| Description | This box contains the following bundles:
All Saints Parish - churchwardens' vouchers 1866-1868 (2 bundles); churchwardens' vouchers and papers 1864-1865, including licences issued by the Archdeacon of Ely to Francis Stephen Westbrook, Clerk, B.A. dated 25 August 1865 and to Walter Frederick Eaton, Clerk, B.A. dated 30 September 1864; overseers' and churchwardens' papers 1850-1851; overseers' vouchers and papers 1848-1849, including lists of paupers and letter to the Godmanchester overseers re John Deighton, aged 37, his wife Mary Ann, 32, children Henry, 15, James, 13, Betsy,11, Louisa, 8, Emma, 5, and Ann, 2, chargeable to All Saints parish and sickness of wife dated 22 April 1848; overseers' vouchers 1849-1850 including statement of account re the settlement of Robert Garner and Mr Duggan, October-November 1849; overseers' vouchers and papers 1846-1847 including licence for Francis Cooper Armstrong and Jefferies Smith, executors of the late William Smith of Huntingdon, to sell liquor at the Huntingdon Arms dated 16 February 1847 (the original licence granted 25 August 1846, and the executors now seek to transfer it to Sarah, widow of William Smith); overseers' vouchers and papers 1845-1846; bastardy order for the male child of Elizabeth Dickinson, father John Hagger junior, 1 August 1832; bastardy order and examination for the female child of Jane Briers, father Henry Marshall of Rutland November 1819; bastardy order and examination for the unborn child of Mary Bellam, father George Wright of Soham, Cambridgeshire 22 October 1820; bastardy order for the male child of Hannah Chapman, father William Tosen of Upwell, Norfolk 28 December 1829;removal order for William and Elizabeth Hammond 1 June 1838; removal order for John and Elizabeth Farrin both aged 68 from All Saints to Croyden, Surrey 25 November 1820; removal order for William and Rebecca Jarvis, gardener, and their children Witherow aged 9, Thomas, 7, William, 6 and Henry 6 months from Manea, Cambridgeshire to All Saints; overseers' vouchers 1842-1843; churchwardens' vouchers 1868-1869; churchwardens' rate receipt book and vouchers 1857-1858; overseers' rate receipt books 1853, with the appointment of J.P. Provost and William Peacock as overseers and instructions as to their office;papers re repairing the church, enlarging the vestry and plan of organ gallery, 1830s; churchwardens' vouchers 1838-1839; oveerseers vouchers' 1838-1839 including removal order for William and Elizabeth Hammond from St Andrew the Less, Cambridge to All Saints 1 June 1838, a letter re the removal of the "boy Edis" from Huntingdon to Holbeach, Lincolnshire 29 May 1838, objection to the rate of poor relief by Stepen Pumfrett, occupier of the Falcon Inn, (owner G.B. Pumfrett) 11 April and 10 June 1838, appeal against the poor rate by Rev John Fell 26 September 1838 (the overseers' accounts include the expenses in the settlement of John Holland Maxwell Edis "chargeable to the parish by the desertion of his father and the examination of William Wilson as to his settlement June 1838); churchwardens' vouchers 1858-1859; churchwardens' vouchers 1855-1857.
St John's Parish - churchwardens' vouchers and papers1842-1843 (2 bundles); surveyors' rate book 1816; surveyors' papers 1839; churchwardens' rate 16 May 1799; churchwardens' vouchers 1836-1837.
Miscellaneous - statement of account for Fishbourn's Charity year ending 1861; Huntingdon Union statement of accounts quarter ending Christmas 1840; one large bundle of papers, circulars etc. 1843-1851, including an undated voters' list, a Socrates Lodge of Freemasons notice of meeting 1845, lists of burgesses 1843 & 1846 and a paupers' list 1851 |