Congregation Data

Cemetery:

There was no Jewish cemetery in Lurgan. The only Jewish cemeteries in what is now Northern Ireland are in Belfast. For details, see Belfast Jewish Cemeteries Information on the Belfast home page.

Notes & Sources (↵ returns to text above)

• (i) Jewish Chronicle (JC) report, provided by Steven Jaffe. JCR-UK is also grateful to Mr. Jaffe for providing a number of other JC reports mentioned below. ↵

• (ii) This was the address given for the congregation in Jewish Year Books from 1917 through 1927. ↵

• (iii) Jewish Chronicle reports. The first listing of the community in a Jewish Year Book was the 1904/05 edition. ↵

• (iv) Jewish Chronicle reports, although the congregation continued to be listed in Jewish Year Books until 1928. ↵

• (v) and (vi) Reserved.

• (vii) Based upon Jewish Year Book listings. The reader named in the 1910 and 1911 editions is Rev. J. Bachrach, whereas in the 1912 through 1915 editions the name is given as Rev. J. Blachman. In light of the similarity between the two names, it is assumed that both references are to the same person, the first two entries being either a typographical error or prior to a change of name. ↵

• (viii) Rev. Turtledove is mentioned in a Jewish Chronicle report of December 1914 as being in Lurgan. Although he is listed as reader of the congregation in Jewish Year Books from 1916 through 1925, the latter date is believed to be incorrect, as he was already elsewhere by 1918. ↵

• (ix) and (x) Reserved

• (xi) Unless otherwise stated, the data listed here has been extracted from Jewish Year Books. Where a person is first listed in a year book as holding a particular office, it has been assumed that his term of office commenced in the year of publication of the relevent year book and that he continued in office until the commencement of office of his successor, unless the office was vacant. (Initially year books corresponded to the Hebrew year, and thus ran roughly from autumn of one year - the year of publication - until autumn of the next year. From 1909, year books were published according to the Gregorian year, being published generally towards the end of the year prior to the year appearing in the title of the year book. For example, if an officer is listed in Jewish Year Books 1912 through 1916, it is assumed that he commenced office in 1911 and continued in office until 1916.) However, it should be noted that this is only an assumption and, accordingly, the actual years of office may differ somewhat from those shown here. Furthermore, it is noted that there were no changes in the listings of officers from 1918 until the last listing of officers in 1925 and it is possible that the year books were merely repeating the previous year's information as they had not been notified of any changes or even of the demise of the congregation. ↵

• (xii) Date of election confirmed by Jewish Chronicle in a report of 1904. See also the Note provided by Mr. Herbert's great-grandson. ↵

• (xiii) Mr. Lazarus's election appears in a Jewish Chronicle report of 1906. He is not listed in any Jewish Year Book, which during the relevant period continued to list Mr. Herbert as president. ↵

• (xiv) Mr. Lewis's date of election confirmed by a Jewish Chronicle report of 1911. ↵

• (xv) Mr. Rosenberg's date of election confirmed by a Jewish Chronicle report of 1913. ↵