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EFC - Society of Friends

1 - Cheshire, later Cheshire and Staffordshire Quarterly Meeting - 1665-1859

2 - Morley Monthly Meeting - 17th century - 19th century

3 - Low Leighton Monthly Meeting - 17th century - 18th century

4 - Frandley Monthly Meeting - 17th century - 18th century

5 - Nantwich Monthly Meeting - 17th century-19th century

6 - Frandley and Nantwich Monthly Meeting - 17th century - 19th century

7 - Cheshire Monthly Meeting - 17th century - 20th century

1 - Minutes of Men's Meeting - 1831-1901

2 - Index to Minutes of Men's Meeting, EFC 7/1/1 - 1831-1838

3 - Draft Minutes of Men's Meeting - 1846-1854

4 - Minutes of Women's Meeting - 1849-1890

5 - Minutes of Meeting on Ministry and Oversight - 1876-1906

6 - Minutes of Relief Committee - Jan 1878-Jan 1881

7 - Minutes of Meeting of Overseers [of Poor] and Committee of Oversight - Dec 1882-Nov 1891

8 - Minutes of Committee of Accounts - 1832-1877

9 - Registers of Members of meetings constituting Cheshire Monthly Meeting - 1832-1890

10 - Returns from Frandley Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend meetings - 1844-1858

11 - Returns from Low Leighton Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend meetings - 1857

12 - Returns from Macclesfield Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend meetings - 1844-1858

13 - Returns from Morley Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend meetings - 1844-1858

14 - Returns from Nantwich Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend attend meetings - 1844-1858

15 - Returns from Stockport Preparative Meeting of members and non-members who attend meetings - 1837, 1852-1858

16 - Registers of Removal Certificates - Feb 1834-Sep 1854

17 - Notification of Despatch of Removal Certificate - 30 Aug 1894

18 - Testimonies of Denial and related papers - 1836-1840

19 - Declarations of Intention to Marry, Marriage Certificates and related papers - 1875-1898

20 - Correspondence relating to searches in Registers of Births, Marriages and Burials - n.d. [post 1831], 1850

21 - Journals - 1819-1864

22 - Ledgers - 1832-1900

23 - Cash books - 1847-1897

24 - Rental of Trust Properties - 1882-1894

25 - Annual Statements of Accounts of Charities - 1859-1892

26 - Annual Statements of Accounts of Charities - 1859-1894

27 - Annual Statements of Accounts of Frandley Trusts and John Morrey's Legacy - 1859-1892

28 - Annual Statements of Accounts of Trustees of Cheshire Monthly Meeting - 1838-1892

29 - James Frazer's Rent Book - Jun 1835-Jul 1839

30 - Memoranda, copies of minutes, agreements, relating to property - 1832-1883

31 - Bills and Receipts - 1834-1845

32 - Answers from Frandley Preparative Meeting - 1831-1854

33 - Answers from Macclesfield Preparative Meeting - 1831-1854

34 - Answers from Morley Preparative Meeting - 1831-1854

35 - Answers from Nantwich Preparative Meeting - 1831-1854

36 - Answers from Stockport Preparative Meeting - 1831-1854

37 - Letter from Nantwich Preparative Meeting - 8 Mar 1853

38 - Draft Answers to Queries - 1844-1853

39 - Copy Minutes of Men's Meeting - 1833-1850, 1906

40 - Letter from Birmingham relating to Minute of Quarterly Meeting, signed by John Cadbury - 2 Feb 1854

41 - Copy Minutes relating to organisation of Meetings - 1831-1849

42 - Notes from Women's to Men's Meeting - 1848

43 - Miscellaneous forms and papers - 1830-1891

44 - Minutes - Jan 1901-Mar 1907

45 - Minutes - Jun 1907-Feb 1914

46 - Minutes - Mar 1914-Dec 1923

47 - Minutes - Feb 1924-Sep 1930

48 - Minutes - Oct 1930-Jul 1937

49 - Minutes - Sep 1937-Oct 1944

50 - Minutes - Dec 1944-Mar 1950

51 - Draft for main series - Oct 1905-Jun 1911

52 - Finance and overseers - Apr 1881-Jun 1907

53 - Overseers - Feb 1913-Oct 1933

54 - Education and Relief Committee - Jul 1916-Jun 1939

55 - Frandley Trust annual meetings - Jul 1932-Jul 1946

56 - Registers of births - 1832-1837

57 - Registers of births - 1840-1882

58 - Marriage registers - Mar 1839-May 1925

59 - Marriage registers - May 1927-Aug 1941

60 - Burial notes - Jul 1837-Dec 1926

61 - Membership figures - 1867-1891

62 - Membership figures - 1892-1907

63 - Membership figures - 1919-1943

64 - Membership figures - 1944-1949

65 - Lists of members - 1885-1910

66 - List of members - 1891-1941

67 - Certificates inwards and outwards (members' removals) - 1905-1928

68 - Acceptance and removal certificates - 1907

69 - Lists of members in preparative meets - 1924-1948

70 - Letters and papers relating to membership - 1741-1945

71 - Correspondence relating to prolongation and termination of membership - 1945

72 - Appointments, minutes and notices relating to new trustees of the Frandley property - 1849-1929

73 - Note of trustees appointed in 1884 - n.d.

74 - Papers relating to appointment of new trustees - 1928

75 - Abstract of title to Newton by Frodsham meeting house - [1677]-1803

76 - Copy deeds relating to land in Weaverham - 1691

77 - Deeds to land in Nantwich - 1577-1728

78 - Duplicate conveyance of land near Pillory Street - 1927

79 - Counterpart lease of premises at Pillory Street - 1946/1950

80 - Conveyance of Frandley meeting house in Over Whitley and of fields in Frandley, Stretton and Walton - 1828-1850

81 - Counterpart conveyance of land at Nantwich Road, Middlewich for highway widening - 1913

82 - Duplicate conveyance, plans and papers relating to land at Nantwich Road - 1927-1953

83 - Abstract of title to Christopher Ince's land at Ince in Makerfield, mortgaged to Thomas Hough for £300 - [1621-] 1764

84 - Assignment of £100 in trust by Josiah Morrey of Baddiley - 1819

85 - Invoices for repairs at Newton by Middlewich meeting house - 1821-1843

86 - Invoices for Newton by Middlewich meeting house administrative costs - 1828-1839

87 - Property accounts - Mar 1855

88 - Property accounts - Aug 1895

89 - Memoranda of agreement of loan of Friends' meeting house in Middlewich to United Methodist Free Church - 1862

90 - Papers relating to rents, financial matters etc - 1875-1906

91 - Papers relating to purchase and maintenance of property - 1889-1905

92 - Papers and letters relating to properties and rents at Whitley and Witton - 1894-1942

93 - Northwich Central Steam Saw Mills account and Witton ground rents - 1895-1905

94 - Estates Committee correspondence and papers relating to trusts and properties - 1920-1922

95 - Repayment claims relating to properties - 1928-1944

96 - Papers relating to repairs and maintenance of meeting house at Frandley - 1942

97 - Papers relating to repairs and maintenance of meeting house at Frandley - 1943-1946

98 - Agreement relating to drain construction at Low Leighton - 1901

99 - Letters relating to repair at the meeting house, Low Leighton - 1933

100 - Papers relating to sale of Quakers' Cottage alias Ollersett Farm, Oven Hill, Birch Vale, Derbyshire - 1945-1948

101 - Lands in Stretton and Lower Walton, pars Great Budworth and Runcorn - 1851

102 - Friends' estate in Low Leighton [photocopy] - n.d.

103 - Property at Low Leighton - n.d. [19th Century]

104 - Copy extract from EFC 7/5010/61 - n.d. [19th Century]

105 - Copy plans relating to meeting house and land at Low Leighton - 1854-1906; n.d.

106 - Abstracts of title to Major's Tenement, Falkner's etc - [1733]-1786

107 - 'Account of timber on Standley Green Estate' by Samuel Taylor, senior - 1795

108 - Papers relating to administration of estates and stock - 1844-1892

109 - Copy conveyance and counterpart leases to land at Cheadle, with abstract - 1879-1892

110 - Plan of lands at Cheadle Bulkeley - 1885

111 - Tracing of EFC 7/5010/68 on oiled paper - 1885

112 - Plan of lands at Stanley Green, with field names, acreages and Crewe - Manchester railway line - 1888

113 - Note of fields with acreages - n.d. [1888]

114 - Abstract of title to Eaton burial ground - [1638-]1768

115 - Abstract of title to Mobberley burial ground - [1669-]1819

116 - Plan of burial ground at Eaton by Congleton - 1848

117 - Plan of burial ground at Stoke near Nantwich - 1848

118 - Plan of burial ground at Slack Hall near Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire - 1848

119 - Plan of burial ground at Newton by Middlewich - 1848

120 - Notes relating to early burials in Cheshire, including diagram of new oak gate at Stockport meeting house - 1884-1970

121 - Letters relating to burial grounds at Stockport, Macclesfield and Stoke manor [Nantwich] - 1890-1905

122 - Copy of EFC 7/5010/76, with newspaper cuttings [including photograph] relating to burial ground - 1924, n.d.

123 - 'Memorial sites revisited' - 1940

124 - Copy wills of Joseph Hobson of Macclesfield - 1765

125 - Probate copy will of Thomas Roylance of Newton by Middlewich - 1774

126 - Note of John Taylor's release under the will of John Sarrat of Newton - 1760

127 - Copy will of Joseph Taylor of Stebbing, Essex - 1825

128 - Papers relating to Samuel Taylor's legacy - 1825

129 - Declaration of trust relating to £500 stock (Thornhill legacy) - 1883

130 - Copy wills and papers relating to estate of Henry Lees of South Street Paddock, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, home missionary - 1893-1943

131 - Receipts and payments book - 1803-1848

132 - Receipts for expenses - 1845-1873

133 - Meeting house account - 1882-1884

134 - Cash books - Jan 1898-Dec 1906

135 - Cash books - Jan 1907-Dec 1920

136 - Invoices and receipts - 1898-1906

137 - Invoices, receipts and correspondence - 1898-1905

138 - Ledger - 1898-1950

139 - Accounts - Jan 1914-Dec 1928

140 - Accounts - Jan 1929-Dec 1937

141 - Printed and draft statements of account - 1926-1946

142 - Typescript and draft statements of receipts and payments - 1928-1944

143 - Repayment claims relating to individuals - 1939-1944

144 - Papers relating to administrative business, collections, record searchers etc - 1939-1951; n.d.

145 - Letters relating to treasurer's accounts - 1942-1949

146 - Deed of retirement of G H Emmott from burial ground trusts - 1897

147 - Orders relating to Stanley Green estate, Morrey legacy, Thornhill charity and Low Leighton estate - 1918-1923

148 - Orders relating to Eaton burial ground, Low Leighton, Hyde and Macclesfield meeting houses, Cockatrice Hall estate and Thornhill charity - 1919

149 - Orders relating to meeting house and burial grounds at Nantwich, Eaton, Low Leighton, Macclesfield, Hyde, Stockport, Newton etc - 1926-1931

150 - Letters relating to funding of a child - 1889

151 - Papers relating to Alfred Newton's children's school fees - 1900-1901

152 - Circular letter of appeal for bursary fund - n.d. [early 20th Century]

153 - Diagram of metal plaque commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee by the planting of seven oak trees at Frandley meeting house - n.d. [c.1897]

154 - Sale particulars and plans relating to rents and properties at Higher Whitley, Antrobus and Kingsley - 1911

8 - Staffordshire Monthly Meeting - 19th century

9 - Low Leighton Preparative Meeting - 19th century

10 - Macclesfield Preparative Meeting - 17th century - 19th century

11 - Morley Preparative Meeting - 19th century

12 - Stockport Preparative Meeting - 17th century - 20th century

13 - Frandley Preparative Meeting - 18th century - 20th century

14 - Nantwich Preparative Meeting - 18th century - 19th century

15 - Sutton (Frodsham) Preparative Meeting - 18th century

16 - Society of Friends Miscellanea - c.1661-1911

17 - Deeds and Papers relating to Society of Friends' Meeting Houses and Burial Grounds - 1677-1974

19 - Disley Preparative Meeting - 1928-1948

20 - Marple Preparative Meeting - 1940-1946

21 - Cheadle Hulme Preparative Meeting - 1939-1945

22 - Hyde Preparative Meeting

23 - Wirral and North Wales Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1959-2002