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RETURN TO BURY
Research reveals that by the late 18th century, a handful of Jews had returned to Bury but there was no organised community. The first to resettle were the Sampson family in 1789, but they didn’t stay long, emigrating shortly afterwards to Charleston in South Carolina. In the early 19th century, meanwhile, there was a Jewish dentist called Pasco Aaronson. And, in 1826, a pawnbroker from Norwich called Michael Mitchell arrived in the town. He would later become a dealer in antique porcelain.

Another Jewish trader, Henry Juda, regularly visited Bury. Setting up a stall in the market selling fancy goods for a week or two at a time, adverts invited locals to shop at his 'Grecian and Turkish Bazaar'.

Sadly, evidence for one other Jewish family from around this period can be found in Ipswich Jewish cemetery. Inscriptions reveal that Julia, daughter of Lawrence and Caroline Hyam, died in 1839 aged just five years and one month. Her sister Rachel died shortly afterwards, aged just three years and four months.

That some form or recognisable community existed in the early 19th century is supported by the fact that the London Society led a mission to convert Bury Jews in 1817. However, the impression one gets from the available evidence is that by the 1840s any communal life had petered out.