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So You Want to Research
Jews first came to Britain in 1066, at the invitation of William the Conqueror, but were expelled in 1290 by Edward I. This coincided with the Norman Conquest in 1066. England, unlike America, had a large influx of Western European Jews (especially Dutch) going back before 1800. This site offers background information that could be useful in your research England, Scotland and Wales Genealogy
There are many books and CDs offering information and help on researching your Jewish roots. I have teamed up with Amazon.com.uk to make it easy to find these sources. All you need do is click here > Jewish Genealogy etc. "A History of the Jews of England" - authored by Cecil Roth "Anglo-Jewish Notabilities: Their Arms and Testamentary Dispositions" authored by Jewish Historical Society of England and published in London by Union College in 1949 "Building Jerusalem - Jewish Architecture in Britain" - authored by Sharman Kadish and published in 1996 by Vallentine Mitchell in London. It's more than an architectural book since it intertwines Jewish history with the buildings that were produced for the Jewish community and has chapters on cemeteries, mikvot and other subject that could be of genealogical interest. It lists the names of many families. Posted on JewishGen by Joel Ives in 1996 "Children of the Ghetto" - authored by Israel Zangwill - a picture of the Jewish Ghetto life in London in the late 19th century. "The Earl of Petticoat Lane" - authored by Andrew Miller and published by Random House in the UK. The story is about the author's grandparents, Jewish immigration to London and assimilation among British Jews in the first half of the twentieth century and about his visit to the family homes in Poland and Galicia. "Essays and Portraits in Anglo-Jewish History" - authored by Cecil Roth and published in Philadelphia by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1962 "Expulsion: England's Jewish Solution" - authored by British historian Richard Huscroft and published by Tempus looks at the period of 1066 to 1290. "From Here to Obscurity" - the story of London's East End Yiddish speaking community from 1933-45 - authored by Yoel Sheridan and published by Tenterbooks "Harfield's Commercial Directory of the Jews of the United Kingdom" - published in 1804Jewish Genealogy etc. "Hebrew Deeds of English Jews Before 1290" - authored by Myer David Davis and published in London "The History of the Jews in Great Britain" - authored by Moses Epstein Margoliut and published in 1857 "History of the Great Synagogue" (London) "In our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish "Internment, the Diaries of Harry Seidler May 1940 - October 1941" - authored by Harry Seidler and edited by Janis Wilton. Published by Allen & Unwin in 1986., provides a very personal and detailed account of the daily happenings during his internment by the Canadians (July 1940 to October 1941 as well as by the British from May 1940. "The Jewish Communities of North-East England" authored by Lewis Olsover. The author's definition of northeast England included Newcastle, Tyneside, Teesside, and Wearside. Jewish Genealogy etc. "Jewish Immigrant in England 1870 - 1914" - authored by Lloyd P Gartner in 1973. "The Jewish Victorian" - Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1871-80 Names in books.
It is a 600 page reference books, covering all births, marriages,
deaths and condolence notices, plus obituaries and individual news
items for the years 1871-80 "Jews of Angevin England" - authored by Joseph Jacobs and published in London by David Nutt Publisher, 1893 "The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000". by Todd M. Endelman, University of "The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830" by Todd M. Engelman, University of Michigan Press, 1999. Jewish Genealogy etc. "Jews of Medieval Oxford" - authored by Cecil Roth and published in Oxford by Clarendon Press in 1951 "The Jews of the Restoration" authored by Lucien Wolf. A facsimile of this document was published in the Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. It does not have many names. British Museum manuscripts dated 1660 are probably more useful. Jewish Genealogy etc. "King of the Schnorrers" - authored by Israel Zangwill of Jewish life in the 18th century. "The London Jewry" - authored by Joseph Jacobs "No Job For A Woman" - links re Pre-1914 to Post 1945 about women in Britain "Shakespeare and the Jews" - an interesting book about the Jews in England, who were allowed in England in the 1600s. Catholics were also not appreciated, so Sephardim often posed as Huguenots, who, as Protestant refugees from the continent, were allowed to be 'non-Anglican'. "Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History" - authored by James Picciotto and published in 1877. Jewish Genealogy etc. "Uniting the Tailors" authored by A. J. Kershen and published by Frank Cass & Co., in 1995 Jewish Genealogy etc. "Well-suited - A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry" authored by Katrina Honeyman and published by Oxford University Press, in 2000) Jewish Genealogy etc.
Five Leaves Publications - a small UK publisher with an interest in Jewish secular culture, and many other subjects General 1649 Petition to Oliver Cromwell - "In Volume 19 of TJHSE there is an article about the first Sephardic "Resettlement Cemetery" with a diagram of the people buried there and the dates of burial. I would imagine that a number of them may have been around during 1649!" http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/ Alien Registration There was registration in both WW I and WW II as a result of legislation passed in 1914 which included provisions for alien restriction and internment as well. Records from all localities in Great Britain are not always available as some have been destroyed, i.e. the city of Salford is available, but not the City of Manchester. The Home Office and the Public Record Office (PRO) have what records that are available. Some records may be found in the local constabularies. A book on this topic is "The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain" - edited by David Cesarani and Tony Kushner. Archives - National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - archive of electronic data and related documents created by UK government departments; operated by the University of London on behalf of the UK Public Record Office Note: "Holland" has been wrongly designated as a "parish or place" not a country, county or island -- presumably this is because there is a Holland in Lincolnshire, England. From a posting by Celia Male UK Passenger Lists at the PRO (UK Public Record Office) website. The list of people arriving in the UK by sea are kept by the Board of Trade's Commercial and Statistical Department and its successors. The information includes age, occupation, address in the United Kingdom and the date of entering the country. http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/TOO_TUM/TRADE_BOARD_OF.html http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ExternalRequest.asp? "There is no wonderful online resource for immigration to England in the same way that there is for Ellis Island. If only there were!!!! The nearest we get is thousands of cardboard boxes of incoming & outgoing manifests at the Public Records Office in London, none of which are indexed within themselves, & none of which are online." Beth Din Does not in any way hold all the records for Jewish events in the U.K. Birth Certificates To obtain birth certificates from the Family Records Center in London, once you know the borough in which the birth was registered (this appears in the birth listings) you can obtain a copy of the certificate, on the spot, at the Office of Registration in the borough itself i.e. a 20 minute wait by presenting your request, in person, at the Registration Office itself, rather than a 4 day wait at the Family Records Center). This step saving tip, would probably apply throughout England, and possibly also to other types of registration certificates. The cost of the copy is the same in both places. Another tip - by enquiring at one of the local libraries in the East End of London, one of the group of libraries in that area actually has a Family History Department which is open to the public and holds many local records, including census information, electoral registers and the entire London Jewish Chronicle on microfiche. The previous information was offered by Sylvia Kaye in the JewishGen Digest of 12/13/00 Birth, Death and Marriage Certificate - Recording - Jews did (and still do) have to register births and deaths with the local Registrar. Marriages are registered twice with the local Jewish marriage secretary and also with the Registrar. A large percentage of births (and to some extent deaths) went unregistered from 1837 until about 1875. A lot of records were destroyed in WW II. British users of this site should be aware that correspondents from the USA are wise to ask what information is contained on British certificates. Birth, marriage and death registrations in the USA (depending on State) give more information than English/Welsh certificates and often provide information about the place of birth of parents. USA censuses similarly contain more information than censuses in UK and may show the place of birth and language spoken by parents of those listed. Evelyn Wilcock (London) English and Welsh also do not disclose the final resting place of the deceased, as US death certificates do. Follow the link to "ordering a certificate" and then the link to "ordering from the GRO" (General Register Office) - this service is available to overseas customers. As for the content of death certificates, see this link Birth Records for the years 1791 - 1795 and 1801-1813 are available in rough and unchecked form The Board of Deputies of British Jews The representative body of Anglo-Jewry to the Government. It still operates to this day - Eleanor Lind is a deputy and a past chairman of its former Law and Parliamentary Committee and currently Vice Chairman of its Defence Division. It is cross communal/across the various religious groupings and does much good work in protecting the rights of Jews through out the UK and abroad. From a posting by Eleanor Lind kbx62@dial.pipex.com British Company Information Plenty of information here at British Emigration http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk http://www.findmypast.com/HomeServlet British-Jewry An interesting discussion group dealing with Jews of Britain. British Jewry The name probably speaks for itself. It's a forum for anyone researching British Jewry. Whether your ancestors were "passing through" or permanent members of British society, this is a place for you. Posts relating to all aspects of life for British Jews as well as research methods, success stories and genealogy will be welcomed. To sign up, send an e-mail to Archives of British-Jewry You can join RootsWeb using my quick link above. British Jewry - great link site British Library Direct Though it may not have much in the way of genealogy information, it does offer nine million articles from 20,000 international research journals and goes back 5 years. About 150,000 new entries are added each month. You can search for free but there is a pay-as-you-go charge should you find something of interest. British Newspaper Library Catalogue Offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings. They have copies of every paper published. It is in Colindale in North London and easily accessible by Tube. The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. For further information or for the site itself http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html The British Library - Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 Most London borough libraries have a Family History Department. There is one in Bancroft Road in Tower Hamlets, the Borough which covers the old Jewish East End. These borough libraries hold many local records, including census information, electoral registers, and the entire Jewish Chronicle on microfiche.
British Telecom Cemetery Information International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project Cambridge Jewish Cemetery
Edmonton Cemetery -
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain has downloaded many
of the burial records for the cemetery as well as death and stone
setting announcements from the Jewish Chronicle (London). http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/east_london.shtml http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/cem.html The records are kept in hand-written ledgers and in order to find the plots you need to know the dates of death as there is no facility (yet, but I believe that this is in the process of being remedied) to do a search on the names. Victor Brilliant, Hendon, London, England vicbrill@btinternet.com Elswick Cemetery Records - online if you join the JGSGB United Synagogue Burial Service - A useful list of agencies and organizations within the Jewish Community which offer help, advice and support on a wide range of subjects. Bereavement Counseling Service does not handle inquiries regarding cemeteries, burials or funerals. Contact the United Synagogue burial office. See also "Cemeteries" above. Change of Name Records See "Name Change" below on this page. Records can be found on the top floor of the Public Record Office of the National Archives at Kew in London. They contain a small amount of useful information but not all name changes can be found there. Chief Rabbi Records One option, if you run into a stumbling block, is to obtain an authorization from the Chief Rabbi. You can apply to London Beth Din for this. They will check that they have a copy and then will tell you how much exactly and who to make the check out to. This will provide you with the Hebrew name including the patronymic of both parties, an address (possibly also "native of" if they were recently arrived) plus the groom's brothers, if any. From a posting by Jocelyn Keene Cities and Towns 1915 - Tailor Shop of J. B. Calmus in London's Est End The Jewish community of England, in 2006, numbers about 290,000. There have been eight Jewish Lord Mayors of London. Bath Jewish Cemeteries in West of England Birmingham (W. Midlands) The Jewish community dates from 1730, if not earlier. Brandwood end Cemetery of Birmingham Phone: 0121 643 0884 Bishop Auckland: (see Newcastle Upon Tyne) Blackburn GB/NNAF/O104465 Blackburn Hebrew Congregation Blackburn, Lancashire http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/sidocs.asp?SIR=O104465 Bobey Tracey: Devon Has at least one Jewish burial in 1933 Bournemouth Kinson & Boscombe Cemetery: Phone: 01202 557 433 Brighton: Sussex Jewish Cemetery Bristol Jewish Community Links Hebrew Congregation Cemetery Database - one of the oldest provincial Jewish communities in Britain. Records exist of the Jewish community back to the 12th and 13th centuries. There were at least three Jewish cemeteries St. Philips; Temple (Rose Street) and Fishponds. The complete story exists at this site: Burton There was a small Jewish Community here in 1887 which is about 15 miles from Derby. A meeting was held on March 4th, 1887 with the Derby Jewish Community to form a joint congregation, but the attempt failed. Bush: Watford, Hertfordshire Jewish cemetery Cambridge Jewish Cemetery Wittgenstein - a photo of Ludwig Wittgenstein's gravestone at St. Giles Cemetery in Cambridge, UK is at Camp Kitchener A 'refugee' camp outside of London, near the towns of Ramsgate and Sandwich, where refugees remained until they were able to emigrate to the United States or other locations outside of England. At one time it had been a military installation then known as Richborough Camp. It was transformed into an emergency home for 300 refugees from Germany in February 1939. The camp population reached 3,500 men, mostly young German and Austrian Jews who were granted temporary sanctuary. They reconstructed the camp, for their food, lodging and sixpence a week for pocket money. Fifty huts with thirty-six double bunks each were the sleeping quarters. There were classes in English after work which was from 8:30 a.m., to 5:30 p.m. They could also leave the camp after work, but had to return before the 10 p.m. roll call. Only two men were cited for misdemeanors, both for overstaying their leave. The camp was run on a self-sufficient basis. Of the sixty doctors in the camp, all but two performed ordinary camp tasks. Artists decorate the camp with pictures and mottoes. A former member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra organized a camp orchestra, and professional and amateur actors and singers provided the entertainment. Canterbury: Kent Jewish Cemeteries Chatham: Kent Jewish cemetery Cheltenham Jewish cemetery Cornwall "The Lost Jews of Cornwall" Land's End is the westernmost point of England's portion of the island of Great Britain. It is in southwest Cornwall. It is often thought of as the westernmost point of Britain, but parts of Scotland reach further west. There is no town there and I doubt if there's ever been a Land's End Jewish Community. One of the basic (Hebrew) words for tin is: bedil, apparently as (Bedilerion), part of the word: Belerion, the name Diodorus Siculus used in describing the Land's End peninsula of Cornwall, England. This name was almost certainly given to the region by the early Phoenicians. It was additionally called by some medieval Jewish scholars Ketzei Haaretz, literally rendered as Land's end, but a Hebrew phrase used to designate England as a whole. Posted on soc.genealogy.jewish by Tom Tinney, Sr. Darlington: (see Newcastle Upon Tyne) http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/england.html Derby Derby Hebrew Congregation Dorset The Dorset Local Studies Collection is being integrated with the Archives Service and its main stock of books and maps will be available on open access in current Record Office building when it re-opens as the Dorset History Centre. Contact details are: Telephone: 01305-250550 Durham: Jewish cemetery - see Newcastle Upon Tyne Essex Essex Jewish News Exeter: Devon In pre-Expulsion times, it was an important Jewish center> http://susserarchive.org.uk Exeter Synagogue and Susser Archives - large collection of Jewish records for England in 18th and 19th centuries: Circumcision registers, marriage records, Burial records, Monumental Inscriptions and many others Falmouth Jewish Cemetery Gateshead Jewish Community Gateshead is the home to a small community of ultra-orthodox Jews, which is known worldwide for its educational institutions. Talmudic students from many countries come to Gateshead to attend its Yeshivas and Kollels, and girls come to study at its teacher training college. http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/england.html Gloucester Jewish cemetery Graveshead: (see Newcastle Upon Tyne) http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/england.html Great Yarmouth: Norfolk Jewish cemetery Grimsby There are Regional Special Interest Groups that have British information and links. The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG at "To Be Buried In Grimsby" authored by Avrom Saltman The North East Lincolnshire Archives in Grimsby Town Hall - visitors must make appointments to visit. John Wilson is the Archivist. North East Lincolnshire Archives, Town Hall, Town Hall Square, Grimsby, DN31 1HX, Tel: (01472) 32 3581 Fax: (01472) 32 3582 Email: John.Wilson@nelincs.gov.uk Guildford Jewish Community This site offers guidance on times of services, kosher facilities, social and cultural activities and a history of both the Medieval and modern community. Hampshire and Isle of Wright Villages History of the area includes a guest book where you can put the name of the people you are researching and there are more than 150 entries. Hull Ships from European ports would embark their passengers at this port city and then the passengers could make their connection via trains to Liverpool. See my Emigration page - 'Ships' for further information. If you write directly to the Hull registrar, and ask them to look up an entry for you, they will normally oblige. Delhi Street Cemetery A batch of marriages from Hull has been added to the Yorkshire BMD web site, adding another 3,834 index entries. Full details on the site as usual. Leeds The Register Offices in the county of Yorkshire, England, hold records of Local births, marriages and deaths back to the start of civil registration in 1837. List of Marriages which took place in Leeds Synagogues can also be found here Leeds - for Jewish information, try this Jewish Telegraph newspaper site with direct links to their roots directory. The Jewish Telegraph has a page where you can post enquiries. The Jewish Telegraph, printed in Manchester, UK, circulates all the towns where there is a Jewish population such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh etc and every few weeks they have a page devoted to genealogy called The Roots Column. The copy that you submit a and any photograph is at *no charge*. or you can email Mike Cohen at roots@jewishtelegraph.com Letchworth (the Garden City) and Hitchin During WWII (1939), a Jewish community was established there, however according to an article in the Jewish Chronicle archive, there were a few Jews living there since at least 1909. The Jewish Community was formed by Jewish families relocating from London to escape the German air raids. It was almost exclusively orthodox. There was also a Jewish community there during the first World War. http://www.letchworthgc.com/placestovisit/history/ww2_homefront.htm Lincoln Located in eastern England, has an interesting Jewish history. A Jewish community was established there in 1159. During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln's Jews. Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country. In 1255, Lincoln's Jews were accused of ritual murder. Ninety-one Lincoln Jews were sent to London for trial and 18 were executed. Notwithstanding, the Lincoln Jewish community flourished until 1290, when they were forcibly expelled by edict. Liverpool The city was the first organized Jewish community in the north of England and the largest provincial one outside London, until the mid-19th century. From this city hundreds of thousands of Jews sailed on the ships of the Cunard, Inman, National and White Star lines for the United States, Canada and Australia. Louis Samuel Cohen was chosen as the city's first Jewish lord mayor in 1899 and international financier Samuel Montague was elected to Parliament in 1885. By 1914 the city's Jewish population was estimated to exceed 11,000. In 2005, it was fewer than 2,700. There are now five synagogues of which four are Orthodox; the Liverpool Reform Synagogue (28 Church Road); 151 7335871 and was founded in 1928 as Liberal/Progressive. The Greenbank Drive Hebrew Congregation is located in the Sefton Park area; 151 733 1417. The Merseyside Jewish Representative Council at 433 Smithdown Road; 151 733 2292 In 1856 Jewish businessman David Lewis founded the Lewis's Department store in this seaport city for Jewish information, try this Jewish Telegraph newspaper site with direct links to their roots directory The first Jew to settle in the city was Leon Villareal, a Portuguese Jew who came from Demera in Guyana in 1740 according to an article written by Lois Gilman in the August/September issue of Hadassah Magazine. In the 1750s, more German Jews from Germany settled near the present Canning Place, then the site of the Old Dock and Custom House in the docklands. By 825 there were nearly 1,000 Jews and in 1808 the first synagogue was built on Seel Street. It was known as the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation and is located on Princes Road in Toxteh near the edge of downtown.
The Princes Road Synagogue; 151 709 3431 Deane Road Cemetery - Saul Marks is project manager for the Deane Road Cemetery restoration Huyton Internment Camp - was located near Liverpool during WW II and held some Jewish refugees in 1940. Liverpool Jewish Genealogy Service Liverpool Record Office in the Central Library Merseyside Maritime Museum - offers "The Emigrants to the New World" showing a dockside street, and the sights and sounds of the emigrants heard before and during their departure. London Brick Lane - East London Late 1800s
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ 1870 Ordnance Survey ‘From Here to Obscurity’ tells the story of the now lost Jewish East End of London (1933-45) through the eyes of the author Yoel Shulem, an immigrant from Poland, his wife Rivka, and Yulus, their English born youngest son. The opening half introduces us to the family, the thriving Yiddish-speaking community that inhabited the East End, its customs, landmarks and characters, and its turbulent history including the poverty and fascist incursions. Addresses - Locating them From a posting in JewishGen 1-5-03 Bryanston Street Synagogue This synagogue was located on the South side of Upper Bryanston Street, about halfway between Edgware Road and Gt Cumberland Street (now Place). It is at least 150 yards from the West London Synagogue situated on the North side of Upper Berkely Street. London Birth Certificates Usually show the name and surname of father and the name, surname and maiden name of the mother. The Office of National Statistics - can provide an application forms that can be used to request a Birth, Death or Marriage Certificate, and also a form listing all the fees. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) web site: Fax: +44-1704 550 013 Residents of England, Wales will be able to register births and deaths on-line, by phone, as well as in person according to the National Statistics office new plan they intend to implement. Some restrictions on privacy matters are of concern. The government will use the 100-year rule. Records of persons born more than 100 years ago, will have full public access. For those born within the last 100 years, there will be public access but certain information will be confidential, namely, address, occupation and cause of death. Dutch Ashkenazi Community Research and information on the immigrant Dutch Ashkenazi community in mid nineteenth century London, including Downloads of Census extracts (Spitalfields) and library of relevant archival documents There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years. More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com History of the Anglo-Dutch Ashkenazim in London "Tenterground" - was heavily populated by Dutch Jewish immigrants after 1850. A large area was demolished by the London County Council in a slum clearance - well before WW1. Detail of the Victorian living conditions in the " Tenterground" can be found in my website. From a posting by Aubrey Jacobus Aubrey@Jacobus.org on The whole East End area has been a first home to many poor new arrivals in the UK. The Huguenot weavers were mainly tent makers who originally settled this area. An area was set aside for them to erect and assemble their tents and marquees as they made each part. This area became known as the Tenterground. Today it is inhabited by Indian and Bangladesh immigrants.
Cemeteries Cemeteries in London run by the United Synagogue has computerized their database of names from 1920. Write or fax : Leonard Shear, Willesden Jewish Cemetery, Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, London NW 10 Fax: 0181 451 0478. Adath Yisroel Burial Society - Enfield Cemetery Burial Listings - there are two sites you can search alphabetically by surname. For surnames from A to L Hoop Lane Cemetery - (Hoop Lane Cemetery East (Spanish & Portuguese) and Hoop Lane Cemetery West (Reform Synagogues). Reform & Sephardic) located on Hoop Lane, London NW11 Golders Green. Phone: 0208 455 2569. Founded in 1895 or 1897, by West London synagogue which owns the 16.5 acres. On the eastern side are the stones of the Sephardic Jews and apart from the old, closed Sephardic cemeteries off the Mile End Road. Only Sephardic cemetery left in London. This information obtained from the book "London Cemeteries" - authored by Hugh Meller. Ilford, East Ham and Whitechapel are all in East London, but Dulwich is a long way away. It is in the south of London - due south (about 7 miles) of central city. Masorti and Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations didn't exist in 1884. Plashet Cemetery - a huge Jewish cemetery located in the east end of London, covering families who died in Ilford, East Ham, Whitechapel, Dulwich, etc. A database covering Plashet, West Ham, East Ham and Willesden is accessible by calling United Synagogue Ilford Burial Society at +44 208 518 2868 (Fax:+44 208 451 0478) or +44 208 343 8989. The cemetery is open M - F & Sunday from 9 to 4 pm. Classed as being in Metropolitan Essex, although the cemetery is considered in Greater London - about 7 miles south of the center. East London Cemeteries of Plashet Grove (High Street North), East Ham (Marlow Road) or West Ham (Buckingham Road). East Ham is open; West Ham can only be visited by prior arrangement and Plashet may also be by arrangement. Check first. Preston Hebrew Cemetery, Preston, Lancs (in the North of England) also a Military cemetery. United Synagogue Burial Society arranges funerals and runs London Cemetery List If you are interested in almost every Jewish Cemetery in the United Kingdom, which includes Channel Islands, all of England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales can be found at the web site of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain For details of all Jewish cemeteries in London "The district of Mile End Old Town is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, while Canning Town comes under the jurisdiction of the London Borough of Newham. They will have lists of cemeteries in their areas, but you will probably have to contact individual cemeteries for the details you are looking for. Michael Bernet wrote "Large cities usually have many Jewish congregations. Each congregation has its own preferred cemetery, a preference that may change anytime. Cemeteries fill up and new ones created. Families move away from one area of town to another, or to a distant suburb. Some people elect to be buried next to relatives in a distant city where they once resided, others near where their children have since moved. ==So, when asking for locations of burial, please indicate date of death > and if you can, allegiance to synagogues, Landmanschaften, associations, etc. To add to what Michael Bernet has written, there are a number of synagogal bodies that the majority of synagogues belong to in addition to many small independent synagogues. United Synagogue's Eastern Office in Ilford, as they are responsible for all East London cemeteries under the their jurisdiction. The address to write to is: Death Records Whitechapel North - death records from 1850 to 1870 are held in Tower Hamlets Registry Office. In 1900, this was the heartland of London Jews. Early History of the Jews of London http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/brit/london.html East London Around 1898 - maps, descriptions, synagogues, etc. Familia A
web-based directory of family history resources held in public
libraries in the UK and Ireland. Updated and
maintained by the Family History Task Group of the EARL Consortium,
Familia is the on-line starting place to find information about
materials in public libraries which will help you trace your family
history Family History Center The Mormons have microfilmed English/Welsh BMD indices up to 1980. The London office is closed. http://www.hydeparkfhc.org/ Four Percent Industrial Dwelling Co. Ltd.
Founded in 1885 by Anglo-Jewish philanthropists. This is the story behind the mysterious arch in Wentworth Street whose inscription states: "Erected by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd, 1886". It is a story of slum dwellings, poverty and overcrowding in the Jewish East End of London, and the efforts of 19th century Anglo-Jewish philanthropists to do something about it. Free Map Tools At this
site you can discover distances between two points; How far it is
between; Radius around a point; Radius from a UK Postcode;
Distance between two UK Postcodes; Download UK
Postcodes with Latitude and Longitude and more Great Synagogue Marriage Records
Records have been translated and published for the years 1791-1850 by Angela Shire and Frank Gent http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/BIB/BksMembers.html Harold Lewin has these marriage records, but they are only on his computer at this time. harmir@bezeqint.net Hackney District of London
Once a highly populated Jewish area - it still is - with a community of mostly 18,000 charedim Harrods Department Store Though not of interest to the Jewish genealogist, it may be interesting to know that this infamous store, owned by Mohamed al Fayed, has opened a Jewish style deli in his store called Harrods Salt Beef Bar. I understand the great pastrami, but that the salt beef (corned beef) doesn't make it. Imperial War Museum
Located at Lambeth Road, London, SE1 and open daily 10 - 6; wheelchair access; not recommended for children under 14. Phone: 011-44-020-7416-5320 E-mail: mail@iwm.org.uk Admission is free to the Museum. Nearest underground - Lambeth North, Southwark, Elephant & Castle or Waterloo Web Site. If you want to find out more about the wartime experiences, in military or civilian service, of your twentieth century ancestors, the Imperial War Museum is a good place to start. Specialist will be on hand to talk to you about digging out the facts, interpreting information and using the archives. From a posting by Rosemary Wenzerul. There is a permanent exhibit devoted to the Holocaust in the new, five floor wind, that occupies about 13,000 square feet of space on two floors. The exhibit represents England's first permanent Holocaust exhibition. Jewish East End http://www.jewisheastend.com/purim06.html Jews Free School of London The school was build in 1821. A book has been written about this school by Dr. Gerry Black and was printed by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, ISBN 0 95311104 00 Jews of London Database
Authored by Jeffrey Maynard List of Jewish Bakers and Passover Cake Bakers in London from 1800 to 1901 The address may represent either the bakery or a residential address of the baker. This database was created by Laurence Harris laurence_harris@csi.com Lodzers
Emigrants from Lodz Poland in London late 19th century London at night
Magnificent
photos of this magnificent city London (East End)
There are Regional Special Interest Groups that have London information and links. The site includes links to Bohemia-Moravia SIG, Denmark SIG, German-Jewish SIG, Hungary SIG and Stammbaum - German SIG at Take a tour of London's East End - The Original London Walks
London Jewish Genealogy Pages - research and information on the immigrant
Dutch Ashkenazi community in mid nineteenth century London including
Downloads of Census extracts (Spitalfields) and library of relevant archival documents and quite a bit more developed by Aubrey Jacobus aubrey@Jacobus.org
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Marriage Registers (See also "Marriages" category below) Computerizing the marriage registers of London's Great, Prince's St., Sandy's Row, Hambro, etc., synagogues for the period 1791-1885 is complete. Further information is available from Harold Lewin har_mir@bezeqint.net North London Synagogue in
John Street, Barnsbury, London N1 was later renamed Lofting Road. The Synagogue was part of United Synagogue. Obituaries Published in British Newspapers Change to British Empire Origins.net A pay per view site that contains some of the collections of the Society of Genealogists (England) Petticoat Lane Market "(back then) This area was centered on Wentworth Street and Sandy's Row to the north. It was only in recent years that the market expanded (in terms of what it sold) as well as geographically expanding southwards. The majority of the maps I have seen show Middlesex Street, with the Petticoat Lane subsidiary only applicable to the northern half of the street." "According to 'The London Encyclopedia' edited by Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, Middlesex Street was in the middle ages a tree lined country road called Hog's lane or Hogge Lane. In 1608 Ryther's map shows it as Peticote lane. In 1665 the great plague drove out the well-to-do and a few years later Huguenot weavers and Jewish traders moved in. By the 1750's it was well established as a trading centre and a market had grown up. It was renamed Middlesex Street in about 1830 though it clung to the old name which was appropriate to the thriving business in old clothes." This is slightly abridged Gaby Laws from a posting on 10/11/04 Parish Registers Mostly kept at the London Metropolitan Archives Probate Registry Located in High Holborn, London Public Records Office
Kew, Richmond - The Public records Office (PRO) have made available, on-line, an index to the Wills that they are holding for the period 1850 to 1858, and also on-line access to the images of these Wills. The date refers to the date of probate, not the date of death. The site also offers an on-line image download of the Will at a flat rate per Will The index can be searched by surname, first name, occupation, parish or county (Hint: when looking for persons in London, try both London and Middlesex - but not at the same time). You will get some false hits (e.g. a search on Baker give persons with a surname of Baker; persons living on Baker Street; and persons whose occupation was as a baker) Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter The shelter was located on Leman Street, Whitechapel in London. A database created by Professor Aubrey Newman and Dr. Graham Smith of the Dept. of History, University of Leicester, spans the period of May 19, 1896 to August, 1914 and contains some 43,000 names. The shelter was set up to house immigrants on their short stay over in London, before embarking on their cross continental journey. The records for the Jewish Shelter are held at the London Metropolitan Archives, there are two films. However to view these you must have written permission. http://chrysalis.its.uct.ac.za/shelter/shelter.htm
(Very Slow) http://www.kuijsten.de/navigator/israel The Temporary Shelter, as it is now known, still functions and provides a service for refugees and other disadvantaged people. To increase funds, they are happy to provide good quality accommodations for London visitors in a Kosher environment. If interested contact Saul Issroff, saul@wico.demon.co.uk Spiro Institute
Kidderpore Gardens Stamford Hill, Located
in north London,
it is home to 56 synagogues and 21
London Street Directory Wilson Street, Finsbury Square, (E.C.) East Side: The following excerpt from the London street Directory of 1859, will suggest the flavor of the area: Princes Square - 13 May Ferdinand, private hotel;14 Walters Dan & Sons, silk & velvet manufacturers; Horseshoe alley - 15 Walters Stephen & sons, silk & velvet & umbrella silk manufactures; 16 Levy Reuben & Co., wholesale watch manufactures. From a posting by Richard W. May Petticoat Lane Market "(back then) was centered on Wentworth Street and Sandy's Row to the north. It was only in recent years that the market expanded (in terms of what it sold) as well as geographically expanding southwards. The majority of the maps I have seen show Middlesex Street, with the Petticoat Lane subsidiary only applicable to the northern half of the street." "According to 'The London Encyclopedia' edited by Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, Middlesex Street was in the middle ages a tree lined country road called Hog's lane or Hogge Lane. In 1608 Ryther's map shows it as Peticote lane. In 1665 the great plague drove out the well-to-do and a few years later Huguenot weavers and Jewish traders moved in. By the 1750's it was well established as a trading centre and a market had grown up. It was renamed Middlesex Street in about 1830 though it clung to the old name which was appropriate to the thriving business in old clothes." This is slightly abridged Gaby Laws from a posting
Synagogues in Synagogue Records in London - London roots researchers note that Beehive Lane Synagogue - 22 Beehive Lane, Gants Hill Bevis Marks - the oldest synagogue in Britain marked its 300th birthday the weekend before Rosh Hashanah of 2001. It was first dedicated the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah 5462 -- according to the secular calendar, September 30, 1701. It was established by Sephardim who had emigrated from Holland to England. It is the only synagogue in Britain designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage, placing it among the country's most important monuments. Famous past congregants include sir Moses Montefiore, the Victorian era philanthropist who traveled to Ottoman-ruled Palestine several times and established a hospital in Jerusalem. Benjamin D'Israeli, was circumcised at Bevis Marks in 1804, but his father, Isaac D'Israeli, left the congregation in anger in 1817 after a dispute over a fine. The family converted to Christianity, but Benjamin D'Israeli remained a supporter of Jews for the rest of his life -- and the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck once admiringly called him 'the crafty old Jew." Finchley Synagogue - Kinloss Gardens, London N3 Hambro Synagogue maintained its own burial register from 1770 to 1872. Further information, which includes Births , Marriages and Burials are Ilford Synagogue - located at 22 Beehive Lane, Gants Hill, Essex Sandys Row Synagogue - a very old-established synagogue which was previously a Huguenot chapel. This part of London's East End, was once a popular settling place for immigrants; first the Huguenots, then the Jews and now Asians, mostly from Bangladesh. For information on Sephardi cemeteries in London, contact or visit the Bevis Marks Synagogue. Spitalfields Great Synagogue (Machzikey Hadath) - is now a Mosque. A list of old synagogues and cemeteries is available at United Synagogue and London Beth Din - 735 High road, London N12 0US. Phone: 0208 343 8989 Fax: 0208 343 6262 e-mail: us@brijnet.org West London Synagogue: Hoop Lane, Golders Green, London NW11, Cities in England (continued) Manchester For Jewish information, try this Jewish Telegraph newspaper site with direct links to their roots directory. The Central Library in Manchester has microfilm of all Kelly's Street Directories for the area. These directories include families resident at given addresses over a period of years. The directories only name the head of household at the time. The Jewish Telegraph has a page where you can post enquiries. The Jewish Telegraph, printed in Manchester, UK, circulates all the towns where there is a Jewish population such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh etc and every few weeks they have a page devoted to genealogy called The Roots Column. The copy that you submit a and any photograph is at *no charge*. Manchester Jewish Museum - the Jewish quarter was close to Victoria Station. One Sephardi Synagogue in Cheetham is now the Museum. It is located at 190 Cheetham Hill road, Manchester M 8 8LW Telephone: 0 161 834 9879 Fax: 0 161 834 9801 Manchester Jewry - Guide For The Family Historian Sephardi Community of Manchester - an article by Morris Bierbrier and Lydia Collins about the Sephardi Community was published in ETSI Number 3, Volume 2E 1, Winter 1998. Middlesbrough Newsletter and The virtual Middlesbrough Community site. It includes the cemetery records for the two Middlesbrough Cemeteries, as well as those for Hartlepool and Stockton. In the case of the last, photos of all the stones are on line. There are also many historical photos. It can be found at Middlesbrough Kehillat - "There is evidence of Jewish people settling in Middlesbrough from 1862 when the town population was rapidly increasing following the discovery of iron-ore in the nearby Cleveland Hills in 1850 and the building of the first blast-furnace in 1851. Middlesbrough is a well known North Eastern manufacturing town and a shipping port at the mouth of the River Tees. Evidence indicates the Jewish people lived and worshipped in the original town site of Middlesbrough, the parish of St. Hilda.(29) It was not until 1874 that the first permanent synagogue in Brentnall Street was opened to accommodate the needs of the established Jews and the growing number of Jewish immigrants entering Middlesbrough." Newcastle Try these informative sites which includes any of the following: http://www.thenortheast.com/archives/UserGuides/08_Jewish.html Records Held at Newcastle Register Office Civic Centre http://tinyurl.com/57gu4x Portsmouth The Jews of Portsmouth
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.
The town has changed enormously over the years. At the forefront of the industrial revolution, it became one of the world's first industrial cities in the 1800s, with textiles and coal mining among major industries. Nowadays it is a modern, thriving city. The aliens records at the Police museum in Manchester contain mostly alien registration of those living in Salford. The e-mail address is Sheffield In the early 1840s there were only about 10 families, rising to about 20 by the early 1850s. It was not until 1851 that the community purchased its first synagogue. Certainly the register is complete - I can confirm that there are no missing pages etc. My Gt - Gt grandfather, who lived in Sheffield at the time, married in 1848 but in Manchester, to a girl who lived there. The couple then returned to Sheffield to set up home. From a posting on British Jewry on 1-29-04 by Beverly Bergman Slough, Borough of Located in Berkshire in the southeast England. It is one of the most ethnically diverse towns in the UK and is some 22 miles west of central London. "From Slough to Netanya: Joe's Experiences and Memoirs" - Stockton Burials 1885 - 2001 Bernard Bookey's updated compilation of the Stockton burials is now available on our website. This includes photographs of the gravestones which can be accessed from the Sunderland Miriam Margolyes in a posting to JewishGen on February 18, 2002, mentions names and these two synagogues in Sunderland that may be of interest: Sunderland Hebrew Congregation and Moor Street Synagogue Warwickshire Transcriptions of early surveys of Warwick town and a listing of Inns and Taverns as transcribed from the 1874 White's directory of the county West Hartlepool "There was indeed a synagogue in West Hartlepool - it was on the corner of Charles Street and Whitby Street. It was consecrated in 1872 by the Chief Rabbi Dr Nathan Adler. My great-grandfather Gabriel Levi Abrahams was its first Treasurer. Sadly the once-thriving community dwindled and the synagogue closed in 1968. Excellent relationships existed between the civic authority and the Jewish community, and there were two Jewish Mayors of West Hartlepool. My great-grandfather was a municipal councilor. When the synagogue closed, some of its silverware was lodged with the civic authority. Thus it is probably worth writing to the Council, and indeed to the Local History section of the Public Library, to see whether they know of the whereabouts of the synagogue records. From a posting on British Jewry by Beverly Bergman Winchester Take a tour of the City of Winchester UK, the ancient Capital of Wessex. The County Town of Hampshire in the UK plus a lot more information York In the 12th Century, the Jews of this city provided funds to the Crusaders who pledged their estates as collateral to the Jewish moneylenders. Fearing that they might lose their property, the Crusaders urged the local peasant crusaders to attack York's Jews and to destroy the written loan records. On March 16, 1190, York's 500 Jews heard of the impending trouble and most barricaded themselves in Clifford's Tower, a stone fortress in the city. Any Jews not fleeing to the Tower were immediately killed and most of the Jews remaining in the Tower after six days of siege, committed suicide. A handful who refused suicide rushed from the castle, willing to accept baptism to save their lives, but were killed anyway. After this massacre, the records were destroyed and then the Crusader's left England for a holy war to oust the Saracens from Jerusalem now without any written record of debt. York BMD site - Jews Synagogue Belgrave Street 1842-1940; New Synagogue, Chapletown Road 1883-1940; New Central Synagogue Harrogate Road 1897-1940; and other York synagogues Census Census Helpdesk: Tel: +44 (0) 1684 585 298 / 585 299 open 9:00 to 1900 hours (GMT+1 hour) Monday to Friday and 9.00 to 17.00 on Saturdays Email: support@censushelpdesk.co.uk The first British census was in 1841 though some of this census was lost in 1851. 1851 Census Surname index for the City of London, both parts (within and without the walls). It covers piece numbers 1524-1532 inclusive and gives the surname, first name and age plus the folio number and then recto/verso as to which page of that folio. Barbara Zimmer bravo.zulu@verizon.net asked: "Is there any truth to the story that recent census analysis has been outsourced to third world countries where the transcribers may not be very familiar with family names and/or where the immigrants came from? British censuses only started in 1841, so you may have difficulty getting much information without a lot of deep digging. BMD records were only centralized - at the Family Records Centre - from 1837. Before that you will have to depend on records by many church parishes. If your family is of Sephardi origin, the records of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, otherwise known as Bevis Marks, in London, go back to the late 1600s or early 1700s. From a posting by David Nathan 1881 census Available through the LDS was transcribed by members of local genealogical societies who should have been familiar with local surnames and place names. In fact it has many errors in it. It is also available online http://www.british-genealogy.com/ BS on a census should mean "British Subject". But just because it is marked "BS" doesn't mean that the person really was a British subject. The 1841 census was the first full census. It is of interest being older, but most people prefer the extra information of the 1851 census. The 1851 Census surname index for the City of London include both parts 9within and without the walls). It covers piece numbers 1524-1532 inclusive and gives the surname, first name and age plus the folio number and then recto/verso as to which page of that folio. Sherry Landa sherry.landa@virgin.net offers to do lookups if one is patient. The 1881 census is the most commonly used one for Britain; mainly because it has been fully transcribed and indexed; a joint project of the Government, LDS Church and Family History Societies. This is now available on microfiche and CDs. The next most common census is the 1851 census. This is generally only available on microfilm. Many areas have now been indexed by local groups. Three counties only are on CD; this was a test run for the 1881 project. This was the first census to record place of birth. The 1891 census is available on microfiche (Ottawa LDS has a set). It is not indexed and finding anyone is difficult if you know their address and almost impossible, if you don't. Ancestry.com plans to post images and every name indexes for the census years of 1841 - 1891 for England, Wales, Channel Islands and Isle of Man 1861 and 1871 censuses are available on microfilm, but seem to be rarely used. When referring to Britain, I mean England, Wales and Scotland; Ireland is not included. 1901 On-Line Census for England and Wales - available from the 48 dedicated terminals installed at the Family Records Centre (FRC) in Islington, London - A list of libraries that hold the 1901 census on microfilm can be found at www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk The official genealogy site of the 1901 Census for England and Wales. The service is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Use these search facilities to find details of your ancestors and research your family tree. Census information can be accessed at The FRC will not have copies of the 1901 Census returns on microfiche or microfilm. These are the main features of the 1901 service at the FRC:
Should you plan on visiting the FRC, look at the website at The Family Records Centre {FRC], London has wonderful section for unusual records - inc. consular BMD records *Consular returns 1849 - 1965.* The LDS has microfiche of BMD indexes from 1837 to the 1980s for all of England and Wales. A new list for the discussion of aspects of the 1911 UK census which is due for release in 2012. Various questions about this census have started to be raised and the aim of the list is to discuss any queries about the 1911 census. The discussion list for the UK-1911-CENSUS can be found at: Links to the 1901 Census Extractor, Census GuessTimator and Date Calculator Plus Free genealogy Stuff Change of Name in the UK http://www.ukdps.co.uk/WhyDoPeopleChangeTheirName.html Chief Rabbi of Great Britain British Chief Rabbinate origins are different from other countries' chief Prof. Jonathan Sacks
Cigar Makers
The Market on Burdett Road in London
There were a lot of Dutch Jews who came to England due to growing interest there in cigar production. By 1901, there were 343 male and 43 female Dutch cigar makers in London. Consult "Jewish Immigrant in England 1870 - 1914" by Lloyd P Gartner's book on page 73/74 where he writes about cigar making and its association with these Dutch immigrants. Citizenship in England There are a number of circumstances in which someone born in Britain in 1881might not be a British citizen in 1939. 1. There is a discrepancy between citizen definitions in different countries, and particularly German (at that time through paternal descent) and Britain. A child born in Britain to an Austrian father would be considered Austrian, and this would be the case if his parents or he had been resident in Austria. The children of diplomats are not necessarily considered to be citizens of the country where they are born, but may sometimes inadvertently acquire dual nationality. Cohen List The following list was submitted by Angie Elfassi. It is a list of COHEN surnames which appear in the PRO (National Archive) Index of Naturalizations. (PRO now National Archives) list. It runs from A (Alexander) to M (Morris) although Angie thinks there may be a few gaps. The years run from about 1850 to 1925 . This compliments the Naturalizations list from Ian Melville, which is noticed in the JC. Both lists can be viewed at our site from the following page (please be patient they are SLOW to load) or the new COHEN list can viewed directly at Conversions "Orthodox conversions in Britain are handled by the London Beth Din and the Office of the Chief Rabbi will no doubt have records. Conversions in the past will also have been performed by local Batei Din in the "provinces" (including Glasgow). Having said that, I would imagine that most of these records would be sensitive and not open to the public. From a posting by Harvey L Kaplan Conway Archive Service Microforms, maps and some newspapers will continue to be available at the Archive Access Points in Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Libraries. Susan Ellis, Senior Archivist CONWY County Borough Council Copyright Information The British Library's Copyright Office exists to advise BL staff, members of the library profession and the general public on all aspects of copyright
Copyright Office: FAQs on new copyright legislation Daily Mail Death Notices After 1962 "There are already restrictions on ordering a birth since 1952 - you have to provide parents' names, date and place of birth - not for confidentiality, so much as false passports! It is possible to convince them that you have no other source for some family history detail on the certificate." This was from a posting to British Jewry by Lauren richard.the.third@dsl.pipex.com "The LDS has microfiche of BMD indexes from 1837 - 1980s for all of England and Wales." Denization Records at the PRO "As my trip did not take me to London, I have tried to make some headway by the 'educational route' - learning what I could about the subject.
English Archives Network A useful source for records is the Search their archives from the 10th century to the present day from over 340 repositories across the country. An Extended Search facility enables you to search by category such as Family & Estate, Coroner, Religious, and Petty Sessions. Europages Business 2 business company directory and business in Europe, yellow pages access, international and European business directory (professional services, addresses and business classifieds Family History Center (FHC) The Hyde Park Family History Center located at 64-68 Exhibition Road in London, is probably the largest in the world outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Using Google as your search engine, type in soc.genealogy.Jewish and search the archives for the articles dated April 9, 2003 by Jane Peppler and Sally Bruckheimer for tips on using their facilities. Family Records This portal guides users to the primary UK family history sites and resources on the web. These are organized in two columns, by archive and by topic. The former include the
Public record Office, the National Archives of Scotland, the India Office, the National Library of Wales and the Family Records Office. Clicking on each brings up a short description and a link to the site. The topical links include census, wills, migration, military records, adoption, parish registers, and births, deaths and marriages. Each of these also returns a brief description and links to several resources. This easy to use and clean site is an excellent starting point for anyone researching their family origins in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
AdoptionNet - provides a listing of British resources
specializing in adoption search Find My Past With millions of family history records online, Find My Past makes it easy to research your UK ancestry and create your family tree. Search census records and trace births, marriages and deaths to bring your family history to life. FreeBMD Free Births, Marriages and Deaths has an objective to provide free Internet access to the Civil Registration Index information for England and Wales. The Civil registration system for recording births, marriages and deaths has been in place since July 1837 (no registrations are available for the first two quarters of that year) and is one of the most significant single resources for genealogical research back to Victorian times. Volunteers are encouraged to spend a half an hour a week at Procedures for Births, Marriages and Deaths on British registered ships are well know, though questionable as to whether they were always followed. They vary with date, with type of ship (merchant or Royal Navy), status of person (passenger, crew, military), and residence of person (England, Scotland, Ireland). At the end of each year, the entries were passed to the General Registry Office (GRO) who prepared a series of Births and a series of Deaths at sea. These were split by residence (England, Scotland, Ireland). These are available from 1837-2000? on microfiche. For 1854-1890, they should contain the same names as the Board of Trade Registers (not always). These are indexes and do not have the extra information in the Board of Trade Registers. These indexes contain just as many flaws, errors and omissions as the GRO fiche index so just because your ancestors aren't there, doesn't mean that certificates don't exist for them. The first place to look is the Board of Trade films (LDS has those); next the General Registry Office Births at Sea (England) series, and if both those fail, you have a problem. Births and deaths on the Australia run were common and the ships were familiar with the procedures. "As Sherry has mentioned "FreeBMD" I feel comfortable mentioning them and I am not breaking any rules. I have used it quite a lot and found it to be very useful, but there is, not so much a caveat, but a suggestion for genealogists to do some prep work before they use it. This is to check the very useful bar charts they have that show what percentage of each year has been indexed. By reviewing this first, you can see whether it is worth using FreeBMD or not. For example, if they have indexed less than ten percent of a year you are interested in, then it is quite likely you won't get a "hit." I mention this so that anyone trying FreeBMD won't be disappointed, but prepared. Good luck, From a posting on British Jewry web site by Jeremy Frankel
Friendly Societies Significantly different as compared to Landmanschaften groups. "The Jewish Friendly Societies of London, 1793 - 1993" The Societies Research Group was established in March, 1999. Further information is available at Further information in other Jewish communities of the UK should consult Rainer Liedtke. Self-help in Manchester Jewry: the provincial independent tontine society Manchester Region History Review 1992 or Zoë Josephs, The Friendly Societies in Z Josephs (ed) Birmingham Jewry Volume II More Aspects 1740-1930 published in 1984. There is a Friendly Societies research Group which can provide further information about specific societies and information about sources. Their website is Genealogy Supplies Good Web Guide S&N Genealogy Supplies General Register Office Indexes These are often described as the St. Catherine's House Indexes from the building where they were kept. They are one of the best starting points for family history, as the indexes include an order of surnames for each year. Court Records (you may have to do a cut and paste of the long URL) are at Hayes Certified Industrial School for Jewish Boys Situated on the main road to Uxbridge, Hayes End. PRO hold papers 1921-1937. Some records are found in Public Record Office. There may be other records in existence according to a posting by Barry Spinner. The school was for boys who were minor offenders or were destitute. Their 'occupation' in the Census would be student or scholar. Minute book of the school Heraldry - (Jewish) http://www.heraldica.org/topics/jewish.htm Holocaust Centre, Beth Shalom A charity base in Nottinghamshire, that offers an on-line book shop dealing with a wide range of books, videos, etc. dealing with the Holocaust at http://www.holocaustbookstore.net/ The
British Library has placed more than 440 hours of testimonials
from Holocaust survivors on its website. In wide-ranging
interviews, 66 Jewish survivors tell the stories of their lives in
the ghettos and concentration camps, and describe how they made
lives for themselves after the war Immigrants Arriving By Ship in Britain There are no surviving records of immigrants arriving by ship in Britain according to a posting to JewishGen on May 12, 1999 by Harvey Kaplan harvey@hkaplan.freeserve.co.uk He offered to check naturalization records, records of birth, marriage and death, census records and Jewish community records (held mostly by the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Glasgow). Internment (during WW II) The English genealogy magazine "Family Tree Magazine" had a two part article "The Internment of Enemy Civilians in Wartime Britain". It was authored by Tom Wood and published in the November and December 1998 issues. The British government has a database of some 30,000 records of bank accounts and other property confiscated from residents of "belligerent enemies" during WWII. These people, or their heirs are entitled to claim their property or compensation. Names, addresses, property seized and values are included Israelis in Britain There is a substantial number of Israelis living in England. London's main Hebrew-language magazine is A London Jewish Brigade There was a three year postergation in the case of the members of the Jewish Brigade, late to receive weapons training as well as delayed in going into action. Jewish Chronicle The oldest Anglo-Jewish paper in the world that is still publishing. It is not cheap as a subscription starts at $55 and page downloads are extra. Searching the Hebrew University Library System web site Jewish Chronicle - founded in 1841. Jeffrey Maynard has listed social announcements from 1890 to 1895 in this, the oldest Jewish newspaper. http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/jcto1869.htm Jewish Chronicle - This site is a collection of miscellanies, compiled by Jeffrey Maynard ... historical and genealogical information about the Jewish Community of England. The purpose is to make a modest amount of source material and databases available to researchers. London Jews Database - first half of Nineteenth century Jewish Labour and the London Poor in 1851 Jewish Chronicle Birth Marriage and Death announcements to 1869 Jewish Chronicle Birth Marriage and Death announcements 1870-1879 - These have been covered in great depth in a "must have " book for those who are interested in this period "The Jewish Victorian" by Doreen Berger. This book contains anything about anyone printed in the Jewish newspapers of the period, whether they got married, died, had a child, won an award, had an unusual death, gave something to the synagogue. It contains nearly 600 pages and is cross-referenced. It is a social history of the Jewish community in Victorian England. Jewish Chronicle Birth Marriage and Death announcements 1880-1889 The newest volume covering 1861-70 is now published. It is 400 pages and the cost is £29.95, plus postage and packing surface mail £7.50, airmail £15.50. It is available from the publisher BOYDPUBS@aol.com Jewish Chronicle Naturalization Lists www.jgsgb.org.uk/ Jewish Community Jewish Care Jewish Free School Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain A wonderful resource including access to SHEMOT - the publication of this organization http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/journal1.html Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain East of London Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Family Finder Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - Library Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - (otherwise known as JGSGB) supports those researchers undertaking Jewish Genealogy and in particular, is a Centre of Excellence for those researching UK Jewish Genealogy. Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain PO Box 13288 London N3 3WD There are about 2,500 names and 600 places in this database. Many 'Useful Links and Informational Sources' including: Cemetery Records Index Page; Family Finder; Family Trees; Marriage Index from Princelet (Princes) St. Synagogue 1897 - 1907; Scotland's Jewish Community - Reference Page among others. Additionally, this web site offers many links to useful Jewish Genealogy related pages on other web sites: The website includes:
Cemetery Records Index Page; Family finder; Family Trees; Marriage index from Princelet (Princes) St. Synagogue 1897 - 1907; Scotland's Jewish Community - Reference Page among others. Additionally, this web site offers many links to useful Jewish Genealogy related pages on other web sites including:
For general enquiries e-mail enquiries@jgsgb.org.uk The enquiries contact for the Jewish Genealogical Society is Laurence Harris. Mr. John Berman is the webmaster for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain's website JewishGen British Connection Researchers interested in the Jewish Communities and genealogical records of the United Kingdom
http://www.jewishgen.org/listserv/sigs_add.htm
The JCR-UK (Jewish Communities & Records - United Kingdom) has a web site that is continually being updated. if you have ancestors from the United Kingdom. Of general interest: Jewish Communities Prior To 1290 In England And Wales Dr. Anthony Joseph is a leading expert of Jewish History records in England and is a member of both the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain and the Jewish Historical Society of England. Dr. Anthony Joseph 25 Westbourne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 3TX England. Telephone: +44 121 454 0408 Fax: _44 121 454 9758 Dr. Joseph is not on the internet, however, Tony Reese at Tony@brij000.demon.co.uk has offered to forward anything to him as a fax. For information on Civil records in the UK, one should try to find the Fido Net Echo I & UK_GENE The SHEMOT is a quarterly journal of the JGS of Great Britain and the web site. Just follow the link Jewish Historical Society of England Jewish Historical Society of England http://www.jhse.org/manchester/main.html Jewish Museum Jewish Museum - London Jewish News Jewish News Jewish Refugees Committee, World Jewish Relief The Forum, 74/80 Camden Street, London NW1 0EG Telephone +44 (0) 20 7691 1781. Fax +44 (0) 20 7691 1780 Email WJR1@wjr.org.uk Jewish Reunion To locate long lost friends as well as tracing family members and learning more about your family history and is FREE to register and use Jewish Telegraph "The Jewish Telegraph, printed in Manchester, UK, circulates all the towns where there is a Jewish population such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh etc and every few weeks they have a Jews of the 18th Century Jeffrey Maynard - Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies
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Harrow County click here This site is a collection of miscellanies...historical and genealogical information about the Jewish Community of England. The purpose is to make a modest amount of source material and databases available to researchers Job Designations in England (Occupations) Draper - from Anglo-French, from 'drap', the French word for 'cloth'. Originally, 'draper' referred to a person who made cloth. Then it came to mean someone who sold cloth, and later, by extension, articles made from cloth. Information obtained from a posting by Victoria Barkoff Hawker - derived from a Middle Low German word "hocken" meaning 'to take or carry on the back'. The meaning appears to have changed over time. When it first entered the English language, it referred to someone who goes from place to place selling his wares. By the late 19th century in England, a hawker was distinguished from a peddler: a hawker used a horse and cart to carry his goods while a peddler carried them on his back. A hawker's license was more expensive than a peddler's license. A hawker is what used to be known in Yiddish as a "Smous" pronounced Sm - oh - s Joiner - a finished carpenter Legal Newspapers The London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom. Several legal notices, including insolvency notices, are required by law to be published in the London, Belfast or Edinburgh Gazette
Map of Britain Maps On-line A site for old British Maps Old Ordnance Survey Maps of towns throughout Old Maps of England - Marriages in Britain Lloyd Gartner (from the 1960 edition of "the "Jewish immigrant in England, 1870 - 1914" stated: "Three procedures were open to a couple who wished to marry. The most respectable was that contemplated under the Marriage Act of 1856 ... for which the couple secured a license from the Chief Rabbi who issued the Ketubbah, and then went to a person authorized by the Chief rabbi (usually a native Jewish minister) who would perform the actual ceremony and subsequently certify it to the Registrar's office. For reasons of convenience, piety, or economy, those who did not use this arrangement could also be wed by an 'unauthorized' religious functionary and also have an ordinary civil marriage at a Registrar's office. Unlike the first type, this was recognized by law solely as a civil marriage. Third was the device of the unscrupulous, and of those ignorant of the vital distinction between the public status of Jewish law in Eastern Europe and England. In this case only Jewish marriage was performed, and no civil notice or ceremony took place. The couple had no legal proof of marriage, the wife lacked an enforceable claim on her husband's support; the children's position was problematic. Such marriages were of a piece with "gitten' (divorces) issued in England under Jewish law without previous civil divorce, and were sometimes the resort of persons engaged in commercial vice. The 'clandestine marriage' (shtille huppash,' lit. silent wedding was the target of impassioned denunciations, and even of an effort to secure Parliamentary action against it as against all 'irregular marriages' performed outside the Chief Rabbi's provenance." From a posting by Laura Moss Gottlieb Jewish Marriages in England and Wales - a discussion of this subject by Charles Tucker in his article "Jewish Marriages and Divorces in England before 1940" was published in the Genealogists' Magazine, September 1992. He states "Until the Marriage Act of 1836, the State took absolutely no interest whatsoever in the registration of Jewish marriages and laid down no restrictions on either their time or place of celebration." He explains that prior to the Expulsion in 1290, the Jewish Community was regarded as a separate corporation whose affairs were regulated by its own laws. After the resettlement in 1656, it was assumed that the same conditions would apply. It was slightly more complicated than that as the judiciary were involved in the years before legislation, passed in the 1830s and 1840s, affected Jewish marriages. But the general point is clear: Jewish marriages were recognized. From a posting by Harold Pollins
Medical "The key to the Sanatoria" in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Military
http://www.worldwar1.com/pubs.htm#ot There was no conscription in Britain until 1916. British Armed Forces - British Light Infantry Regiments - this is the 'unofficial' site on the history British Military Records - check this site if your ancestors served in some branch of the former British Empire or Commonwealth's military at Commonwealth War Graves Commission - listing of war dead - searchable from the site. Records of WW I and WW II burials around the world of British Commonwealth members Main Office: Labour Corps in the British Army - mostly forgotten but their work was vital to during the 1917-1919 war. Many Jews served in the Corps, especially from the East End of London and many who were either Russian or of Russian descent. Ivor Lee lee@gildenmoss.u-net.com has an interest in this subject. WW2 People's War Military Records for the British Army Army Personnel Centre http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/army/default.htm For internees during the First and Second World War, see Domestic Records Information 51 "Internees: First and Second World Wars" Moving Here Explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, regional and national archives, libraries and museums. There is an extensive Jewish section with quite a few good links on Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian migration Migration Histories Museum of Family History A number of interesting links Name Changing in England There is no law in Britain to stop anyone from calling yourself anything you like as long as it's not for fraudulent purposes. The more 'official' way is to change your name by 'Deed Poll'. This requires a Notary (usually a solicitor) to sign the form and you have to swear that the information you have given is the truth. "Jewish Naming Convention in Angevin England" - by Eleazar ha-Levi. The purpose of this paper is to use the naming conventions adopted by the Jews of Medieval England (c.1070 - 1290) as a way of generalizing the rules of period Jewish naming. Three basic rules were applied in naming Jewish children throughout the medieval period and, even, up to the present time: the Talmud, kinnui (secular) versus shem ha-kadosh (sacred) names, and the role of the female in Jewish ritual practice. Naturalization Records "The Index to all UK naturalizations from the 1700s to 1924 is available on two microfilm rolls available from the LDS's Family History Centers. The microfilm rolls are FHL British Film #824514 and #824515, and are called "Denizen and Naturalization Lists, 1801-1873". Note that the dates given on the microfilm are less extensive than they actually are. The microfilm is easy to use as the Index is in alphabetical order by surname. Once you locate your relative, write down all the info there: the relative's name, date of application, date of the Oath of Allegiance, the certificate number, and the Home Office paper number. The index will tell the relative's country of birth and also the British city in which they were living when they applied - which can help to distinguish your relatives from others with the same name. Next, go to Once you have your HO code, go to Give them all the numbers you found on the index. The PRO charges 10 pounds sterling (payable via a credit card) for initiating the search, but they will apply it to the total cost of purchasing the materials that they find. You have a choice of how quickly (and expensively) to be sent the materials." The previous information was posted on British Jewry posting by Laura Moss Gottlieb lauragottlieb@juno.com It is possible to limit searches to obtain only hits for naturalization by entering in Box 1, naturalization AND with the name you are searching. Searches can be limited by year range in Box 2. Record Management Services HO 405 is gradually being transferred to The National Archives in batches according to the surname of the alien. Currently those with surnames A to J have already been transferred. thenortheast.com A directory of Web based information on the north east and Cumbria. It offers a free enquiry service for people living in the region and will also provide On-line Database This site operates on a "pay as you view" basis rather than on subscription or membership fees. On this site you will find an entire copy of the indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2001. These images are available to search, view (including zooming in on those awkward-to-read names), save to disk and print for a modest charge. This site will be most useful to you if you are already familiar with these indexes and wish to have the opportunity to search them in your own time, without having to physically visit a library or a register office Orphanages The Norwood Orphanage was opened in 1866 and in 1876 it was amalgamated with the Jews' Hospital and the Jews' Orphan Asylum. The Norwood Old Scholars' Association may have records - where, if you scroll down a bit, will find 'Archives & Family Histories link. Photos from Pathe News 60 years of Pathe Cinema newsreels are available at this web site Pioneer Corps "Pioneer Corps of the British army, a group that was expected to do the heavy laboring for the "real" soldiers. In WW 2, the British long relegated many Jews (including volunteering European Jews who had found refuge in England) to this function. My (US) dictionary defines pioneer as "one of a group of foot soldiers detailed to make roads, dig entrenchments, etc., in advance of the main body." Poor Jews Temporary Shelter (see also London above) A searchable database, created by the efforts of Aubrey Newman, the University of Cape Town, the Kaplan Foundation, and the 100 undergraduate student volunteers, which can be a wonderful place to start your research This gives you links, including the actual search engine. The Home Page is http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/papers/jewspap.html PRO (Public Records Office) Now known as TNA (The National Archives) Orders for records can be made via the Internet including microfilms, microfiche, DVD and paper. In addition to sending copies through the mail, there is a service providing digital copies on-line. "Anglo-Jewish History, 18th-20th Centuries: Sources in The National Archives" National Archive's On-Line Catalogue National Archives Research Guide on Immigrants Records The London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom. Several legal notices, including insolvency notices, are required by law to be published in the London, Belfast or Edinburgh Gazette. Go to the "Archives" tab, enter the name you are searching and choose Date range (otherwise you only get the WWI and WWII information) & you will receive a list of entries. Each entry opens a particular page of a particular issue of the Gazette (in PDF format) and you can use the "Find" from the menu to search for the name on that particular page of the Gazette ... The spelling has to be precisely as it appears in the newspaper - so you may need to persevere! Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (see also Synagogues on this page) Main body for the Reform Synagogues in the UK. Part of the Reform Movement Registers in England and Wales - 1837 to 2001 A minimum fee of 5 pounds sterling allows researchers to look at up to 50 units within 45 days of purchase and allows viewing, printing and saving up to 50 image pages. Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths: http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/registrars.nsf/a/homepage Researching in Britain Anything and Everything about researching the UK GRO Birth, Marriages and Deaths Registrations London Gazette, all kinds of stuff like name changes, military announcements. Their search engine currently goes back to 1665,
English Search portal "All UK Database" which is online. * Wales Census Returns: 1,800 records from the 1851 and 1891 censuses * London Jews (pre-1850): over 9,000 Jewish traders based in London * Jewish Traders/Businesses in London - 1769-1839: names of over 5,000 Jewish traders based in London * JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF): more than 10,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland * JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR): 25,000 records from cemeteries within the United Kingdom. The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly. See also my 'Search' page and my 'Genealogy' page Ship's Manifests These records are held at the Public Record Office, Kew, London. They are very poor as most have been destroyed. Nothing exists for Europe or the Mediterranean countries. From a posting by David Kravitz david_kravitz@hotmail.com to JewishGen on 11-02-2002 Society of Genealogists Family History and Library Center. The Society of Genealogists offers a unique combination of research material, guidance and support for those interested in family history and the lives of earlier generations. It is a charity whose objects are to "promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy". Susser Archives A very interesting site that holds a lot of information of interest to researching Jews of England Synagogues List of listed Synagogues, former synagogues and other Jewish Monuments in the UK
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Telephone Numbers http://www.bt.com/archives/index.htm "Celia Male has pointed out that the recently-announced search engine for online historic UK telephone directories on a well-known genealogy website is based on optical character recognition (OCR) and contains OCR-related errors that might mislead searchers into incorrectly dismissing search results as irrelevant. She has wisely advised that searchers consult the images of the directory pages before deciding the relevance of results. The little I have to add to this discussion applies generally to OCR-based search engines.
Telephone 192.com British Telephone (BT) - searches by region. You need to enter an area Infospace - searches by region, so you need to enter an area On-Line Telephone Directories - a directory of directories; all active ones for individuals, not businesses Telephone Numbers - if you do not know the area name in England, try http://www.infobel.com/inter/world.asp Telephone Numbers - billed as the largest on-line commercial telephone directory in England. You have to sign-in and create a password, but it's free! UK Phone Book - this site searches by region. You need to enter a region http://www.ukphonebook.com
UK and Ireland Genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man United Kingdom Info Disk Contains details on more than 15 million subscribers in the UK, including Northern Ireland. The CD comes in at least three 'strengths' and prices are detailed on The cheapest version, which will probably suit most people, according to Mr. Joe Ross, costs 29.95 pounds from that web site. BT (British Telecom) also sells a CD for 36 pounds but it is really intended as a replacement telephone directory and is less suitable for genealogist type searches (it does not have electoral register information and therefore usually lacks first names). Its advantage is that it is updated frequently (quarterly? - but presumably has to be bought again) Follow the link on the right of the page to directory enquiries from their web page United Synagogue Burial Service A useful list of agencies and organizations within the Jewish Community which offer help, advice and support on a wide range of subjects. Bereavement Counseling Service does not handle inquiries regarding cemeteries, burials or funerals. Contact the United Synagogue burial office. See also "Cemeteries" above. World Jewish Relief World Jewish Relief Channel Islands British Newspaper Library Catalogue - offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale. The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/ For further information or for the site itself British Library The British Library - Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail: newspaper@bl.uk Guernsey On June 28, 1940, the small town of St Peter Port was bombed by the German Air Force. The British government, recognizing the impossibility of defending this five mile wide dot of land in the English Channel, just 20 miles from the coast of Normandy, had declared Guernsey and its neighboring island of Jersey demilitarized areas. The Germans apparently didn't receive the message. A few minutes of bombing and strafing left 29 civilians dead. Two days later, the first Germans landed on the island's tiny airstrip. The Channel Islands never became a part of England or the United Kingdom; to this day the islands (population 160,000) each have their own currency, legal systems, strangely titled officials and insulting terms for the residents of the other Channel Islands. Two weeks before the Germans arrived, many residents had evacuated, leaving some 22,000 residents to exist with the Nazis. There is today, a German Occupation Museum (44 1481 238205)headed by Richard Heaume, a native Guernseyman. The island authorities meekly went along with German orders to register Jews - a bit of Hitlerian obssesiveness that would seem almost comical, given the absurdly tiny Jewish population of Guernsey, were it not for the fact, as the museum's wall attest to, that the three Jewish women on the island perished in Auschwitz.
Old British Empire Maps UK and Ireland Genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
Isle of Man Shortly after Britain declared war on Germany (September 1939), actually following the German invasion of Norway, Belgium Holland and France in the early summer of 1940, all men of German and Austrian birth were interned at various camps including one at the Isle of Man. Within a short period, a small number of men, primarily those of prime military age, 18-30-35, were shipped overseas for internment, some to Canada; some to Australia* but this stopped after one ship was torpedoed. The British felt they had little time to find out who was an enemy alien and who was a pro-British immigrant for some time thereafter. The older immigrants, mostly German and Austrian Jews, were released after background checks, and went back to their work, when possible. However, if they had been employed in a defense industry, they were forced to find alternate employment. Many of the younger ones who were not sent to overseas internment, and those that became old enough to serve, ended up in the Pioneer Corps in Britain or were allowed to join ordinary army units with a number of them being killed in action. Not all German and Austrian refugees were interned. This information obtained from a message on JewishGen Forum of from Gunther Steinberg * Lorraine Bertelsen wrote an article dealing with 'UK alien documents' which was published in the British Jewish Genealogy publication SHEMOT - March 2000 issue.
You may also read more about 'enemy aliens entering Australia' that Lorraine wrote and I have inserted on my Australia page. British Newspaper Library Catalogue This site offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale. The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. For further information or for the site itself The British Library - Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail: newspaper@bl.uk UK and Ireland Genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man United Kingdom Jewish Website United Kingdom Jewish Website Yorkshire This site offers a lot of information that will help in researching this specific maritime county area of England including links to Archives and Libraries, Genealogy, Land and property, Maps, Occupations and much more
Scotland There is no evidence of Jewish communities in Scotland before Edinburgh in 1816 and Glasgow in 1823. There were a handful of Jewish individuals and families in Scotland from the late 1600s onwards - often converts teaching at the Universities, medical students or traders. Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland started in 1855." From a posting by Harvey L. Kaplan British Newspaper Library Catalogue Offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale. The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. The British Library - Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail: newspaper@bl.uk The 1891 Census for Scotland is indexed on computer and available in the records offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre in Glasgow has a list of over a thousand Jews in the immigrant Gorbals area of Glasgow, transcribed from the 1891 Census. This information attributed to Harvey Kaplan of Glasgow harvey@hkaplan.freeserve.co.uk 1901 Census - available on the Internet. At the Home Page: click on Direct Search. This will pull up a table in which you can input the Archival Reference Number, as directed. If this is confusing, go to "Understanding Census Terms and select "Folio - PRO Reference Number." http://www.censusfinder.com/scotland.htm Important Scottish Address Lists Including Cemetery Records Link can be found at Aberdeen Current synagogue dates from 1940s; community dates from 1893 Ayr A Jewish community existed from 1902 until the 1970s and the synagogue was in the Invercloy Hotel
Dundee The current synagogue was established in the 1960s and the community dates from 1874. The synagogue was located at 132 Murraygate between 1895 to 1920. From 1920 to the 1960s it was on Meadow Street. Dunfermline There was a Jewish community from 1908 to WW II
Edinburgh There were synagogues established from 1816 to the current time. Dates and locations can be found at Newington Cemetery - opened in 1846 and is one of the largest and most important Victorian graveyards in Edinburgh. There is a CD review on this cemetery produced by the Scottish Genealogical Society which includes a large Jewish section and the Hebrew text is also recorded. Harvey Kaplan stated: "Echobank (Newington) Cemetery, off Dalkeith Road, was used by the Jewish community from around 1869. Most of the Jewish inscriptions were transcribed by Sidney Cramer in 1951, and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (SJAC) has a copy of his manuscript. Alan Wilson has photographed most of the stones and can be seen at Piershill is the current Jewish cemetery in Edinburg with more than 1,300 burials (204 Piersfield Terrace). SJAC also has a list of around 1,250 Jewish burials in Piershill since 1917, provided by the Edinburgh Jewish Burial Friendly Society. Falkirk The Jewish community was established around 1910
Glasgow For Scottish Jewish information, try this Jewish Telegraph newspaper site with direct links to their roots directory. The Jewish Telegraph has a page where you can post enquiries. The Jewish Telegraph, printed in Manchester, UK, circulates all the towns where there is a Jewish population such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh etc and every few weeks they have a page devoted to genealogy called The Roots Column. The copy that you submit a and any photograph is at *no charge*. http://www.jewish-telegraph.com "The Glasgow Jewish Echo" "Glasgow Herald newspaper carried departures from this port Greenock A Jewish community existed from 1894 to 1936 and the synagogue was located at 27 Carthcart Street Isle of Skye Movietone photo in 1953 Jewish Communities The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities "There is no evidence of Jewish communities in Scotland before Edinburgh in 1816 and Glasgow in 1823. There were a handful of Jewish individuals and families in Scotland from the late 1600s onwards - often converts teaching at the universities, medical students or traders. Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland started in 1855. So the only way of finding anything about Caspar is if he was a Christian and appears somewhere in the Old Parish Records." From a posting by Harvey L Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland Jewish Society Information (Scotland) http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jsoc/chadash/jspot.htm Inverness http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/bury03.shtml Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Mr. Joe Ross is the webmaster for the website This site includes many 'Useful Links and Informational Sources' including: Lerwick A town in Shetland, a Scottish island. "Mackerel at Midnight: Growing Up Jewish n a remote Scottish Island' - authored by Ethel G. HOFMAN and published by Camino Books. Military Records for the British Army Army Personnel Centre http://genealogy.about.com/od/uk_military/British Scotland Census Collection The Scotland Census Collection, 1841-1901, containing over 24 million names is available at Ancestry.com Scotland's Jewish Community Reference Page
Scottish Council of Jewish Communities The site is in Hebrew Scottish Jewish Archives Centre This site offers a wide range of material relating to all aspects of the history of the Jewish communities of Scotland. Opened in 1987, it is located in Garnethill Synagogue - the oldest synagogue in Scotland having been built in 1879. The large collection is catalogued on computer, and made available to researchers during most of the year. It is open on one Sunday afternoon per month, otherwise by arrangement, e.g. Friday mornings. It holds copies of cemetery records for 15 of the 16 Jewish cemeteries in Scotland. The items at the Archive include cemetery records, synagogue registers, naturalizations, charity subscription lists and school admission registers - relating to Jews in Scotland up to the 1920s. It offers information on almost 16,500 individuals and continues to grow. The Database is the most comprehensive source for those who are trying to locate individuals and families during this time period. Harvey L. Kaplan is the Director at the Archives in Glasgow. UK and Ireland Genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
Wales British Newspaper Library Catalogue This site offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale. The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. for further information or for the site itself The British Library Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail: newspaper@bl.uk
British Empire Genealogical Mapshttp://www.sgenealogy.com/products/atlase/indexac.htm History of the Jews of Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Wales Jewish Roots In Wales http://www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story254/story254.htm?identifier=stories/story254/story254.htm Merthyr Tydfil Located in South Wales has a Jewish cemetery located at Cefn Coed that was established in early 1860. The first burial took place in 1870 Prior to that time, burials of Jews from Merthyr and Brynmawr took place in Swansea. There are no synagogue records that have survived according to Ian Bellany i.bellany@lancaster.ac.uk North Wales Jewish Network http://northwalesjewishnetwork.org/ UK and Ireland Genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man Wales On The Web Websites
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