Parish Records of York, St. Helen, Stonegate Finding Aid PR PARISH RECORDS (on deposit) YORK ST HELEN, STONEGATE Y/HEL 1- 9 Parish registers 1 [1568] - 1648 2 1690 - 1769 (marriages to 1753 only) 3 baptisms) 1770- 1812 (includes terriers 1777, 1781, 1786, burials ) 1809, 1817, 1825, 1849, 1861) 4 baptisms 1813-1890 5 marriages 1754-1812 6 marriages 1813-1837 7 marriages 1838-1908 8 marriages 1908-1957 9 burials 1815-1852 10 Benefactions and sacrament money 1792-1814 11 Register of poor apprenticed 1806-1821 (with 3 permits to apprentice inserted loose) 12-16 Poor rate books 12 1841-1844 13 1844-1847 14 1848-1849 15 1853-1854 16 1856-1858 17-18 Account books of surveyors for cleaning and lighting the parish 17 1763-1809 (at end (rev.) original receipts pasted in) 18 1809-1825 19 Vestry minute book and churchwardens' accounts 1894-1920 20-21 Registers of services 20 1901-1926 21 1927-1946 22/ 1-11 Overseers of the poor 1 settlement certificate 1825 2 removal orders and settlement examinations (30 does.) 1798-1851 3 notices of intent to appeal and case for opinion against settlement (3 does) 1805-1844 4 maintenance orders (14) 1801-1827 5 bastardy bonds (6) 1792-1809 6 apprenticeship indenture 1836 7 account of parish paupers relieved, giving name, residence, cause of relief and amount of relief 1845 continued ....* PR PARISH RECORDS (on deposit) (continued) YORK ST HELEN,,STONEGATE (continued) Y/HEL 22/ 1-11 Overseers of the poor (continued) 8 settlement examinations and papers relating to maintenance of pauper lunatics (6 does.) 1850-1852 9 notices of intent to appeal against poor rate assessment, with 2 appeal judications (8 does.) 1847 10 lawyers' bill for preparing cases against rate appeals 1817 11 Poor Law Commission circulars about rates, with one assessment (5 does.) 1844-1852 22/ 12 Charity Commissioners' notice of intent to inquire into parish charities 1824 22/13-14 Highway surveyors 13 case for opinion on payment of lamp assessment, Rowntree House, Davygate 1796 14 notice to repair pavement in St Helen's Square 1813 22/ 15 Agreement and accounts for alterations to church 1796 22/ 16 Arbitrator's award in respect of trees in garden in Love Lane, valuation of trees and lease of property, charity land of St Helen's 1805-1806 22/ 17 Letter enclosing order (missing) for closure of burial ground 1854 22/. 18 Account, provided as a precedent, of the trustees for building a new church at Newington, co. Surrey 1823 23-24 Parochial Church Council minute books 23 1920-1925 24 1925-1947 25 Marriage register 1957-1967 26-32 Visitors' books 26 1956-1961 27 1966-1968 28 1968-1969 29 1969-1971 30 1971-1972 31 1972-1973 32 1973-1974 33 Parochial Church Council minute book 1947-1972 34 Churchwardens' vouchers 1804-1873 35 Overseers of the poor vouchers 1821-1847 36 Church restoration: subscription account book, vouchers and receipts 1857-1859 37 Parish accounts: balance sheets 1955-1976 38 Numbers of communicants: tables 1950-1976 continued PR PARISH RECORDS (on deposit) (contihued) YORK ST HELEN, STONEGATE (continued) Y/HEL 39 Electorial roll: applications, nominations and lists of elected PCC members, churchwardens, sidesmen, etc. 1968-1977 40 Citation for faculty to confirm agreement 21 Mar. 1925 between the vicar of St Martin with St Helen and the churchwarden of the one part and the PCC of St Helen of the second part and Herbert Edward Holgate of Stonegate, York of the third part, concerning a window in the property of Herbert Edward Holgate 26 Mar. 1925 41 Register of services 1964-1978 (for earlier ones see Y/MCS 32-34 and 20-21 above) 42-43 Visitors' books 42 1901-1965 43 19794980 (and also 26-32 above) 44 Churchwardens' account book 1971-1980 (for earlier volume see Y/MCS 31) 45 Church rate receipt book 1933-1955 46 Bank books and vouchers 1935-1980 47 Balance sheet of the feoffees 19654966 48 Insurance policies 1937-1978 49 Valuation of windows in church 1957 50 Agreement relating to access of light over St Helen's burial ground to no. 19 Davydate 1950 51 Agreement relating to advertisement board, St Helen's burial ground 1950 and correspondence 1949-1956 52 Receipts for rent of cycle shed, St Helen's churchyard 1950-1978 53 Copy of conveyance of 7 St Olave's Road for a parsonage house and copy mortgage and deed of covenant 1954, with note of discharge of loan 1966 54 Correspondence, specification and estimate for proposed organ 1958 55-56 Faculties 55 leave of access to permit storage of cylces in cycle rack (Trustee Saving Bank) and leave of access to Mulberry Hall, Stonegate (with plan) 1977 56 fixing of brass plaque on west interior wall to record installation of floodlighting and fixing of a secure collecting box 1978 continued PR PARISH RECORDS (on deposit) (continued) YORK ST HELEN, STONEGATE (cont.) Y/HEL 57-59 Historical notes & photographs (the property of Mr N.Green) 57 record of press accounts (St Martin with St Helen) 1897-1977 58 volume of newspaper cuttings and photographs 59 typescript historical notes on St Helen and St Martin's churches 60 Two bills for decoration and repairs done at the church and a receipt for payment into the Dilapidation Account 1910-14 61 Papers relating to glebe land 1 Correspondence and solicitor's bill relating to the sale of part of the New Earswick glebe land 1911-12 2 Two letters concerning the lease of part of St Helen's glebe land at New Earswick 1913 3 Details of glebe land acreages, tenants and rents (early 20th cent.?) 4 Map and details of proposed area for town planning scheme Sept.1913 5 Accounts of E.S.Cox, land agent, for management of glebe land and receipts for payments made 1914-1920 6 Letter from W.H.Brierley concerning repairs required to the glebe and an estimate of the cost 1911 62 Accounts of income of vicar of St Helen's from his living, late 19th cent. - 1910. 63 Correspondence concerning the lease of the Clarence Hotel yard, Dec.1887, and memorandum concerning the development of the Clarence Hotel site by the York United Gas Light Company, and plan, Oct.1911 64 Circular letter concerning the valuation of St Helen's church for the Finance Act of 1910 5 July 1915 65 Abstract of a grant of a rent charge of 40s p.a. from James Croft to Thomas Hartley and others, 3 July 1792, and related letter 26 Sept.1882 66 Bill for lantern services in the church Dec.1910 Parish Records on deposit YORK, ST HELEN, STONEGATE PR Y/HEL 67 Bank book for St Helen's Clothing Club 1890-1902 68 Two schedules of the documents belonging to the parish; the later schedule also contains a list of benefactions 1808, 1827 69 CHARITIES /1 Two schedules of benefactions made to the parish in the 17th and 18th centuries /2 Lists of poor parishioners with comments on their health and income Mid 19th century /3 Lists of donations made from parish charities and their recipients 1860-1880 /4 Order from the Charity Commission for a scheme for the charity of Francis Atkinson for church repairs 11 June 1973 70 Photographic record of interiors, fixtures, fittings, place etc of St Helen, Stonegate and St Martin, Coney Street, comprising 35m colour negatives with index Aug 1995 71 Licence re: use of a bicycle shed at St Helen's Church 27 June 1978 .