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Top of this pageBevis MarksThe Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London has published several volumes of its records: they can be found in libraries such as the Cambridge University Library or the London Metropolitan Archive or they may be purchased from the Archivist. This page outlines the contents of each volume; background information is available on the Bevis Marks web-site. Some are now also available as part of JewishGen's UK databases.
Bevis Marks Synagogue
I have transcribed some of the Melhado records to help trace my family. In the early records, there is mention of one Ishac LOPES MELHADO, a 'bachelor member of the congregation' in around 1684. His children are the only Melhados in the early births.
| Vol. 1: |
Bevis Marks records: being contributions to the history of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London: illustrated by facsimiles of documents edited by Lionel D. Barnett I. The early history of the Congregation from the beginning until 1800 |
Published: | Board of Elders of the Congregation; Oxford: printed at the University Press, 1940-1949
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| Vol. 2: |
Bevis Marks records: being contributions to the history of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London: illustrated by facsimiles of documents edited by Lionel D. Barnett II. Abstracts of the Ketubot or marriage-contracts of the Congregation from earliest times until 1837 |
Published: | Board of Elders of the Congregation; Oxford: printed at the University Press, 1940-1949
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| Vol. 3 |
Abstracts of the Ketubot or marriage-contracts and of the civil marriage registers of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation for the period 1837-1901 with an introduction and index by G.H. Whitehill |
| Published: | London: Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation and the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1973
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| Vol. 4 |
The circumcision register of Isaac and Abraham de Paiba (1715-1775): from the manuscript record preserved in the Archives of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London named Sahar Asamaim transcribed, translated and edited by the late R.D. Barnett, with the assistance of Alan Rose, I.D. Duque and others; together with a supplement including a record of circumcisions 1679-99, marriages 1679-89 and some female births 1679-99 compiled by Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira |
| Published: | London: Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1991
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| Vol. 5 |
The birth register (1767-1881) of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London: together with the circumcision registers of Elias Lindo (1767-1785), David Abarbanel Lindo (1803-1820), Solomon Almosnino (1815-1827), David Bueno de Mesquita (1855-1869): transcribed and edited from the manuscript records preserved in the Archives of the Congregation, by permission of the Gentlemen of the Mahamad, and including the Jewish births (1707-1763) in the 18th-century Register Books of the College of Arms transcribed and edited from the manuscript records of the College of Arms, by permission of the Chapter by Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira and Chloe Loewe |
| Published: | London: Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, 1993
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| Vol. 6 |
The burial register (1733-1918) of the Novo (New) Cemetery of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London (with some later entries): transcribed and edited from the manuscript records preserved in the Archives of the Congregation, by permission of the Gentlemen of the Mahamad by Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira and Chloe Loewe; with assistance from Raphael Lowe and David Nunes Vaz |
| Published: | London: Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, 1988 ISBN 0950108626. £35 |
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