Collection mainly contains financial and operational records including burial registers, grave plan books, ledgers, cash books and various accounts books as well as day books and diaries of interments. Also includes correspondence, plans and title deeds leading up to the company's liquidation in 1966 and the subsequent development and ongoing management of the Cemetery by York Cemetery Trust and the Friends of York Cemetery.
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Minutes of meeting held in York Savings Bank where new committee was appointed and the annual report was accepted. Annual account up to 25 June 1840.
Meeting minutes and annual reports from the York Cemetery Co. Ltd and following the liquidation of the company York Cemetery Trust and the Friends of York Cemetery Trust.
Various papers extracted from minute books including pamphlets of cemereries and burial grounds, reports to the Council by the Cemetery committee and other correspondence regarding operational activities.
Various meeting minutes for the Cemetery Trust with associated reports and correspondence. Also includes some reports on the Eborienteers Orienteering Club to which some members of the Cemetery Trust were affiliated.
Financial ledgers and documents relating to the management of the York Cemetery Company including account books, grave memorial ledgers, details of shares and annual returns. These papers run from the Company, through it's liquidation and it becoming York Cemetery Trust. Also includes some financial information from the Friends of York Cemetery Trust.
Ledgers for the York Cemetery including name of deceased and amounts paid for various different services such as public graves and stonework.
Various meeting minutes of the Cemetery Trust including that of the Friends and Trustees.
Minutes of meetings by York Cemetery Trust. Also includes some loose newsletters.
Cash books relating to the financial operations of York Cemetery. These volumes cover York Cemetery Company and later York Cemetery Trust following the Company's liquidation.
There is a gap in the sequence between 1918-1957.
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Receipt books for financial activites by the York Cemetery Company. Includes transactions during the liquidation of the Company and formation of York Cemetery Trust.
Volumes detailing expenditure for the York Cemetery Company. Also includes details of expenditure as part of the liquidation process of the Company before becoming a Trust.
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Details of expenditure, day sheets and legal records regarding the liquidation of the York Cemetery Co. Ltd.
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Books detailing wages for various paid positions at the York Cemetery Company. Includes details of memebrs of staff and salaries paid for different roles.
Bank books for an account with the York City and County Banking Company.
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Order books for Masons' associated with York Cemetery Company.
Details of wages and holidays taken for individual Cemetery staff. Note that most of this volume is blank.