Grave 44
     

Isaac Goldhill

1787  – 1835

Here Lies
Great Teacher ...
... Isaac Nachum 
son of Morenu 
Yehuda Leib HaCohen 
Died on Sabbath and buried the next day 
Sunday 27 Nissan 5595 aged 48

פנ
הה התו אשר .. ...'ו הי
נהנה מ..ועבפו בה יצהק נהום
במוהר. יחודאל ליב הכהן
יפטר םיום שק ונקבר למיהר ת.
בן אריים ישמנ. שנר
תנצבה


IN MEMORY OF
ISAAC GOLDHILL
OBIT THE 25TH APRIL 1835
AGED 48 YEARS


Isaac Goldhill’s headstone has a beautiful carving of Cohen hands. This denotes that he was the son of Yehuda Leib HaCohen. 

Isaac probably came to Bath for health reasons as his will, made four days before his death in Bath in April 1835, records him as being ‘in an indifferent state of bodily health’.

Isaac’s will records that he was a sponge merchant. He left £25 to his wife (who is not named) and the remainder of his property and effects to his sons Jacob and Samson/Samuel.

Because Isaac died before 1837 there is no death certificate so it is not known where he was living in Bath, when he died, or the cause of death. 
Isaac’s son Samson/Samuel continued to live in London and in 1836 married Matilda Moss at the Hambro Synagogue. Samuel was also a sponge dealer. He and Matilda had 8 children. Samuel was a committee member of Hambro Synagogue. Matilda died in London in 1882 and Samuel died in London in 1889 and is buried at West Ham Jewish Cemetery. 

Four of their sons, John, Albert, Benjamin and Isaac carried on the family business importing sponges. Their businesses were registered at 17 and 124 Houndsditch, London. In the 1880s in London there were eight sponge merchants of whom five were Jewish and 49 sponge manufacturers of whom 13 were Jewish. So the brothers would have been well known and prosperous. 

There is no trace of Isaac’s oldest son Jacob.

Two of Isaac’s descendants, one in London and one in Melbourne, made contact with FoBJBG in 2022.