The following is an extract of a letter to the Jewish Chronicle (17 Aug 2018), detailing the state of Wolverhampton cemetery and the plans and hopes of The Council of Birmingham and West Midlands Jewry to clean and restore it.…
Mrs Estella Meldola’s prayer book 1805
The Prayer book belonging to Mrs Estella Meldola is currently being sold on an auction site, see here. With the kind permission of the seller we are adding photos here showing the signature and address of Mrs Meldola. Estella and…
Harry, Henry or Hartog Gompel De Groot
We have Harry G De Groot who died in 1872 and was buried at West Ham Jewish cemetery, on CemeteryScribes and until very recently had been unable to find anything more about him. He did not seem to appear in…
New records on the way – SynagogueScribes.com
Good News – new records on the way
NORWICH JEW’S BURIAL GROUND- MEMORIALS
(With the kind permission of Philip Kirby, from his posts on Jewish Roots British-Genealogy.com) I am posting a summary of the names and inscriptions of the Jews buried in the ‘Jew’s Closed Burial Ground Quaker’s Lane St Martin at Oak…
Streatham Jewish Cemetery also called Rowan Road Cemetery
We are currently adding photos from Streatham Jewish Cemetery. These are being added in an ‘uncut’ format meaning that we have not, as yet, researched the individuals and added them to our main database. As there has been a great…