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Latitude: 50.1636 / 50°9'48"N
Longitude: -5.0893 / 5°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 179460
OS Northings: 33851
OS Grid: SW794338
Mapcode National: GBR ZC.GY06
Mapcode Global: FRA 087L.742
Plus Code: 9C2P5W76+C7
Entry Name: Two Headstones: to Isaac Ben Benjamin and to Alexander Moses, in South of the Jewish Cemetery
Listing Date: 24 July 2002
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1061396
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489635
ID on this website: 101061396
Location: Cornwall, TR11
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Falmouth
Built-Up Area: Falmouth
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Budock
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Tombstone
FALMOUTH
843-1/0/10009 FALMOUTH ROAD
24-JUL-02 Ponsharden
Two headstones: to Isaac ben Benjamin
and to Alexander Moses, in south of the Jewish Cemetery
II
Headstones in Jewish cemetery. 1790: to Isaac ben Benjamin. 1791: to Alexander Moses. Both are slate headstones with nowy heads, moulded arrises and with dates and inscriptions on fronts in Hebrew.
The Jewish community was established in Falmouth in about 1740 by Alexander Moses, known as 'Zender Falmouth'. The Jewish Cemetery and the adjacent Congregational cemetery are on land granted by Lord de Dunstanville later in the C18.
SOURCE: Fry, H. and Pearce, K., Lost Jews of Cornwall, pp.101-129.
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