18. RECORDS OF INSTITUTIONS
18.1 Private Schools and Colleges
Hutton Poplars Residential School
(Poplar Union, then LCC D/S/15 then LB Hackney) Log book 1930-36; punishment book 1930-67; regulations and accounts 1897; plans 1904-55; photographs c-1914-30s
Stoke Newington Ragged Schools.
Committee minutes 1855-84 D/S/34 reports c1846-c72; accounts 1855-97
Vermont College
. Old Vermontians Club. Record album D/S/471890-1900 See also Section 17 for Maberley Chapel Sunday School and Newington Green Schools; D/F sections for other school material in family collections (see section 23) and Section 26 for microfilm copies for Tottenham Road School log books 1874-94, St Mary and
St Dominic's School, Homerton 1873-1912 and Kingsland Road RC
School, Tottenham Road 1871-1913
18.2 Independent charities, orphanages, almshouses and asylums
British Asylum for Deaf and Dumb Females. Committee D/S/14 minutes 1860-1949; financial records (ledgers, cashbooks, subscriptions) 1858-1941; annual reports 1856-197 (gaps)
British Ladies Society for promoting the Reformation of D/S 58/3
Female Prisoners
Minutes and annual report 1821-91
British Legion. Stoke Newington Branch. Circulars and details M 4395 of meetings 1932-7
Charity of Cranston and Marshall. Trustees minutes 1880-87 D/S/37
(Cranston's); 1887-1983 (Marshall's); trustees attendance register 1907-84; correspondence applications and agendas 1964-83; deeds and documents concerning recipients of charity, scheme to revise charity, copies of wills of founders etc 1764-c1960
All records closed for thirty years after the last date in each document or group of documents
18.2 Independent charities, orphanages, almshouses and asylums
Elizabeth Fry Probation Hostel (formerly Elizabeth Fry Refuge) D/S 58/1 Refuge and initiating group minutes 1846-1925;1938-53; matron’s log and report books 1941-50;1952-56; annual reports 1851-1964; public testimonial to Elizabeth Fry 1846; history 1960; case books c1849-1955; constitution 1852; accounts 1917-18; centenary appeal leaflet 1904.
Gas Light and Coke Co. Outdoor Provident Fund, report 1890 M 4014/8
Girls Guild of the Good Life, Hoxton Hall. Annual reports D/E/248 GIR
1892-1953 (gaps) article on Guild, 1913; appeal, 1955-62; subscriptions 1881-1923 (gaps); cash books and other accounting records 1843-1971; anniversary celebration ephemera 1888, 1898
Hackney Day Nursery
. Opening programme, 1934; annual D/S/40 reports 1934-44; attendance registers, 1934-35; 1941-42; visitors book 1934-42; specification for air-raid shelter 1939; correspondence and photographs, agendas and AGM papers, 1939-44Hackney District National Relief Fund. Minute book D/S/9 1914-17; retrospective report, 1920
Jewish Religious Students and Orphans Foundation M 4407/1
Programme for inaugural dinner and short history 1952
Old Gravel Pit Sick and Provident Society. Annual reports D/S/22 and balance sheets 1987-1966; rules, 1950-63; list of payments, 1918; "Story of the National Union for Insurance" by Herbert Davis (mentions Society)
Hornsey Parochial Charities. Charity register accounts D/S/43 1929-39
Lubavitch Foundation M 4407/2-6 Programmes and magazines 1959-85
18. RECORDS OF INSTITUTIONS,
18.2 Independent charities, orphanages, almshouses and asylums
Female Refuge for the Destitute and Male Refuge for the D/S/4 Destitute, Hackney Road and Dalston. General Court of Governors minutes 1819-77; General Committee Female Refuge minutes 1812-1902 (Male Refuge after 1848); G.C. Male Refuge minutes 1819-48; annual report 1867; report on despatch of female emigrants to Australia, 1834
Refuge for the Destitute (as above) D/S 58/2 Annual reports 1806-1922; case books 1846-57; history (compiled 1882-1909); letter and cuttings 1852,1922-23.
St Joseph’s Burial Society (Catholic) M 4380
Collector’s book 1865-9
Samuel Robinson’s Charities: Retreat and Relief D/S 57
Trustees minutes 1812-1974; registers of applications and pensioners 1887-1971; trust documents and property title deeds 1812-1978; historical notes on the Charities, 1991
Shoreditch Public Welfare Association (later Shoreditch D/S/7 Housing Association). S.P.W.A. annual reports 1909-27; drama ephemera 1923-27; S.H.A. minutes 1928-41; annual reports 1932-34; appeals and drama ephemera 1930-37; programmes of events 1933; Shoreditch Housing Journal 1932-35
Also drama ephemera and minutes of the Shakespeare M 4392 Committee (c1933 only). 1919-c1933.
Sun Babies Nursery. Trustees minutes 1941-63; annual report D/S/12 1937-38; acceptance of office by trustees 1944-47; order establishing charity 1941; leases of premises and associated correspondence 1941-53; attendance register 1942-50; correspondence on seaside outings, 1950
Workers Circle Friendly Society D/S 61
Central Committee and branch minutes 1940-80; financial records 1958-85; membership records ( including sickness) 1912-84; administration of Rest home records 1958-75; rules, histories, exhibitions etc 1934-68; interviews on history of the Workers Circle with secretary, 1988 and 1990 (tapes). For other references to charities etc see Section 23 family and estate records; and Section 26.4; transcripts (including copies of Sir John Cass Charity records)
18. RECORDS OF INSTITUTIONS,
18.3 Dispensaries and Hospitals
Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill dispensary (originally D/S/28 the Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Clapton, West Hackney, Kingsland and Dalston Dispensary) Committee minutes 1843-1930; subscriptions and accounts 1825-30; 1919-30; patient records 1894-1911; 1910-17; annual reports 1836-198; history 1895
19. MANORIAL RECORDS
Stepney and Hackney
Agreement on customs, list of tenants etc 1617-23 C/M/STE Conveyance of the manor, 1550 M 2573 Additionally there are copies in the local collection of The ancient customs of the manors of Stebbunheath and Hackney' of 1587, and 'Customs and privileges of the manors of Stepney and Hackney of 1736 The Department also holds microfilm of an extant of the manor, 1540-41 and the court register of 1634-43 (originals held at the Guildhall Library)
Grumbolds, Kingshold and Lordshold
Kingshold:
Value of the manor, 1704 M 2570
Quit rentals 1705-06, 1712, 1782 M966-8
Conveyance of the manor 1814 M 4037/1/1
See also D/F/AMH Amherst papers and D/F/TYS Tyssen papers
Lordshold:
Value of the manor, 1704 M 2570
Conveyance of the manor, 1696 M 3675
See also Section 23 D/F/NOR Norris papers, D/F/AM op cit
All other records of the three manors are deposited at the
Greater London Record Office M79
19. MANORIAL RECORDS
Wenlock Barn, Finsbury and Shoreditch
Court book and survey 1753-84 at GLRO Lease of the manor, 1777 M 392
Stoke Newington Manor
Title deeds of the lessees of the manor 1766-1821 M 3893-4, M 3896
Copies of court roll 1548-65 M 4016
Other records form part of the state records of St Paul's Cathedral held at the Guildhall Library, but the Department has extracts and abstracts for the years 1569-1882 in the local history collection.
Hoxton Prebendal Manor
Notice of court baron, 1823 D/M HOX
Other reputed manors have left no court records; these include the reputed manor of Wyke or Wick. M 3594, M 3633-4, V 28 and V 140 cover sales and plans of the estate, 1763-1823
20. RECORDS OF MILITARY AND ARMED BODIES
Alfred Knight, of the Royal Regiment of Artillery M 3887 Account book 1855-62 Loyal Hackney Volunteers. Papers 1792-1809. See family and estate D/F/DOB and D/F/TYS Hackney National Reserve. Committee and meeting minutes D/S/10 1913-22; lists of members c1912-21; correspondence 1912-21 See also family and estate under D/F/JON 2/4th London Battalion. London Regiment Royal Fusiliers. See family and estate under D/F/PRID National Reserve Force. Stoke Newington Battalion. D/S/49 Membership records 1912-19; rules, 1914-15; Memorandum of Association of Albion Grove Ltd club house co) 1914; copies of orders 1914-20; details of exercise in defence of Chingford and High Beech, 1917; circulars on fund raising 1914-19 and cuttings 1913-19 Appeal for membership, 1916 M 4101 4th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps. M 256 Commission of C A Young, 1861
20. RECORDS OF MILITARY AND ARMED BODIES
Shoreditch Militia, substitute certificate, 1832 M 1547 Subscription list to raise money for army, 1745 M 2553 Letter concerning reaction in Hackney to 1745 rebellion M 2586 Stoke Newington & Vicinity Armed Association. M 4034 Invitations and cuttings 1798-99 Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. M 4005 Posters issued 1914-17 Stoke Newington War Hospital Supply Depot. D/S/30 Minutes 1915-19; production records 1915-19; financial records 1916-19; visitors book 1915-18; correspondence and cuttings, rules etc 1916-18
See also Hackney Parish section and family and estate papers also Section 22 records of local societies
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