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Balls Pond Road Cemetery

Coordinates: 51°32′52″N 0°04′46″W / 51.5477°N 0.0794°W / 51.5477; -0.0794
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Balls Pond Road Cemetery (Kingsbury Road Cemetery)
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Established1843
Closed1951
Location
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°32′52″N 0°04′46″W / 51.5477°N 0.0794°W / 51.5477; -0.0794
TypeJewish
Owned byWest London Synagogue
Size0.5 acres
No. of graves900
Find a GraveKingsbury Road Cemetery
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameWest London Reform Cemetery
Designated6 November 2020
Reference no.1465187

Balls Pond Road Cemetery, also known as Jewish (West London Reform) Cemetery,[1] Kingsbury Road Cemetery, Balls Pond Burial Ground[2] and The Jewish Burial Ground,[3] is a Jewish cemetery on Kingsbury Road, Canonbury, London N1. It was founded in 1843 and is owned by West London Synagogue.[1] Prominent early members of that place of worship, such as the de Stern, Goldsmid and Mocatta families, are buried in this cemetery.[3] Other notable burials include the ashes of Amy Levy, the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and the first Jewish woman to be cremated in England. The last burial at the cemetery was in 1951.[3] The cemetery has been Grade II listed since 2020.[4][5][6]

Notable burials

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Amy Levy
Reverend David Woolf Marks

People buried at the cemetery include:

Goldsmid family

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Mocatta family

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Stern family

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Meller, Hugh; Parsons, Brian (2008). London Cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer. The History Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-7509-4622-3.
  2. ^ a b Martin-Jones, Tony (25 November 2015). "Balls Pond Burial Ground". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "The Jewish Burial Ground, Islington". Parks & Gardens. Hestercombe Gardens Trust. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  4. ^ Historic England (6 November 2020). "West London Reform Cemetery (1465187)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  5. ^ Fraser, Calum (13 November 2020). "Campaign pays off as Victorian Jewish burial ground earns Grade-II listing". Islington Tribune. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  6. ^ Berger, Doreen (27 November 2020). "Letter: Saving the cemetery – the history". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
  7. ^ Singer, Isidore; and others, eds. (1901–1906). "Abraham, Phineas". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  8. ^ Martin-Jones, Tony (24 June 2009). "Phineas Abraham". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  9. ^ Martin-Jones, Tony (24 June 2009). "Montague Durlacher". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  10. ^ Hurst, Isobel (17 March 2021). "Amy Levy: A London Poet". Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  11. ^ Medd, Jodie, ed. (2015). The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-107-05400-4. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  12. ^ Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1904). "Löwy, Albert" in Singer, Isidore; and others (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 197.
  13. ^ "MARKS Rev. Prof David Woolf [David b Benjamin Ze'ev] 1811–1909". Cemetery Scribes. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  14. ^ "SALAMAN Annette Amelia". Cemetery Scribes. 24 June 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  15. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  16. ^ "James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897)". UCL Department of Economics. University College London. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  17. ^ Bernard, Philippa (October 2019). "Simon Waley (1827–1875)" (PDF). Westminster Quarterly. X (4). Westminster Synagogue: 7. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  18. ^ Martin-Jones, Tony (24 June 2009). "Frederick David GOLDSMID and Caroline SAMUEL". www.apex.net.au. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  19. ^ Bernard, Philippa (1 July 2012). "Jewish Cemeteries I: The First Reform Burial Ground at Balls Pond Road, Dalston". Westminster Quarterly. II (3). Westminster Synagogue: 8. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  20. ^ Brodie, Antonia (2001). Directory of British Architects 1834-1914, L-Z. London & New York: Continuum. p. 194. ISBN 0-8264-5514-X.
  21. ^ Jamilly, Edward (1953). "Anglo-Jewish Architects, and Architecture in the 18th and 19th Centuries". Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England). 18: 127–141. ISSN 2047-2331.
  22. ^ Epstein, Mortimer (1912). "Mocatta, Frederic David" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. pp. 626–627.
  23. ^ JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)
  24. ^ a b "The Unexpected past of Strawberry Hill House: Herbert Stern 1st Baron Michelham (1851 –1919) and the Stern Family: A German dynasty of bankers". Strawberry Hill House. 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
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