GB0154 3-189, YX, XYZ Northamptonshire Record Office This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 12385 The National Archives 21SEP87 Northamptonshire Society of Friends Northamptonshire Record Office Wootton Hall Park Northampton NN4 9BQ Reference no: 3-189, YX, XYZ H. M. C 12385 NATIONAL R£0ffT£* ) NORTHAMPTON SHIRE RECORD OEEICE ouranary List of Records of the Northamptonshire quarterly Meeting of the bociety of Friends^ its successor (Bucks, and Northants. Quarterly Meeting; and of its constituent Meetings. Northamptonshire quarterly Meeting (to 1 643) .V,en' s minutes 47 1725-1761 1+8 1761-1796 49 1797-1830 50 1031-1843 Ministers and elders minutes 7 1759-1827 c 1828-1643 Sufferings books 3 1793-1b27 Digest Registers Births 1647-1636 These three are abstracts of the original Marriages 1659-1634 quarterly Meeting Registers ana the Burials 1657-1637 Bugbrooke oc Northampton Monthly Meeting Registers all now deposited in the Public Record Office Supplement 1656-1624 This is an abstract of the original -ellingborough MM Register now deposited in the Public Record Office LRG-6.13&0] Trust property books 101 Book of title deeds Compiled originally in I605-6 and continued from time to time. This is the quarterly Meeting book 51 Ditto Transcribed about 1826 and concerns only Northampton Monthly Meeting properties 52 Ditto Ditto and concerns only the Viellingborough Monthly Meeting properties Bucks, and Nor than ts. quarterly Meeting (1 o43-1665; Men1 s minutes 1 65 1 643-1 665 ^omen's minutes 56 1643-1865 Ministers and elders minutes 58 1643-1865 continued as Northampton and Wellingborough MM U& E minutes, 1066-1ti97 In 1865 this quarterly Meeting became part of Bedfordshire ty. M. - 2 bugbrooke Monthly Meeting (to 1777) and its successors Bugbrooke and Northampton (1777-1603;, Bugbrooke (1603-1816), Northampton (1616-1866) and Northampton and Wellingborough (from 1666J. Men's minutes 12 1732-1770 16 1771-1768 17 1769-1810 16 missing in 1908 19 1618-1826 20 1627-1632 21 1633-18U3 22 161+3-1854 23 1 855-1866 28 1866-1871 including Wellingborough Monthly Meeting minutes 1866 from 1853 t o 29 1672-1861+ 55 188U-1892 62 1892-1903 63 1903-1912 102 1913-1922 103 1922-1930 10U 1931-1939 105 1939-1943 106 1943-1949 107 1950-1957 women's minutes 31 missing in 1908 32 1769-1625 including accounts of same period 33 1026-16144 34 1644-1666 34a 1666-1681 60 1682-1691 106 1892-1897 :.:inisters and elders or Ministry and oversight minutes 56 1866-1697 in Bucks, and Northants. (4. M. M & £ minute book 161+3-1665 6k 1898-1906 Sufferings books 6 1737-1792 4 1793-1050 Account books 53 1769-1769 17 1792-1610 in the Men's minute book of 1769-1610 1616-1629 109 1902-1950 Lists of Members 110 1837 1885 111 with alterations down to 1885 with alterations down to 1933 in the Wellingborough Monthly Meeting List of Members book - 3 - Northampton Monthly Meeting (to 1777) Men's minutes 10 1700-1726 11 1726-17U4 the overlapping books contain the sane minutes 13 1738-1747 in each book for the years 1738 to 1744 14 1747-1759 15 1760-1771 37 1772-1777 including Nortnampton Preparative Meeting minutes 1777-1614 Women's minutes 30 1761 -1777 Wellinffborough Monthly Meeting (to 1666) Men's minutes 25 1772-1817 26 1618-1845 27 1845-1853 28 1653-1866 and continued as Northampton and Wellingborough Monthly Meeting minutes to 1671 Men's minutes - rough 24 1633-1641 every page i s crossed through Women's minutes 35 1614-1829 35a 1629-1649 36 1649-1856 67 1856-1666 Ministers and elders minutes 9 1779-1833 also called 'select' meetings Sufferings books 5 1793-1837 and two entries in 1659 and 1861 List of members 111 1637 with alterations to 1685 and continued as the Northampton and Wellingborough lis t of members to 1933 Account books 112 Subscriptions to the new Meeting House 1618 113 Bank book of treasurer for same, 1616-1621 114 1865-1869 concerns Wellingborough rather than tne Korthants. & 115 1890-1898 Wellingborough Monthly Meeting 116 1699-1919 117 Wellingborough Building Society Rules, 1695, with account of payments 1903-1915 which are included in no. 116 and refer to a mortgage from the Society to pay for alterations to Kettering Meeting House. - 4 - Preparative Meetings:- Kettering I.:en's minutes 44 1605-1821 45 missing i n 1908 46 1844-1860 46a 1860-1686 118 1686-1919 119 1919-19U7 tVomenfs minutes 66 1842-1860 61 1661-1667 Northampton Men's minutes 37 1777-1814 in Northampton Monthly Meeting minute hook 1772-1777 38 1632-1857 166 1909-1926 167 1926-1938 166 1938-1951 169 1951-1958 with statements of account, 1951-4, 1956-6 IVellingborough Men's minutes 39 1636-1849 40 1649-1864 41 1 664-1 677 59 1676-1903 65 1903-1920 Women's minutes 42 1819-1640 43 1641-1865 Miscellaneous documents:­ 120 Conveyance by Thomas Smallbone to trustees of one rood i n Eydon for a Quaker Meeting House, 1690 1 21 Licence from quarter sessions for Meeting House at Eydon, 1691 122 Lew trust deed of iiydon property, 1724 123 Ditto, 1726 124 Ditto, 1764 125 Ditto, 1794 126 Ditto, 1o33 127 Ditto, 1682 128 Note about sale of same, 1929 129 Probate of T. Seaton's will devising inter alia Toy's close in Woodford on trust, 1823 130 Trust deed of same, ,1624 131 Letters about sale of Same, 1897 1 132 Copy of probate of iidmund Arnold s will devising inter alia money for poor Quakers of Bugbrooke and Ploore, 1726 133 Trust deed of same, 1730 - 5 ­ 134 Trust deed of money belonging to Northampton Monthly Meeting, 1779; also extracts from several wills containing bequests to Quakers 135 Trust deed of money for poor Quakers of Northampton, 1802 136 Copy of probate of Martha Coles's will , 1636 137 Account of exors. of W.R. Wells, 1919-21, and letters about same 138 Particulars of trust properties in Northampton, Courteenhall and Moulton, c. 1800 139 2 registers of marriages of-15 Quakers at Bugbrooke, Northampton and Eydon, 1838-1669 11+0 Particulars of marriages of George Warner of Kettering (1743) and of his son John and daughter Ann (1791-2); also instructions to dig grave for Ann widow of George Warner (1791) i 1+1 Birth note of Richard Bodaly at Greens Norton, 1778 11+2 Birth notes of Northampton and Wellingborough Monthly Meeting, 35 entries, 1910-1948 11+3 Burial notes of Northampton and Wellingborough Monthly Meeting, 87 entries, 1915-1954 (2 vols.) 11+1+ Removal forms and Acceptance Certificates of same, 1935-1950 11+5 Marriage forms, 1936-37 (3) 11+6 List of persons buried in Wellingborough burial ground, 1611+-1933 11+7 Sundry official circulars addressed to the Registering officers of the N and W M.M. from 1870 11+8 Notes about Duddington Meeting house, 1725-29 and 1600 11+9 Circular and list of subscribers to new Wellingborough Meeting house, c. 1613 150 Specifications for building same and bills , 1612-19 and for altering a cottage next to it , 1636 151 Wellingborough Manor Court steward's fees for admission of new trustees of "Wellingborough copyhold property 161+J+-45 152 Letters about burial ground at Winwick (Hunts.; 1692 153 Copy of returns as to trust property at Bugbrooke, Kingsthorpe, Great Doddington, Old and Woodford 1893 154 Accounts: Wellingborough M.M. 1837; Kettering Meeting House Committee, c.1900; Northampton and Wellingborough M.M. statement, 1934; particulars of Glover's Charity at Irthlingborough, 1936 155 Printed list of N & W M.M. trust property 1905; also extracts from several wills containing bequests to Quakers; particulars of whereabouts of trust deeds (c. 1601+); also plan and letting agreement of Raunds burial ground, 1880 156 Meeting House fire insurance policies 1920-38 (5) 157 Extracts from minute books as to tenure of cottages at Wellingborough (1772-1670), 1926 158 Proposal (with reasons) for giving Pinedon Council a strip of land in front of the meeting house, 1931 159 Draft deed of dedication of strip of land i n front of Wellingborough Meeting house to Wellingborough U.D.C., 1937 160 Tabulated statements of membership etc. of Wellingborough M.M. , 1861-1666, and N and I M.M. 1904-1933 161 Order forms for Yearly Meeting documents, 1934-37 162 Attendance returns from Kettering, "Wellingborough and Northampton Preparative Meetings, 1914 163 Map of area covered by Beds. Q.M. and circular from same, 1928 161+ Reports about Friends' School i n Islington Road (Middlesex; 1611-1819; also circular from W. Alexander of York about obituaries in the Annual Monitor, 1821 165 Extracts from Yearly Meeting proceedings, 1612, 1620-24 and 181+1+ - 6 ­ 166 Sufferings of Quakers in Nor than t s. , 1711-1726 and 1c46; also list of children of W. Simkin of Braybrooke, 1685-1709 and of John Allen of Dingley, 1694-1705 167 Printed Queries (1791); particulars of the Marriage Portion fund (c.1797); circulars about Ackworth School (1799, 1601, 1606, 1808 and 1615) and Sidcot School (1610); list of pamphlets for sale (c.1620?); receipts for membership certificates (1803 and 1632; 168 Miscellaneous notes and letters about trust properties of minor interest only (19th and 20th c.) 169 Miscellaneous bills; repairs to Raunds Meeting House (1818), premises at Doddington (c.1820), cottage at Oeddington (1865), fencing at Nf In wick (1668), bills , for woollen stuffs etc. (1629-31) etc. 170 Account of annual examination at Croydon School, 1fc32 171 K & 1 M.M.