Newland: Anglican Parish

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): P227

Title: Newland: Anglican Parish

Date(s): 1560 - 1989

Level of description: Fonds

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 8 boxes

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Administrative/Biographical history: Diocese of Gloucester; formerly included chapelries and tithings of Bream and Coleford, and tithing of Clearwell, all now ecclesiastical parishes

Archival history: Deposited by Vicar and PCC except accession 891.1, items P227 CW 2/4, VE 2/7 and 3/2, CO 2, and OV 2/1, 3/2-3/5, 4, 5/2, 6, 7/1-7/2 and 9/1-9/3, which were found among the papers of Thomas James, solicitor, of Coleford, who served as clerk to the Newland vestry and to the workhouse committee, and deposited by West Dean RDC

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Scope and content: Registers 1560-1989; register of services 1969-1982; benefice papers 1872-1976; parish clerks' rough registers 1749-1819; churchwardens' accounts 1655-1961; churchwardens' papers 1910-1978; vestry and PCC minutes 1722-1796, 1927-1956; overseers' rates 1821-1828; overseers' papers 1743-1830, including workhouse bills; charity accounts 1793-1893; charity records (1827)-1973; Redbrook school: deed of school site 1872; managers' minutes 1872-1903; managers' papers 1872-1906 .

Record of note: Ref p 227 IN 1/4 (6 Februaray, 1788): Thomas Pipes, an East Indian, was baptised at Coleford

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Conditions governing access: These records are immediately available for research

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Language/scripts of material: English

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Asian

Specific group: East Indian peoples

Subjects

Local government

Personal/Corporate names

Pipes, Thomas

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Gloucestershire, United Kingdom