methodist Circuit, Doncaster: Abstract of Accounts, 1950-1959 10 Hatfield Woodhouse Methodist Church: the opening and dedication of the Church, 8 June, 1968 1 Hatfield Woodhouse: Bawtry Road Methodist Church Trustees Minute Book, 1912-19U9 1 Hatfield V/oodhouse, Wesleyan Sunday School Minute Book, c.l930-19hl 1 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Thorne, Trustees Minute Book, 1895-1925 1

PRIORY PLACE CIRCUIT Priory Place Methodist Circuit stewards finances 1921-U3 Priory Place Methodist Circuit Doncaster Y/esleyan Foreign Missionary Society Account Book, 1867-1925 1 Priory Place Methodist Circuit Extension Fund minute book, 1911-1930 1

- 5 ­ No. of Title vols. Priory Place Methodist Circuit Local Preachers Meeting minute book I877 - 1890 1 Priory Place Methodist Church local preacher meeting minute book 1891 - 1908 1 Priory Place Methodist Circuit minute book of the local preacher's meetings, 1909 - 1927 1 Priory Place Methodist Circuit statistical summary of the Wesleyan Chapel and othe^ trust property in the Doncaster Priory Place Circuit, 1912- 1939, 19h0 - 19U8 2 Priory Place Methodist Circuit statistical summary of the Methodist Chapel and other property in the Doncaster Priory Place Circuit, 19hl - 1950. Priory Place Methodist Church Trustee Treasurer's Account Book, 1922-27. Priory Place Methodist Circuit, Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Mission Account Book, 1925 - 1936 1 Statistical summary of the Wesleyan Chapel and other trust property in the Doncaster Priory Place Circuit, 1912- 1950 2

MISCELLANEOUS Methodist Missionary Society: Doncaster and District schedules of accounts, 19U7­ 1956 United Trustees Meeting Minute Book, 1891- 1956 Methodist Missionary Society, Doncaster and Barnsley District schedules of account, annual volumes covering 19U7-56. Mission, statistical summary of the Methodist Chapel and other trust property in the South Yorkshire Mission, 193h - 1950

- 6 ­ i * JUL 1976

DONCASTER BOROUGH COUNCIL, ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT

Deposited records.

Doncaster Spring Gardens Primitive Methodist Circuit Records Circuit created 1853

Baptismal Registers

1. Hyde Park Chapel, other chapels and homes in the Doncaster First Circuit, 1901-1924.

2. Sr*-ing Gardens Chapel, 1845-1861.

3. Spring Gardens Chapel, 1862-1872.

4. Spring Gardens Chapel, 1872-1893.

5. Spring Gardens Chapel, 1893-1956.

Minute 8

6. Circuit Committee, 1855-1859.

At back Leaders Meeting Minutes, 1855-1859.

7. Circuit Committee, 1860-1867.

8. Circuit Committee, 1867-1881. At back Hyde Park New School Trustees Meetings, 1880. 9. Circuit Committee, 1886-1902.

10. Doncaster branch (Duke Street) Committee Meetings, 1843-1852. At back Leaders Meeting Minutes, 1845-1851.

11. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1851-1857.

12. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1857-1862.

13. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1862-1882.

14. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1882-1893.

15. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1903-1916. At back Trustees Meeting, 1909. With list of Trustees.

16. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1917-1924.

17. Doncaster branch, Circuit Quarterly Meetings, 1924-1943. At back correspondence concerning church's financial difficulties, 1931-1932.

18. Meetings of the Trustees and Chapel Committee, 1834-1893.

19. Meetings of the Trustees and Chapel Committee, 1894-1919. - 2 ­

20. Meetings of the Trustees and Chapel Committee, 1919-1926.

21. Meetings of the Trustees and Chapel Committee, 1927-1946.

22. Meetings of the Trusttes and Chapel Committee, 1946-1956.

23. Leaders Meetings, 1860-1881.

24. Doncaster First Circuit. Station Sunday School Minute Book, 1922-1950. A*- back Methodist Youth Department Circuit Schedule for year ending 31 Dec 1949. Local reports of the Methodist Youth Department for the year ending 31 Dec 1949.

25. Doncaster South Circuit Meetings, 1950-1968.

26. Book of miscellaneous minutes: Subjects for discussion, 1860. Day School Committee, 1864-1866. School Building Committee, 1865. Circuit Committee, 1870-1884. Fitzwilliam Street Chapel land, 1869-1870.

Accounts

27. Duke Street Chapel Trustees Account Book, 1842-1854.

28. Branch and Circuit Quarterly Account Book, 1851-1873. At back List of Trustees and notes on those leaving and expelled, 1864-1867.

29. Branch and Circuit Quarterly Account Book, 1873-1893.

30. Branch and Circuit Quarterly Account Book, 1893-1917.

31. Pew rents for the West Gallery of Spring Gardens, 1854-1868.

Miscellaneous

32. Souvenir for Spring Gardens Organ Rebuilding, 1922.