Catalogue description MACCLESFIELD ROE STREET SUNDAY SCHOOL

The School premises were used by various local clubs and societies for meetings etc. see SP2/20 below for Accounts of Fees of Letting of Rooms 1896-1966. Records of four such groups were deposited along with the records of the Sunday School itself, and are listed below SP2/37-62 Ancient Order of Foresters, SP2/63, 64 Church of England Friendly Society, SP2/65, 66 Macclesfield Philharmonic Society and SP2/67, Macclesfield and District Amateur Billiard League.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Minutes

SP2/1 Management Committee Minutes. 3 volumes 1802-1946.

SP2/2 Minutes of Teachers' Meetings. 4 volumes 1803-1973.

SP2/3 Minutes of Visitors' Meetings. 2 volumes 1902-1921.

SP2/4 Tea Meeting and Entertainment Committee Minutes. 2 volumes 1888-1916.

SP2/5 School Treat Committee Minutes. 1 volume 1895-1916.

SP2/6 Readings etc. Committee Minutes. 1 volume 1898.

Admission

SP2/7 Admissions Registers. 4 volumes 1796-1876.

SP2/8 Registers of New Scholars Proposed for Admission. 2 volumes 1836-1939.

Attendance

SP2/9 Scholars' Attendance Registers. 46 volumes 1861-1968.

SP2/10 Totals of Scholars' Attendances. 1 volume 1935-1968.

SP2/11 Scholars' Attendance Prizes. 2 volumes 1888-1906.

SP2/12 Teachers' Attendance Registers. 2 volumes 1817-1918.

SP2/13 Register of Teachers' Non-Attendance. 1 volume 1879-1913.

SP2/14 Reports of Teachers' Non-Attendance. 1 volume, 2 docs. 1858-1894.

SP2/15 Register of Scholars and Teachers. 1 volume 1858.

Accounts

SP2/16 Trustees' Cash Accounts. 3 volumes 1815-1868.

SP2/17 Teachers' Accounts. 6 volumes 1796-1975.

SP2/18 Sick Fund Accounts. 2 volumes 1842-1950.

SP2/19 Accounts of Annual Tea Parties and School Treats. 2 volumes 1854-1926.

SP2/20 Accounts of Fees for Letting of Rooms. 1 volume 1896-1966.

SP2/21 Accounts of Collections. 2 volumes 1873-1887.

SP2/22 Bank Pass Books. 3 volumes 1850-1969.

Miscellaneous

SP2/23 Court Inquiry. 1 volume, 1 roll 1816-1818.

SP2/24 Notebooks and Addresses etc. 13 volumes 1819-1960.

SP2/25 Programmes of services and sermons, tea parties, processions, prize distributions, entertainments etc., with posters and advertisements for same and various notes and newscuttings. 1 volume, 2 bundles 1863-1926.

SP2/26 Record of Choir Members and Activities. 2 volumes 1883-1945.

SP2/27 Medals. 8 items 1846, 1896.

SP2/28 Correspondence and Papers. 39 docs. 1815-1975, n.d.

Reports and other Printed Material

SP2/29 Annual Reports and Plan for Management. 1 volume 1796-1816.

SP2/30 Annual Reports and Sermon. 1 volume 1796-1819.

SP2/31 Annual Reports. 96 items 1804-1972.

SP2/32 Plans for Management. 2 items 1860-1935.

SP2/33 Forms of Service for Annual Sermons. 16 items 1862-1960.

SP2/34 Histories of the School. 3 items 1896-1946.

SP2/35 Miscellaneous. 7 volumes 1815-1897, n.d.

Pictures and Photographs etc.

SP2/36 Portraits of John Whitaker, William Whitaker, Sarah Whitaker, Rev. Robert Stephens McAll, Rev. William Robert Bridge Arthy, Rowland Hill and Thomas Underhill; engravings and photographs of sunday school; photographs of pupils', lantern slides of India, Far East and biblical subjects. 44 items 18-20th cent.

ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS

Minutes

SP2/37 Minutes of Meetings. 4 volumes 1840-1937.

Court No. 428 Macclesfield until Dec. 1843; Court Oak Sapling No. 1657 from Jan. 1844.

Membership

SP2/38 Declaration Book. 1 volume 1881-1909.

SP2/39 Register. 1 volume 1896-1910.

Accounts

SP2/40 Nomination of Funeral Money Book. 1 volume 1886-1916.

SP2/41,42 Management Expenses Fund Accounts. 2 volumes 1891-1936.

SP2/43 Valuations. 7 items 1900-1932.

SP2/44 Incidental Account Book. 1 volume 1905-1937.

SP2/45 Annual Returns. 10 items 1919-1936.

SP2/46 Monthly Balance Accounts. 2 volumes 1922-1936.

SP2/47 Registers of Contributions. 2 volumes 1927-1938.

SP2/48 Statements of Account. 3 docs. 1936-1939.

Reports and Papers

SP2/49 Annual Reports. 36 docs. 1898-1939.

SP2/50,51 Scrapbook and Papers. 1 volume, 25 docs. 1877-1907.

SP2/52 Rules. 5 items 1881-1935.

SP2/53 Correspondence and Papers. 1 bundle 1880-1938.

SP2/54 Contribution and other cards and tickets. 18 items 1938, n.d.

Miscellaneous

SP2/55 Foresters' Directories. 3 volumes 1889-1937.

SP2/56 General Laws. 4 volumes 1899-1931.

SP2/57 Quarterly Reports. 6 items 1933-1953.

SP2/58 High Court Ipswich. 2 volumes 1937.

SP2/59 Foresters' Miscellanies. 3 volumes 1950-1952.

SP2/60 A.O.F. 125 Years' Anniversary. 1 volume 1834-1959.

SP2/61 Scarves.

SP2/62 Tokens.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND FRIENDLY SOCIETY

SP2/63 Accounts of Monthly Contributions. 6 volumes 1841-1903.

SP2/64 Registers of Weekly Payments. 2 volumes 1876-1887.

MACCLESFIELD PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY

SP2/65 Receipt Book for Subscriptions. 1 volume 1891-1899.

SP2/66 Notebook. 1 volume c.1890-1898.

MACCLESFIELD AND DISTRICT AMATEUR BILLIARS LEAGUE

SP2/67 Printed Rules. 2 docs. 1934,1952

Roe Street Sunday School, Macclesfield, Cheshire

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Deposited by the Trustees of Roe Street Sunday School, Macclesfield per Brocklehurst & Co., King Edward Street, Macclesfield in June 1978, August and December 1979. Acc. 2482, 2636, 2680

• Macclesfield, Cheshire

In 1796 John Whittaker commenced a Sunday school of 40 scholars in Pickford Street. By 1812 his scholars numbered 2,149 and were dispersed in some five different premises. A new building was erected in Roe Street in 1813 at a cost of £5,640, and the school opened there 10 Apr. 1814 1914 Directory and C. S. Davies A History of Macclesfield pp.218-220. The decision to close the School was made at the Teachers' Meeting Sep. 1973 see SP2/2/4 below