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For information on the smal, now defunct, Jewish Community of Inverness, see Inverness on JCR-UK.


CEMETERY:

Opened 1906; (SJAC) Source: Scottish Jewish Archive Center list of burials, 127 Hill St. Glasgow G36UB United Kingdom supplied by Harvey L. Kaplan, MA, 1/L 11 Millwood St. Glasgow, G41 3JY rvlkaplan@googlemail.com

"The Jewish community in Inverness have just completed an arrangement with the Town Council, by which they have acquired a piece of ground to be utilised as a cemetery. The ground is in the town cemetery. The need of a Jewish cemetery has been felt for a number of years, as former interments always took place in Glasgow over two hundred miles distant. A recent death  - that of a young lad of fourteen years who had only just arrived from his home in Russia  - determined the congregation to take this step. His body was the first buried in the new ground." [Jewish Chronicle, 12 January 1906, page 45. Source: Harold Pollins]

There are about 23 graves dating from 1906 until 1997, the records of 20 of which are searchable through the JOWBR Database on JewishGen.

Scottish Jewish Cemeteries website (http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org), researched and maintained by Derek Tobias, includes a searchable database in respect of "over 20 burials" at this cemetery.  [September 2016]

 

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