Extract from papers on
Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

Papers prepared by Dr. (later Prof.) Aubrey Newman for a conference at University College, London, convened on 6 July 1975 by the Jewish Historical Society of England
(Reproduced here with Prof. Newman's kind consent)

CANTERBURY (Kent)

(For the Community's history, see "Canterbury" in Cecil Roth's "The Rise of Provincial Jewry", 1950)

Published Data
A  -  In 1842 there were 14 full members of the congregation, representing 30 families. The synagogue was then in St. Duncan's, but after the premises were needed for railway construction a new one was built in King Street, dedicated in 1848.
1874[a]	Synagogue, King Street. Founded about 1760. Present synagogue consecrated 1848
1901[b]	1899 12 Jewish residents 0 burials Synagogue, King Street (said to be founded  in 1680).  Seatholders 4.  Annual income averages £25. Although there are no charitable institutions from 50 to 100 poor casuals pass through the city during the year and are relieved.
[A - Primarily from "Canterbury" in The Rise of Provincial Jewry (1950), by Cecil Roth a - The Jewish Directory for 1874, by Asher I. Myers  b - Jewish Year Book]

 

Board of Deputies returns
	births	marriages	burials	seatholders
1852	1 (F)	0	2	13
1860		0	6	23
1870		0	1	13
(1872)		0	7	23
1880		0	0	13
1890		1	2	10
1900	0	0	1	5