Catalogue description Albans MM minutes

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Reference: FR2/1/1/7
Title: Albans MM minutes
Description:

Fo vol., bd. calf, pp. 543 written.

 

Routine business: registration (birth & bur. notes, marriages, removals) 1856; stereotyped answers to queries; advices read; members' lists compiled (p. 235 YM says add attenders); trust renewals; note that sufferings brought; finance includes contrib. to Ackworth & Croydon schools.

 

Organisational indications:-

 

YM (see above: attenders);

 

p. 441 minute of 1862 relayed through QM 24/12/62: "duties devolve on individual members" -"are Friends individually acting up to the standards of their profession in their care & interest for the welfare of the ignorant & depraved around them?" 1862

 

p. 493 boundaries of QMs: YM sub-cttee (see below QM) 1864

 

p. 496, 530-3: conference between QMs of Beds-Herts & Bucks. Northants. held at Luton 14/7/1865 to arrange to unite: 1865

 

there to be 3 MMs: Hertford & Hitchin Luton & Leighton (to include Ampthill)

 

Northampton & Wellingboro'

 

comprising Beds., Bucks., Herts., Northants.

 

p.535 conference between QMs of Albans and Leighton & Upperside

 

(d.e. constituents of new Luton & Leighton MM)

 

NB formal business intimations of QM are regularly recorded (e.g. finance - contributions reqd.; to know times of meetings etc.)

 

Meeting for Sufferings:

 

p. 193 "Appeal on the present war" copies distrib. in Luton 1855

 

MM clerk:

 

p. 52, 131 Wm. Beale 1849-52; p. 134, 211, 228, 362 Wm. Drewett 1852-60

 

Attendance: p. 478 considerable deficiency 1864

 

Finance: cttee. to try to arrange scale 1850

 

contributions entered, e.g. p. 104 to national stock Luton £7, Hemel £1.17.0: 1851

 

Ministers & elders: pp. 58, 61, 74: reduced state; cttee. apptd.; 1850 time to hold meetings has not arrived

 

Elders: p. 240, 244, 246, 415, 423: Eliz. Brown & Edw.Lucas (1856); Eliz. Pearman, Ann Marsh (1862)

 

Overseers: p. 247, 248, 250, 253: Jos. & Maria Cranstone to continue (1857); Edw. Lucas, Luton (1857); Matilda Sheppard, Hemel, unwilling (1857);

 

p. 396: Hemel has 1 m., 1 f.; Luton has 2m., 2 f. 1864

 

p. 484, 487: Mary & Ann Brown added; Eliz.Pearman resigns. 1864

 

Ministers: p. 283 Wm. Drewett registered 1858

 

Membership:

 

Resignations:-

 

p. 90-3: Em. Kentish: opinions at variance 1850

 

150 Jn.Howe sr.: delinquency 1853

 

176-9 Eliz. Cranstone 1854

 

199 Jn. Hare jr. 1855

 

243 Edw. Cranstone 1856

 

293 Emma Kentish (distant & can't attend) 1858

 

323 Maria Knight & dau. Louisa, Harpenden 1858

 

354-5, 367 Jos. Harvey Sutcliff 1860

 

420 Eliz. Coles Knight: attends church 1862

 

457 Mary Ann Beale 1863

 

479 Geo. Knight 1864

 

out-going:- John Foster:-

 

p. 21 Essex 1848

 

34 Surrey, Sx. 1849

 

51 Norfolk, Cbs.,Hts. 1850

 

74 surdg. villages Lu.1850

 

179 Kent 1854

 

479 buried 1864

 

p. 399 Wm. Drewitt, villages rd. Luton 1861

 

520 Wm. own QM and Bucks.-Northants. 1865

 

p.422 Ben. Seebohm - in unity & good esteem

 

Warwicks., Leics., Staffs. 1862

 

434 villages rd. Luton and Luton town, esp. poor, & where Friends reside but no mtg. 1862 also Bucks. & Northants.

 

481 eastern counties 1864

 

523 west 1865

 

Women:

 

465 minute proposed by Hemel PM & accepted 16/9/1863

 

"it is concluded with the approbation of the MM that in future men & women Friends sit together in their preparative meetings"

 

Miscellaneous:

 

5 Lucy Gower, 21, entitled to Croydon school gratuity 1848

 

37, 47 registers have been forwarded to London; duplicates in chest 1849

 

57 Louisa Bishop entered for Ackworth 1849

 

106 slavery: YM minute on fund for negros & aborigines: Luton subscribes £4.0.0; Hemel £2.10.0 1851

 

253 £7.10.0 1857

 

120-2 emigration to Australia (Adelaide) Th.Gray Marsh; 1852

 

308 Humph. Smith to Melbourne

 

163 Croydon gratuity: Tho. Miles Lamb (he was apprent. to Jos. Cranstone, Hemel) 1854

 

201, 205-6, 276 etc. tombstones: rules made (2'6" x 1'2", horiz.) 1855

 

385 emigration to U.S.: Alf. Cranstone 1861

 

428, 433 marriage of Jos. Rowntree, York MM, to Eliz. Seebohm of this MM 1862

 

PMs. 476 weekday meetings (answers to queries) "considerable deficiency" 1863

 

Future meeting arrangements for the new MM of Luton & Leighton:- (p. 536) 1865

 

1st Leighton 7th Berkhamsted

 

2nd Luton 8 Newport

 

3rd Leighton 9 Luton

 

4th Hemel 10 Berkhamsted

 

5th Ampthill 11 Leighton

 

6th Jordans 122 Luton

 

membership: applications (including reinstatement):

 

p. 320, 324, 328-9 Mary Stevens Allport, Watford; desired reinstatement: believes in guidance of Holy Spirit; 1859

 

p. 354, 367 Eliza Harkins, Luton 1860

 

p. 452, 456 Ann Jones for reinstmt.: but this is not her MM. 1863

 

p. 502 Louisa Knight (see above) for reinstmt.: when she resigned she could not get to meeting, but is now in Luton. 1865

 

meetings & meetinghouses & property:

 

p. 10, 290 periodic inspection of Albans bur.gds.: repairs at both 1848, 1858

 

p. 234, 236 Luton has chance to buy adjoining land 1856

 

NB occasional alterations in times of PMs given, e.g. p259 discipline:

 

p.12, 14, 16, 18: Jn.H.Middleton in debt; employed person with horse & cart to dispose of some stock; sold some by auction & appropriated proceeds for self & w. - not creditors; dishonourable to truth; affectionately direct his attention to principles of Christianity 1848

 

p. 23-4, 127, 133: Jn. Dav. Appleton of Barnsley meeting (Pontefract MM): immoral conduct; Albans MM asked to visit; admits charges & ack. error; later applies for reinstatement; visited & rec.; 1848-52

 

p. 173, 182, 186, 189, 193 Ann Kentish marries out (Jones) 1854.

 

p. 214, 219 Lefevre Jas.Cranstone marries out 1855

 

p. 249, 257, 268-74 Tho. Gray Marsh absent; visited; partial amendment; relapses; frequents public houses (fallen so low!) disowned 1858

 

p. 333-6 Fred.Pearman marries out 1860

 

p. 335, 340-1 Ann Kentish marries out (Simpson); received

 

Friends v. agreably; attached to Soc. & doctrines, believed sue would always hold; did not see Friends could do other than disown 1860

 

p. 501, 521, 524 Matilda Beale marries out (in S.Africa) 1865

 

poor: p. 31, 42, 44 Jn. Moore; 20s. given; later charge Tottenham MM

 

p. 43 Mary Pritchett £2; and 5s. weekly 1849

 

528 Susan Coles, formerly Tottenham MM: whose resp.? 1865

 

NB periodic reports on charity fund, e.g. p.207

 

school: p.417 Luton having established a First Day School, time of mtg. for worship is altered from 10 to 10.30. 1862

 

travelling Friends: in-coming

 

p.94 Tho.Arnett from U.S. (Indiana YM) 1851

 

172 Ric. F. Foster 1854

 

247 Wm. Ball, Kendall 1856

 

347 Mary Samuel Lloyd, Warwicks. 1859

 

378 Robt. & Christine Alsop, Dev.Ho. 1861

 

388 Edw.Brewin, Leicester 1861

 

out-going: Amelia Brown d. 14. 12. 49 & bur.Painswick; 1787-1849

 

62-9 testimony: dau. of Jos. & Lydia Davis, Painswick; minister of Nailsworth MM 1823; m. Ric. Marks Brown, 1831

 

apparently as 2nd wife; care of husband's family; travels; health declined in 1848.

Date: 1848-1865
Held by: Bedfordshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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