PAPERS OF THE COOMBES AND MULLINS FAMILIES OF GOATHURST

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Repository	Somerset Heritage Centre
Reference number	A/AHW
Description	This collection is thought to have passed to the depositor from the Coombes family which formerly owned the village shop in Goathurst. The collection consists mainly of the papers of Thomas Mullins, senior, and Thomas Mullins, junior, who acted as land agents for the estates of the Kemys-Tynte family in Goathurst. Parish records chiefly concerning settlement and poor relief form the bulk of the collection which also includes two court rolls for the manor of Goathurst. Much of the material is discussed in an essay by the Goathurst Local History Society [see A\AHW/48 below].
Date	1460-1990
Access status	Open
Level	Collection

Accounts for money received in lieu of tithes, Goathurst Parish, 1806-12, 1832 and 2 letters to the Rev. H Parsons concerning the late payment of tithes, 1814-17. Churchwardens' vouchers. Churchwardens' vouchers. Church rates. Articles of visitation of bishop of Bath and Wells, 1812, and report on church fabric by the rural dean, 1825. Minutes of vestry meeting to appoint property tax assessment, 1842, and rough minutes of vestry [?] meeting, nd. Overseers of the Poor Parish returns of totals raised by poor rate, 1800-17 and 1819, with associated correspondence. Removal orders, etc., from Goathurst. Removal orders, etc., from Goathurst. Papers relating to appeal by the parish of Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire, against the removal of John Woodman, 1839, and by the parish of North Petherton against the removal of Thomas Shattock, 1840. Removal orders, etc. to Goathurst. Removal orders, etc. to Goathurst. Papers relating to appeal by the parish of Goathurst against the removal of Sarah French from Charlinch, 1833. Bastardy orders and bonds. Apprenticeship indentures. Apprenticeship indentures. Apprenticeship indentures. Apprenticeship indentures. Apprenticeship indentures. Apprenticeship indentures. Register of parish apprentices. Lists of Goathurst paupers receiving relief. Correspondence concerning Bridgwater Union, mainly from candidates seeking election to Union posts. Appointment of surveyors of the highways and abstract of Highways Acts, 1722-94. Highway rates, 1801, 1805-7, 1820-1, 1837-9. Surveyor of the highways vouchers. Account book of the surveyor of the highways. Papers relating to dispute between the parish of Goathurst and Mr Poole. List of bequests to Goathurst Charity, 1785-1844, and account for 1837. Deeds, etc. of Goathurst charity lands. Correspondence, etc, relating to Goathurst charity lands. Correspondence, etc., relating to Goathurst charity lands. Applications for relief of the families of Isaac Jenkins of Lincoln, a substitute in the South Lincoln Militia and of Elizabeth Tale of Bath, wife of Charles Tale, a substitute in the 2nd Somerset Militia, 1808. Court roll of the manor of Goathurst. Court roll of the manor of Goathurst, 1491-92, 1494-98 and 1506-1508 [defective] Survey of Sir Edward Dyer's lands in Somerset Plans for the evacuation of people and livestock from Goathurst in the event of a French invasion. Correspondence to Thomas Mullins. Correspondence mainly to Thomas Mullins and Thomas Mullins junior. Correspondence mainly to Thomas Mullins concerning parish matters. Correspondence mainly to Thomas Mullins, junior. Correspondence mainly to Thomas Mullins, junior. Letter to Mr Kingston from C N Kemys-Tynte concerning the creation of a Board School for Goathurst, 1870, and a letter to Mr Kingston from J K Kemys-Tynte relating to gifts of coal to the poor by local farmers, 1881. Somerset and West Somerset election posters for Charles Kemys-Tynte, 1834, and [E A] Sandford and Kemys-Tynte, 1835 and 1837. Papers relating to the Coombes family of Goathurst. Prospectus for creation of a national newspaper, the profits of which would fund an orphanage, c.1824; order from quarter Sessions to adopt an Act for the Punishment of Juvenile Offenders, 1847; printed accounts for Somersetshire Constabulary, 1856, and County Stock, 1851 and 1859. Typescript essay on Coombes/Mullins papers.