Barnett family (Glasgow)
Glasgow Jewish family name associated with the Jewish National Fund in Scotland
The Barnett family (Glasgow) brings together Glasgow Barnetts active in the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Scotland, from Joseph H. Barnett, JNF organiser from 1949, to Charles Barnett, treasurer of JNF KKL Scotland today. No source yet shows that they belong to one family; they are grouped here by surname and organisation only.
Joseph H. Barnett
In May 1949 the Jewish Chronicle reported the appointment of Joseph H. Barnett as JNF Organiser for Scotland, “in succession to Mr Jack Freeman, who resigned recently on leaving to settle in Israel.”[1] In November 1949 the Glasgow Poale Zion announced that “Mr J. H. Barnett”, secretary of the JNF in Scotland, would speak at the Zionist Centre at 8 p.m. on Sunday 6 November on “Impressions of Israel”.[2] A week earlier, according to the archive's text index, Mr J. H. Barnett, “just returned from Israel”, gave a brief report at a showing of the film Long Is the Road; the name is not clearly legible on the page image.[3]
The text index also returns a J. H. Barnett and a J. Barnett in JNF and B'nai Hashachar work in Glasgow between 1937 and 1939. These are snippets only, and are not assumed to be the same man.
The statutory indexes offer several Glasgow Joseph Barnetts, none of whom is shown to be the organiser: a Joseph Barnett born in the Gorbals in 1906, mother's maiden name Shapira; a Joseph Barnett who married Ethel Green in Cathcart in 1939, an entry whose reference is also indexed with conflicting spouse details under the name Iscoldsky; and a Joseph Harry Barnett born in Hutchesontown in 1921.[4] No marriage of a Joseph H. Barnett is indexed between 1910 and 1950, and no death has been securely identified.
Charles Barnett
Charles Barnett is treasurer of JNF KKL Scotland, the Glasgow Commission of the Jewish National Fund, whose other officers are honorary president Stanley Lovatt and vice-chairman Jeff Vulkan.[5] According to David Miller and Jill Thomson, he was appointed treasurer of the Glasgow Commission in 1980, as reported in the Jewish Chronicle of 18 April 1980, and still holds the post. They also report that he served as interim financial director of Celtic Football Club in 1994; that he was involved in Celtic's audit through PKF and later BDO; that he raised funds for the Celtic Charity Fund; and that the JNF held an event at Celtic Park in December 2009. His cousins are named as Gregory Barnett, Master of Lodge Montefiore, and David Barnett, formerly of the Glasgow police, and his son Michael Barnett had his bar mitzvah at Celtic Park, as reported in the Jewish Telegraph of 27 May 2011.[6]
His birth has not been identified. Glasgow Charles Barnett births without a recorded maternal surname include a Charles Michael Barnett, Townhead, 1943, and a Charles David Barnett, Tradeston, 1958; neither is shown to be him.[7] The Jewish Echo text index returns no Charles Barnett between 1928 and 1950.
Earlier Barnetts
A Barnett family was among the donors listed in the Jewish Echo of 22 January 1943, with the Sellyn and Goldberg families; no first names are given, so the link to the later Barnetts rests on the surname alone.[8]
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Notes
- ↑ Jewish Chronicle, 27 May 1949, archive page.
- ↑ Jewish Echo, 4 November 1949, p. 8; BNA page, viewed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ Jewish Echo, 28 October 1949, p. 6; BNA page, viewed 7 November 2026 (wording from the archive's text index).
- ↑ ScotlandsPeople, index entries: births, BARNETT, Joseph, 1906, Gorbals, 644/12/724, mother's maiden name Shapira; BARNETT, Joseph Harry, 1921, Hutchesontown, 644/15/1002; marriages, BARNETT, Joseph, and GREEN, Ethel, 1939, Cathcart, 644/19/341 (same reference also indexed with spouse Iscoldsky); accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ Glasgow Jewish community, JNF KKL Scotland, accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ David Miller and Jill Thomson, A Paradise for Zionism: Celtic Park in the 1990s and 2000s, UK Column, 2 October 2025.
- ↑ ScotlandsPeople, statutory register of births, index entries: BARNETT, Charles Michael, 1943, Townhead, 644/6/93; BARNETT, Charles David, 1958, Tradeston, 644/9/2416; mother's maiden name blank; accessed 7 November 2026.
- ↑ David Miller and Jill Thomson, The Day That Celtic Football Club Played to Raise Money for Land Theft in Palestine, UK Column, 30 September 2025.