Published Sources
page updated 20 November 2016

 

General reference

Barnett, L D, Bevis Marks Records Part II: Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage Contracts of the Congregation from Earliest Times until 1837 (Oxford University Press, 1949)

Berger, D, The Jewish Victorian: 'Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1861-70’ (Robert Boyd Publications, 2004)

Berger, D, The Jewish Victorian: 'Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1871-80’ (Robert Boyd Publications, 1999)

Lewin, H & M, Birth Records of the Great & Hambro Synagogues, London (privately published, 2008)

Lewin, H & M, Birth Records of the New Synagogue & Marriage Records of the New & Hambro Synagogues, London (privately published, 2010) 

Lewin, H and M, Marriage Records of the Great Synagogue, London 1791-1885 (privately published, 2004)

Lewin, H and M, Burial Records of the Great & Hambro Synagogue - London 1791-1837 (privately published 2013)

Rigal, G, Jewish Surnames in London-based Insurance Policies (2 volumes, privately printed 2013)

Rodrigues-Pereira, M and Loewe, C, Bevis Marks Records Part V: The Birth Register (1767-1881) of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, London, 1993)

Rodrigues-Pereira, M and Loewe, C, Bevis Marks Records Part VI: The Burial Register (1733-1918) of the Novo (New) Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation London (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, London, 1997)

Shire, A, Great Synagogue Marriage Registers 1791-1850 (Frank J Gent, 2001)

Whitehill, G H, Bevis Marks Records Part III: Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage Contracts and of the Civil Marriage Registers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation for the Period 1837-1901 (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation and the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1973) 

 

Specific communities

Ballin, N D, The Early Days of Sheffield Jewry 1760-1900 (privately published, 1986) 

Collins, K E, Second City Jewry: the Jews of Glasgow in the Age of Expansion 1790-1919 (Scottish Jewish Archives, 1990)

Faber, Eli, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight (New York University Press, 1998)

Freedman, M, Leeds Jews in the 1901 Census: A Demographic Portrait of an Immigrant Community (privately published, 2002)

Gerlis, D and L, The Story of the Grimsby Jewish Community (Humberside Leisure Services, 1986)

Halliday, R and Susser, B, ‘The Ipswich Jewish Community in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Vol XL, Part 2 (2002)

Hyman, Louis, The Jews of Ireland, From Earliest Times to the Year 1910 (Jewish Historical Society of England and Israel Universities Press, 1972

Krausz, A, Sheffield Jewry: Commentary on a Community (Bar-Ilan University, 1980)

Krausz, E, Leeds Jewry: Its History and Social Structure (Jewish Historical Society of England, 1964)

Laidlaw P, The Jewish Communities of Islington, 1730s-1880s (Islington Archaeology and History Society, 2013)

Levine, H, The Norwich Hebrew Community 1840-1960: A Short History (privately published, 1961)

Olsover, L, The Jewish Communities of North-East England 1755-1980 (Ashley Mark Publishing, 1980)

Pearce, K, The Jews of Cornwall: A History: Tradition and Settlement to 1913 (Halsgrove, 2014)

Pearce, K and Fry, H, The Lost Jews of Cornwall: From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Redcliffe Press, 2000

Samuel, J, Jews in Bristol: The History of the Jewish Community in Bristol from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Redcliffe Press, 1997)

Torode, B, The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud (privately published, 1999)

Weinberg, A, Portsmouth Jewry (Portsmouth City Council, 1985)

Williams, B, The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875 (Manchester University Press, 1985)
 

Biography

Jolles, M, A Directory of Distinguished British Jews 1830-1930 (Jolles Publications 2001)

Jolles, M, Samuel Isaac, Saul Isaac and Nathaniel Isaacs (Jolles Publications, 1998)

Rubinstein, W D, Jolles, M A, and Rubinstein, H L, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (Basingstoke, 2011)

Shemot (quarterly journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain)

1851 Project

Laidlaw, P, An Index to the Jewish Community of the British Isles in 1851 (privately published, 2010)

Laidlaw, P, ‘Jews in the British Isles in 1851: birthplaces, residence and migrations’, in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume LIII (London, 2011)

Laidlaw, P, 'Jews in the British Isles in 1851: Occupations' in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume LV (London, 2013)

Laidlaw, P, 'Jews in the British Isles in 1851: Marriage and Childbearing' in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume LVII (London, 2015)

CD resources

Archive CD Books Project: Post Office Directory London 1851

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints: Family History Resource Files: 1851 British Census (Devon, Norfolk and Warwick)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints: Family History Resource Files: 1881 British Census and National Index

Frank J Gent: New Synagogue Records (compiled by Angela Shire)

S&N British Data Archive Ltd: The London 1851 Census

Tobias, A, Bristol Archives
 

Online Sources

www.archive.org/details/recordsoffrankli00fran

www.british-jewry.org.uk

www.cemeteryscribes.com

www.fallingrain.com/world/  

www.findmypast.co.uk

www.freebmd.org.uk

www.hebcal.com/converter

www.jeffreymaynard.com

www.jewishgen.org

www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk

www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/susser/index

www.london-gazette.co.uk/

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

www.nzjewisharchives.org no longer functioning

www.oxforddnb.com

www.oldbaileyonline.org

ww25.rookwoodjewishcemetery.com.au/

www.thejc.com

www.synagoguescribes.com

(This is not a complete list of online sources. Many Database entries cite individual family history websites – too numerous to list separately here – among their sources.)

 

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