The Jewish Museum in Manchester has been closed for renovation for some time, but I am intending to contact them, when the lockdown finishes.
I found this info on Jewish Settlement in Manchester by Googling on the Jewish Gen Site:
‘We can now see the beginnings of communities in the major industrial centres, notably Manchester and Birmingham. After Liverpool, Manchester was the largest provincial community of the period. The majority of the Jewish population, which in 1840 was about 1000, earned their living as shopkeepers or hawkers in a restricted range of merchandise, mainly clothing and jewellery. It is well known that Nathan Mayer Rothschild operated in Manchester from 1798 to 1804 as a cotton merchant and manufacturer, buying raw materials and dyes and having goods made up for export. But Mr. W. Williams' work on The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1875 has now documented the growth of a substantial Jewish merchant group in the cotton trade, with the arrival of some 30 merchants from Germany, Holland and London in the 1830s and early 1840s.23. These cotton merchants, together with clothing manufacturers such as Benjamin Hyam or the family of the West India merchant Abraham Franklin, formed an upper-middle class group, which (like that in the much larger London community) began in the 1830s to move out into what were then middle-class suburban areas. At the other end of the social scale, the growth of a workshop 'proletariat' - as distinct from the hawkers and petty traders - probably did not begin in Manchester until after 1840’.
I have Rothschild, Hyams and Sternberg DNA Matches.
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