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found, with inscriptions in Hebrew characters; they were, however, thoughtlessly used in the building' This became a source of humour in
Victorian Bristol, it later being noted that 'Many gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions were discovered when that building was about to be erected, which led our Wits to assert that whatever else the boys lacked, they would always have a good Hebrew foundation.'
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During the construction of QEH school from 1847, a number of tombstones were found. Writing in 1861, the historian George Pryce discussed 'the “Jews Acre”, or burial ground, where now stands Queen
Elizabeth's Hospital, on digging the foundation for which, a few years ago, a number of gravestones were
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England in 1290. Bristol's jews lived a mile east in the centre of the town, initially around the head of the harbour - an area that was later known as the Old Jewry. It was one of England's smaller Jewish communities, never exceeding about fifteen households. If the average household had five
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people, the mean population would have been about seventy-five people. Life expectancy at birth in pre-modern societies rarely exceed forty, with at least 2.5 per cent of any community dying each year. That would imply about two interments per year in the cemetery.
275:, 'The Corporation of Bristol to Benjamin Hill of Bristol, plumber Renewal of lives of a lease granted to Benjamin's father Thomas of a close called the Jews Church yard, bounded by Brandon Hill and land called the Jews' acre Fine £13 Rent £4, 1788 Feb 2'
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