PUBLISHED SOURCES

 

General reference sources

Barnett, L D, Bevis Marks Records Part II: Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage Contracts of the Congregation from Earliest Times until 1837 (Oxford University Press, 1949)

Berger, D, The Jewish Victorian: Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1861-70’ (Robert Boyd Publications, 2004)

Berger, D, The Jewish Victorian: Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1871-80’ (Robert Boyd Publications, 1999)

Lewin, H and M, Marriage Records of the Great Synagogue, London 1791-1885 (privately published, 2004)

Lewin, H & M, Birth Records of the Great & Hambro Synagogues, London (privately published 2008)

Rodrigues-Pereira, M and Loewe, C, Bevis Marks Records Part V: The Birth Register (1767-1881) of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, London, 1993)

Rodrigues-Pereira, M and Loewe, C, Bevis Marks Records Part VI: The Burial Register (1733-1918) of the Novo (New) Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation London (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, London, 1997)

Shire, A, Great Synagogue Marriage Registers 1791-1850 (Frank J Gent, 2001)

Whitehill, G H, Bevis Marks Records Part III: Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage Contracts and of the Civil Marriage Registers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation for the Period 1837-1901 (The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation and the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1973)


Individual community sources

Ballin, N D, The Early Days of Sheffield Jewry 1760-1900 (privately published, 1986)

Collins, K E, Second City Jewry: the Jews of Glasgow in the Age of Expansion 1790-1919 (Scottish Jewish Archives, 1990)

Faber, Eli, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight (New York University Press, 1998)

Freedman, M, Leeds Jews in the 1901 Census: A Demographic Portrait of an Immigrant Community (privately published, 2002)

Gerlis, D and L, The Story of the Grimsby Jewish Community (Humberside Leisure Services, 1986)

Halliday, R and Susser, B, ‘The Ipswich Jewish Community in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, in Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Vol XL, Part 2 (2002)

Hyman, Louis, The Jews of Ireland, From the Earliest Times to the year 1910 (Jewish Historical Society of England and Israel Universities Press, 1972

Krausz, A, Sheffield Jewry: Commentary on a Community (Bar-Ilan University, 1980)

Krausz, E, Leeds Jewry: Its History and Social Structure (Jewish Historical Society of England, 1964)

Levine, H, The Norwich Hebrew Community 1840-1960: A Short History (privately published, 1961)

Olsover, L, The Jewish Communities of North-East England 1755-1980 (Ashley Mark Publishing, 1980)

Pearce, K and Fry, H, The Lost Jews of Cornwall: From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (Redcliffe Press, 2000)

Rau, Diana and Rau, Anthony, 1891 Census: Index of Heads of Family from the 1891 Census Project of Spitalfields (University of Leicester and JHSE, 1994)

Samuel, J, Jews in Bristol: The History of the Jewish Community in Bristol from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Redcliffe Press, 1997)

Torode, B, The Hebrew Community of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud (privately published, 1999)

Weinberg, A, Portsmouth Jewry (Portsmouth City Council, 1985)

Williams, B, The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875 (Manchester University Press, 1985)


Biographical sources

Jolles, M, A Directory of Distinguished British Jews 1830-1930 (Jolles Publications 2001)

Jolles, M, Samuel Isaac, Saul Isaac and Nathaniel Isaacs (Jolles Publications, 1998)

Shemot (quarterly journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain)
 

CD resources

Archive CD Books Project: Post Office Directory London 1851

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Family History Resource Files: 1851 British Census (Devon, Norfolk and Warwick)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: Family History Resource Files: 1881 British Census and National Index

S&N British Data Archive Ltd: The London 1851 Census

Tobias, A, Bristol Archives
 

DATABASE RESOURCES

The following data collections are relevant to the study and are now available on line

www.british-Jewry.org.uk

  • Borough Synagogue records: (list of names abstracted from Rosenbaum, M. 'The History of Borough Synagogue')

  • Canterbury Jewish Cemetery Gravestones: 1772-1900

  • Dover, Deal, Canterbury and Ramsgate:  births  - 1830-50; marriages - 1831-54; deaths 1831-51

  • Great Synagogue:  births 1791-1809; marriages 1791-1859; burials 1791-1823

  • Hambro Synagogue: marriages 1797-1837

  • Hoxton Cemetery Burials

  • New Synagogue:  births 1771-1884;  marriages 1837-42

www.jewishgen.org/databases/UK/

      Births, Deaths and Marriages

  • Bristol marriages: 1834-1990

  • Cleveland burials: 1885-2001

  • Coventry marriages: 1873-1981

  • Exeter marriages: 1838-1907

  • Grimsby marriages: 1875--1939

  • Hartlepool burials: 1876-2001

  • Hull: marriages 1848-1970;  burials 1863-1974

  • Leeds: marriages 1855-1973; burials

  • Newcastle burials 1859-1990

  • Portsmouth marriages 1840-1981

  • Sheffield burials 1800-1896

  • Sunderland: marriages 1837-1985; burials 1874-2002

    London

  • Bevis Marks Synagogue marriages 1836-1901

  • Bevis Marks Novo (New) Cemetery 1733-1918

  • Edmonton Cemetery burials 1927-1955

  • Hambro Synagogue marriages 1797-1837

  • Birth Registers West London Synagogue: 1842-1905

  • West London Synagogue: marriages 1842-1981; burials 1842-2006      

    Ireland

  • Ballyborough Cemetery 1828-1956

      Census Records

  • Exeter, Torquay and Devenport: 1841,1851,1861

  • Falmouth & Penzance: 1851

  • Leeds:1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891 &1901

  • Plymouth: 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881 & 1891

  • Manchester: 1871

  • Spitalfields: 1861

  • Stroud: 1881 &1901

www.jewishgen.org

  • Census Wales: 1851 & 1891

  • Merthyr Tydfil Cemetery 1850-1998


Online Sources

www.ancestry.co.uk

www.british-jewry.org.uk 

www.cemeteryscribes.com

www.freebmd.org.uk

www.hebcal.com/converter (Hebrew date converter)

www.jeffreymaynard.com

www.jewishgen.org

www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk  

www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/susser/

www.oxforddnb.com (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp

www.synagoguescribes.com

 


    
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