ACCESSIONS 1 APRIL 1998 - 30 SEPTEMBER 1999 BURY ST EDMUNDS BRANCH OFFICIAL Thingoe Poor Law Union: register of births in the workhouse 1837-1913 with transcripts and an article on the discovery of the register (ADA502) Lakenheath Internal Drainage Board: minutes 1934-1977, rate books 1974-1992 (EK501) Mildenhall Internal Drainage Board: minutes 1935-1978, rate books 1974-1992 (EK500) Bury St Edmunds Borough Council: deeds and expired leases of various properties, mainly in Bury St Edmunds, and one property in Haverhill 1690 - c1962; maps and plans from the Borough Surveyor’s Department 1876-1951(EE500) Melford Rural District Council: scrapbook of newspaper cuttings c1928-1946 (EF501) Forest Heath District Council and predecessor authorities: rating records 1938-1988 (EH501) St Edmundsbury Borough Council: committee minutes 1973-1994 (EH500) LOCAL PUBLIC Health Authorities, West Suffolk: photocopy of abstract of title to plot of ground in West Road, Bury St Edmunds (1897); printed material 20th cent (ID508) SCHOOLS Bildeston CP School: log book 1929-1986 (ADB532) Bury St Edmunds,Guildhall Feoffment CP School: miscellaneous photographs, newspaper cuttings and certificates c1900 - 1998 (ADB550) Bury St Edmunds, County Grammar School for Girls: photographs of school groups and activities c1951-1971 (ADB722) Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk County School: collection of material relating to pupils and activities from 1904-1955 including photographs and school magazines (HD2349) Nowton Court Preparatory School: records c1947-c1990 (GD504) Stoke by Nayland School: copy photograph of girls and schoolmistress 1893 (K984) CIVIL PARISH Cavendish: correspondence and miscellaneous papers c1974-c1997 (EG576) Eriswell: minutes 1981-1996, (including Poors Estate Charity 1981-1995), statements of account 1972/3-1997/8 (EG528) Hawstead: minutes 1894-1997: correspondence, financial and miscellaneous papers c1971- 1998 (EG713) Hepworth: minutes 1982 - 1991 (EG552) Icklingham: precept book 1951-1970 (EG529) Kedington: licence to park a gritting machine 1990 (EG546) Pakenham: minutes 1969-1988 (EG593) Stanton: minutes 1970-1992 ; accounts1960-1990 ; precept book 1958-1983; register of pecuniary interest and confidential minutes in committee 1971-1976; miscellaneous deeds and papers 1911-1986 (EG549) ANGLICAN Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich: Diocesan Registry: register of transfers of patronage 1899 – 1991; files created 1961 - 1998 (FE500) Clare Rural Deanery: Chapter, conference and committee minutes1884-1968 ; visitation and miscellaneous papers 1884 - 1968 (FH509) PARISHES Barrow: register of services 1979-1997; PCC minutes 1935 - 1999 (FL525) Beyton: register of baptisms 1894-1997 (FL528) Bradfield St Clare: register of banns1873-1998; miscellaneous papers 1976-1996 (FL532) Cavenham: registers of marriages 1838-1998, banns 1824-1996 and burials 1814-1996 (FL547) Cockfield: register of banns 1954-1988; PCC minutes 1955-1986; parish magazines 1919- 1930; terrier and inventory 1973-1980 (FL552) Little Cornard: registers of marriages 1837 - 1993 , burials 1938 - 1992 and services 1942 – 1995 (FL555) Denham: registers of baptisms 1813-1990 and burials 1813-1995; plan of Barrow reinforcement main drain 1982 (FL559) Denston: parish book c1665-1830; overseers’ accounts 1781-1840; poor rate books 1836- 1864; praecipe book 1757-1784 (FL560) Exning: St Martin’s church: registers of baptisms 1945-1997, marriages 1947-1964, banns 1979-1984 and services 1973-1995; St Philip’s church: register of services 1974-1991 (FL567) Felsham: registers of banns 1823-1998 and services 1976-1998 (FL570) Fornham All Saints: registers of marriages 1994-1998 (FL572) Hawstead: pedigree and history of the Drury family of Hawstead 1997; slides of the village hall, 1976, and village sign 1997 (FL580) Herringswell: registers of marriages 1838-1998, banns 1824-1998 and burials 1813-1997 (FL583) Hessett: register of marriages 1837-1995 (FL584) Hopton: PCC minutes 1930-198, School Managers' minutes 1929-1982, endowment accounts 1903-1979, deeds and papers 1855-1978, parish magazines 1961-1998, miscellaneous papers 1826-1974 (FL588) Hundon: registers of services 1986-1996 and papers late 20th cent (FL590) Ingham: miscellaneous papers 19th-20th cent (FL594) Kettlebaston: register of burials 1813-1997; listed buildings notification 1958 (FL597) Poslingford: register of burials 1813-1996 (FL615) Risby: register of marriages 1989-1998 (FL618) Rougham: register of banns 1967-1990 (FL619) Rushbrooke: registers of baptisms 1813-1997 and burials 1813-1996 (FL620) Stanton All Saints: marriage licences 1814-1836 (FL629) Stanton St John: marriage licences 1787-1837 (FL630) Stoke by Clare: material relating to the choir, orders of service, postcards and miscellaneous papers 1899-1987 (FL631) Stradishall: register of marriages 1837-1983 (FL632) Tuddenham St Mary: registers of baptisms 1874-1998, marriages 1837-1998 and banns 1888- 199[8] (FL644) West Row: register of marriages 1978-1998 (FL671) West Stow: register of burials 1813-1992 (FL648) Wixoe: registers of baptisms 1813-1996 and burials 1813-1995 (FL654) Woolpit: register of marriages 1979-1986 (FL655) Wordwell: register of burials 1814-1991 (FL656) Great Wratting: material for a history of the parish 1972; photographs of the church nd, [c1970 ](FL503) NONCONFORMIST Barrow Congregational Church: minutes1879-1978; photocopy of deed of appointment of new trustees (1969) (FK3515) Bury St Edmunds, Garland Street Baptist Church: choir minutes 1969 – 1983 (FK2501) Bury St Edmunds, Whiting Street United Reformed Church: miscellaneous printed and manuscript material, mainly collected for the 350th Anniversary exhibition in 1996, c1894-1996 including minutes1982-1995, files and papers relating to church and church halls 1990-1997 (FK3502) Cavendish United Reformed Church: marriage register1915-1974 (FK3513) Sudbury Preparative meeting of Society of Friends: accounts 1971 - 1992 (FK6 501) CHARITIES Guildhall Feoffment Trust, Bury St Edmunds: sale particulars and memorandum of sale, Bridewell Lane Almshouses 1952; reports and accounts 1997-1998 (GB500) Shore’s Charity, Freckenham: account book and papers 1889 - 1987 (GB564) Lavenham Exhibition Endowment Charity: memoranda book of accounts 1660-1989 and minutes 1807-1993 (GB565) Suffolk Regiment: miscellaneous records and papers 20th cent including 4th and 5th Battalion Old Comrades Fund minutes and register of applications 1934-1995 (GB554) SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS Eastern Federation of Amenity Societies: files of correspondence and related papers c1965- 1979 (GC556) Bury St Edmunds and Colchester District, Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows: administrative and financial records relating to district and individual lodges in Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire c1842 - 1984 (GF512) West Suffolk Friendly Society: minutes 1919-1969 (GF502) Bures Women’s Institute: committee minutes 1921-1992, monthly meeting minutes 1923- 1994, miscellaneous minutes and accounts 1923-1990, attendance registers 1947-1983, scrapbooks 1963-1980, programmes, photographs and miscellaneous papers 1924-1995 (GH514) Bury St Edmunds branch, Suffolk Deaf Association: minutes, accounts, correspondence and papers 1946-1994 (GC568) Bury St Edmunds Concert Club: address book, programmes and posters 1992-1997 (GC566) Bury St Edmunds, Royal Arch Masons White Rose Chapter no.1008: signature book 1975- 1998 (GC562) Bury St Edmunds Theatre Management Ltd: records of Secretary 1965-1970 (GC515) Bury St Edmunds branch,Transport and General Workers Union: correspondence and case files, 1958-1968; ‘Ministry of Labour Gazette’ Dec 1966-Nov 1967; minutes of Eastern Area Joint Industrial Gas Council, Trade Union Side 1962-1965; miscellaneous papers 1958-1967 (GG503) Bury St Edmunds Women’s Institute Market: record books containing minutes of the management committee and annual general meetings 1933-1988 with notes on its history and annual statements of account 1933-1936 (GH527) Glemsford, Ancient Order of Foresters,Court Excelsior: miscellaneous papers kept by secretary including membership papers, correspondence, rules and circulars c1922-1956 (GF511) Newton Green Women’s Institute: minutes 1948-1993, record books 1951-1995 (GH525) Thurlow Women’s Institute: monthly meeting minutes 1949-1989, committee meeting minutes 1952-1985, programmes 1954-1979 (GH526) FAMILY AND PERSONAL see also PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Alston family of Nayland: deeds and papers, mainly of the Alston family of Nayland, but also the Vanderzee and Dyer families 1694 - 1889 (HA541) Philip Bunbury: appointment as cornet in 7th Regt Dragoon Guards 1844 (HD2332) Robert Thomas Churchyard: exercise books while a pupil at Melford Classical Academy later Mr Burroughs's Academy, Bury St Edmunds 1840-[1846] (HD2346) G P V Creagh: account book as notary public 1958-1994; judgement given in case of Wickhambrook PCC v Croxford regarding the Chancel Repairs Act of 1932, 1935; file of correspondence and papers relating to the West Suffolk County Club 1970-1972 (HD2337) Croftes family of Little Saxham: notes on; partial pedigree, drawings of arms (16th-18th cent); undated [19th cent] (HD2341) Lily Ethel Doe: photocopy of diaries 1895-1907 (P911) W B Donne: photocopies of; transcript of a letter for Mrs V Smith nee Donne to Mowbray Donne 1896, postcard of Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, photograph of W B Donne, sketch of the Donne family home in Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds 1896 (P918) Drury family: photocopies and notes on the history of the family