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Jews in Cromwellian Great Britain & Ireland

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Joachim Gans גאנז (deceased)
Joachim Gans (other spellings: Jeochim, Jochim, Gaunz, Ganse, Gaunse) was a Bohemian mining expert and renowned for being the first recorded Jew to live in North America. German mining expert who fig...
Antonio Carvajal (1590 - 1659)
Simon Isaac (b. - 1685)
"In 1662 [sic, recte 1652] a lease pertaining to property in Belfast refers to a Manuel Lightfoot 'a tailor and a Jew,' and from 1685 onward, a Simon Isaac , of Ballywalter, Co. Down, appears in numero...
Manuel Lightfoot (b. - 1652)
Manuel Lightfoot , a Jewish tailor, was living in Belfast in 1652. See Ireland at JewishVirtualLibrary.org. "Whilst England can date the arrival of Jews to the medieval period, the earliest record ...
Rebecca Vance (c.1621 - 1648)
Rebecca Baptista (or Basticia ) (c1621-after 1648). She is recorded in the birth record of her daughter Katherine as Rebacca Bastisia . Her surname suggests that she was a converted Jew, a Gypsy, or a ...