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Thanet Community

Created 1 August 2005
Last updated 9 August 2009

The District of Thanet

Thanet, a local government district of the county of Kent in southeast England, was formed in 1974 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Margate (population about 57,000) and Ramsgate (population about 38,000), together with adjoining areas.  Both Margate and Ramsgate are coastal resorts,  on the English Channel. Thanet covers an area known as the Isle of Thanet, which, although originally separated from the Kent mainland by the Wantsum Channel, is now practically joined to the mainland as a result of the build up of silt and shingle. 

The following Congregations are considered to be part of the Thanet Jewish Community:

Jewish Population Data

1898
1900
1905
1934
1946
1948
1949
1951
1965
1975
1880
1985
1990
Ramsgate   60 (The Jewish Year Book 1898/99)
Ramsgate 100 (The Jewish Year Book 1900/01)
Ramsgate 130 (The Jewish Year Book 1906)
Ramsgate 130 (The Jewish Year Book 1935)
Ramsgate   50; Margate  150 (The Jewish Year Book 1947)
Ramsgate   80; Margate  200 (The Jewish Year Book 1949)
Ramsgate   90; Margate  300 (The Jewish Year Book 1950)
Ramsgate 106; Margate  300 (The Jewish Year Book 1952)
Ramsgate   65; Margate  300; (The Jewish Year Book 1966)
Ramsgate   65; Margate  400; (The Jewish Year Book 1976)
Margate  350 (The Jewish Year Book 1981)
Margate  300 (The Jewish Year Book 1986)
Margate  200 (The Jewish Year Book 1991)

Articles on Communities in Thanet

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Ramsgate by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Cemetery Information (IAJGS site)

Margate

Ramsgate


Other Thanet Information

Jewish Property and Heritage & Places of Local Interest

Bibliography, Local Research Libraries and other sources


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