STOCKTON WARD 



STRANTON 



■memoratton of the sixtieth anniversary of the reign of 

 Queen Victoria for the benefit of workmen, their wives 

 and families, and the poor of Stocicton and Thornaby 

 on Tees. 



Distributive Charities. — In 1 66 1 Major John 

 Jenkins, by his will, gave 52/. yearly out of lands in 

 Stockton to pay every Sabbath Day i td. in white 

 bread. The charity was distributed every Sunday 

 before the altar of the parish church. Part of the 

 rent charge was redeemed in 1920 by the transfer of 

 £,z% 13/. \d. consols to the official trustees. The 

 income is now [,\ ijs. 11 J. from the rent charge 

 and 14J. 4^. from dividends. 



The charity of Elizabeth Bunting, founded by a 

 deed of i May 1777, is endowed with £-}jS 13/. 6J. 

 consols, with the official trustees. The annual divi- 

 dends, amounting to £() g/. ^d., are, under a scheme 

 of 23 January 1872, distributed by the vicars of 

 Stockton-on-Tees, Holy Trinity, St. James, and 

 St. John the Baptist in their respective parishes, 

 generally in money doles of 10/. 



In 1 78 1 John Snowden, by his will, gave X"-"-" 

 stock to the vicar and churchwardens of Norton and 

 Stockton, the interest to be distributed to decayed house- 

 keepers, preference to be shown to any in the shoe- 

 making business. The legacy is now represented by 

 ;^8l js. lod. consols, producing £z os. Sd. yearly. 

 The income is distributed among poor shoemakers 

 chosen from the whole of the ancient parish. 



George Sutton, by his will proved at London on 

 24. April 1817, bequeathed certain stocks upon trust 

 for charitable purposes. These legacies are now 

 represented by a sum of j^l,309 o;. ()d. consols, with 

 the official trustees, producing yearly ^32 14/. ^d. ; 

 the interest on j^333 6/. Sd. consols to be applied in 

 providing blankets for the poor ; the interest on 

 ^^67 5 14;. id. towards the stipend of the organist of 

 the parish church, and on ^f 300 consols for the dis- 

 pensary of Stockton. 



The official trustees also hold, under a declaration 

 of trust of 25 July 1894, a sum of ^(^209 19/. lod. 

 consols, purchased with money subscribed some years 

 previously by private individuals to supplement the 

 Blanket Club branch of George Sutton's charities 

 known as Mrs. Sutton's Blanket Club. The annual 

 dividends, amounting to ^^5 5/., are applied in the 

 distribution of blankets. 



George King, by his will proved at York on 

 17 October 1826, bequeathed his residuary estate, 

 the interest to be applied, irrespective of and in 

 addition to the amount received (if any) for poor law 

 relief, for the relief of the poor. The endowment 



consists of ^^1,626 7/. ^d. consols, with the official 

 trustees, producing £^0 I 3/. yearly. The charity is 

 regulated by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners 

 of 1 1 September 1891. 



Anne Barker, by a codicil to her will proved at 

 London in i860, gave £^0, the income to be distri- 

 buted among poor not in receipt of parochial relief. 

 The legacy is represented by £^j 5/. 2d. consols, 

 with the official trustees, and the income, amounting 

 to £j 61. \d. yearly, is distributed in small sums. 



John Farmer, by his will proved at Durham in 

 1879, gave /^loo, the interest to be distributed at 

 Christmas among the old people residing in the work- 

 house of Stockton-on-Tees. The legacy, less duty, is 

 represented by ^[105 5/. ■>,d. 5 per cent. War Stock 

 with the official trustees, producing £^ 5/. \d. yearly. 



The same testator left ^100, the interest to be 

 divided equally among the Scripture readers engaged 

 in connexion with the churches of St. Thomas, Holy 

 Trinity, St. James and St. John, in Stockton. The 

 legacy, less duty, was invested in ^^83 i6j. i^d. India 

 3 per cent, stock, with the official trustees. The 

 income, amounting to £z 10/., is divided among the 

 readers in the ecclesiastical parishes of Stockton and 

 Stockton St. James. 



Ecclesiastical District of Holy Trinity. — The Holy 

 Trinity National School,^' founded by deed poll 

 I March 1847, is endowed with a sum of £\~o 

 13/. rd. consols, arising under the will of George 

 Sutton above mentioned. 



George Robinson, by his will proved at London in 

 1866, directed his trustees, on the termination of 

 certain life interests, to transfer twenty Preference 

 Shares in the North Eastern Railway Company to the 

 official trustees, half the income therefrom to be dis- 

 tributed among the poor of Holy Trinity and the 

 remaining moiety among the poor of St. John in 

 Darlington. The last of the life interests determined 

 on 8 September 1899, and in 1900 ^^67 5 London 

 and North Eastern Railway first guaranteed 4 per 

 cent, stock, representing the twenty Preference Shares, 

 was transferred to the official trustees. The stock 

 produces ^^27 yearly, one-half of which is applicable 

 to Holy Trinity. 



Ecclesiastical District of St. John Baptist. — Edward 

 D'Oyley Bayley, by his will proved at London on 

 26 August 1896, bequeathed, subject to certain life 

 interests, since determined, ^^200 for the benefit of 

 the organist of St. John's Church. The endowment 

 consists of a sum of ;^2I9 11/. zd. London County 

 3 per cent. Consolidated Stock, with the official 

 trustees, producing £(> \\s. 8</. yearly. 



STRANTON 



Strannton (xv cent.) ; Straynton (xvi cent.). 



This parish lies in the south-east corner of Durham. 

 The boundaries of the old parish were on the east the 

 sea, on the south Grcatham Creek, an arm of the 

 Tees, on the south-west the parish of Greatham, on 

 the west the township of Claxton, the boundary here 

 being Greatham Beck and the townships of Elwick 

 Hall and Dalton Piercy, on the north Hart, Throston 

 and Hartlepool. 



The 1831 parish contained the townships of 

 Stranton, Seaton Carew and Brierton. 



Stranton and West Hartlepool lie on Magnesian 

 Limestone, while Brierton and the Seatons are on 

 Red Sandstone. The coast is low-lying and bordered 

 by sandhills ; there is a low reef of rocks, the Long 

 Scar, about a quarter of a mile off the coast between 

 West Hartlepool and Seaton Carew, and another low 

 reef, the Little Scar, on the coast near Seaton Carew. 

 The sea is encroaching on the shore, and its advance 

 has been increasingly rapid in recent years. 



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