Cemetery Scribes blog .com

Recording tombstones in Jewish cemeteries throughout the UK for CemeteryScribes.com

Main menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Cemeteries & history
    • UK Cemeteries
      • UK Cemeteries
        • Bath
        • Brynmawr
        • Cardiff
        • Chatham
        • Cornwall
        • Gloucester
        • Jersey
        • London – Alderney
        • London – Balls Pond
        • London – Bancroft Rd
        • London – Brady street
        • London – East Ham
        • London – Hoxton
        • London – Mile End
        • London – Streatham
        • london – Willesden
        • Merthyr Tydfil
        • Northampton
        • Norwich
        • Ramsgate
        • Wolverhampton
        • York
      • People & stories
      • Names
    • Rest of the world
      • Belarus
      • Belgium
      • Czech Republic
      • Denmark
      • Italy
      • Jamaica
      • Morocco
      • Portugal
      • Singapore
      • USA
  • Cemetery Scribes
    • Search Cemertery Scribes
    • What’s new
    • Tombstone Symbols
      • Cohen Hands
      • Levy, Levy- Pitcher & water
      • Fish
      • Meaning behind tombstone symbols
  • Synagogue Scribes
    • Search Synagogue Records
    • Search Secular Records
    • Site info
    • What’s New!
    • Synagogues
      • UK
        • Cefn Coed Y Cymmer, Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue
      • Other countries
        • Barcelona Ancient Synagogue and quarter
        • Charleston Synagogue
        • Croatia – Splitt Syngogue
        • Fez (Fes), Morocco Aben (or Ibn) Danan Synagogue
        • Venice – Jewish Ghetto and Synagogues
  • War Memorials
    • Search War Memorials
    • Roll of Honour – East Ham Cemetery
    • Roll of Honour – Liverpool
    • Roll of Honour – Merthyr Tydfil
    • Roll of Honour- Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation London
    • Roll of Honour – Waltham Abbey
    • Roll of Honour – Waltham Abbey
    • Unknown Jewish Soldier memorial 1914 – 1918
    • War Graves – Plashet Cemetery
    • War Graves – West Ham Cemetery
    • War Graves – East Ham Cemetery
    • War Graves – Rainham
    • War Graves – Waltham Abbey
    • War Graves – Willesden Cemetery
  • Sephardic Cemeteries
    • Nuevo (Novo) Virtual cemetery
    • List of Nuevo,Mile End Burials 1733 – 1875
    • Saving the past – Novo Nuevo Sephardic Cemetery, Mile End
    • Bevis Marks Synagogue alien list 1803
  • Contact Us
Other, People, personalities & stories

Louisa Elliot nee Salomons 1778 -1811 (The Goldsmid, Prager and Elliot relationships)

by ADMIN

We are delighted to publish the following article written by Dr Phillip Kirby . My interest in the Goldsmid, Prager Salomons families began when a researcher asked for help in identifying whether or not they were related to Jewish lines.…

Read more →

Other

Newport Synagogue & Cemeteries Open Day 22nd Sept 2019

by ADMIN

We were recently contacted by Nicola Tucker, an art historian and artist with a passion for historic buildings. Nicola alerted us to the Newport Synagogue and Cemeteries Open Day being held on 22nd September 2019 and provided the following information:…

Read more →

Denmark, Other

Do branches of your family tree lead you to Denmark?

by ADMIN

Then you should pay a visit to the site “Danish-Jewish Funerals and Tombstones up to 1866” at http://tom.brondsted.dk/mosaiskebegravelser/?lang=en available in both English and Danish. The site covers all known Danish-Jewish funerals from the earliest ones in the late 17th century…

Read more →

Other, People, personalities & stories

Levy Mandelson of the Tumut

by ADMIN

Levy Mandelson of the Tumut by Mark Howard. Levy Mandelson (1833-1891) died in London in the 1890s and was buried in the Willesden Jewish Cemetary.  The inscription on his headstone says he was, “formerly of Tumut and Sydney, Australia, [and]…

Read more →

Other, People, personalities & stories

Samuel Meldola’s Prayer book

by ADMIN

The Prayer book belonging to Samuel MELDOLA is currently being sold on an auction site, see here. The prayer book was printed in Leghorn / Livorno, Italy around 1820 when Samuel was a young child, one of the two signatures…

Read more →

People, personalities & stories

Lemon Hart of Penzance

by ADMIN

A new publication ‘Lemon Hart of Penzance’ by Keith Pearce has just been published. Lemon Hart (1768 – 1845) is the most well-known of the many Jews who lived in Cornwall in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and he…

Read more →

Page 2 of 24
« 1 2 3 4 … 24 »

Search this site

RSS Latest Additions to Cemetery Scribes

  • Family: LEVY Isaac [Isaac b Naphtali] / Sarah January 7, 2021
  • Individual: LEVY Hannah (I18019) January 7, 2021
    b.
  • Individual: LEVY Charles [Solomon b Isaac] (I18018) January 7, 2021
    b. 1808,
  • Individual: Sarah (I13113) January 7, 2021
    b. 1784,
  • Individual: LEVY Isaac [Isaac b Naphtali] (I13112) January 7, 2021
    b.
Cemetery Scribes

Categories

Recent Posts

  • CemeteryScribes on Flickr
  • Lottery Funding for Falmouth Jewish Cemetery
  • Bath Jewish Burial Ground -Open day 20 Sept 2020
  • Lost but not forgotten
  • Seeking Neville & Nathan Families

Archives

Contact

  • Contact Us

Links

  • CemeteryScribes
  • SynagogueScribes

Tags

Acrostic Alderney australia Ayres Quay Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery birth records brady street cemetery brompton Burial records cemeteries cemetery Chatham Cohen convicts Davis Fund raiser genealogy genpals cemetery project Harris Hart headstone house of life inscription Isaacs Jacobs Jewish Jewish law Johnasson Levy marriage Marriage records medieval montefiore Nathan Non UK cemeteries personalities & stories restoration Solomon Streatham Jewish Cemetery Tombstone Symbols transportation war memorials Willesden Jewish Cemetery wills workhouse

Admin

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2021 Cemetery Scribes blog .com. All Rights Reserved. The Magazine Basic Theme by bavotasan.com.

By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.