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Poll books give the name and residence of each person entitled to vote, and how they voted.

Maintained by successive Croydon Vicars and Parish Clerks, they contain far more information than the standard registers of the time. In all cases, the burial entries give the name, age and date of burial of the deceased. For some (albeit rather inconsistently), they give occupations, names of next of kin (ie name of spouse or father/mother), where the deceased lived or died, and the circumstances of any unusual or violent deaths. For example, on 2nd March 1775 was buried 'James Jenner son of James Jenner aged 13 from St Saviours, was scalded to death at Mr Thrale's Brewhouse'. Later entries, after c1800, tend to be rather less detailed. Apart from the date of birth, the baptismal entries do not offer any more information than would be normally found in an official register.

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Contains baptisms 20 June 1765 - 30 April 1796; and burials 14 June 1765 - 28 April 1796.\r\n\r\nThe first page, which contains burials Dec 1868 - Apr 1769, was bound out of order when the volume was rebound. The original first page (which is now the second page), bears the following inscriptions: 'This book I bought for my own Private use and contains all Christenings, and Burials since the Death of Mr John Piddock who was Clerk of this Parish 37 years. Beginning from June the 19th 1765. The Revd Mr East Apthorpe, Vicar, Joseph Hart, Clerk.\r\n\r\n'Thomas Levers his. bought of the survivor of Joseph Hart and Remains his for his own private use, since the death of the Above [Hart was buried 11 Nov 1779, aged 64]. The Revd Dr Apthorp, Vicar, Thomas Levers, Clerk, Nov 1779

The Waste Lands Trustees (formally known as the Corporation for the Management of the Wastelands of the Parish of Croydon) were appointed under the terms of the Croydon Enclosure Act of 1797, to take responsibility for the various small but scattered parcels of land which came into the hands of the Parish. They first met on 2 May 1801. In theory, the Trustees were subsidiary to the Parish Vestry, but in practice they became the more powerful body. An Act of Parliament for Rebuilding the Court House and Butter Market House of 1806 empowered them to carry out this rebuilding, financed through the sale of some of the parcels of land in Norwood. The result was the new Town Hall (Courthouse and Cornmarket), completed in 1809; and the Butter Market of 1810. Thereafter, the Trustees were responsible for maintaining these buildings, for running the markets, and for various other matters, such as (in the early 1820s) paving the footpaths and causeways of the town. The Trustees consisted of the Vicar, Churchwardens, Overseers, and six inhabitants of Croydon. In their early years, they met at irregular intervals, but normally a few weeks apart. Meetings became gradually less frequent, and in January 1826 it was agreed that they should meet half-yearly: in fact, they more often met annually from then on. Their first meeting(s) was/were held in the Greyhound Inn, but from December 1801 they met in the Town Hall, except for the period when it was being rebuilt, 1807-1809, when they met either at the King's Arms or in the Vestry Room. In August 1805, the Trustees authorised the engraving of a common seal. As other local government bodies were established in Croydon, the Waste Lands Trustees became something of an anachronism. They were wound up in July 1869, and their property passed to the Local Board of Health.

The volume contains lists of labourers; brief descriptions of where road maintenance work was done, month by month; and bills paid to tradesmen for materials.

Contains baptisms 1 May 1796 - 31 Dec 1805; and burials 1 May 1796 - 29 Dec 1834. Rebound

Rental payments for stands in the Corn Market, and rooms and cellars in the Town Hall