Bath Jewish Burial Ground, Somerset, 1. England, UK

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Notes: Extract from JTrails with the kind permission of, and copyright to Marcus Roberts:


The Bath Jewish Cemetery was founded in 1815 and its title deed dates from 1820.

Within its walls lie the Jewish people of old Bath. What is unusual is that there are no memorials to Jewish mayors or councilors, or folk with other distinctions or celebrity. The inhabitants of the cemetery are as low-key in death, as they were largely in life, and this gives as good an idea of the quiet ambiance of Jewish life in the city as any.

Within there are about 50 tombstones, contained in several rows of stones; the majority are uprights, but there are five chest and horizontal tombs. Many of the tombstones have bi-lingual inscriptions, though a number are only in Hebrew. The overall styles of the stones reflect local Christian styles and indeed local (Christian) monumental mason have placed their company name on the margin of some of the stones. Twenty-nine of the tombstones date from before 1901.

For more information see: http://www.jtrails.org.uk/trails/bath and also http://www.bathjewishcemetery.org.uk/

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Thumb	Description	Status		Name (Died/Buried)
	Aaron, Kate (nee Reuben) Ref: KB13_11	Located		REUBEN Kate (d. 09 Oct 1901)
	Abrahams, Morris Ref: KB13_34	Located		ABRAHAMS Morris (d. 27 Jul 1877)
	Aharon b Moshe Ref: KB13_49	Located		Aharon b Moshe (d. 12 Jan 1826)
	Barnett, Barnet Ref: KB13_13	Located		BARNETT Barnet (d. 14 Apr 1901)
	Braham, George Isaac Ref: KB13_36	Located		BRAHAM George Isaac (d. 21 Dec 1865)
	Brooks, Leah (married name) Ref: KB13_26	Located		Leah (d. 30 Aug 1883)
	Fishel, Myer (right hand tombstone)and Jesse (married name) Ref: KB13_42	Located		Jesse (d. 13 Jan 1870) FISHEL Myer (d. 05 Oct 1861)
	Jacobs, Hannah (married name) Ref: KB13_24	Located		Hannah (d. 12 Mar 1899)
	Jacobs, Harriet Ref: KB13_35	Located		JACOBS Harriet (d. 22 Dec 1885)
	Jacobs, Julia Ref: KB13_32	Located		JACOBS Julia (d. 13 Jan 1897)
	Jacobs, Rachel Ref: KB13_33	Located		JACOBS Rachel (d. 15 Jan 1888)
	Jacobs, Rev. Nathan Ref: KB13_24	Located		JACOBS Nathan [Nathan ben H?H Aharon] (d. 12 May 1890)
	Jacobs, Samuel (the tombstone to the right is said to be Phoebe's his wife) Ref: KB13_45	Located		JACOBS Samuel [Samuel b Samuel] (d. 04 Feb 1866)
	Jacobson, Joseph Ref: KB13_41	Located		JACOBSON Joseph (d. 11 Feb 1920)
	Keseff, Solomon Ref: KB13_44	Located		KESEFF Solomon [Shalom b Shimuel] (d. 08 Sep 1921)
	Leon, Abraham Ref: KB13_19	Located		LEON Abraham [Abraham b Joseph HaLevi SGL] (d. 23 Jan 1897)
	Leon, Henriette (married name) Ref: KB13_22	Located		Henriette (d. 22 Sep 1894)
	Leon, Herentz Ref: KB13_31	Located		LEON Herentz [Yehuda? b Abraham] (d. 10 Dec 1884)
	Michael, Maria (married name) Ref: KB13_30	Located		Maria [Miriam b Mordecai] (d. 05 Oct 1878)
	Rees, Abraham Ref: KB13_40	Located		REES? Abraham [Abraham b David] (d. 17 Jan 1845)
	Rees, Daniel Ref: KB13_40	Located		REES Daniel (d. 21 Jan 1842)
	Samuel, Matilda Ref: KB13_38	Located		SAMUEL Matilda (d. 08 Jan 1867)
	Sigmond, Joseph Ref: KB13_53	Located		SIGMOND Joseph (d. 24 Oct 1832)
	Simmons, Elizabeth Ref: KB13_39b	Located		SIMMONS Elizabeth
	Sloman, Eveline (nee Levi) Ref: KB13_14	Located		LEVI Eveline (d. 01 Apr 1896)
	Somers, Hyman Ref: KB13_25	Located		SOMERS Hyman (d. 1883)