Extract from papers on
Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

Papers prepared by Dr. (later Prof.) Aubrey Newmanfor 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)

Paper first published on JCR-UK: 2 December 2015
Latest revision: 11 December 2016

CHELTENHAM (Gloucestershire)

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

Published Data
A  -  Synagogue in St. Jame's Square, erected at cost of £1,500 and opened in 1840; restored in 1864. The cemetery dates from 1844.
1874[a]	Synagogue Congregation founded in 1837. Synagogue built 1840. A Sabbath school is held in he Synagogue on Sabbaths from 12 to 2.
1901[b]	4 Jewish residents.  1900, 0 burials Synagogue, St. James Square (founded 1840). Synagogue closed at present. [The community closed  - 1903]
[A - Primarily from 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	0	0	4	15
1860		1	2	19
1870		0	4	18
1880		0	1	13
1890		0	4	7
1900		0	0	0