| Description | In the accounts, disbursements are divided into various classes:
1. Resident and non-resident paupers
2. Paupers working for the parish
3. Clothing, fuel, etc.
4. No entries
5. Medical attention, funerals etc.
6. Bastard children
7. Attending justices
8. County Rates, Constables' bills
Lists of persons liable for jury service, 1835, 1836, appear at the end of the volume.
Vestry minutes include:
Proposed fund to assist emigrants. 1836
Objections to poor rate assessments. 1839
Application from Mary Partridge, schoolmistress of the Female Charity School, for a loan to cover arrears of salary. 1839 (Details of this school, established under the terms of the will of Thomas Warren, 1748, are given in the Charity Commissioners' Report, 1837).
Three inspectors to be appointed under the provisions of the Act of 3 & 4 William IV (1833) amending lighting and watching regulations. 1840
Poor houses belonging to the parish to be sold. 1841
List of persons eligible for jury service. 1842
£500 to be spent on road building provided the Duke of Rutland contributes £100. 1842
Consultations regarding the upkeep of roads in the parish. 1843
Rates to be adjusted following the inclosure of the parish (Act 1841, award 1844). 1843
£50 to be allotted to emigrants settling in New Brunswick, provided that the Duke of Rutland contributes a similar amount. 1846
The old clock bell to be sold and the clock itself to be repaired and made to strike on one of the other bells. 1847
Resolved to repair windows, north transept roof and pavement at west door. The organ to be sold to raise £50 for the purpose. 1851 (A long controversy ensued after the installation of a far more elaborate instrument until it was decided that, there being no sufficiently competent organist, the old organ should be replaced. The new instrument was taken to Cheveley Park House and finally sold for £80 in March 1853).
Resolved that the sum of 5 guineas per annum be paid to the Church Clerk as a salary in lieu of his former charges for winding up the clock, tolling the bell at harvest, washing surplices etc., fetching fuel for the stove, sweeping paths and cleaning the church, and that £1 per annum be allowed to Charles Bailey for chiming the bells on Sundays. 1852
Detailed description of the first perambulation of the parish boundaries to be held since 1788. 1853
Staircase to gallery, panelling on ceiling and plain seats with rail backs to be erected in the church. 1853
Sanitary Commission to be formed to take precautionary measures for the prevention of disease. The whole village to be surveyed and recommendations sent to F.M. Peck, Medical Officer of the District. 1853
Sheep Feed of the recreation ground let for £3. 4s. per year, provided only sheep and geese feed on it. 1855
Building Committee formed to organize fund raising for the erection of a girls' school. (Notice of meeting P42/25/1) 1861
Committee to report on the condition of the poor houses. 1862
Committee to report on necessary repairs to church fabric. John F. Clark appointed architect. 1862
The 'Poors Land' let for 12 years to Robert Ransom at a rent of £28.10s. per annum, tithes, rent charges and rates being paid by the Trustees. 1863
Four cottages 'The Dover Houses' and a double tenement 'The Poor Houses', to be sold to raise funds for the erection of a workhouse. 1864 (Details of charitable bequests, including the above properties, are contained in the Charity Commissioners' Report, 1837. Lord Dover (see P42/1/2) is stated to have provided the four cottages sold in 1864 and to have given land for the further endowment of the free grammar school established under the terms of John Raye's Will, 1558).
Repairs to church including restoration of the clock and repurchase of a bell sold to Mr. Hart of Brinkley. 1864
Robert Ransom appointed Postmaster. 1865
A 'decent flagon' for Holy Communion to be provided by the Churchwardens. 1866
Rate to discharge Quarter Sessions levy under terms of Cattle Diseases Act. 1866
Rate granted to Management Committee of the Girls National School, to cover expenses involved in carrying out the requirements of the Elementary Education Act. 1870
New burial ground to be provided, the churchyard being over crowded. A paddock belonging to the Duke of Rutland to be used for the purpose. 1871
Further buildings to be erected for accommodation of an enlarged, mixed school. 1873
Augmentation of water supply necessary. 'Resolved that the Ratepayers of Cheveley raise no objection to a well being dug on the hill, but they refuse to contribute to the cost of it'. Proposed that 'the Emswell pond be cleared out and embanked with clay so as to secure a supply of water, a pump be put up, and the whole protected by a suitable fence'. 1884
Description of proposed celebrations for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, including tea and sports for the children, a dinner for all parishioners over 60 and beer for labouring men. Jubilee medals to be given to all the children. Further suggestions to distribute 1lb meat to each adult and 1/2lb to each child rather than provide a dinner, and accept Mr. Wade Munnings' offer to supply the best joints of beef at 8d per lb. Details are given of the events finally held on Jubilee Day, 21 June. 1887
Discussion regarding boundary alterations after the establishment of Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk County Councils. 1889
Report on deteriorated state of roads in the parish. 1890
Opposition to proposals for extension of Newmarket to include parts of Cheveley and Wood Ditton. 1892
Details of celebrations for the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York with Princess Victoria Mary, including accounts and programme of sports and fete. 1893
Meeting to consider proposed road diversion across Hart Field. 1893
Repairs to transept roofs and organ chamber.
New clock to be given by Mr. McCalmont (see note below under 1903) to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. 1897
Confirmation of 76 candidates from 6 parishes. 1902
Celebrations for the coronation of King Edward VII. 1902
Death of Col. H.L.B. McCalmont, J.P., D.L., M.P. 1861 - 1903 (Purchaser of the Cheveley Estate from the Duke of Rutland and builder of 'the present house'. M.P. for East Cambridgeshire, 1895 - 1903). [Rebuilt 1896 - 1900, demolished 1920].
Church reopened after extensive restoration financed by the late Col. McCalmont. Architect Col. Edis. C.B. F.S.A., building work by Messrs. Rattee & Kett of Cambridge. Organ enlarged and improved by Messrs. Norman & Beard, Norwich. Roofs and floors repaired, vestry built on S. side of organ chamber, Folkes monument, 1642, restored to N. wall of chancel, font placed in N.W. corner of nave. Window by Messrs. Clayton & Bell inserted on N. side of chancel. 1903
Restrictions on burials in parish cemetery. 1905
Window by Messrs. J. Powell & Sons of Whitefriars dedicated. 1913
Details of redistribution of parishes in Rural Deanery of Thurlow: of the 16, 13 were transferred to the new diocese of St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich, and 3 (Cheveley, Kirtling and Ashley-cum-Silverley) were included in the Rural Deanery of Fordham, Diocese of Ely. 1914
Division of the Rural Deanery of Fordham into the deaneries of Cheveley and Fordham. 1917
Dedication of War Memorial. Architect: Sir Charles Nicholson Bart. 1920
Inside front cover part of label from an exhibit in legal proceedings concerning transfer of part of Cheveley parish to Newmarket All Saints, (see Minutes of P.C.C., 1944 - 1947, P42/8/2), 1946 |