The Bath Synagogue cash book for 18 October 1891 records: 'Digging gave for Rosenberg 7s 6d, cabs for funeral 6s, rabbi s burial fee 4s 6d'.
From census returns, Mordechai's birth is recorded as around 1830 in London. He was a hawker. He married Harriet Thring in a church in Bristol in 1859. They had seven children, the youngest Rosetta born in Cardiff in 1858, a son James born in Bristol and the other five children all born in Bath. Three of the children, James, Charles, and Louisa were baptised in Bath Holy Trinity Church in May 1864.
Mordechai is listed as a hawker at 43 Avon Street in the Bath Directory for 1884/5 and 1890/91. There are listings in the same year for his son James, 53 Avon Street, as a labourer, his son Charlie as a dealer, 51 Avon Street and his son Joseph, a licensed hawker at 68 Avon Street. Avon Street was a poor area of Bath and very close to the synagogue in Corn Street. For a full history of the family see A Jewish ancestor from Bristol and Bath, Raye Johnson, Shemot, Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, April 2022 vol30, 1.
Mordechai died in Southampton Workhouse in October 1891. Perhaps it was his son Joseph who arranged for his body to return to Bath, because from February to June 1892 he made weekly contributions of 6d to the synagogue.
Picture shows Rosetta Rosenburg, daughter. (Image shared with us by one of her great-great-grandchildren in 2022).
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1881
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