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 13
TH 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
Daughter
Unrecorded
1851
36
Westgate Street
Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
1861
11
Union Passage
Bath
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation