JCR-UK: Statistical Accounts of Jewish Congregations in British Empire 1846 - First Section, page 8 (Southampton, Sunderland, Swansea, Yarmouth, Dublin, Jamaica) - 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 8

	SOUTHAMPTON	SUNDERLAND	SWANSEA	YARMOUTH	KINGSTON, JAMAICA
NO. OF BAALAI BATIM:	10	5	9 resident 2 non-resident	-	120
NO. OF SEATHOLDERS:	7	None	13	-	115
NO OF INDIVIDUALS:	-	About 30	133	48	450
NO. OF PAID OFFICERS:	J.A Goldman, Chazan, Shochet and Secretary.	None at present	Mr. Barnett, Chazan and Shochet; H. Joseph, Shammas	M. Cohen, Shochet	Rev. S Jacobs, Chazan; J. Joseph, Shammas, Shammas Gemilut Chasadim; S. Myers, Secretary; I. Abisdad, Shochet.
NO. OF SYNAGOGUES	1ⁱ	2^ii.	1^iii.	1^iv.	Shaarei, Yosher and one of the Minhag Sephardim called Shaar Ha-Shamayim
ARE MITZVOT SOLD?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
IS THERE A MIKVEH?	No, the private baths of the town are used.	Yes	Yes	Sea - baths	Yes
BURIAL GROUND	None^v.	Yes^vi.	Yes^vii.	Yes^viii.	Yes
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS	None.	None	Zedakah LaAniyim	-	Chevrat Chinuch Yeladim, having a fund of £600 and is zapported by subscription and voluntary offerings in the Synagogue. Chevrat Gemilut Chasadim for the burial of the poor, independent of which there are a number of persons who receive monthly donations from the Shool and Matzot at Pesach.

Webmaster's Notes (↵ returns to main text)

Southampton's synagogue was then in East Street, Southampton since 1833. ↵
The two Sunderland synagogue would have been the Adath Yeshurun, also known as the Israelite Congregation (the forerunner of the Sunderland Hebrew Congregation) and the Polish Synagogue in Vine Street . ↵
Swansea's synagogue was then in Wateloo Street, from 1818 until 1859 . ↵
The Yarmouth Synagogue was in Row 42 (situated off Market Place), known as Synagogue Row or Jews Row from. 1846/7 until 1877. ↵
As noted in "Other Remarks" under Southampton in the Second Part of these Statistical Accounts: "By a recent act of Parliament for a public cemetery for the town to be taken from the public lands a portion has been set apart for the Jews, not to be consecrated..". ↵
This refers to the Ayers Quay Cemetery, Sunderland's earliest known Jewish cemeteries, in use from about the 1770's until 1856. ↵
This refers to Swansea's Old Jewish Cemetery, Townhill, established in 1768, the oldest Jewish burial ground in Wales. ↵
This refers to Yarmouth's Old Jews' Burial Ground, Alma Road, in use from about 1801 to 1854. ↵

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