Religious Society of Friends, Hardshaw (later Hardshaw East) Monthly Meetings and Preparative Meetings

M85/1 HARDSHAW MONTHLY MEETING

1-3 Minutes 1678-1816

4 Sufferings and distraints 1654-1817

5-11 Membership 1738-1816

12 Records originating in superior meetings 1699-1818

13 Other records (certificates with ministerings) 1697-1809

14 Minutes of 'the Committee' [Estates] 1793-1812

M85/2 HARDSHAW EAST MONTHLY MEETING

1-3 Minutes 1817-1927

4 Sufferings and distraints 1816-1869

5-12 Membership 1816-1930

13-19 Minutes and papers of Committees 1905-1935

25 Records originating in superior meetings 1817-1847

30 Other records (travelling letters and concerns to visit) 1817-1863

M85/3 BICKERSTAFFE PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Sufferings (also Marriages 1675-1697) 1660-1689

2 Minutes of Men's Meetings 1692-1785

3 Minutes of Women's Meetings 1717-1786

M85/4 ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1717-1727

M85/5 MANCHESTER PREPARATIVE MEETING

1-4 Minutes 1694-1923

5 Sufferings and distraints 1683-1733

6-8 Membership 1763-1881

15-21 Minutes and papers of Committees 1795-1959

32-42 Property and accounts. (includes minutes of Committees concerned solely with building or management of property 1795-1879

50 Plans of burial grounds and meeting houses (?), 1806

60 Records originating in superior meetings 1771-1847

65 Other records (various papers and reports presented to Men's Meeting) 1845-1901

M85/6 MANCHESTER DISTRICT PREPARATIVE MEETING

(Formed 1882 to deal with business concerned with property, finance and education of Meetings in the Manchester district)

1 Minutes of Annual and Special Meetings 1882-1930

2-5 Minutes and papers of Committees 1879-1933

19 Legal records 1881

20-22 Membership 1878-1928

25-26 Accounts 1875-1938

30-32 Yearbooks 1892-1954

M85/7 ASHTON-ON-MERSEY PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1882-1964

2 Membership 1882-1978

M85/8 ECCLES PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1882-1959

M85/9 PENDLETON PARTICULAR MEETING

1 Minutes 1927-1951

2 Membership 1915-1952

3 Minutes of Committees 1902-1904

4 Accounts 1905-1948

ALEXANDRA PARK PARTICULAR MEETING

(1914-1915, Whalley Range Allowed Meeting)

1 Minutes 1914-1943

2 Membership 1926-1944

3 Correspondence 1926-1936

M85/11 WESTHOUGHTON PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1827-1947

2-7 Membership 1827-1933

M85/12 REFUGEE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN THE MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT

1 Minutes 1938-1953

2 Accounts 1940-1953, 1949-1968

3 Lists of refugees c.1939-1945

4 Index Cards c.1939-1945

5 Personal files of refugees 1930s-1950s

6 Enquiries for relatives missing in occupied territories 1944-1946

7 Papers and correspondence relating to the Society of Friends German Emergency Committee 1933-1940

M85/13 MANCHESTER FRIENDS' INSTITUTE

1 Minutes 1857-1937

2 Annual Reports and Accounts 1858-1956

3 Papers relating to lectures 1858-1917

4 Papers relating to construction and maintenance of the building 1875-1896

5 Administrative records 1817-1930s

6 Miscellaneous records 1863-1954

M85/14 LEIGH PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1890-1918

M85/15 WYTHENSHAWE PREPARATIVE MEETING

1 Minutes 1947-1959

ADDITIONAL RECORDS DEPOSITED IN 2015 (Accession number 2015/29):

2015/29 Box 1:

Manchester Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1923-1932, 1 volume

Manchester Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1945-1959, 1 volume

2015/29 Box 2: catalogued

2015/29 Box 3:

Penketh Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1905-1923, 1 volume

Westhoughton, Penketh and Leigh Preparative Meeting minutes, 1873 - 1890, 1 volume

Hale Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1953 - 1958, 1 volume

LOOSE:

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Guard Book including reports, 1912- 1930, 1 volume (60951)

Manchester District Monthly Meeting Reports, 1930-1942, 1 volume (60952)

Manchester District Preparative Meeting Guard Book including reports, 1940-1955, 1 volume (60953)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1927 - 1935, 1 volume (60954)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1936 - 1942, 1 volume (60955)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1942 - 1946, 1 volume (60956)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1947 - 1953, 1 volume (60957)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1954 - 1960, 1 volume (60958)

Ashton on Mersey Preparative Meeting Minutes (with attached papers), 1882 - 1892, 1 volume (60959)

Penketh Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1923-1935, 1 volume (60960)

Penketh Preparative Meeting Minutes, 1934 - 1954, 1 volume (60961)

Penketh Preparative Meeting minutes, 1954 - 1962, 1 volume (60962)

ADDITIONAL RECORDS DEPOSITED IN 2015 (Accession number 2015/67):

Transcripts of letters from the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends held in London; also letters from Yearly Meetings of Women Friends in America to the London Meeting, 1785-1854 (1 volume)

- 2015/67 Box 32 (60866)

Transcript of the Registers of Births of the Lancashire Quarterly Meeting, 1646-1837 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 1 (60834)

Transcript of the Registers of Marriages of the Lancashire Quarterly Meeting, 1652-1837 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 2 (60835)

Transcript of the Registers of Burials of the Lancashire Quarterly Meeting, 1654-1837 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 3 (60836)

Transcript of the Supplemental Registers of Births, Marriages and Burials of the Lancashire Quarterly Meeting, 1646-1780 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 4 (60837)

Hardshaw East birth book, 1854-1942 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 34 (53241)

Hardshaw East birth notes, Feb 1863-May 1939 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 5 (60838)

Hardshaw East birth notes, Jun 1939-Sep 1959 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 6 (60839)

Hardshaw East birth notes (counterfoils) 1936-1959 (3 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 33 (53240)

Hardshaw East burial notes, Dec 1901-Mar 1934 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 14 (60847)

Hardshaw East burial book, 1854-1934 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 34 (53241)

Hardshaw East burial notes (counterfoils) 1910-1919 (2 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 33 (53240)

Hardshaw East burial notes (counterfoils) 1928-1968 (6 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 33 (53240)

Hardshaw East register of removal certificates 1817-1960 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 17 (60851)

Hardshaw East removal certificates, 1927-1960 (6 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 15 (60849)

Hardshaw East removal certificates, 1927-1963 (7 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 19 (60853)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting International Service Committee minute book, 1950-1963 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 17 (60851)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting: Ministry and Oversight Meeting minutes, Jun 1878-Nov 1897 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 21 (60855)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, 1913-1936 (4 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 21 (60855)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, Jan 1937-Nov 1939 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 21 (60855)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, Jan 1940-Apr 1943 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 16 (60850)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, May 1943-Sep 1948 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 16 (60850)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, Oct 1948-Sep 1952 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 16 (60850)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, Oct 1952-Sep 1959 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 16 (60850)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Overseers' Meetings minutes, Oct 1959-Apr 1967 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 21 (60855)

Hardshaw East Education Committee minutes, Feb 1888-Jul 1906 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 18 (60852)

Hardshaw East Friends' Education Fund Committee minutes, including lists of grants made, 1880-1948; volume commences with minutes of Friends' Tract Distribution Association Committee, 1846-1856 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 22 (60856)

Hardshaw East Collections Committee minutes, Apr 1929-Dec 1940 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 21 (60855)

Hardshaw East Mission Committee minutes, 1896-1920 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 22 (60856)

Hardshaw East International Service Committee, Oct 1935-Jun 1950 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 22 (60856)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Standing Nomination Committee minutes, 1949-1960 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Intervisitation Committee minutes, Nov 1923-Jun 1943 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee minutes, May 1946-Oct 1954 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee minutes, Nov 1954-Feb 1960 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee related reports and publications, 1950s-1960s (1 bundle) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee correspondence and related leaflets, 1930s (1 box) - 2015/67 Box 24 (60858)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting: library reports from the Preparative Meetings, 1958-1964 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 18 (60852)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Welfare Committee minutes and related papers, 1950s (2 volumes) - 2015/67 Box 27 (60861)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1937-1940 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1948-1950 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1952-1953 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 30 (60864)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1954-1955 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 30 (60864)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1956-1957 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 31 (60865)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1958-1959 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 31 (60865)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1961-1963 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 32 (60866)

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting correspondence, 1964-1966 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 32 (60866)

Mount Street Burial Ground plan n.d (19th cent.) - 2015/67 Box 35 (53242)

Mount Street Library Committee minutes, Jun 1925-Oct 1956 (1 volume and some loose sheets) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Mount Street Centenary Committee minutes, 1930 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 20 (60854)

Mount Street Children's Meeting Committee minutes, Apr 1934-Oct 1948 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 22 (60856)

Mount Street Elders' Meeting Committee minutes, Nov 1945-Jul 1960 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 22 (60856)

Mount Street Air Raid Shelter papers, 1939-1944 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 18 (60852)

Mount Street Air Raid Precautions papers, 1940 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 27 (60861)

Mount Street Fire Guard papers, 1942-1944 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 27 (60861)

Mount Street Lunchtime Concerts papers, 1940-1941 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 27 (60861)

Mount Street War damage papers, 1941-1952 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 27 (60861)

Manchester Preparative Meeting School Committee, Aug 1875-Feb 1885 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 17 (60851)

Manchester Preparative Meeting Education Committee, Jan 1902-Jun 1932 (1volume) - 2015/67 Box 17 (60851)

Manchester 1930 Committee minutes, Oct 1940-Dec 1934 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Manchester District Preparative Meeting Peace Committee minutes, Nov 1926-Dec 1929 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 23 (60857)

Manchester men's register, afternoon class, 1895-1933 (1 volume) - Box 8 (60841)

Manchester Central Adult School men's class register, 1933-1950 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 8 (60841)

Manchester Women's Adult School class register, 1905-1954 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 8 (60841)

Manchester Byrom Street Adult School men's morning class register 1897-1899 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 25 (60859)

Manchester Central Adult School papers and photographs relating to holidays, outings, social activities, 1890s-1930s (1 bundle) - 2015/67 Box 20 (60854)

Manchester Central Adult School papers and photographs relating to holidays, outings, social activities, 1890s-1940s (2 bundles) - 2015/67 Box 25 (60859)

Manchester and District Young Friends Society minute book, Mar 1912-Jun 1921 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 17 (60851)

Hadrshaw Education Committee minutes 1888-1904 (1 volume) Box 18 (60852)

Lancashire and Cheshire Adult Schools Co-operative Holidays 2 bundles and 1 file, Box 18 (60852)

Mining Distress Committee of Manchester and Salford papers, 1928-1935 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Churches' Planning Committee (Manchester Region) papers, 1950s (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Hospital Sunday Fund papers, 1927-1944 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Hardship and Hardship Cases papers 1920s-1950s (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Jewish Refugees: miscellaneous papers (correspondence, testimonials) concerning refugees helped by the Society of Friends, 1933-1948 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Friends Service Council papers, 1936-1945 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Religion and Life Campaign papers, 1942 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 28 (60862)

Friends Temperance Union papers, 1930-1950 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Capital Punishment papers, 1920s-1950s (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Unemployment papers, 1930s (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Peace Topics papers, 1920s-1950s (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Conscientious Objectors papers, 1939-1944 (1 file) - 2015/67 Box 29 (60863)

Garswood Adult School guest book, 1955-1973 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 9 (60842)

Penketh Preparative Meeting birth register, 1812-1952 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 7 (60840)

Penketh Preparative Meeting burial register, 1813-2005 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 7 (60840)

Penketh Preparative Meeting interment register, 1703-1955; includes plan of the burial ground (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 8 (60841)

Penketh Preparative Meeting list of members, 1820-1937 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 8 (60841)

Penketh Preparative Meeting list of members, 1888-1992 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 9 (60842)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground register, 1856-1994 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 2 (60835)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground register, 1865-1874 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 34 (53241)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground orders for burial (counterfoils) 1901-1968 (8 booklets) - 2015/67 Box 34 (53241)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground: documents relating to the establishment of the burial ground, 1855-1856 (1 bundle) - 2015/67 Box 34 (53241)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground accounts and correspondence regarding gravestones, 1907-1956 (1 bundle) - 2015/67 Box 25 (60859)

Ashton-on-Mersey Burial Ground plans showing grave plots and names of occupants, 1856 and 1887 (2 plans) - 2015/67 Box 36 (53243)

Westhoughton Preparative Meeting list of members, 1885-1955 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 8 (60841)

Leigh Preparative Meeting list of members, 1854-1957 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 9 (60842)

Wythenshawe Preparative Meeting list of members, 1939-1957 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 9 (60842)

Leigh Preparative Meeting list of members, 1884-1956 (1 volume) - 2015/67 Box 9 (60842)

ADDITIONAL RECORDS DEPOSITED IN 2016 (Accession number 2016/43)

BOX 1: Minutes of the 1930 Committee (1936-1939) 1 vol; Minutes of the Joint Committe on Education Grants [Hardshaw] (1906-1929) includes three related pamphlets to rear (1906-1944) 1 vol.; Minutes of the Joint Education Committee [Hardshaw] (1929-1960); Hardshaw Education Grants (1905), 1 vol; XXXquot;Wythenshawe Friends' Meeting: The BeginningsXXXquot; (1935) 1 vol.; Log of books borrowed from the Library [Manchester Meeting] (1839-1851) 1 vol; Minutes of Manchester 1930 Committee (1931-1936) 1 vol; XXXquot;Chronicle of the Society of Friends in WythenshaweXXXquot; (1935-1951) 1 vol; Centenary of Friends Meeting House Mount Street book and original artwork by Walter Bayes (1933); Schedule of deeds at Deansgate Burial Ground (1806-1843) 1 vol.

BOX 2: Minutes of Eccles Preparative Meeting (1968-1979) 1 vol; Minutes of Wythenshawe Preparative Meeting (1959-1967) 1 vol; Minutes of Wythenshawe Preparative Meeting (1968-1976) 1 vol; Minutes of Hale Allowed Meeting (1958-1968) 1 vol; Marriage papers (1830s-1940s predominantly 1830s-1850s) 1 bundle.

BOX 3: Minutes of Ashton-on-Mersey Preparative Meeting (1940-1946) 1 vol; Minutes of Manchester Preparative Meeting (1932-1945) 1 vol; XXXquot;The Early History of Manchester MeetingXXXquot; (1856) 1 vol; Rough Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee (1964-1967) 1 vol; Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Peace Committee (1960-1965) 1 vol; Minutes of the Leigh Young Friends Group (1937-1940) 1 vol; Leigh Young Friends Group Reports of Conferences (1930-1938) 1 vol; Leigh Young Friends Group Reports of Meetings and Gatherings (1930-1939) 1 vol; Travelling Minutes (1977-1987) 1 folder; Leigh Preparative Meeting visitor's book and correspondence (1926-1982) 1 volume with insterts; The Story of Westhoughton Meeting House (1973) 1 folder; Testimony for Peace presented from Langley Hill Meeting USA to Mount Street Meeting [Manchester] (1982) 1 leaf; Licence for dissenting place of worship [for Mount St] (1830) and licence to conduct weddings (1854); Images of old local Quaker ladies, marketing literature for Hardshaw East meeting houses and Friends House, Euston, a newspaper cutting of Tom Jackson and a letter and cheque from Barrow Cadbury for the new premesis fund [Mount Street] (1900s-1995) 1 folder; Tercentenery of the Toleration Act and covering letter (1989-1992) 1 folder; Testimonies for dead Quakers (1970s-1980s) 1 folder; Handmade card of a Quaker woman in traditional plain dress made from fabric with associated box and notes on provenance C19th in a small card box.

BOX 4: Birth and Burial Register (1828-1983) 1 vol; Hardshaw East Newsletters (1970-1987) 2 bundles; Hardshaw East Newsletters (1970-1991) 1 bundle and (1995-1999) 1 bundle; Hardshaw East Overseers Minutes (1998-2000) 1 folder; Minutes of Ashton-on Mersey Preparative Meeting (1964-1972).

BOX 5: A Record of Testimonies (1889- 1993) Includes John Bright, 1 vol.; Minutes of Lancashire and Cheshire Quarterly Meeting Women's Meeting (1854-1893) 1 vol; Minutes of Hardshaw East Overseers (1967-1975) 1 vol.

BOX 6: Minutes of Eccles Preparative Meeting (1979-1993) 1 volume; Minutes of Wythenshawe Preparative Meeting (1976-1992) 1 vol; Minutes of Ashton-on-Mersey Preparative Meeting (1972-1993) 1 vol

BOX 7: Minutes of Oldham Preparative Meeting (1978-1997); Minutes of Eccles Preparative Meeting (1992-2001) 1 vol; Minutes of Hardshaw East Overseers (1975-1990) 1 vol;

BOX 8: Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (2002-2003) 1 folder; Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (1997-2003) 1 folder; Minutes of the Meeting Houses Committee (1966-1974) 1 folder; Minutes of the Mount Street Committee (1963-1968) 1 folder; Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (1998-1999) 1 folder. `

BOX 9: Minutes of the Manchester District Preparative Meeting Joint Nominations Committee (1945-1966) 1 folder; Minutes of the Manchester Preparative Meeting (2000-2004) 1 volume; Minutes of Manchester Preparative Meeting (1997-1999) 1 vol; Minutes of Manchester Preparative Meeting (1992-1993); Minutes of Warrington Preparative Meeting (1981-2002).

Box 10: Minutes of Manchester Preparative Meeting (1966-1987) 1 vol; Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (2000-2001) 1 vol; Reports on Hardshaw East Children's Meetings (1930s and 1980s) 1 folder; Papers on the history of Warrington Meeting House and Mount Street Meeting House (1980s) 1 folder; Correspondence and inventory regarding the deposit of engravings from Mount St Meeting House to the Library at Friends' House, Euston (1961) 1 folder; Varous Minutes of the Committees of the District Preparative Meeting (1988-1990) 1 folder; 2 District Preparative Meeting books of regulations, 1881 and 1962, 1 folder.

BOX 11: Minutes of the Society for Promoting the Aquisition of Useful Knowledge [amongst members of the Society of Friends] (1810-1812) 1 vol; Minutes of Eccles Preparative Meeting (1960-1967) 1 vol; Minutes of Hale Preparative Meeting (1968-1977) 1 vol; Minutes of Westhoughton Preparative Meeting (1947-1991); Minutes of Leigh Preparative Meeting (1967-1981) 1 vol; Minutes of Hale Preparative Meeting (1977-1984).

BOX 12 and 13 (volumes): Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (1980-1986) and (1987-1991)

BOX 14 and 15: Plans of Quaker Meeting Houses within Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting (20 plans)

BOX 16 (metal tube): Plan of the Mount Street Burial Ground [1830s-1930s].

ADDITIONAL RECORDS DEPOSITED IN 2017 (Accession number 2017/47)

Box 1: Minutes of Mount Street Committee 1937-1942; 1949-1947; Minutes of Monthly Meeting Peace and International Relations Committee 1965-1970; Minutes of Warrington Premises Committee 1961 (35374).

Box 2: Warrington Preparative Meeting Premises Committee May 1959- Dec 1960; Manchester District Preparative Meeting Trustees Records (1960s-1997) kept by Roger Gillett; Minutes of Mount Street Committee 1980-1986; Records of Nominations Committee 1962-1972 (35375).

Box 3: Eccles Preparative Meeting List of Members (1882-1950s); Manchester Preparative Meeting List of Members (1882-1950s); Records relating to Mount Street Development 1957-1972 (35376).

Box 4: Monthly Meeting Correspondence/Papers 1965-1966; 1971-1972; 1973-1974; 1975-1976; 1977-1979 (35377)

Box 5: Records of Nominations Committee 1960-1978; Lancashire and Cheshire Quarterly Meeting Testimonies 1951-1977; Overseers Minutes 1991- 1999 [closed] (35378)

Box 6: 'Historical Cuttings' (possibly compiled by Maurice Schofield) Folder of notes, newscuttings and off-prints (1930s-1970s); Peace Committee Papers 1978-1981; Mount Street Committee Minutes, 1974; Abstracts of Titles of the Trust Properties beloning to Hardshaw East and Hardshaw West Montly Meetings, 1887 but copy titles dating back to 1665. 1 vol (35379)

Box 7: Minutes of Mount Street Committee, 1943-1949; 1969-1974; 1975-1979 Minutes of Finance Committee 1961-1972 (35380).

Box 8: Certificates In 1897-1960 1 vol.; Ashton Preparative Meeting Minutes 1993-1998 (35381)

Box 9: Peace and International Relations Committee Correspondence [1935?] 1970-1974; 1974-1975; 1973-1977. Printed literature on being a conscientious objector ca. 1959, 4 items (35382).

Box 10: Minutes of Manchester DPM Premises Committee 1929-1933; Minutes of Elders 1972-1978 [closed]; Minutes of Manchester District Preparative Meeting Nov. 1991-Feb. 1993 (35383)

Box 11: Mount Street Committee Correspondence 1948-1955. Minutes of Elders 1952-1961 and July 1961- 1972 [closed] (35384).

Box 12: Minutes of Mount Street Committee 1943-1947. Minutes of Elders 1925-1952. Minutes of Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting Feb. 1947-Oct. 1948; Dec 1951-Sept 1953 (rough minutes); Oct. 1953-Dec. 1956; Jan. 1957-Nov. 1958. (35385).

Box 13: Minutes of Meeting House Committee 1934- July 1951. Mount Street Administration Committee March 1958-Feb. 1943. Minutes of Mount Street Special Premises Committee Oct. 1951- Feb. 1954 (established due to poor financial position of organisation). Manchester District Preparative Meeting 'Minute Book 6' July 1930- Feb. 1942 (35386).

Box 14: Minutes of Mount Street Premises Committee 1934-1938. Minutes of Mount Street Committee 1987-1989. Records of Quaker Fellowship of the Arts (1960s-1990s). Minutes of District Preparative Committee 1997-1998 (35387).

Box 15: 'Burial Notes' 1934-1976 with index to front 1 large volume (35388).

Related Material:When the Society of Friends surrendered its registers to London in 1840, digests of these registers - effectively an alphabetical index, arranged on a Quarterly Meeting basis - were prepared, and retained at Friends' House, Euston Road, London. This is a microfilm copy of these digests for Lancashire Quarterly Meeting, and thus it includes the monthly meetings for Hardshaw (latterly Hardshaw East and Hardshaw West); Lancaster; Marsden; Preston (formerly Flyde); and Swarthmoor. We hold a copy of this digest on microfilm:

Birth Idx.-1635-1837- MFPR 938

Burial Idx.-1654-1838- MFPR 938

Marriage Idx.-1652-1837- MFPR 938

We also hold copies of the following registers on microfilm (originals at the National Archives RG8. Also available on-line):

Hardshaw East Monthly Meeting

Births-1655-1784- MFPR 402

Births-1784-1837- MFPR 403

Burials-1665-1776- MFPR 402

Burials-1776-1798- MFPR 403

Burials-1799-1837- MFPR 391

Marriages-1660-1777- MFPR 402

Marriages-1817-1837- MFPR 402

Hardshaw West Monthly Meeting

Births-1649-1775- MFPR 391

Births-1776-1796- MFPR 392

Births-1796-1836- MFPR 393

Burials-1657-1775- MFPR 392

Burials-1776-1838- MFPR 393

Marriages-1658-1720- MFPR 391

Marriages-1720-1837- MFPR 392

Lancaster Monthly Meeting

Births-1644-1775- MFPR 402

Births-1644-1792- MFPR 401

Births-1792-1837- MFPR 397

Burials-1655-1775- MFPR 401

Burials-1682-1810- MFPR 402

Burials-1739-1765- MFPR 402

Burials-1776-1837- MFPR 397

Marriages-1656-1835- MFPR 401

Marriages-1663-1769- MFPR 402

Marsden Monthly Meeting

Births-1654-1837- MFPR 394

Births-1660-1837- MFPR 393

Burials-1656-1783- MFPR 394

Burials-1661-1837- MFPR 393

Burials-1783-1837- MFPR 395

Marriages-1659-1774- MFPR 393

Marriages-1682-1836- MFPR 394

Preston Monthly Meeting (formerly Fylde Monthly Meeting)

Births-1699-1837- MFPR 402

Burials-1699-1837- MFPR 402

Marriages-1726-1837- MFPR 402