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Gwalia Oddfellows Records,

  • GB 0210 GWALIA
  • Fonds
  • 1839-1973 /

Records relating almost entirely to the management and accounting of funds, payments by and to members, payments by and between lodges and the Unity, to investments and to the general rules conducting District and Lodge affairs.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Manchester Unity Friendly Society. Gwalia District.

Aberystwyth District,

District Rules and records relating to district and committee meetings.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Manchester Unity Friendly Society. Aberystwyth District.

Aberystwyth District,

Includes details of constituent Lodges, date and place of meetings, name and address of Lodge secretaries, number of members and dates when each Lodge was established.

Aberystwyth District,

Includes details of constituent Lodges, date and place of meetings, name and address of Lodge secretaries, number of members and dates when each Lodge was established.

Agendas,

Printed agendas of half yearly district meetings which were held in January and July, at the town hall in Aberystwyth. The January meeting was always the annual general meeting.

Agendas,

A2/1/2 includes the District Examiner's report on member lodges for 1901-1902, and A2/1/3 includes reports of the Actuaries on the quinquennial valuation of all the lodges within the District.

Reports,

Printed reports of the half yearly, annual and special committees. All except A3/1/1 include the report of the District Auditor together with accounts of the Funeral and Management Funds.

Resolution books, [minute books],

Minute books of the annual, half-yearly and district management committee meetings. The meetings nominated, elected and installed new officers; discussed and tried to resolve record keeping irregularities by lodges, arrears of payments to Funds, appeals of individual members against expulsion or non-payment of sickness benefit by individual lodges and appointment of delegates to the AMC (Annual Moveable Conference), and adoption and amendments of District Rules. The volumes also include names of officers and delegates; addresses of the Provincial Grand Master to members, 1893-1915; reports of the District Auditors, which include lists of members receiving benefits by each lodge; table of members in each lodge; numbers of new members inititated together with their age; number of members who have died or left the lodges, etc.; accounts of the treasurer, giving details of funeral fund and management fund, paid in by and spent by each lodge and a copy of some incoming and outgoing letters. For 1915 there are also minutes of meetings of Management District Committee and special committee meetings to discuss amalgamation with the Dolgellau District. The reports of the district examiners were not minuted but published in printed reports of the meetings.

Resolution book [minute book],

Loose inside is a printed appeal, dated 2 July 1892, to the District on behalf of Thomas Roberts against a fine imposed on him by Dovey Lodge. The appeal was heard at a special arbitration committee held on 9 Aug. 1892.

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