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Latest revision or update: 30 June 2014 
			
Penzance Jewish
Cemetery 
 Transcription of the Tombstones 
by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser 
December 1988 (a section of Rabbi Susser's "Jewish 
Tombstone Inscriptions in S. W. England") 
			
 
 
	
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		 Two general views of the cemetery  | 
	 
 
  
  
Godfrey Simmons, a descendant of the 
 
former minister at
Penzance 
 
				
				BACK ROW (A) reading from left to right 
				  
				1 ASHER, son of Hayim: Lemon Woolf, aged 65 years. 
				Died 11 Adar 5608 (February 1848) 
				  
				2 HENDELE, daughter of Issachar Jacob (Barnet Levy of
Falmouth)(F4) 
				Mrs Elra Joseph, widow of Abraham Joseph of Falmouth. 
				Died 22 November 1851, aged 82 years. 
				  
				3 ISRAEL LEVIN, son of Zvi 
				Died 3 April 1887, aged 58 years. 
				  
				4 YUTA, daughter of Israel: Julia, widow of Henry Levin. 
				Died 29 September 1879, aged 87 yeArs. 
				  
				5 ZVI, son of Yekutiel: Henry Levin, died 19 October 1877, aged 79
years. 
				  
				6 BEILA, daughter of Israel: Elizabeth Oppenheim. 
				d 14 July 1879, aged 81 years, widow of - 
				  
				7 SAMUEL, son of Nathan: Samuel Oppenheim. 
				Died 23 May 1869, agd 69 years. 
				  
				8 ABRAHAM ISSACHAR, son of Asher: B. A. Simmons 
				Died 4 Kislev 5621, aged 76 years (19 November 1860) 
				  
				9 SARAH, daughter of Israel, widow of Samuel Jacobs. 
				Died 2 May 5628, aged 84 years. (1868) 
				  
				10 HINDELEH, daughter of ayim: Hannah Selig. 
				Died 01 July 56077 aged 68 years. (1847) 
				  
  
The tombstones of Hannah and Aaron
Selig 
				
				11 AARON, son of Phineas: Aaron Selig. 
				Died 18 July 5601, aged 59 years. (1841) 
				  
				
				SECOND ROW (B) 
				  
				1 SAMUEL, son of Moses: Samuel Jacob 
				Died 30 November 5621, aged 83 years (1860) 
				  
				2 SAMUEL HILLMAN, son of Simeon Greenberg: Rev. H. Greenberg 
				Died 7 April 5621, aged 24 years. (1861) 
				  
				3 ISAAC, son of Ezeki(el): Solomon Ezekiel 
				Died 9 March 5627 (1867) 
				  
				(4 unidentified headstones) (2.05/6/7/9) 
				  
				
				THIRD ROW (C/D) 
				  
				Cl MIRELE, daughter of Moses: Amelia Jacob 
				Died 23 September 1864 aged 70 (or 79?) 
				  
				C2 HENNE, daughter of Moses: Hannah, wife of Solomon Ezekiel 
				Died 30 September 1864. aged 89 years. 
				  
				D1 ABRAHAM, son of Zvi: Abraham Joseph 
				Died 4 June 5599 aged 5 Years (1839) 
				  
				D2 SAMUEL, son of Zvi: Samuel Joseph, 
				Died 12 october 1844 aged 5 months. 
				  
				D3 SARAH, daughter of Zvi: Selina Joseph 
				Died 15 September 1872 aged 37 years. 
				  
				D4 JUDAH, son of Moses 
				Died 09 Elul 5584 (1824) 
				  
				
				FOURTH ROW (E) 
				  
				1 HANNAH, daughter of Alexander Moses, wife of Israel Levy: Hannah
the wife of Israel of Truro 
				Died 2 day of Pesach 5601 (1841) 
				  
				2 PESSIA, daughter of Abraham Issachar (B. A. Simmons) died 14
Heshvan 
				5593 (1832) 
				  
				3 JACOB, son of Solomon Levi: Jacob James Hart 
				Died London 19 February 5606 (1846) aged 62 years 
				  
				4 SOLOMON ZALMAN, son of Jacob Segal, 
				Died 10 Iyar 5583 (1823) 
				  
  
The parents of Lemon Woolf 
				
				5 "In memory of HYMAN and EDDLE WOOLF,
parents of LEMON WOOLF, Erected by the late Henry Harris of
Truro." 
				  
				6 EDEL, daughter of Asher died 02 Sivan 5607 (1847) 
				  
				7 DAVID, son of Zvi: David Levin died 31 October 1873, aged 40
years 
				  
				8 HAYIM, son of Zvi: Hyman Levin 
				Died 18 June 1844, aged 13 years 3 months. 
				  
				
				FIFTH ROW (F) 
				  
				JUDAH the son of Naphtali. 
				  
				1 PHINEAS, son of Menachem: Solomon Levy, native of Exeter 
				Died 20 August 1841 aged 56 years. 
				  
				2 ELIEZAR, son of Isaac died 14 Sivan 5604 (1844) 
				  
				3 MALKAH, daughter of David. Millie, daughter of David and
Helena 
				Bischofswerder 
				Died 31 July 1880 aged 11 weeks. 
				  
				4 SHEVYA, daughter af Issachar Jacob (Barnet Levy of Falmouth
A2): 
				Mrs Elias widow of Mr Hart Elias of Falmouth 
				Died 17 February 1850 aged 84 years 
				  
  
The tombstone of Henry Joseph 
				
				5 ZVI, son of Abraham. Henry Joseph of
this town, born at Falmouth on March 18, 1806. Died 20 December
1881. 
				  
				6 MIRELA, daughter of Jacob, wife of Zvi son of Abraham: Amelia,
wife of Henry Joseph, born at Falmouth on 18 March 1811. 
				Died 11 April 1891 aged 80 years 
				  
				7 RUTH, daughter of Joseph, son of Abraham Isaac, President of the
Plymouth congregation. 
				Died 13 Heshvan 5593. (1832). 
				  
				8 ISRAEL, son of Moses (child) 
				  
				
				SIXTH ROW (C) 
				  
				1 SOLOMON TEACHER, died 10 March 5616 (1856) 
				  
				2 CATHERINE LEVY, died 17 July 1864 
				  
				3 RACHEL, daughter of Mann, wido W of Isaac: Rachel, wife of Rev.
I Bischofswerder. 
				Died 10 March 1886, aged 55 years. 
				  
				4 SARAH ZILLAH, daughter of David: Sarah Cicilia, daughter of
David and Helena Bischofswerder. 
				Died 26 March 1891, aged 14 months. 
				  
				5 BELIA, daughter of Zvi: Bessie Joseph, born 1 December 1848. 
				Died 21 November 1900. 
				  
  
The tombstone of Julia
Bischofswerder 
				
				6 JULIA, wife of Morris
Bischhofswerder. Born 01 June 1851. 
				Died 20 April 1911. 
				  
				
				SEVENTH ROW (H) 
				  
				1 JOSEPH BARNET, died 7 April 5616 (1856) 
				  
				2 REV. ISAAC BISCHOFSWERDER, died 18 October 1899, aged 77
years. 
				  
  
				
				The last interment at Penzance: 
				Adolf Salzmann in 1964 
				
				3 ADOLF SALZMANN, died 22 February 1964 
				aged 65 years 
			 
			
			  
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