Description | The volume comprises the following tables: 1) Names of 307 members, 1703-1860, with dates of entrance, age, number of weeks' sickness benefit drawn, and date of death, resignation or 'exclusion'; followed by comments. 2) Annual income (including interest) and expenditure, classified, 1800-1860. 3) Number of weeks' sickness pay drawn by each member, and at what age, 1840-1860. 4) Total number of weeks' sickness drawn in each quarter, 1800-1866, with comments. After this has been inserted a copy of the Abstract of Return ordered by the Commissioners of National Debt, 1860, from SN/D/1. 5) List of Stewards, 1807-1861, and of Trustees and Treasurers, 1797-1860. On two sheets loose at end of book, there is a list of successful applicants for membership, headed: 'Nomination and Admission Forms' (with medical certificates, etc.), 1853-1927. |
AdminHistory | Compiled by John Ferry, Secretary of the Society 1853-1861, and described in detail in his address to the members, given on 7 May 1861 and printed in 1861 as a pamphlet entitled: 'The origin, rise and progress, of the Norman Society'. |