United Synagogue Funeral Expenses Scheme, London 1946.

USBurial01I found this booklet in my late Father – Stanley Maynard’s papers.  He joined Hendon Synagogue (Raleigh Close) in 1946 and switched to Kingsbury Synagogue in 1948.

In 1946 you could contribute just four pence a week and when the time came (ad mea ve’esrim – until a hundred and twenty years) you were entitled to a “first class funeral”, including a saloon motor hearse, one limousine car, tahara, plain shrouds, plain elm coffin, grave and attendance of all officials.

However, in the 1931 rules, if you wanted to be buried at Willesden Cemetery, that was an extra penny a week.  The 1946 booklet (which this is), has a label on the front stating that the new Bushey Cemetery has replaced the Willesden Cemetery.

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  1. Other than widows of members who could contribute to the Funeral Expenses Scheme only, you had to be a member of a United Synagogue Congregation before you could join the Scheme. Membership gave you Burial rights and enabled you to join the Scheme. However if you were over seventy years of age you were precluded from joining and there was an Entrance Fee if you were between the ages of fifty five and seventy

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