In a message dated 12/05/2009 08:51:04 GMT Daylight Time, rowantreek@gmail.com writes: I am trying to trace one of my Husband's ancestors and family in the UK. Recently I found a marriage listed in the index which I thought was this ancestor remarrying. The marriage certificate arrived and I am now unsure if it is. Further to other answers, there was a book published in possibly the early 1960s, by --- Levy, entitled "A History of the Sunderland Jewish Community". It may have been Oxford University Press who published it, but I may be wrong in that. Not only is the subject well covered in general, but there are extracts given from the Jewish records, the equivalent of Christian Baptism, marriage and burial registers. Although they may not be complete and may not cover the right period, nevertheless, the information about them - what periods are covered by the originals, for instance, could possibly be useful, as could al the background contained within the book. I therefore recommend you to keep a look out for it, althouigh by now it will no doubt be "reference library only" material. In general, it may be relevant to know that there were great upheavals within the Sunderland Jewish community when some members, having links with London, where Reform Judaism was beginning to take hold, tried to introduce it into Sunderland, to the horror of the other members of what seems to have been a very Orthodox Synagogue. One of those with the new ideas was David Jonassohn, the owner of the Usworth estate (and the sinker of Usworth Colliery, the only one, as far as I know, to have been Jewish-owned in the whole of the NE coalfield). I wonder whetrher your ancestors were also caught up in that. Geoff Nicholson