JCR-UK: Statistical Accounts of Jewish Congregations in British Empire 1846 - First Section, page 4 (Hull, Ipswich, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool) - from Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain

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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 4

^i.	(KINGSTON-UPON-) HULL ^ii.	IPSWICH	JERSEY	LEEDS ^iii.	LIVERPOOL
^i.	(KINGSTON-UPON-) HULL ^ii.	IPSWICH	JERSEY	LEEDS ^iii.	SEEL STREET CONGREGATION ^iv.	HARDMAN STREET NEW CONGREGATION ^v.
NO. OF BAALAI BATIM:	8	5	11	6	48	58, 12 not eligible for office
NO. OF SEATHOLDERS:	Only strangers during Yom Tov, the annual receipts from this source being £5.	3	5	-	131	12
NO OF INDIVIDUALS:	Total 65	Total 9	Total 47	Total 17	Total 15, or 1600 (sic^vi)	91m. 49f. 184c. = 324 and 3 officers = 347
NO. OF PAID OFFICERS:	S. Simons, Chazan and Shochet at a salary of £52 p.a.	Mr. Sternberg, Chazan and Shochet, removed to Montreal, Mr. Kalisch his substitute.	1 Shochet	Mr. D. Kaufman, Chazan, Shochet and Teacher at 14/-p.w.	Mr Oppenheim, Chazan, D M Isaacs, Lecturer and Chazan Sheni, M Woolf, Secretary Raph Barnett, Shochet, A. Abraham, Shomer Beth HaKevorot and Porsher, H Aron, Shomer LaPetach u'Sheliach.	I Levy, Chazan, Shochet and Mohel. M ZundelI, Shammas, Mr Kelly, Porsher
NO. OF SYNAGOGUES	1^vii.	"Minyan"^viii.	1^ix.	"Minyan"^x.	1^xi.	1^xii.
ARE MITZVOT SOLD?	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?
IS THERE A MIKVEH?	Yes	?	The Sea	Yes	Yes	Yes
BURIAL GROUND	Yes, a freehold^xiii.	Yes^xiv.	Yes, a free one^xv.	Yes^xvi.	Yes^xvii., the Baalei Batim have the right of burial without charge. Seat holders are charged agreeably to a fixed scale as follows: still born child 10/6; under 2 yrs of age £1/1/-; above 2 and under 7 £1/11/6; above 7 and under 16 £2/12/6; 16 and upwards £3/13/6.	Yes^xviii.
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS	Philanthropic Society on the principle of a benefit society. The members pay a weekly subscription and receive relief in sickness and funeral donation.	-	-	None	Hebrew Philanthropic Institution for relief of the resident poor during the winter months supported by subcriptions and officers honorary. Another is now in process of formation under 2 yrs of age L1/1/- for the suppression of mendicity and the more effectual relief of the deserving casual poor supported by both congregations.	Many members subscribe to Philanthropic Society.

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The congregation in Gloucester is not listed as "(t)here are no returns made for Gloucester". ↵
The congregation in Hull subsequently became known as the Hull Old Hebrew Congregation. ↵
The congregation in Leeds later became the Leeds Hebrew Congregation and subsequently the Leeds Great Synagogue. ↵
This congregation in Liverpool was known as the Liverpool Hebrew Congregation and subsequently became the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation. ↵
This was the the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation, which seceded from the main congregation in 1842. ↵
Both figures are clearly incorrect, possibly this should have read "150 or 160". ↵
This is reference to the synagogue in Robinson Row, Hull, used by the congregation from 1826 to 1903. ↵
Ipswich had a synagogue from 1795. ↵
The Jersey congregation was founded in about 1843, and at the time of the questionnaire, services were probably held in a synagogue in the yard of 21 Grove Place, St Helier. ↵
This, presumably, is reference to congregation (known as the "Bridge Street Minyan") that met in the converted loft in Bridge Street (at the bottom of Lady Lane), Leeds, until 1846. ↵
This congregation used the synagogue in Seel Street until 1874, when it moved to Princes Road. ↵
This congregation used the synagogue in Pilgrim Street / Hardman Street until 1857, when it moved to Hope Place. ↵
This probably refers to Hull's Hessle Road Jewish Cemetery, in use from 1812 until 1858. ↵
This refers to Ipswich's Salthouse Lane Jewish Burial Ground, acquired in about 1796 and in use until 1854. ↵
This refers to older section of Westmont Jewish Cemetery, St Helier, acquired by the Jersey Jewish community in 1834. ↵
This refers to the burial grounds on Gelderd Road, Gildersome (now part of the Leeds UHC Cemetery) opened in 1840. ↵
At the time, the Seel Street Congregation appears to have had two functioning cemeteries: (i) The Upper Frederick Street Jewish Burial Ground, opened in 1789; and (ii) the Old Jews' Burial Ground at Dean Road, opened in 1838. ↵
This refers to Liverpool's Green Lane Jewish Cemetery, apparently opened in 1839. ↵

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