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Page created: 2002
Latest revision or update: 4 October 2021
Town of Grimsby
Grimsby, also known as Great Grimsby, is a seaport of about
90,000 inhabitants located on the southern bank of the Humber estuary in
eastern England. Until 1974, Grimsby was a county borough in the administrative
county of Lindsey, one of the three Parts into which Lincolnshire was divided.
From 1974, it formed the greater part of the Borough of Great Grimsby, a
district of the now defunct administrative county of Humberside. On the abolition of Humberside in 1996,
Great Grimsby was merged with the adjoining borough of Cleethorpes to form North
East Lincolnshire, a unitary authority, treated for ceremonial purposes as part
of the county of Lincolnshire.
Grimsby
Jewish Community
Although there
had been a Medieval Jewish presence in Grimsby, the Jews were not to return until the 1860's,
when the situation in Eastern Europe coupled with the deep water port facilities and railway connections made Grimsby an attractive place to travel through. The Great Central Railway Company offered cheap package deals from Riga, Libau, Hamburg and Rotterdam to America via Grimsby (railway to Liverpool and Steamer to USA). At the height of the Exodus from Eastern Europe Grimsby saw some 5,000 immigrants a year (approximately 100,000 in total). The Grimsby population swelled from 8,860 in 1851 to 40,000 in 1880, a handful of these immigrants who put down roots were Jewish. The Jewish population is recorded as being 87 in 1871, rising to 450
in the early twentieth century and then gradually declining to 120 in 1982 and dwindling
still further thereafter. (John Berman)
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Jewish Congregations
The following are the Jewish congregations that exist or existed in Grimsby in
modern times:
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Grimsby Hebrew Congregation (also known
as the
Sir Moses Montefiore Memorial Synagogue) - the principal Jewish
congregation in the town. (As it is impossible to
differentiate between the purely congregational
information and general communal information, this
page incorporates both.)
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Grimsby Beth Hamedrash,
which was in existence from the 1890's and closed
during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Grimsby Hebrew Congregation Data
The Sir Moses Montefiore Memorial Synagogue, Grimsby
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Grimsby Hebrew Congregation Data |
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Official Name: |
Sir Moses Montefiore
Memorial Synagogue
also known as Grimsby Hebrew
Congregation
(previously known as Great Grimsby Hebrew Congregation) |
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Address: |
Holme
Hill, Heneage Road, Grimsby DN32 9DZ, Lincolnshire
(Foundation stone laid July 1885;
Synagogue consecrated 11 December 1889)
The Synagogue is a Grade II Listed Building (number 1379853), designated on 30 June 1999.
(View description
on Historic England website.)
The congregation's mikvah is also a Grade II Listed Building (number 1379854), designated on 30 June 1999.
(View description
on Historic England website.)
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Former Address: |
A cottage in Strand Street, Grimsby,
Lincolnshire |
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Date Founded: |
Congregation founded 1865. |
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Current Status: |
Active |
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Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
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Marriage Certification: |
Group for Certification: Board of Deputies
Appears in 1998 General Registrar Official List
Worship Number: 31166
Registration District: Lincolnshire |
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Congregation Numbers: |
1874 - 18 seatholders (Board of Deputies Return)
1880 - 20 seatholders (Board of Deputies Return)
1890 - 35 seatholders (Board of Deputies Return) 1895/8 - 60 seatholders (The Jewish Year Books 1896/99) 1900 - 80 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1900/01
and Board of Deputies Return) 1909 - 95 seatholders (The Jewish Year Book 1935) 1999 - 29 (as reported by Board of Deputies) |
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GRIMSBY JEWISH CEMETERIES
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JCR-UK
HOSTED DATABASE
Search the
Grimsby Jewish Cemetery Database,
including burial records and photographs of the headstones,
as well as a
description of the cemetery
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Basic Cemetery Information
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Grimsby Jewish Cemetery, First Avenue, Nunsthorpe, Grimsby, consecrated in March 1896,
and subsequently extended. See above
database. The site was bombed by the Germans in World War II.
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Grimsby Old Jewish Cemetery, Doughty
Road, Grimsby, opened in 1854 and closed following World War I. In 1959, it
was converted to a recreational park, the remaining
headstones being lifted and buried under turf.
(For
some additional information, also see
IAJGS Cemetery Project - Grimsby)
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View Congregation Records
Marriage Records -
Records of Grimsby Hebrew Congregation marriages from 1875 to 1921
(109 records).
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On-line Communal
Documents, Articles
and Other Material
relating to the Grimsby Jewish Community
Communal Documents
on JCR-UK
Articles and Other Material
on JCR-UK
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Other Grimsby Jewish Institutions & Organisations
(that had been formed by
1900*)
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Educational & Theological
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Other Institutions & Organisations
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Grimsby Jewsh Philanthropic Society
(founded 1900) for grant loans of money to necessitous
resident Jewish poor.
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Jewish Literary Society (founded by 1900) for the study of Jewish
Literature and Ancient Classics.
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* As listed in the Jewish Year
Books 1896 & 1900 (none mentioned in Jewish Directory of 1874). |
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Grimsby Jewish Population Data
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1871 |
87 |
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1896 |
149 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1896/7) |
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1898 |
320 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1998/9) |
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1900 |
450 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1900/1) |
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1909 |
450 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1910) |
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1934 |
400 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
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1944 |
400 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1945) |
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1955 |
400 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1956) |
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1965 |
210 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1966) |
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1982 |
120 |
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1990 |
90 |
(The Jewish Year Book
1991) |
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2004 |
35 |
(The Jewish Year Book
2005) |
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Records |
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Synagogue Records in
Local Archives: |
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Jewish Congregations in
Lincolnshire
Jewish Communities of England home page
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