Contents:
These records reflect the activities of the parish of Yalding, Kent. As well as records of the incumbent minister, which include registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, they also contain records, where they survive, of the churchwardens, the parish constable, the overseers of the poor and the parish surveyor.
INCUMBENT; Service of the Church - Registers
p408/1 [n.d.]
[no title]
p408/1/1 1559-1678; 1729
Contents:
Composite register: baptisms 1559 - 1667, marriages 1559 - 1678, burials 1559 - 1648, two baptism entries for 1729, and one burial entry for 1655
(Includes a note at front that the entries from 1559 were transcribed into this book in 1599 by Richard Beeston, vicar; refs to deaths from plague in 1590)
[no title]
p408/1/2 1654-1744
Contents:
Composite register: baptisms 1654 - 1727, marriages 1681 - 1744, burials 1654 - 1743
(Includes a list of the vicars of Yalding 1574 - 1798; refs to plague 1666/7; refs to burials of "Hoppers" c. 1729; note of first burial in woollen 13 August 1678; note of two men struck dead by thunder 1663; note of bells being hung in 1696 with details of weights; date of birth given on baptism entries 1695 - 1706)
[no title]
p408/1/3 1728-1789
Contents:
Composite register: baptisms 1728 - 1788, marriages 1744 - 1754, burials 1743 - 1789
(Includes a list of the vicars of Yalding 1574 - 1934)
[no title]
p408/1/4 1790-1813
Contents:
Baptisms 1790 - 1812, burials 1790 - 1813
(Date of birth and age at death given in many cases; many interesting entries re. cause of death)
Baptisms
p408/1/5 1813-1833
Baptisms
p408/1/6 1833-1843
Marriages 1754 - 1790 and banns 1754 - 1790
p408/1/7 1754-1790
Marriages 1791 - 1812 and banns 1791 - 1812
p408/1/8 1791-1812
Marriages
p408/1/9 1813-1837
Marriages
p408/1/10 1837-1874
Marriages
p408/1/11 1874-1903
Marriages
p408/1/12 1903-1913
Marriages
p408/1/13 1913-1923
Banns
p408/1/14 1846-1879
Banns
p408/1/15 1879-1915
Banns
p408/1/16 1915-1938
Burials
p408/1/17 1813-1846
Confirmations
p408/1/18 1885-1910
Service Register
p408/1/19 1891-1901
Service Register [contains at back statistical summary of parochial work. Organisation and finance 1901-1906]
p408/1/20 1901-1913
Service Register
p408/1/21 1938-1946
Service Register
p408/1/22 1946-1952
Rough notebook of church services
p408/1/23 1902-1905
Register of baptisms
p408/1/24 1843-1901
CHURCHWARDENS; Rates
p408/4 [n.d.]
Summary of annual income and expenditure of Church rate
p408/4/1 1881-1888
Rough estimates of probable expenditure to enable setting of church rate
p408/4/2 1857-1866
Rough list of ratepayers and amounts owing for Collier Street and Town area
p408/4/3 undated
List of people who have not paid the church rate
p408/4/4 undated
Annual rate return for year ending Easter 1867
p408/4/5 1866-1867
VESTRY AND P.C.C
p408/8 [n.d.]
Administrative history:
Yalding Vestry was extremely active and had several committees. The largest of these was the Workhouse Committee or Committee for the Relief of the Poor which itself was known as the Vestry. This dealt with casual relief, later with the administration of the poor house, and in 1795 for the administration of the workhouse built in that year on School House Green for £250.
Vestry and account book New workhouse built 1795-1796; "In good condition in 1926"
p408/8/1 1741-1799
Vestry and account book; "In fair order. Wants a new back in 1926"
p408/8/2 1799-1806
Vestry and account book; "In good order in 1926"
p408/8/3 1806-1813
Vestry and account book; "In good order. See Bow Bridge 1814. Parish fined £500 for not repairing highway at Darman"
p408/8/4 1814-1819
Vestry and account book; "In good order in 1926"
p408/8/5 1819-1825
Vestry and account book; "In very good order. Bound in parchment. The book cost £1, and cheap at that"
p408/8/6 1823-1830
Vestry and account book; "Alteration in the Course of the River proposed 1830"
p408/8/7 1830-1832
[no title]
p408/8/8 1832-1860
Contents:
Vestry and account book
This volume continues from those above down to 1835. The workhouse was sold in 1836 and from then on the book was used to record the Vestry meetings, the Committee for Poor Relief which worked in association with the Board of Guardians, and the Voluntary and River Committee formed in 1830 for the alteration of the course of the river in Yalding to ease flooding damage. Out of work poor ware frequently set to work on this scheme which provided a source of work in the parish for many years. The book includes also the minutes of the Emigration Committee and a list of the persons who emigrated to Sydney at the expense of the parish and general vestry matters such as the new bridge near Hunton mill, Churchyard extension, the New Schools at Yalding and Collier Street and the building of St. Margaret's church, Collier St. in 1847. It also contains Highway Surveyors' Minutes 1835-1837 at the back
[no title]
p408/8/9 1860-1880
Contents:
Vestry Minute Book
Borough of Rugmer Hill on ancient demesne, 1860; Boundary fixed between Yalding and Collier Street, 1863; Church flagon exchanged for modern one, 1869; Church heating installed for £80, 1870; List of contents of the iron chest 1873
[no title]
p408/8/10 1967-1969
Conditions of access:
p408/8/10 not available to the public until 2000
Contents:
Administrative files covering period of sequestration, including sequestration accounts, service arrangements, institution of vicar, organ, cupola and tower, valuation of silver, glebe land
[no title]
p408/8/11 1881-1911
Contents:
Vestry Minute Book (including charity accounts (1881-1889); inventory of documents in vestry room chest (1882))
[no title]
p408/8/12 1857-1885
Contents:
Notices of Vestry Meetings
OVERSEERS; Rates
p408/11 [n.d.]
Rates and disbursements; "Note Feby. 1926. Is in bad condition and should be rebound. A.C. Borton Parish Warden."+
p408/11/1 1658-1686
Rates and disbursements
p408/11/2 1687-1726
Rates and disbursements; "In bad condition. Must be rebound (1926)"
p408/11/3 1727-1758
Rates and disbursements; "In first rate order. Well bound. Good paper - admirably kept and beautifully written- an example for XXth Century."
p408/11/4 1756-1788
Rates and disbursements; "Parchment cover. In first rate order. Beautifully written."
p408/11/5 1789-1794
Rates and disbursements; "Bound in parchment. In very good order in 1926."
p408/11/6 1794-1798
Rates and disbursements
p408/11/7 1798-1802
Rates and disbursements; "In good order in 1926"
p408/11/8 1805-1809
Rates and disbursements; "In very good order. Well bound and well kept, but the ink used was bad, and is fading fast. (1926)"
p408/11/9 1809-1815
Rates and disbursements
p408/11/10 1815-1819
Rates and disbursements; "Population of Yalding June 1821 Males 1233, Females 1181, Total 2414. Increase in 10 years 355"
p408/11/11 1819-1823
Rates and disbursements; "In fair order. Bound in parchment. Well kept.
p408/11/12 1823-1827
Archival history:
+All these volumes (p408/11/1-12) were wrapped in brown paper in 1926 by A.C. Borton, the Parish Warden who wrote the remarks on the covers. The paper has had to be removed because it harboured dust.
OVERSEERS; Miscellaneous
p408/16 [n.d.]
Miscellaneous correspondence relating to the work of the overseers of the poor p408/19/1 1881-1886
Case. Rev. David Lamplugh v Churchwardens and Overseers of Yalding. Action brought by Mr. Lamplugh for distress levied on his property for non-payment of poor rate
p408/19/2 1887-1888
Valuation of Mockbeggar Farm p408/19/2A 1843
Case for and opinion of Counsel, burial of persons drowned in Medway
p408/19/3 1902
Conditions of access:
[UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION]
Copy letter to Local Government Board relative to distraint for Education Rate, with another letter and cognate vouchers
p408/19/4 1903
Conditions of access:
[UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION]
Request to constable and churchwardens to supply names of residents from whom the next overseers should be chosen
p408/19/5 1809-1894
SURVEYORS; Accounts
p408/21 [n.d.]
Accounts and disbursements
p408/21/1 1705-1765
Accounts and disbursements; "In good order in 1926". See p408/8/8 above
p408/21/2 1766-1836
Accounts and disbursements; "Printed forms for the accounts"
p408/21/3 1836-1838
Accounts and disbursements; "Last page Churchwardens accounts for 1845"
p408/21/4 1838-1844
CHARITY AND SCHOOLS
p408/25 [n.d.]
[no title]
p408/25/1 1764-1903
Contents:
"Charities" There were many charities in Yalding: Allhorns, Gammons Farm, Tudeley Lands, Bentletts Farm, Blanket charity, Bread charity, Coal charity among them. All were joined together in 1903 to form the Yalding United charities
[no title]
p408/25/2 1836Contents:
Report and recommendation on behalf of Mr. Finch, a Commissioner who held an enquiry as to the Charities, for the disposal of the funds (12 March)
Map of the Tudeley Lands surveyed by John Bowra p408/25/3 1775
Deeds relating to Bentletts Farm or the Pest House in Yalding (deeds)
p408/25/4 1538-1873
Papers relating to the same
p408/25/5 1873-1908
Sale of land at Laddingford, Yalding to the parish for enlargement of the school p408/25/6 1901
Yalding Charity trustees, correspondence relative to letting property, including Prince of Wales beerhouse at Collier Street, Bentletts farm and Gammons farm and beerhouse
p408/25/7 1901-1904
Conditions of access:
[UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION]
Names of those in receipt of gift money and clothes
p408/25/8 1763
Correspondence etc. between the parish and the local Government Board concerning: The case of Lamplugh v Norton and others, in particular the results of the appeal to the High Court; alterations to the parish boundary.
p408/25/9 1883-1889
Correspondence etc relating to Tenancy (includes: letters of authorisation to distrain the goods of tenants who have not paid their rents; notices to quit; acceptance of leases; details of repairs required.)
p408/25/10 1865-1889
Correspondence between the parish and the charity commission, (includes: the appointment of Trustees; alterations to charity land)
p408/25/11 1883-1891
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding: The offensive privy belonging to the Pest House (a Charity property) including a notice issued under the Public Health Act of 1875 to repair or replace this 'nuisance'; the Sanitary Authority; the Trustees; Stone Castle Charity.
p408/25/12 1883-1891
Correspondence regarding the dispute between the vicar, the Revd. David Lamplugh and the senior Charity Trustee Mr. R. Norton, on behalf of the Overseers regarding the payment and collection of the poor rate. (see formal record in Minutes in p408/25/1)
p408/25/13 1887-1889
Statement of account "Bequest of Sarah Catherine Warde Charity".
p408/25/14 1875-1880
Annual statements of account-4 charities: Alkhorns, Gammons, Pest House or Beutletts, Tudely Lands or Julian Kennards (not 1881, 1884, 1888)
p408/25/15 1880-1900
Details of those people in receipt of clothes, blankets and coal, from the various charities; (many lists undated)
p408/25/16 c. 1887-1895
Notice and application for allocation of allotments of Land under the Allotments Extension Act of 1882
p408/25/17 1883
Yalding Charities account, receipts and expenditure
p408/25/18 1892
Rough notebook containing list of occupiers compiled by R. Treasure. Included at back copies of resolutions and correspondence regarding the tenant of Gammons Charity Farm.
p408/25/19 1893
Rough agendas and minutes for meetings of the Trustees
p408/25/20 c.1873-1889
Folder entitled 'Yalding Charities, Accounts and Receipted Bills'. [Also includes memoranda, correspondence particularly with Charity Commission, tenders, draft Minutes]
p408/25/21 1882-1897
FINAL MISCELLANEOUS
p408/28 [n.d.]
Census Register
p408/28/1 1883
Collecting and Deposit Book for Rates
p408/28/2 1882-1886
Parish Valuation. Area 5, 812a. 1r. 0p. Estimated rental £22,366 6s. 9d. Rateable value £13,294 17s. 6d. p408/28/3 1846
Parish Valuation; Rateable Value £17,938 2s. 0d p408/28/4 1866
Parish Valuations 1888 Rateable Value £18,627 1s 6d. 1894 Rateable Value £16,610 18s.0d p408/28/5 1888, 1894
Papers relating to the boundaries between the parishes of Nettlestead and Yalding
p408/28/6 1887
Maps of roads in Yalding parish p408/28/7 19th c
Inventory of moveable goods in parish church of Tenterden
p408/28/8 c.1800
Printed voters' list, parliamentary and county elections
p408/28/9 1889
Conditions of access:
[UNFIT FOR PRODUCTION]
Returns of Benefice Income
p408/28/10 1830-32
Statistical returns of Parochial works
p408/S/E/12 1906-1932
