John Jacobs

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John Jacobs

• 1881 England & Wales Census
• Birth: Circa 1846 - London, Middlesex
• Residence: 1881 - 149 St George East, St George East, London, England
• Wife: Jane Jacobs
• Children: Gaskell E Jacobs, Dora Jacobs, Bernard Jacobs

John Jacobs

• 1891 England & Wales Census
• Birth: Circa 1846 - Wapping, London
• Residence: 1891 - 149 St Geo St, St Geo in The East, London, England
• Wife: Jane Jacobs
• Children: Dora Jacobs, Bernard Jacobs, Myer A Jacobs, Henry Jacobs, Sydney S Jacobs, Montague Jacobs, Percy Jacobs

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The Jewish Chronicle - Oct 11 1907

JACOBS.—On Tuesday, the 8th of October, John Jacobs, of 33, Pepys-road, New Cross, S.E. (late of St George's E.); dearly beloved husband of Jane Jacobs, and father of Mrs. Bernard Lolosky, in his 63rd year. Funeral leaves the house at 11 o'clock to-day (Friday), for Willesden Cemetery

The Jewish Chronicle - Oct 18 1907

Last week you had an obituary notice of Mr. John Jacobs, warden of the South-East London Synagogue. I knew him well, and sincerely regret his death, which, as one "of your correspondents has rightly remarked, is an irreparable loss to the South-East London Synagogue. \Vo are always ready to give a meed of graceful appreciation to those gentlemen who, to their great credit, become honorary officers of synagogues and throw their energies into the interests of the congregations over which they preside. If we are grateful to them when the synagogues for which they work are "show synagogues." whose prosperity makes comparatively easy the work of their administration, how much greater is the communal debt to those who devote themselves to congregations which are not flourishing and which are administered under the continual disadvantage of financial embarrassment? Such a synagogue is that at New Cross, and such a worker was the late Mr. Jacobs. The history of that synagogue has always been one of struggle against odds. It has been brightened by two things. One is the self-sacrificing and really noble wot-fc of the minister, the Rev. N. Goldston, who does not pretend to be brilliant, but who is a true minister of religion, whose life is one consistent sermon. The other is the devoted labour of men like Mr. John Jacobs. In the earthly audit of synagogue accounts, they do not make much of a show, but in the recognition of the highest and best of single-hearted and unpretentious labour for great causes, they shine.

TATLER.