Grave 100
     

Jesse Fishel

1795  – 1870

Here lies
the woman 
Mrs Jessse daughter of Myer 
who died on the 12th day of Shevat 
in the year 630 small counting aged 74 years 
May her soul be bound up in the bond of life eternal

נפ
חרמ השאריאמ חב הישי
טבשב בי םויב הרטפנ
הנש דע חב קפל לרח חנש
הבצנח


SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JESSE FISHEL,
DIED JANUARY 13TH 1870,
AGED 74
MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE


Jesse (née Joseph) Fishel was born in London and married Myer Fishel, a watchmaker and jeweller, who is buried in the adjacent grave. 

The Fishel family arrived in Bath in the early 1830s. The 1833 Bath Street Directory lists Myer Fishel, Silversmith at 6 New Bond Street. 

Jesse is listed in the same directory as a ‘wardrobe dealer’. 

Their five children were all born in Bath.

After her husband died in 1861, Jesse ran an antiques business at 11 Union Passage (source: Bath City Directory 1864–1871). Jesse died at home in 1870 of cardiac disease. Her daughter Amelia was present at her death.

The Fishels’ children did not stay in Bath. Morris went to London where he initially lived with Samuel Joseph – perhaps his maternal uncle. He was baptised in 1852 and married Harriet Banks.

Elizabeth, Louis and Amelia went to the USA. Elizabeth married Joseph S Woolf and had four children in New Orleans. Louis died in New Orleans in 1916. Amelia is listed in the 1920 census living in New Orleans, where she died in 1922. There is no trace of Samuel.
It is possible that the family are related to Barnett Lichtenstein, Reader at the Bath Synagogue 1867-mid 1870s, who was married to Susannah Fishel, but it has not been possible to evidence the connection. 
Census records
  1841     Kingsmead St   Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Somerset 
Head
Watchmaker
Somerset 
Wife
Unrecorded
Somerset 
Son
Unrecorded
Bath 
Son
Unrecorded
Somerset 
Son
Unrecorded
Somerset 
Daughter
Unrecorded
Somerset 
Son
Unrecorded
  1851   36   Westgate Street   Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Poland 
Head
Watchmaker
London 
Wife
Wife
Bath 
Head
Unrecorded
Bath 
Head
Jeweller
Bath 
Head
Unrecorded
Bath 
Head
Unrecorded
  1861   11  Union Passage   Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
London 
Head
Jeweller
Bath 
Daughter
Dressmaker
London 
Wife
Wife