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Collapse D1752 - Parish of Buxton St James' Church (Chapel of Ease) - 1876-1960

D1752 - Parish of Buxton St James' Church (Chapel of Ease) - 1876-1960

Collapse A - Parish records - 1876-1960

A - Parish records - 1876-1960

Expand PD - Parochial Church Council - 1893-1910

PD - Parochial Church Council - 1893-1910

Expand PI - Parish incumbent’s records - 1876-1960

PI - Parish incumbent’s records - 1876-1960

Collapse PZ - Mothers’ Union - 19th cent-1957

PZ - Mothers’ Union - 19th cent-1957

1 - Buxton Branch Mothers’ Union Minute Book - 1914-1922

2 - Buxton Branch Mothers’ Union Minute Book - 1923-1936

3 - Buxton Branch Mothers’ Union Minute Book - 1937-1950

4 - Letter from S R Eddy (Vicar of Buxton), 37 Argyle Road, Ealing, London, relating to general parish matters, 22 Mar. - 1877

5-7 - Correspondence relating to the appointment of Dr Robertson and Mr Josiah Taylor as Church- wardens for the ensuing year. - 1877

8 - Letter from S Ray Eddy, Brindle Rectory, near Chorley, Lancashire, to Mr Taylor, concerning the payment of half year rent for glebe land by various individuals, 21 Sep. - 1877

9 - Letter from J Alder Wilson, Buxton, to Dr Robertson, concerning the counting of collection money at St John’s Church, 29 Sep. - 1877

10 - Letter from William Malam, The Vicarage, Buxton, to Mr Taylor, relating to the stipend of the incumbent, 12 Jan. - 1878

11-12 - Correspondence from Grindley and Foster, organ builders, Sheffield, to the churchwardens of St James’s Church, quoting an estimate for the repair of the organ. - 1881

13 - Conveyance by the Most Noble Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire, K G to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, of a piece of land containing by admeasurement 1360 square yards or thereabouts lying in the new parish of St John the Baptist Buxton which is bounded on or towards the North East by the site of St James Church Buxton and on or towards the South East by Bath Street as is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin and coloured pink, 26 Nov. - 1901

14 - Manuscript lists of Vicars of Buxton from 1811 to1938.

15 - Photograph of St James’s Church before the demolition of the spire - 19th cent

16 - Newspaper cutting containing photograph of the choir, servers and officers of St James’s with St Anne’s. - 1946

18-23 - Postcards of the interior and exterior of St James’s Church.

24 - Licence for the marriage of Leslie Ryan and Marjorie Mary Bell, both of the parish of Buxton, 18 Oct - 1941

25 - Licence for the marriage of Dennis Cecil King of the Parish of Saint Margaret Leigh, Essex and Mary Brown of Buxton, 22 Dec. - 1941

26 - Licence for the marriage of Alfred Charles Dean of the parish of All Saints, Stretford in Co Lancaster and Gloria Joan Thompson of Buxton - 1942

27 - Licence for the marriage of Charles Frederick Oldfield of Buxton and Mary Hannah Birks of Staveley, 19 Mar. - 1943

28 - Licence for the marriage of Bernard Mortimer Dunn of Wilne and Veronica May Frost of Buxton, 19 Jun. - 1945

29 - Licence for the marriage of Ernest Brabble of Burbage and Anne Wright Horobin of Wormhill. - 1946

30 - Copy extract from the will of Frederick Louis Burkill of 17 Silverlands, Buxton, retired master mariner. A bequest was made “to the Treasurer for the time being of the Parochial Church Council of the Parish of St James, Bath Road, Buxton, to be used for the purposes of that Church as such Council may decide”, 25 Aug. - 1932

31 - Receipt by the Superintendent Registrar from the Rev C Storrs Fox, the Vicarage, Buxton, for a register of marriages 1947-1953, 20 Aug - 1957

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