P80/8/1

Vestry minute book

1851 - 1901, 1910

From: 1851 To: 1910

Regular business includes election of parish officers, passing accounts, rates and rating etc. Occasional business includes: 1852 Appointment of James Childs as Howard or Pinder 1854 Protest at validity of meeting 1857 Reduction in rates on the Almshouse property Rating of "Leicester & Hitchin railway" 1858 Rating of new water mill and miller's house in the occupation of Fred Newberry 1859 Draining ditch in Radwell Road - public sanitation 1860 Support of Vestry for "alterations & enclosure on the principle of give & take now being carried out by the Vicar along the Thurleigh Road" Church restoration 1865 New parish valuation 1866 Allowance to "the Clerk's daughter for cleaning the church 1869 Gift of new bier and funeral pall by Mr. Starey 1870 Subscriptions to be substituted for Church rates New School: gift of site for new school and teacher's house by Joseph Tucker; new buildings paid for by the principal landowners (cost £ 250); endowment; support from parishioners; appointment of Trustees and Managers 1871 Deficit in church accounts 1873 Inquorate Vestry meeting 1874 Meetings re church expenditure & means of meeting deficit 1875 Proposal to rate shooting, fowling and fishing rights Rating of school and teachers' house 1878 Rating of Mr. Gibbins brewery and malting Rating of three new cottages on the east side of the Almshouses 1879 Minutes re 1822 glebe terrier in Lincoln Diocesan records 1879 Rating of Vicarage Farm 1881 Proposal to straighten the fence on the green Rating of old schoolroom "recently converted into cottage" 1883 Church heating apparatus discussed 1887 Resignation of A.D. Chapman, Milton Ernest Hall, as Churchwarden, following disagreement with Vicar 1893-4 Restoration of Church tower and rehanging of bells 1893 Death of William Mole, many years Parish Clerk and assistant Overseer 1898 Appointment of new organist, and discussion of salary 1910 New reredos [see also P80/2/2/1]

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Childs, James,
Newberry, Frederick,
Starey,
Tucker, Joseph,
Gibbins,
Chapman, A.D.,
Mole, William

MILTON ERNEST, Vestry, parish officers, accounts, parish rates, almshouses, railways, water mills, Milton Ernest Radwell Road, sanitation, Milton Ernest Thurleigh Road, church fabric, bier, Milton Ernest School, shooting rights, fishing rights, brewery, malting, glebe, terriers, church heating, Milton Ernest Hall, church bells, parish clerk, Overseers, church organist, Milton Ernest Vicarage Farm, pinder