JCR-UK: Statistical Accounts of Jewish Congregations in British Empire 1846 - First Section, page 2 (Canterbury, Cardiff, Chatham, Cheltenham, Dover) - from Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

Provincial Jewry
in Victorian Britain

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)

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STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS OF ALL THE
CONGREGATIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
5606 / 1845

Transcribed by the late Rabbi Bernard Susser, B.A. M.Phil.

First Part
Results of General Questionnaire

Page 2

	CANTERBURY	CARDIFF	CHATHAM	CHELTENHAM	DOVER
NO. OF BAALAI BATIM:	8	3	16	13, including 5 non-residents	4
NO. OF SEATHOLDERS:	4	none	40	8	None
NO OF INDIVIDUALS:	16 men, 26 young men, 64 women and children.	9m. 0f. 0c.	53m. 33f. 103c. = 189	96, including 25 non-residents	14m. 17f.
NO. OF PAID OFFICERS:	Judah ben Jacob, Juda Isaacs, Shochet.	Harris Isaacs	Yechiel Phillips, Shochet.	Mr. I.W. Pulver, Chazan and Shochet; M. Moseley, Shammas	R.J. Cohen, Chazan and Shochet, gratuitously
NO. OF SYNAGOGUES	1^i.	1 - private^ii.	1^iii.	1^iv.	1^v.
ARE MITZVOT SOLD?	No	Yes	Yes	No	Occasionally, owing to the Congregation being so very small andthere being no fund the support of the Synagogue.
IS THERE A MIKVEH?	The public bath of the town is used.	In contemplation	Yes	Montpelier baths.	No, the town being situated on the sea.
BURIAL GROUND	Yes, for Canterbury and East Kent^vi.	-	Yes^vii.	Yes, a freehold property.^viii.	No^ix.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS	Allowance from the zedokah to four old persons and casualrelief to strangers.	None	A Burial Society.	None	One for the relief of the poor.

Webmaster's Notes (↵ returns to main text)

The congregation's synagogue was then at St. Dunstan's, Canterbury. ↵
This was prior to formation of an established Jewish congregation in Cardiff. ↵
The synagogue in Chatham was established in 1780. ↵
The synagogue in Cheltanham was established in 1837. ↵
Dover's synagogue was then in Paradise Pent. ↵
This presumably refers to Canterbury Old Jews Burial Ground, Whitstable Road, opened in 1760. ↵
Chatham's Old Jewish Burial Ground (actually situated in Rochester) was in use from the 1780s. ↵
Cheltenham's Jewish Burial Ground was acquired in about 1824. ↵
As noted in "Other Remarks" under Dover in the Second Part of these Statistical Accounts: "Every member pays a guinea p.a. towards the support of the Burial Ground at Canterbury." ↵

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