(For the Community's history, see "Chatham" in Cecil Roth's "The Rise of Provincial Jewry", 1950)

Published Data
1874[a]	Chatham Memorial Synagogue, St. Margaret's Bank, Rochester.  Erected 1870 by Simon Magnus in memory of his only son, Captain Lazarus Simon Magnus.  Superseded the former Chatham Synagogue which had been in existence upwards of a century.  Has seat accommodation for 124 persons:  70 gentlemen's seats, 54 Ladies' seats.  Seat rental from £1.1s. to £5.5s. per annum.
1901[b]	Jewish population 67.  1900, 3 deaths Synagogue, High Street, Rochester (founded about 1780, rebuilt 1870) seatholders 10.  The income and expenditure averages £110 per annum. Philanthropic Society - object, Relief of Local Poor, of whom ten were relieved during the last year.  Income and expenditure £14. Branch of Anglo-Jewish Association (Founded 1887)
[a - The Jewish Directory for 1874, by Asher I. Myers] [b - Jewish Year Book]

 

Board of Deputies returns
	births	marriages	burials	seatholders
1852	2 (F)	2	1	30
1860		0	6	31
1870		0	2	34
1880		0	1	30
1890		2	0	15
1900	1	0	4	10