City 1695

LONDON JEWS IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE 17TH CENTURY

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THE LONDON JEWS IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE 17TH CENTURY DATABASE

Compiled from names appearing in two online databases with additional material from Arthur Arnold's Abstracts published in the Transactions of The Jewish Historical Society.

Since Biblical forenames were common during this time and, since there was a surprising number of persons with 'foreign-sounding' family names, it has not always been easy to distinguish Jews from other citizens. Apart from those instances where the word "Jew" is specified, or where the families are documented in other Jewish sources, the choice of whom to include has been personal and arbitrary and embraces the following criteria:

· If the name also appears in Arnold (see below), even if is not one I would have picked.

· If it looks "possible" and the address is St. James, Dukes Place or St. Catherine Cree.

There will be omissions and incorrect inclusions: you have only to look at FSP 139 to appreciate the problem!

The database consists of five sheets. Each entry has been allocated a unique reference:

COL*. Names taken from Source 1

COLS* Names taken from Source 1 Supplements 1 & 2

COLAA* Names which appear in Source 3 but not in Source 1,

including a section entitled "CITY WITHOUT THE WALLS"

FSP* Names taken from Source 2

INDEX An index of names only + reference from all the sheets

SOURCES

1 BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE: London Inhabitants within the Walls 1695 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=31

"An index to the names of individuals enumerated in the City (within the Walls) in connection with the 1694 Act (6 & 7 Wm. & M., c. 6)...........

The official purpose of the 1694 Act was to provide revenue, for carrying on the war against France, by levying taxes upon burials, births and marriages and annual dues upon bachelors over 25 years of age and upon childless widowers. The Act came into force as from 1 May 1695, initially for a five- year period, but was later extended until 1 August 1706 (by 8 & 9 Wm. III, c. 20)."

2 BRITISH HISTORY ONLINE: Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4; The City of London, the City of Westminster, and Metropolitan Middlesex http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=26

"Four Shillings in the Pound Aid: a tax raised by parliament to fund King William's involvement in European war. The surviving assessments cover the city of London, the city of Westminster and a large area of both urban and rural Middlesex. No assessments survive for areas south of the River Thames."

3 JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND Miscellany No. V1 1962: A LIST OF JEWS AND THEIR HOUSEHOLDS IN LONDON

Extracted from the Census Lists of 1695 by Arthur P. Arnold M.A

(Note: this publication is apparently not available for purchase but can be found in various Genealogical and Academic Libraries. I imagine Mr.Arnold would have made his abstracts from the original ledgers rather than microfilm)

4 HYAMSON FICHES: THE LONDON MAGAZINE 1732 - 1785 Jewish Births, Marriages and Deaths

Click on the map above to see an enlarged version of the ward map of the area.

Click here to download the database in excel.

17TH CENTURY JEWISH BURIALS DATABASE

This is another excel file containing 101 burials taken from three different sources and compiled by Jeremy Frankel. Click here to download.