Series 01-06: Great Synagogue (Sydney, N.S.W.) records, 1826-1976

MLMSS 3740
MAV/FM4/7963
MAV/FM4/7964
MAV/FM4/7965
MAV/FM4/7966
MAV/FM4/7967
MAV/FM4/7968

series

1826-1924

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings

915961

Partially Microfilmed : NOTE: The microfilm copies all have RESTRICTED ACCESS
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7963 : Register of Marriages, 1828-1926
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7964 : Register of Marriages, 1926-1946
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7965 : Register of Marriages, 1946-1963
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7966 : Register of Jewish Births, 1867-1976
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7967 : Register of Births, 1826-1877; Register of Burials, 1846-1924
Microfilm : MAV/FM4/7968 : Register of Burials, 1919-1943

126 volumes, 26 boxes and 11 folders of textual material, including outsize material - typescript, printed

SERIES 01
Financial records, 1832-1970
MLMSS 3740/2-11, 12X, 13-38, 39X, 40-44, 45X-46X, 47-48, 49X—53X, 54-64, 65X, 66-72, 73X, 74, 75X, 76-80, 81X, 82, 83X-85X, 86-87, 88X-93X, 94-100, 101X

(Request Microfilms:
CY 4130 (MLMSS 3740/2 - 3: Cashbooks, 1832 - 1865)
CY 4146 (MLMSS 3740/40 - 41: Ledgers, 1841 - 1851)
CY 4143 (MLMSS 3740/74 - 77: Accounts rendered, 1835 - 1865)
CY 4205 (MLMSS 3740/82 - 83X: Offerings Books, c.1850's, 1878 - 1916)
CY 4145 (MLMSS 3740/87 - 88X: Seat applications, 1846, 1856, 1863 - 1866)

MAV/FM4/7963: Roll 1: Marriages Bridegrooms' index c.1867-c.1888, marriage register: 1832-1867, 1915-1928
MAV/FM4/7964: Roll 2: Marriage registers 2 May 1926 - 7 April 1946 (error on 2nd frame indicating years 1921 - 1928)
MAV/FM4/7965: Roll 3: Marriage registers 28 April 1946 - 11 August 1963 (error on 2nd frame indicating years 1946 - 1953)
MAV/FM4/7966: Sydney Synagogue Register of Jewish Births in the Colony of New South Wales, 5th October 1867 - 13th May 1976

MAV/FM4/7967:
Birth dates of children of Nathan and Sarah Joseph, all born at Singleton N.S.W., 1837 - 1858
Sydney Synagogue Register of Jewish Births in the Colony of New South Wales (Bridge and York Streets), 1826 - 1867
Sydney Synagogue Register of Jewish Births in the Colony of New South Wales (Macquarie Street), 5th November 1859 - 19 January 1877
Sydney Synagogue Burial Register in the Colony of New South Wales, 12th March 1846 - 5th November 1866 (Chronological order)
Sydney Synagogue Burial Register in the Colony of New South Wales, 1867 - 1924 (Alphabetical according to surname)
Sydney Synagogue Burial Register in the Colony of New South Wales (Necropolis at Haslem's Creek), 1864 - 1922 (Chronological order)

MAV/FM4/7968:
Sydney Synagogue Burial Register in the Colony of New South Wales (Necropolis at Haslem's Creek), 1919 - 1943 (Chronological order)
Burial records for the Jewish portion West Maitland Cemetery at 5th February 1930 (D.O.D. 1849 - 1924)


SERIES 02
Correspondence, 1846-1965
MLMSS 3740/102-112, 113X, 114, 115-121

(Request microfilms:
CY 4090 (MLMSS 3740/102 - 104: Letterbooks, 1846 - 1865)
CY 4091 (MLMSS 3740/105: Letterbooks, 1859 - 1865)
CY 4092 (MLMSS 3740/106: Letterbooks, 1862 - 1877)
CY 4096 (MLMSS 3740/107 - 108: Letterbooks & loose papers, 1863 - c.1876)
CY 4097 (MLMSS 3740/109: Letterbook, 1871 - 1878)
CY 4098 (MLMSS 3740/110: Letterbook, 1877 - 1896)
CY 4110 (MLMSS 3740/111 - 112: Letterbook & loose papers, 1905 - 1916)
CY 4106 (MLMSS 3740/113X: Indexes to letterbooks, 1875 - 1878)
CY 4107 (MLMSS 3740/114: Correspondence of Macquarie St. Synagogue, 1862 - 1875)

SERIES 03
Records of meetings, 1837-1963
MLMSS 3740/122-143

(Request microfilms:
CY 704 (MLMSS 3740/122 - 127: Minutes of Meetings, 1837 - 1865)
CY 739A (MLMSS 3740/128 - 130: Minutes of Meetings: Macquarie St. Synagogue, 1862 - 1877 ; York Street Synagogue, 1865 - 1878 ; Great Synagogue, 1877 - 1905);
CY 4095 (MLMSS 3740/131: Great Synagogue Minute Book, 1905 - 1923)
CY 4159 (MLMSS 3740/132 - 134: Great Synagogue Minutes, 1923 - 1940)
CY 4165 (MLMSS 3740/135: Great Synagogue Minutes, 1940 - 1946)
CY 4166 (MLMSS 3740/136: Great Synagogue Minutes, 1955 - 1962)
CY 739B (MLMSS 3740/139: Attendance books of Committe Meetings, 1854 - 1929)
CY 4142 (MLMSS 3740/140 - 141: Minute Book, 1885 - 1902, of Sydney Motzo Association ; Misc. minutes, 1890 - 1939)
CY 4187 (MLMSS 3740/142 - 143: Women's Auxiliary Minute Book, 1943 - 1952)

SERIES 04
Records of building funds appeals, 1871-1878, 1944-1967
MLMSS 3740/144-153

(Request microfilms:
CY 4188 (MLMSS 3740/144: Minute Book, 1871 - 1878, of the Great Synagogue Building Fund)
CY 4188 (MLMSS 3740/145 - 146: Records, 1944 - 1956, re the Centenary Re - Building Fund)

SERIES 05
Shechita Committee records, 1925-1961
MLMSS 3740/154-155

SERIES 06
Miscellaneous records, 1847-1848, 1937-1969.
MLMSS 3740/156-16

(Request microfilm:
CY 4206 (MLMSS 3740/156 - 157: Misc. Records, 1847 - 1848, 1903, 1923 - 1963)

Restricted: State Library provides access after permission: Written authority is required from the Great Synagogue, Sydney prior to access. Please contact The Great Synagogue, Sydney, 166 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW 2000; Email: admin@greatsynagogue.org.au; Phone: +612 9267 2477
Partly restricted - This collection contains confidential, personal and/or culturally sensitive information: Applies to: MAV/FM4/7964-7968 State Library provides access after permission: Written authority is required from the Great Synagogue, Sydney prior to access. Please contact The Great Synagogue, Sydney, 166 Castlereagh St, Sydney, NSW 2000; Email: admin@greatsynagogue.org.au; Phone: +612 9267 2477 The Library requires you to sign an ‘undertaking with regard to access’ for this collection to protect the privacy of individuals. This form will be supplied to you prior to access. Guidelines for accessing sensitive collections.

This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.4887

Keyword subjects:
Jewish archives--New South Wales--Sydney
Synagogue archives--New South Wales--Sydney