Annual Parish Meeting – 29th March 1916
Minutes of the twenty second annual assemble of the Parish Meeting
in the Schoolroom Great Longstone on the 29th March 1916
Present: Mr Eyre (Chairman), Mr J. Bridge, Mr A. J. Skidmore, Mr A. M. Wager, Mr J. Wager and I. Shimwell (Clerk).
The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
Charities
The Charity accounts received from the Rev. G. Andrew were read to the meeting & were as follows:
Milne Charity
Income £1. 5. 0 Expenditure £1. 5. 0
The following persons received 2/6 each:
Sarah Bacon
Eliza Brightmore
Ann Furniss
Ellen Furniss
Sarah Hill
Eliza Sellers
Sarah Sheldon
Harriet Skidmore
Jane Slack
Caroline Turner
William & Thomas Wright’s Charities
Opening Balance £28. 18. 0
Income £10. 0. 0
Interest £1. 18. 3
Total Available £40. 16. 3
Expenditure on Tea £7. 11. 8
Vicar £3. 0. 0
Lady Manners £7. 10. 0
Balance Carried Forward £27. 14. 7
Recipients of William & Thomas Wright’s Charities
Ann Furniss
Ellen Furniss
Sarah Hill
Eliza Sellers
Sarah Sheldon
received 2½ lbs of tea each.
Mary Doddemeade
Rose Morton
received 2 lbs of tea each.
Jane Slack
Maria Morton
received 1½ lbs of tea each.
Capt Henry Wright’s Charity
Receipts
Balance brought forward £46. 16. 4
Rents £32. 0. 0
Bank Interest £1. 5. 3
Total Available £80. 1. 7
Expenditure
Dole, Meat & Bread £1. 12. 2
Tithe £1. 2. 8
Hambleton £5. 15. 0
Barrett £7. 14. 2
Quail & Mellor £14. 14. 6
Birley, Pole’s £2. 5. 0
Bank Commission £1. 0. 0
Balance Carried Forward £46. 17. 1
Recipients of Clothes
George Hambleton
Robert Johnson
Jonathan Morton
Ellen Furniss
Sarah Hibbert
Sarah Hill
Recipients of Dole
Eliza Brightmore
Mary Doddemeade
Ann Furniss
Ellen Furniss
Sarah Hibbert
Sarah Hill
Maria Morton
Rose Morton
Eliza Sellers
Sarah Sheldon
Horace Turner
William Ward
Details of the above Charities had been supplied at the request of the Parish Meeting.
R. Eyres Charity
Recipients as distributed by the Overseers:
Mrs E. Brightmore 2/-
Mrs Ann Furniss 2/-
Miss Ellen Furniss 3/-
Mr J. Hibbert 3/-
Mrs H. Hurst 3/-
Mrs E. Jupp 2/-
Mrs E. Sellers 3/-
Mr W. Ward 2/-
Fire-brigade
It was proposed by Mr Bridge, seconded by Mr A. M. Wager & carried that the Clerk send a vote of thanks to the Capt & members of the Voluntary Fire-brigade for their services. Also to Messrs Orrs for allowing the fire appliances to be stored on their premises.
A. W. J. Eyre
Chairman
