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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: ENG-10867
Cemetery Name: Urmston Jewish Cemetery
Section: Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue - Section 3
Cemetery Location
Country: England
City: Manchester
Street: Chapel Grove
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 128
Number of Photographs: 128
Cemetery Description:

Urmston Jewish Cemetery, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue - Section 3, Chapel Grove, Manchester, England. 128 burials total.

Earliest burial in about 1878. Acquired by the (North) Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation and shared from 1891 with the Manchester New Synagogue, with a separate Whitefield Synagogue Section from 1959. Manchester Burial Society of Polish Jews Ltd., later Manchester Jewish Burial Society Ltd was formed in 1877, the society (a registered limited company) offered burial rights to shareholders whatever their synagogal allegiance. It was founded and controlled by immigrants and in effect served chevroth without burial grounds of their own.

It appears to have used Urmston Cemetery

Cemetery map.

Overview of cemetery.

Plaque.

Data last updated: 07/06/2023

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