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)

Paper first published on JCR-UK: 6 December 2015
Latest revision: 8 January 2016

SOUTHPORT (Lancashire)

Published Data
1901[a]	Jewish population 250-300.  1900, 2 marriages 1 death Synagogue, Sussex Road, (founded 1893) seatholders 50.  Annual income averages about £300 to £400. Religious Classes. These classes were founded in 1893, and held at the Synagogue... The scholars number 35, 15 boys and 20 girls. Talmud Classes (twice a week)
[a - Jewish Year Book]

 

Board of Deputies returns
	Births	Marriages	Burials	seatholders
1895		1	10	26
1900	2	2	1	29