Upper Frederick Street burial ground and the leading families of eighteenth-century Liverpool UK Jewry

Abstract

The headstones of the Upper Frederick Street burial ground in Liverpool (active from 1773 to 1802) are the earliest surviving Jewish memorials in the north of England. In 2022 an archaeological project was undertaken to investigate who was buried in Upper Frederick Street. Thirteen part or complete headstones or memorial stones were located. All bar one of the legible stones are linked to the Joseph and Samuel families; the genealogy of those families and their contributions to the Liverpool community are described. Finally, the question of how many burials actually took place in total is considered.