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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 7/9/2025 1:41 PM
Family Surname: Gold
Country: England
Town: Liverpool
Date of Image: 2022

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This is a headstone from Rice Lane Jewish Cemetery (est.1896), Liverpool, UK.
I need help with the Hebrew translation please.
The English reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
MINNY GOLD,
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
MICHAEL GOLD,
WHO DIED 27TH FEBRUARY 1899,
AGED 17 YEARS.
DEEPLY MOURNED BY HER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS,
MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE.

Response

7/9/2025 2:17 PM

(Here lies the maiden Malka the daughter of Michael (slight typo in the father's given name), passed away on 18 Adar, 5659 at the age of 17.
May her soul be bound in the bond of life.

7/9/2025 2:48 PM

Here lies

the “Betulah” MALKA daughter of

Reb Michael. She passed away 18 days

into the month of Adar of the year 5659

at the age of 17 years.

[at the bottom]: May her soul be bound in the bond of life.
========================================================

Her name is preceded by the word “Betulah”. This is a term used to describe a young woman above the age of Bat Mitzvah but not yet married.

Malka is the Hebrew word for queen.

‘Reb’ is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

The Hebrew name Michael is pronounced mee-CHAH-el, with the Ch as in Chanukah or Bach.

The 18th of Adar, 5659, began at sunset on February 27, 1899, and ended at sunset on the 28th. The secular date on the stone is the 27th, which would indicate that she passed away between sunset and midnight of that date.

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