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Page created: 15 March 2004
Latest revision or update: 10 August 2017
The Town of Stockton-on-Tees
The borough of Stockton-on-Tees, in the North East of
England, has a population of about 175,000 and, since 1996, has been unitary
authority. Prior to then, Stockton-on-Tees was a district of the now
defunct metropolitan county of Cleveland, which had been formed in 1974. After
the abolition of Cleveland in 1996, part of the borough of Stockton-on-Tees
(including the core of the town itself and other areas that had been part of
County Durham until 1974) was placed for ceremonial purposes in County Durham,
although the area to the east of the river Tees, that had been part of the North
Riding of Yorkshire, was placed for ceremonial purposes in North Yorkshire.
From 1968 to 1974, Stockton-on-Tees was part of the county borough of Teeside,
which had merged the municipal borough of Stockton-on-Tees (with different
boundaries from the present borough) with the county borough of Middlesbrough. The world's first railway line, opened in 1825,
ran from Stockton to Darlington.
Stockton-on-Tees Jewish Community
Jews began to
settle in Stockton-on-Tees in the 1860s and Jewish
community activity dates from the 1870s. A cemetery was opened in 1884
and the Stockton-on-Tees Synagogue (the only organised Jewish congregation known
to have existed in the town) was built in 1906. There were never more than about 35 Jewish
families in the Stockton. Numbers began to decline following World War II and the synagogue
was closed in 1971.
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Congregation Data |
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Name: |
Stockton-on-Tees Synagogue |
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Address: |
The Synagogue, Hartington Road,
Stockton-on-Tees, from 1906 (consecrated by the Chief Rabbi in October
1906).
Previously services were held from 1884 in a room at the
Crow's Nest, a tavern in Skinner Street, Stockton-on-Tee, and prior
thereto, in private homes. |
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Date Formed: |
An organised community appears to have existed
from the 1870s, although it was not until 1884 that the congregation
acquire its first synagogue (a room in a tavern in Skinner Street). |
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Current Status: |
Closed - 1971 (amalgamated with
Middlesbrough
Hebrew Congregation, some four miles away) Synagogue building sold in
1972 to Church of the Nazarene. |
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Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
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Congregation Numbers: |
1884 - 15 seatholders (Board of
Deputies Returns)
1890 - 15 seatholders (Board of
Deputies Returns)
1900 - 14 seatholders (Board of
Deputies Returns) |
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Articles and Other Online Material
on the Stockton-on-Tees Jewish Community
on JCR-UK
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Other Stockton Jewish Institutions & Organisations
(that had been formed by 1900*)
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Educational & Theological
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Other Institutions & Organisations
(that
had been formed by 1900)
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* As listed in the Jewish Year
Books 1896 & 1900. |
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Stockton-on-Tees Jewish Cemetery Information
The Cemetery is the Jewish section of the Stockton Old Municipal
Cemetery, Oxbridge Lane, Stockton TS18. The earliest burial dates from
1885. It contains some 70 graves.
Burial records of the cemetery are in the All-UK Database and JOWBR
(see above).
(For additional information, see
IAJGS Cemetery Project - Stockton-on-Tees) |
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Stockton-on-Tees Jewish Population Data
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1874 |
First Jewish settlement |
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1895 |
about 100 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1896/7) |
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1934 |
100 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
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1946 |
60 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1947) |
Jewish Congregations in County
Durham
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