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)

Papers on South Wales

MERTHYR TYDVIL

Published Data
A  -  In 1851 there were 30 appropriated seats here and 25 in attendance at service. The estimate of population was 100.
1874[a]	Congregation founded 1848. Present synagogue erected 1853. Has seat accommodation for 93 persons, 60 gentlemen's seats, 33 ladies'. Seat rental from £5.4s to £1.6s per annum. The congregation numbers 238 persons. Income of year 1872, £170. expenditure of year 1872, £180. There is no Jewish school.
1901[b]	1900 - 1 marriage, 10 deaths. Synagogue, Church Street. Seatholders, 27. A branch of the Chovevi Zion Association is found here.
[a - The Jewish Directory for 1874, by Asher I. Myers] [b - Jewish Year Book]