1844
A Master Levy of Stroud pays a stranger's fee of 1/- per week to the Cheltenham Congregation
1877
The community is founded. Most Jews are from Russia and Poland and work in the clothing trade.
1877-1881
There is a large influx of Jews to Stroud from a wide variety of locations in England and Wales.
1878
The first Jewish child is born in Stroud, the first mention of a Jewish family in Stroud
1881
Two Jewish ministers and rabbis are recorded in the Census. Most Jewish residents of the town are tailors
1887
Up to this date Stroud Jews are still buried in the old Gloucester cemetery.
1887
Frank Lindo, actor and theatrical manager, starts his theatrical career at Stroud with an appearance in ‘My Sweetheart’.
1889
The new synagogue in Landsdowne Road is consecrated having been built at the cost of £630.
1890s
The community now has its own synagogue, rabbi and schochet.
1891
The Census shows that the main influx of Jews has stabilized and that Jews have now settled for longer periods in the town. Many Jewish men have married local non-Jewish women.
The Jewish population is about 160.
1895-7
The Stroud community are in dispute with the now much depleted Cheltenham community over the right to use the cemetery.
1897
There are 130 Jews in Stroud.
1902
The Stroud community gains the right to use the Cheltenham burial ground.
1904
Kosher meat, prepared by the rabbi, is sold in a separate section of a local non-Jewish butcher. There are 17 children of school age registered at the Sabbath School.
1904-5
Rabbi Zechariah Dimovitch is the last rabbi at Stroud, the community cannot really afford to support a minister.
1908
The synagogue is disused and the marriage register is closed; the organised Jewish community ends.
1908
A student minister Mr. Isaac Ostroff officiates at Stroud and acts as mohel and schochet.
1914
One Jewish family is left at the start of the war.
1940s - 1950s
Some 15 to 20 Jewish families are still reckoned to live in the Stroud, Cheltenham and Gloucester area.
1960s
There are still ‘hidden Jews’ isolated and assimilated in Stroud who still identified with Judaism but keep it quiet.
1989
Brian Torode (a local non-Jew) publishes a detailed history of the Stroud and Cheltenham Jews.
c. 1930
the senior members of the World War I Jewish family still remains in Stroud.
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