| Description | Includes admission registers and roll books 1856-1973, photographs of boys admitted c.1856-1869, report books 1910-1948, medical registers 1909-1930, punishment books 1913-1948, register of absconders 1955-1975, register of unauthorised absences 1975-1984, committee of management minutes 1855-1942, visiting committee minutes 1912-1951, finance committee minutes 1912-1951, journal/log book of principal 1915-1937, correspondence files 1912-1966, summaries of income and expenditure (incomplete) 1923-1943, ledger 1935-1943, shop account book 1910-1915, annual reports (incomplete) 1857-1921, visitors books 1866-1979, photograph albums 1923-1936, plans 1979, registers of baptism, confirmations and burials 1849-1960, confirmations 1857-1932 and burials 1849-1921 |
| AdminHistory | Founded as the Yorkshire Catholic Reform School in 1856 and closed in 1994. Information about the history of the school is available in 'The Yorkshire Catholic Reformatory, Market Weighton' by J D Hicks (East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1996). A monastery founded by Sir W Vavasour had occupied the site c.1842-1845. |