11. Local authority and predecessor authorities records
11.1 Hackney Parish Records
Vestry Minutes 1771-1807 P/J/1
(Vestry Minutes 1613-1771, 1807-83 at LMA, microfilm 1807-83 at HAD).
For transcripts of Vestry Minutes 1581-1613; 1670-1771 see Section 15, Tyssen Collection
Parish Meeting/ inhabitants Minutes 1824-35 (Inhabitants Meeting P/J/3
Minutes 1762-1824 at LMA, microfilm at HAD)
For transcripts of Inhabitants meetings 1709-62 see Section 15 Tyssen Collection.
Lists of parishioners who served or were exempt from parish P/J/10-11 offices, 1712-61
Accounts of parish treasurers with parish officers P/J/12
(contemporary transcript); includes payment of rewards for prosecution of felons. 1737-98
Accounts of the parish banker with the parish trustees P/J/13 1765-69
Rate book for the parish's share of compensation payable P/J/14 to inhabitants of Ossulton Hundred for damage caused by riots, 1782
Churchwardens and overseers accounts 1732-1823 (gaps) P/J/CW/1- 36, 120- 122,129-35
Churchwardens receipt vouchers 1809-19 P/J/CW/123
(Churchwardens accounts c1605, 1732-1862, 1914-19 (gaps), vouchers etc
1862-1936 (gaps) at LMA
Church rate books 1743-1814 (gaps), 1856-59 (church rate P/J/CW/37-books 1853-60 at LMA) 118,126-7
Schedule of tithe payers 1842-71 P/J/CW 125
Hackney Additional Churches Building and Endowment P/J/CW 128
Fund minutes 1839-47
Trustees of the Poor
Minutes 1810-1900 P/J/P 2-22
(Minutes of trustees for maintaining the poor and lighting and watching 1764-82 are at LMA, microfilm at HAD
Minutes of Survey, Finance and Finance and Default P/J/P 23-29
Committees 1850-1900 (gaps)
Workhouse Committee minutes 1741-87 (gaps) P/J/P 35-40
Workhouse Management Committee minutes 1754-60 at LMA. Microfilm at HAD
Treasurer and Overseers' financial records P/J/P 30-34 1716-1815 (gaps) 71-90, 245-247
Workhouse financial records and outrelief payments P/J/P 35-68 1739-1804 (gaps). also includes apprentice registers 1767-97, examinations and settlements c1720-60, registers of workhouse inmates 1753-67, registers of parish poor children 1762-1800 (gaps)
Leases of the workhouse, 1741, 1761 and contracts for P/J/P 68/1 farming the poor 1755-64. Also includes printed copy of workhouse rules
Account of poor families, 1791 P/J/P 241
Registers of applications for poor relief 1821-22 P/J/P 242-3
Poor rate books 1716-1842 (gaps) P/J/P 71-240
Charity Records
Rentals of parish charities and gifts, with accounts P/J/C 14-40 1739-1814 (gaps)
Lists of subscriptions and applications for relief P/J/C 13/2, 43 1788-1807 (gaps)
Lists of recipients of parish charities 1770-92 P/J/C 41-42
Committee of Subscribers for the Relief of the Poor P/J/C 13/1
Minutes 1795-96
Notes and extracts of charitable bequests 1603-1818 P/J/C 3-4, 47
1844, c1820-54 and 1869
Note Certain records formerly in this class have been transferred to D/F/TYS and J/V/CC for which see FAMILY & ESTATE RECORDS, Tyssen and HACKNEY VESTRY respectively.
(Other charity records at LMA)
Militia and Military Records
Army and navy rate books 1795, 1797 P/J/M 1-2
Army of Reserve rate book and record of payments to P/J/M 3-4, 7 substitutes 1803, 1805
Hackney Volunteer corps regulations and signed declarations P/J/M 6 1803-08
(See also FAMILY & ESTATE. Dobree papers)
Surveyors of the Highway
Statute labour and composition books 1720-75 P/J/H 7-9. 11-62
Highway rates raised for the turnpike road from Shoreditch P/J/T11-30 Church to Enfield c1716-1743 (gaps)
Additional highway rate 1724 P/J/H 10
Surveyors' record books (labour used) 1734-1804 (gaps) P/J/H 63-83
Orders given to Surveyor by Board of Trustees 1766-80 P/J/H 84
Accounts of smith for tool repairs 1768-83 P/J/P 85
Report of Surveyors of Hackney and Shoreditch on the P/J/P 70 mutual boundary, with plan 1843. (For Trustees of the Poor)
Highways Board
Minutes 1836-56 P/J/HB 1-5
Notices of meetings 1848-50 P/JHB 6
Tower Hamlets Commissioners of Sewers plans of sewers P/J/HB 7 in Hackney, Shoreditch, Stepney, Bethnal Green and Poplar, 1843. Deposited with Highways Board.
Hackney Turnpike Trust
Minutes 1748-59, 1783-1826 (Minutes 1759-83 at LMA P/J/T 1-4 microfilm at HAD)
Roads Committee minutes 1756-1758 P/J/T 5 (Minutes 177-73 at LMA, microfilm at HAD)
Survey and special committee minutes 1821-25 P/J/T 6
Financial records 1771-1826 (gaps) P/J/T 7-9
Record of labour employed 1781-1802 P/J/T 10, 33
Record of tolls 1749-87 (gaps) P/T 31-32
Account book (wages paid and tolls collected) 1792-7 At LMA.
St John at Hackney Lamp and Watch Trustees
Minutes 1828-37 P/J/L/ 84
(Minutes of trustees for maintaining the poor and lighting and watching, 1764-82, and rough minutes 1775-87, at LMA. Microfilm 1764-82 at HAD.)
Financial records 1764-1835 (gaps) P/J/L/83, 87-89
Watchmen's attendance books 1825-28 P/J/L/85-86
Lamp inspector's book 1825-26 P/J/L/90
Lamp and watch rate books 1764-1826 (gaps) P/J/L/1-82
Trustees for demolishing the old church and building new
Minutes 1790-1866. At LMA (Microfilm at HAD)
Land Tax Assessments
Land tax assessments 1727, 1730-79, 1781-84, 1787-1810, P/J/LT 1812-22, 1824
Census
P/J/Misc P/J/CW 124Parish copies of the census 1811, 1821 and 1831.
Personal name indexes of the 1811 and 1821 census have been published by the East of London Family History Society.
South Hackney Parish
Select vestry minutes 1831-55 (LMA, microfilm at HAD)
Inhabitants meeting minutes 1832-51 (LMA, microfilm at HAD)
Committee appointed by Vestry. Minutes 1853-55 (LMA, microfilm at HAD)
West Hackney Parish
Inhabitants meeting minutes 1832-44 (LMA, microfilm at HAD)
11.2 Hackney Board of Works
Minutes of the Board 1855-94; annual reports, including BW reports of medical officer of health and the surveyor, 1856-94 byelaws, special reports (on finance, paving, sewers, open spaces and street renumbering) 1857-93
Finance Committee BW/F
Minutes 1863-94 (last vol. continues as St John Hackney Vestry to 1897)
Mortgage transfers 1865 BW/FD
General Purposes Committee BW/G
Reports and minutes 1856-90
Open Spaces Committee BW/KP
Minutes 1880-96; transcript of the burial register of St Thomas Square church 1837-76; plan of open spaces in Hackney, 1872
Street Regulation Committee
Minutes 1891-99 BW/PS
View Committee
(for inspection of cowsheds) BW/PVMinutes 1872-77
Town Hall
, later House Committee BW/TMinutes 1862-73, 1885-96 (minutes include other committees - Parliamentary and a Committee on London
Fields 1868-73). Illuminated mss with copy information on foundation stone of town hall, 1864
Sanitary Committee
BW/P 11, BW/SDMinutes 1875-78; lodging house regulations, 1866
Medical Officer of Health
BW/PBesides the annual report of the MoH (see above under the main Board of Works), records include quarterly and fortnightly reports 1857-68; report on the Smallpox Hospital, Brook Road, Clapton 1871; returns of smallpox cases 1880-84 and correspondence and copies of local acts on pollution of the River Lea, 1874-86
Surveyor
BW/ELetterbooks 1880-93; plan file (street order, town hall, charity lands, electricity supply, Hackney churchyard) 1856-92; salary records 1867-1914; lists of dedicated and undedicated streets, 1871-85; register of highway repairs c1855-80; Clerk of works returns on sewer works 1858-62; list of streets cleaned, 1885; maps of the Board of Works area showing drainage, roads, fire stations, gas company areas and Hackney marshes, 1856-1893
11.3 Hackney Vestry
Vestry minutes 1855-1900; annual reports 1895-1900 J/V, J/V/A special committee on London Government Act 1899; reports on New Parishes Act 1856, burial ground, rates, reorganisation of clerk's department, electric lighting and paving 1859-99; testimonials to and from the Vestry 1881-87
Vestry Clerk
J/V/CCCorrespondence and case papers concerning Hackney charities 1855-98; correspondence and deed concerning local government (including dissolution of Hackney Board of Works) 1893-98; plan of boundary alterations, 1899; in -letter book 1896
Vestry Clerk: electoral matters
J/V/CEVestry poll papers 1894; voters registers 1871-72, 1879.
(covering whole Borough of Hackney, which included Stoke Newington)
Baths and Washhouses Committee (initially Commissioners) J/B
Minutes 1891-1900; copies of legislation 1846-99; loan security 1892; programme of baths opening 1897
Survey (Valuation) Committee
J/F/AMinutes 1894-99; valuations (five yearly) 1875-1900 (incomplete for some years).
Law and Parliamentary Committee J/K
Minutes 1887-1902
Electric Lighting Committee
J/LMinutes 1896-1900; report on electric lighting and refuse destruction, 1898
Town Hall Committee, later Charities and Parochial Property Committee
Minutes 1893-1901
Lammas Lands and Charity Lands Committee J/V/L
Minutes 1855-56
Medical Officer of Health
J/PFor annual reports see annual reports of Vestry.
Other records include appointment of sanitary inspector and powers granted 1895-97; conference on prevention of pollution in the River Lea proceedings 1897
Surveyor J/E
Letterbooks 1894-1900; street lists (including specifications for cleaning) 1895-1900; conference on prevention of floods in North London proceedings 1897; judgement in case against contractor of water supply for roads, 1900; map of Hackney showing fire brigade stations etc 1899.
11.4 Hackney Metropolitan Borough
Council
Minutes 1900-65; reports of the Council 1901-14, 1923, H/C 1934-39.
Copies of certificates awarded to Hackney soldiers decorated H/CA for distinguished service in World War 1; minutes of presentations to former Mayors and Mayoresses 1906-14.
Register of declarations of acceptance of office 1918-21 H/CDA; H/CDY diaries and yearbooks 1904-60 (gaps)
Mayoral files 1919-64 (arranged by subject; indexed) H/CM
Standing Orders and byelaws 1915-137 H/CS
Electoral Registration
H/CEElectoral lists 1901-02; 1918-64
Air Raid Precautions, later Civil Defence Committee H/A
Minutes 1938-39; 1950-65 (minutes 1939-40 are included in the Emergency Committee and for 1940-50 with the Civil Defence and Finance Committee)
Also administration records 1939-41; report of Town Clerk, 1939; roll of honour of Hackney ARP and civil defence personnel killed on duty, 1940-5; registration cards 1941; applications for Defence medals and correspondence 1945-50; list of Town Hall staff in civil defence 1953; lists of staff on ARP duties and wardens 1939-45; official war diary (some files missing) 1939-45; incident list (cards, in street order); chronological incident list; war damage photographs and negatives; photographs of staff etc 1939-45; message forms between Control and local points 1940-1; diary of messages 1941; returns, reports and other records 1940-43; post war administration records 1947-63; ground plan of seven surface shelters nd; list of air raid casualties 1940-45; two films on gas decontamination, 1939.
Baths Committee
(to 1949, then Baths and Civic Recreation H/B Committee)Minutes 1921-65
Baths Department H/BD
Superintendents' report books 1897-1903; 1914-24; annual reports 1948-61 (gaps); programmes of opening of baths 1931-34; section of artesian well at Hackney Baths, c1920; regulations, and; poster 1952; reports on proposed civic theatre 1963-64
Civic Entertainments Committee
Minutes 1945-59; programme of events 1945-48 H/BR
Electricity Committee and Undertaking
H/D(Electric Lighting committee to 1909)
Minutes 1900-48; copies of relevant acts 1882-1928; abstracts of accounts 1925-48 (gaps); programmes of opening ceremonies of premises 1925-32; technical descriptions of equipment, 1939; plan of proposed pumphouse, 1912; staffing structure 1934; diagram of lighting up times, c1935.
Engineers and Surveyors Department
H/EOut letter books and operational files 1900-65 (including files on housing, war damage, highways, lighting, open spaces, street trading, drainage, Hackney Churchyard, weather; electricity sub-station plan, drainage, land use and road accidents). Plans of West and South Hackney churchyards 1894-1952 and c1950; maps of Hackney showing rubbish collection, electric lights, water posts, registration sub-districts, pedestrian crossings, travel facilities and conveniences and urinals 1920-37; ward and borough map of Stoke Newington, 1900; compulsory order maps accompanying house and street clearances 1930-50; site plans for Hackney Town Hall 1929-34.
Byelaws and accident prevention regulations 1855-91, 1953, H/E/A; H/E/B plan of the parish of Hackney, 1823 by William Merrington; plans and boundary plans of the area of the Hackney Board of Works and the boundaries of the Board's area, and later the area of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, 1848-c1916
Contract records and accounts 1927-67; deposited plans H/E/C (tramways, road and bridge improvements, sewer and drainage H/E/D works, road closures, land acquisition, proposed railways H/EP 1864-1924; plans of the town hall, Central Baths and two housing schemes (at Clapton Common and Powell House, Lower Clapton Road, Nisbet St, Bannister St, Rossington St. Clapton Common and others) c1894, 1936-48; Gainsborough Rd baths, laundries 1934-7; Millfields electricity generating station 1936; premises adapted for first aid posts 1938-9; Drainage and sewer records. Includes ledgers 1987-1905; H/ES paving, draining and sewer plans 1855-c1940; estimates and H/EZ apportionments for new streets 1868-1938; Goad insurance plans for areas within Metropolitan Borough of Hackney revised to 1924 For building and drainage plans see 11.2 London Borough of Hackney.
Open Spaces Committee
(Originally Public Gardens and Open H/EO Committee)Minutes 1900-06; 1912-14
Safety First Committe
e (Originally Children's Safety First H/ER Committee. Also incorporated Road Safety Advisory Committee)Minutes 1937-65
Works and General Purposes
Committee, later Works and H/EW;Open Spaces. (After 1914 General Purposes Committee was H/EWO a separate committee)
Minutes 1900-65 ;presented accounts 1918-27
Emergency Committee
H/EMERMinutes 1939-40
Finance Committee
(includes Civil Defence presented papers H/F 1940-50 and was renamed Civil Defence and Finance Committee during that period)Minutes 1900-65
Economy Committee H/FE
Minutes 1931-32
Treasurer's Department
H/FDAbstracts of accounts 1939-65;
Generalrate books 1910-65 H/FR
Survey and Valuation Committee
(later Rating Committee) H/FVMinutes 1901-49
Valuation lists, summaries and returns 1903-56 H/FVA
Land tax assessments 1939-49 H/FVR
See also Section 12
Establishment and General Purposes Committee
(includes Legal H/Gand Parliamentary sub committee
Minutes 1900-64
Joint (Staffs) Committee
H/GJSMinutes 1936-64
Local Joint (Works) Committee for Employees
H/GJWMinutes 1936-53
Tenders Committee
H/GTMinutes 1912-14 (function then absorbed into General Purposes)
Housing Committee
(later Housing and Town Planning Committee) H/HMinutes 1919-65
Post War Reconstruction
Committee H/HRMinutes 1942-53
Legal and Parliamentary Committee
H/KBetween 1914 and 1928 functions performed by Establishment and General Purposes Committee
Minutes 1902-14; 1928-58
Public Libraries Committee
H/LMinutes and reports of the Librarian 1904-65; (reports to 1970 to LB Hackney also included)
Hackney Gramophone Circle
H/LAMinutes 1950-58
Public Libraries
H/LDAdministration records Includes slide and lecture notes by Walter H Parker, 1927-30; report on local archaeological collection, c1930; receipts at Homerton Library 1936-45; classification schemes and catalogues 1907-26; programmes of library openings 1907-64; regulations governing libraries, 1961; accession and other records of the Tyssen and later local history collections c1910-c1960; plans and records concerning the construction of Central Library 1906-07; minutes of monthly staff meetings 1923-38; local history and other local cuttings c1826-1966 (includes series on British Union of Fascists 1937, 1962)
Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
H/MMinutes 1919-48
Public Health Committee
H/PMinutes 1900-65
Public Health Department
H/P, H/PDMedical Officer of Health annual reports 1900-63; minutes of Joint Working Party of LCC and Metropolitan Boroughs on public health 1963-64; minutes of the Hackney, Shoreditch and Stoke Newington Advisory Committee on public health provision 1963-64; staffing records 19090-55; inspection and licensing records 1922-60 (factories, public houses, slaughterhouses etc); slum clearance records 1928-55; maternity and child welfare records 1930-65 (slides, photographs and cine film of housing and slum clearance, child welfare, diseases, food inspection); miscellaneous records (storms, floods, pollution of River Lea, press cuttings on prosecutions etc) 1886-1962.
Allotments Committee
H/RMinutes 1955-61
Special Committees
H/SHackney Advisory Education minutes 1904; Special (Administration) Committee minutes 1913-16; Special Staff Committee minutes 1927-28; Special Purchasing Committee minutes 1930-39; 1946-50' Special (Coronation Celebrations) Committee minutes and correspondence 1952-54; Special Drama Festival Advisory Committee minutes 1961-68; Special (Jubilee Celebrations) Committee proposals and programmes, 1935; Special (Coronation) Committee: programme and report of Town Clerk, 1937; Peace Celebrations Committee, correspondence, programmes and posters 1919.
Town Hall and Library Committee
(for Tyssen collection) H/TMinutes 1901, 1903-14
Local Savings Committee
H/UMinutes 1951-64. Pamphlet on local savings, 1953
Other Committees of the Council
H/ZHackney Local representative Committee (for post war distress), minutes and correspondence 1914-20; Special (National Service) Committee (to encourage workers to move to jobs of national importance ) minutes 1917; Peace Celebration and War Memorial Committees minutes and correspondence 1916-23; Profiteering Local Committee minutes 1919-21; Mayor's Distress Fund Special Committee minutes 1920-22; Hackney Industrial and Recreational Centres for Unemployed Men. Finance Committee minutes 1933-39; Hackney Council for Coloured Citizens minutes 1959-63.
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