PARISH OF RINGMER

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

PAR461/1/1 Pre-1812 registers; 1605-1812

PAR461/1/2 Baptism registers; 1813-1979

PAR461/1/3 Marriage registers; 1813-1995

PAR461/1/4 Banns registers; 1823-1966

PAR461/1/5 Burial registers; 1813-1969

PAR461/2 Papers relating to registers; 1812-1946

PAR461/3/1 Preacher registers; 1854-1918

PAR461/3/2 Service registers; 1894-1996

PAR461/4 Buildings; 1852-1958

PAR461/5 Institutions, inductions, licences; 1802-1839

PAR461/6 Income of the benefice; 1842-1952

PAR461/7 Other records; c1755-2001

CHURCHWARDENS

PAR461/8 Rates; 1874

PAR461/9 Accounts; 1682-1951

PAR461/10 Property; 1925-1967

PAR461/11 Other records; 1848-1940

VESTRY

PAR461/12 Minutes; 1911-1922

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR461/14 Minutes; 1920-1982

PAR461/15 Accounts; 1945

PAR461/16 Other records; 1852-1956

STATUTORY DEPOSITS

PAR461/21 Tithe records; 1922-1932

CHARITY

PAR461/24 Henrietta Hay Charity and Ringmer Parish Room; 1791-1942

SCHOOLS

PAR461/25 Ringmer School; 1873-1903

PAR461/26 OTHER RECORDS; 1546, 1783

CONSTABLES

PAR461/29 Other records; 1546, 1783

OVERSEERS

PAR461/30 Rates; 1786-1925

PAR461/31 Accounts; 1754-1919

PAR461/32/1 Settlement certificates; 1702-1814

PAR461/32/2 Removal orders from parish; 1705-1838

PAR461/32/3 Removal orders to parish; 1727-1838

PAR461/32/4 Settlement examinations; 1723-1814

PAR461/33 Apprenticeship; 1633-1837

PAR461/34/1 Bastardy examinations; 1818

PAR461/34/2 Warrants to arrest putative fathers; 1791-1828

PAR461/34/3 Bonds; 1737-1798

PAR461/34/4 Maintenance orders; 1790-1834

PAR461/35 Other settlement and relief papers; 1764-1828

PAR461/36 Militia; 1778-1810

PAR461/37 Other records; 1733-1890

PAR461/38 Post-1834 records; 1834-1859

SURVEYORS

PAR461/39 Rates; 1837-1840

PAR461/40 Accounts; 1813-1843

PAR461/41 Other records; 1829-1862

SPECIAL COMMITTEES

PAR461/43 Ringmer Church Sunday School; 1891

<span class="wrapper"><p>The parish records were studied and listed by the Ringmer doctor and antiquary William Heneage Legge (1857-1911), who published a series of articles in The Reliquary between 1897 and 1907. For a list of these and Legge's other publications, including a biographical sketch, see R Pritchard and J Bleach in 'Ringmer History 2' (1983) 29-35. For Legge's list of the parish records, many of which still bear the numbers by which it is arranged, see P461/10/1.</p> <p>Several parish documents are to be found among the papers, themselves now dispersed, of the Martin family of Ringmer, who combined the roles of parish officers, builders and local antiquaries. For incumbent's tithe books 1755, 1764-65, 1771, 1777, 1779-80, 1782, 1790-91, 1794-97, 1801-03, 1806-11, a comparison of tithes paid in 1724 and 1749, overseers assessment on houses and lands 1748, and an inventory of Ringmer Poor House, 1820; see ACC 5463. For notes on the history of Ringmer, transcript of Ringmer tithe books, 1752-1763, copy faculty for the erection of Ringmer church tower and copy foundation deed of Hay's charity, 1797, see ACC 8533. For the original tithe books, see ACC 4224 (1752-53) and ACC 7959 (1757, 1763). For account book of glebe rents and tithes see ACC 7959; for rebuilding of the church, 1884-85, see AMS 5635.</p> <p>In 1927 documents relating to different matters were collected into folders. Their contents were dispersed in the course of preparing this list for inclusion on the Access to Archives website in 2004, when an opportunity was also taken to augment the existing list. For the original list of the contents of the folders, annotated with the current references of the documents, see PAR461/11/2/1; for a copy of the superseded list, see PAR461/7/6/1.</p></span>

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC, 28 JAn 1960 (ACC 366), 18 Jul 1984 (ACC 4290), 20 Jul 1995 (ACC 6668), 24 May 1999 (ACC 7906) and 26 Mar 2001 (ACC 8304). Items deposited by Ringmer Parish Council are identified with an asterisk in the old list, for which, see PAR461/7/6/1.