German SIG #Germany Ramsgate (UK) Jewish Cemetery records published #germany
I should like to draw to your attention that the records of the Ramsgate
Jewish Cemetery have now been published in book form. Ramsgate is in Kent, southeast of London, UK. The significance of Ramsgate is that it was an old-Jewish community boosted by the fact that Sir Moses Montefiore had his country residence there, East Cliff Lodge, and went on to build his own Synagogue and besides the Synagogue, a Mausoleum where he and his wife, Judith, are buried and after his wife’s death, in her memory he established the Lady Judith Montefiore College for training Sephardic Ministers and also to provide a Minyan for the Synagogue. The Synagogue and Mausoleum are still there. If you google Montefiore Ramsgate etc, plenty of links will appear. The book's authors are Benedict Kelly and Gerald Tripp, two local Ramsgate historians, who have compiled an amazing account which will be of great interest to anyone whose ancestors are buried there or who is a descendant of one of the officiating Ministers or who is just interested in the history of Ramsgate. Some of those buried originated from other European countries.The title of the book is "Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery 1872 - 2016". The book includes a brief history of the Cemetery, where the first burial took place in 1872, a verbatim transcription of the Cemetery register, a list of memorial inscriptions taken >from legible gravestones and some obituaries and death notices of those interred from contemporaneous newspapers.The book consists of 76 pages. is in A4 format and costs 10 GBP. It can be purchased >from http://www.eastcliff.co.uk/Books.htm. Further queries should be sent to enquiries@.... The book has been self-published by the authors and I have no financial interest in its production. Diana Helen Gomes da Costa Mohr in the UK JewishGen ID 166938 |
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