Births

GSB : GREAT SYNAGOGUE BIRTH RECORDS 1791 – 1795 & 1801 – 1813  (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire)

NSB : NEW SYNAGOGUE BIRTH RECORDS 1771 – 1864.  (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire)

SEJB : BIRTHS IN  DOVER, DEAL, CANTERBURY, RAMSGATE 1831 – 1870 held at the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton. (NB. Records reproduced in the SynagogueScribes database stop at circa 1850).

Circumcisions

BASIMMONS : CIRCUMSICIONS PERFORMED BY B. A. SIMONS. Hartley Library University of Southampton MS 217/12 Small Jewish collections – copies of documents relating to Penzance Hebrew Congregation. Copy of List of Circumcisions performed by B. A. Simmons made out in the back of a calf-bound book containing the order of service for birth. Photographs of the Simmons family are held by the Greater Manchester County Records Office.

BSAA : CIRCUMSICION REGISTER OF ASHER ASH From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

BSAOD : THE CIRCUMCISION REGISTER OF RABBI ASH OF DOVER 1765 – 1818 1765 – 1818.  From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

BSJBS : THE CIRCUMCISION REGISTER OF JOSHUA ben SOLOMON OF EDINBURGH 1832 – 1838. From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

BSJM : THE CIRCUMCISION REGISTER OF RABBI ASH OF DOVER, 1765 – 1818  Register of Circumcisions 1789 -1816 Jewish Museum MS268/269. From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

BSMS : CIRCUMCISION REGISTER OF MYER SOLOMONS From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

MOH : CIRCUMCISION A MOHEL’S REGISTER from 1794 – 1815 by Jacob Leveen University of Southampton Library Archives & MS: Ref MS 116/126 AJ312.

WSC : SOME CIRCUMCISION RECORDS PUBLISHED IN “THE WESTERN SYNAGOGUE THROUGH TWO CENTURIES (1761 – 1961)” by Arthur Barnett, published by Vallentine – Mitchell London 1961.

Marriages

BSNSK : THE DUPLICATE KETUBAH BOOK OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE, 1819-1832 From the transcripts made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

BSWSM : WESTERN SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGES 1806 – 1843.  Translated and  Transcribed by Dr. Bernard Susser.  The original registers belonged to the Western Marble Arch Synagogue. Copyright in Hyamson extracts including Hyamson’s notes belongs to Southampton University or to the Hyamson Estate. Copyright of Translation belongs to Bernard Susser. Reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive.

GSM: GREAT SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGE RECORDS 1791 – 1859 (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire). GREAT SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGE REGISTERS 1791 – 1850 Author: Angela Shire, Publisher Frank J Gent Crediton Devon, Published January 2001, ISBN 0 9508437 3 3.

GREAT SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGE REGISTERS 1751 – 1859 Additional material to the above. Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire.

HSM : HAMBRO SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGE RECORDS 1797 – 1837. (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire)

NSM : NEW SYNAGOGUE MARRIAGE RECORDS  1791 – 1823 & 1837 – 1842.  (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire)

SEJM : MARRIAGES IN DOVER, DEAL, CANTERBURY and RAMSGATE 1831 – 1870 held at the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton. (NB. Records reproduced in the SynagogueScribes database stop at circa 1850).

Deaths

SEJD : DEATHS IN DOVER, DEAL, CANTERBURY and RAMSGATE 1831 – 1870 held at the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton. (NB. Records reproduced in the SynagogueScribes database stop at circa 1850).

Burials

BSGSBUR : GREAT SYNAGOGUE BURIAL REGISTERS 1791-1823.  This Database was created by Angela Shire from records transcribed by the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser.  As always, we are grateful to Frank Gent and the Susser Archive for permitting the use of this material.

BSHAMBURHAMBRO BURIAL REGISTERS 1788 – 1814  transcribed by the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser and reproduced by kind permission of Frank Gent and the Susser Archive. Please note that although the transcript is complete, the original record itself may only be a partial coverage of the period. Additional notes and identifications by Angela Shire & Gaby Laws, co-owners of SynagogueScribes.com and CemeteryScribes.com.

DEL : CANTERBURY CEMETERY RECORDS Data abstracted from a survey made in 1973 by Dr. Nicholas De Lange and Julia Schwab (Neuberger).

DPL : GREAT SYNAGOGUE BURIAL REGISTERS  University of Southampton Library Two Registers of Burials at the German Jews Burying Ground Great Synagogue London 1776 – 1810 with interments at the New Cemetery Ducking Pond Lane Bethnal Green (Brady Street) from 1790 Archives & MS: Ref MS 116/107 AJ. (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire, SynagoogueScribes)

GSBUR : GREAT SYNAGOGUE BURIAL REGISTERS for the year 1832 (14 Jun – 30 Dec) Great Synagogue Burials  1791-1837. (Produced, published and copyright Angela Shire)

Note: Codes for records using transcriptions made by the late Dr. Bernard Susser are all preceded by the letters BS.

HAMBURHL : HAMBRO BURIAL RECORDS English only index of 1498 burials 1791 -1872 abstracted from LDS film no 94667. Complete transcriptions of the records up to 1837 can be seen in the printed book published by Harold and Miriam Lewin, who generously donated this English only index. Bruial Records of the Great & Hambro Synagogues – London 1791 – 1937 ISBN 978-965-91261-2-5.

Other Synagogue Records

GSEAB : GREAT SYNAGOGUE’s EARLY ACCOUNT BOOK These Hebrew names from the Great Synagogue’s Early Account Books form the “Appendix” to Cecil Roth’s list of Great Synagogue Members on pp.184-5 of Vol.VI of the Miscellanies of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Roth adds the heading “Names taken from the earliest Account Books, 1708 to c.1750”; while the last 36 names come under an extra heading “Additional Names after 1746?” – probably referring similarly to the years up to c.1750. Roth left the whole list unnumbered, and it is here transcribed in the order he gives it, with numbering added. See full introduction by Henry Roche Dec 2014

GSMEM : MEMBERSHIP LIST OF THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE derives from the two known existing transcriptions by Cecil Roth (publ.1962) and Albert M. Hyamson (Hyamson Collection, on microfiche). Roth’s list goes only to 1791, Hyamson’s continues into the 19th century. Both transcriptions clearly derive from the same Great Synagogue source books. This new transcription extends to 1817, is fully checked against both versions, and includes all additional notes that Roth and Hyamson appended to their lists. For abbreviations and many other details, see the full Introduction by Henry Roche Dec 2014.

MPS : MIDRASH PHINEAS SUBSCRIBERS This remarkable list of Midrash Phineas Subscribers does not appear to have been transcribed in full until now. The Midrash Phineas is a book of sermons by Phineas (or Pinchas) ben Samuel, published in London in 5595 (1794–5), printed entirely in Hebrew, with a list of more than 250 Subscribers’ names. The list’s great value lies not only in its early date and substantial length, but also in the presentation of the names in alphabetical order of first letter under the heading of each synagogue.
The numbering used has been created for the purpose of this transcription, with each number including the subscriber’s synagogue in abbreviated form (GS, NS etc.). See full introduction by Henry Roche Dec 2014.

PSEM : PORTSMOUTH SYNAGOGUE EARLY MEMBERSHIP LIST 1765 to 1843  Henry Roche Oct.2012