Reference
P93/28/2
Title
Notebook entitled "Felmersham Parish Memoranda"
Date free text
1844 - 1908
Production date
From: 1844 To: 1908
Scope and Content
pp 1 - 2 sketch plan to show roads and vicarage lands. Shows also footpaths, and house sites. Marks houses (with numbers) at The Lodge, Hawkswell and Hardwick (part of survey and plans of whole village on pp 5-6 and 9-10 below)
pp 3 - 4 brief historical account of the village; separation from Pavenham; endowment of vicarage; charities; help from Trinity college. Pasted in a printed account of the church by H. Addington made for visit of the Archaeological Society in 1881, with note of inscriptions on bells.
pp 5 - 6 sketch plan of centre of village with houses numbered with schedule giving occupiers in 1868, with some later alterations. Pu 275/1979
p 7 list of communicants, with some later remarks as 'left' or 'dead'
p 8 list of widows or aged or poor people, with the number of the house as on maps on pp 5-6 & 9 - 10 Note of those to whom Mr McQueen or the Vicar gives presents at Christmas
pp 9 -10 plan of Readwell 1869 with houses numbered and schedule of inhabitants, with some later notes. NEG Pu 275/1979
no page no. Schedule of inhabitants of numbered houses in 1871
pp 11-2 cont.
pp 14 -4 account of Jubilee celebrations 1887 & cost
p 15 abstract of censuses of 1861 and 1871
pp 16-9 blank
p 20 classes for instruction on the Holy Communion 1870
p 21 blank p 22-8 lists of those confirmed in 1872 - 1882; 1891-3, with a note of the first communion, and whether they left the parish or died
pp 29-32 notes covering the years 1905 - 1908: church clock; frontal; general repairs; repairs to schools; new scrolls; flag staff; restoration; notice board
pp 33-59 blank p 60 pulpit fund 1895
pp 61-4 church inventory August 1895
pp 65-6 blank
p 70 alterations to vicarage 1870, 1882
p 72 income of vicarage, with necessary subscriptions payable by vicar
p 73 vicarage house, including history of 'old vicarage house'; the house purchased for the vicarage by the Rev. H. Ward; the house exchanged with Trinity College when F. Palmer was Vicar now the present vicarage, which preciously was the Rectory Farm House. c. 1870
pp 74-5 offerings and collections 1867-9
pp 76-8 gifts from 1870 including organ, lectern, lamp, clock etc.
p 78a church from 1889. Vestry, reredos, bells, frontals, bier, gates and lamp, new pulpit, font, etc.
p 79 repairs 1883
pp 80-1 Things done during R.R.'s incumbency, 1867-9, and things desirable to be done
pp 82-3 plan of stoves and flues and expense of warming apparatus 1868
pp 84-5 plan of vicarage drainage
p 86 list of deeds in register chest: four conveyances 1844, 1845, 1864, 1867
p 87 list of bells and their inscriptions
pp 88-9 list of parish registers, vicars and curates
p 90 plan of trees in vicarage orchard (which includes a baking pear)
Pasted in at end: letter from Bishop of Ely to the Rev. E. W. Ashfield (1870-1883) giving his directions as to burials, especially the use of bells; burials on Sunday; burials by laymen and by nonconformists (should be equally refused); outline of service for the burial of unbaptised persons. 18 Nov no year, but bet. 1870 and 1888
P93/28/2a Interleaved letter from the Bursar of Trinity Coll. Cambridge to the Rev. B. Cuming as to church advowson and the separation of Pavenham. n.d
P93/28/2b Interleaved copy of printed "The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Felmersham Notes on history and structure" by Mary E. Levett n.d., cc 1920
pp. 506 copied at PU 275/1979
PP.9-10 COPIED. nEG pu 275/1979
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