The collection contains papers from the society's inception until its dissolution, with a small amount up until 1984. It includes registers of members and society rules as well as finances including details about pensions, sick pay, funds and investments. It also contains miscellaneous documents, many of which concern amendments to society rules as well as correspondence, newspaper cuttings and reports. It also contains a publication by co-founder Catherine Cappe.
York Female Friendly SocietyFounded in accordance with the National Insurance Act of 1912.
York Female Friendly SocietyCovers the years 1953-1954 with 1949 at the back.
York Female Friendly SocietyIncludes name, age, parentage, school attestation of two committee members, date of admission and subsequent career of members. Also includes reports on General and Private Funds, 1808.
Information includes name, address, year of entry, age at entry, rate if paid (of general members).
York Female Friendly SocietyIncludes pages of various notes.
York Female Friendly SocietyWith signatures or marks of honorary and general members.
Details are similar to those in the Admission Registers.
Details are similar to those in the Admission Registers.
York Female Friendly SocietyInlcludes a list of books kept by the Senior Stewardess (p.24) and, in reverse, an abstract of the Friendly Society Act, 1793.
York Female Friendly SocietyGeneral and private funds. The private fund section has been stitched together with a note that it was not kept in the Quarto Account Book.
Private fund.
Includes list of general members, p.134.
Includes a printed resolution, 1912. States that pensions and annuities be amalgamated and known as pensions.
York Female Friendly SocietyGeneral fund.
Information includes name, status (married or single), address, year of birth, commencement of pension and amount paid.
Stating illness, payments made fortnightly.
Stating illness, payments made fortnightly.
Stating name, status, cause of sickness, number of days and amounts.
Three blank pension receipts stating "The secretary encloses (blank amount) your pension for the Quarter due (blank)".
York Female Friendly SocietyGeneral fund.
Blank pensions receipts stating: "The secretary encloses £1 10s. 0d., your pension for the Quarter due (blank)".
York Female Friendly SocietyPaid to Mrs T. Green the sum of 50 pence.
York Female Friendly SocietyQuarto volume. In reverse: resolution and memoranda.
Concerning the fund, 1796-1834.
General private funds.
General private funds.
General fund, 1840-1865.
York Female Friendly SocietyGeneral fund.
York Female Friendly SocietyFour christmas cards with letters of thanks returned to the society including gift of one pound note.
Includes: letters from the society re: instructions to members and payment of remaining subcriptions as lump sum, Rules of the York Female Friendly Society, Subscription payment card and receipt for twelve shillings and sixpence.
Contains photos of society events during the 1970's and 1980's with photocopies of documents about the society's history.
Contains various documents detailing the society's history from its inception in addition to photographs of Edwin (Almyra) Gray, her husband and her daughter Helen Faith Gardner as well as those of society members during the 1970's and 1980's. File also includes rule books.