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Collapse D1751 - Parish of Buxton St John the Baptist, later the parish of Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale - 1718-1996D1751 - Parish of Buxton St John the Baptist, later the parish of Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale - 1718-1996
Collapse A - Parish records - 1718-1996A - Parish records - 1718-1996
Expand PC - Parochial Church Council - 1867-1980PC - Parochial Church Council - 1867-1980
Collapse PF - Charities - 1882-1962PF - Charities - 1882-1962
1 - Copy second and fourth codicil of will of Miss Rose Eccles. A legacy of £400, on the death of the survivor of the testatrix’s sisters in given, in the following words, ‘to the Vicar of Buxton for the time being to be equally divided between the Buxton Churches, the Church Sunday Schools and the poor’. - 1882
2 - Letter from Shipton, Hallewell & Co, solicitors, Chesterfield, to the Rev C C Nation, Buxton, informing him that Mrs. Alice Gosling, the survivor of the sisters of the late Miss Rose Eccles., has just died, and that, as soon as the legacy duty has been paid, the trustees will be in a position to pay it over, 8 May - 1908
3 - Copy will of John McGregor esq, of Meadow View, Smedley Street, Matlock. Amongst various other bequests he leaves ‘the sum of one hundred pounds free of legacy or other duties to the Rector of Vicar and Churchwardens for the time being of the Parish Church of the Parish wherein I may be residing at the time of my death and who are or whose parents are Members of the Church of England’, 1 May - 1908
4 - Extract from the will of John McGregor dated1 May 1908. The testator died at Crowestones, Buxton, on 1 December 1918 and Letters of Administration with Will annexed were granted to Charles McGregor (brother) on 16 Aug
5-7 - Executors’ estate account and papers relating to estate of Charles John Smilter, deceased, late of Bath House, Buxton (formerly of the Crescent Hotel), including copy will dated 14 Dec 1927. Amongst his legacies was one ‘to the Vicar and Churchwardens of the Parish of Buxton the sum of one hundred pounds and it is my desire that they shall keep in order my family grave in St John’s Churchyard’. - 1927-1936
8-15 - Papers relating to the estate of the late Mrs. M W Potter, including executors’ statement of accounts - 1958-1962
16-20 - Papers relating to the estate of Jane Holmes, deceased - 1959-1962
21-22 - Correspondence relating to Mrs A M D Colle’s legacy of £100 to St John’s Church - 1961
Expand PI - Parish incumbent’s records - 1718-1996PI - Parish incumbent’s records - 1718-1996
Expand PV - Vestry - 1742-1818PV - Vestry - 1742-1818
Expand PW - Churchwardens - 1825-1907PW - Churchwardens - 1825-1907
UL - Parish of Buxton St John the Baptist (later Buxton with Burbage and King Sterndale): unlisted records - 1957-2008
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