Travelled 1789 to London with 8 children
SARAH LOUSADA Will PRO(=Public Record Office?) BII/II62 Folio 256 to 257b Quire 83
"I Sarah Lousada of Bury Street, London
I bequeath unto Mrs.Abigail Pereira, One thousand pounds East India Annuities.
I bequeath unto my Executors in trust the sum of Two thousand pounds Old South Sea Annuities for them to pay the Interest thereof unto my niece Rachael Pereira of Jamaica for her own use and benefit and not to be subject to any debts of her husband, her receipt solely to be their discharge at her death, the Capital to be divided between such of her children as may be living at that time. I bequeath unto the children of my said niece Fifty pounds each."
12th November 1786 \endash Proved 27th February 1788.As the above legacy is also mentioned by Rachel's eldest son Benjamin in his court proceedings, we can be sure that the above Rachel and this Rachel are one and the same person.
Buried 21 KI 5586 = 1st December, 1825
BURIAL: Title�tab�Detail of Gravestone of Isaac Pereira (1788) son of Benjamin Pereira in the Shaare Shalom Synagogue Gravestone Garden, previously in the Old Kingston Jews' Cemetery (Kingston)
Date�tab�December 4, 1788
Date (numeric)�tab»1788-12-04
Time Period«tab»1751-1799
Photographer«tab»Leibman, Laura
Description & Notes«tab»Detail of Gravestone of Isaac Pereira (1788) son of Benjamin Pereira in the Shaare Shalom Synagogue Gravestone Garden, previously in the Old Kingston Jews' Cemetery (Kingston)
Site/Building«tab»Shaare Shalom Synagogue Gravestone Garden, Old Kingston Jews' Cemetery, Kingston, Jamaica
Gravestone Number«tab»OKJC #183
Geographic Location«tab»Kingston [Jamaica]
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Isaac Pereira
Pereira Family
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Burial Practice
Hand of God
Cherub
Horizontal Stone
Benjamin Pereira
Ethnic Group«tab»Sephardi
Religious Affiliation«tab»Jewish
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Original Source«tab»South Side
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[Filename]«tab»P1010065.JPGDerived birth date from Stones relaid in the Old Kingston Cemetery relaid in memorial gardens Kingston
NOTE Peter T.Pereira writes on 8.11.1999 that the most prominent is 'Isaac, son of Benjamin Pereira.' Died 4th December 1738, age 38 years 2 months 19 days.
Portuguese. The design on the stone is 'A Hand from the Clouds felling a Tree \emdash A Cherub in the Clouds'. An inscription in Portuguese and an inscription in Hebrew from Genesis 35.29 reads "And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him."
The above suggests that there may well have been more children in Jamaica who did not migrate to the UK as none of the children shown on the family page are named either Esau or Jacob.
Marriage Notes for Rachael Rodrigues Lopez and Isaac Pereira
MARRIAGE: Peter T.Pereira writes 4.5.2000 "Both Wills (Sarah Lousada and Abigail Pereira) mention Rachael Pereira the wife of Isaac. Sarah in London in November 1786 says, Rachael of Jamaica, while Abigail says on 15th January 1791, Rachael, late wife of Isaac, now in London. Rachael was therefore in London before January 1791, which narrows down the time of her arrival in England considerably.
Isaac, Rachael's son was born in Jamaica on 9th January 1788. Isaac, her husband died 4th December 1788 and was buried in Jamaica. Rachael was then left with nine children, the oldest two were only 16 and 15. One daughter, Esther has not been traced.
Rachael's parents, or at least her father, Mordecai Rodrigues Lopes was in England on 6th February, 1782, the day that he was Granted Arms. It would have been an enormous help to have a member of her own family to meet her."
BURIAL: Benjamin Pereira Abode Marylebone Buried 15 Nov 1828 Aged 56 years = born 1772 St Anne, Westminster, Middlesex
On The West Side Of The Churchyard
Previously, in 1803, Benjamin had charged the estates with the payment of a debt of £600 and interest to Arnold Michael Burmester of Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, of which £300, part thereof has since been paid and satisfied by his mother Mrs Rachel Pereira, who had become his security for the said. sum of £600.
Corporation of London Record Office. Index to Debtors Schedules from the Fleet Prison. Document Ref DS/ 15/48
Benjamin Pereira, Gentleman, formerly of 7 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, London, and late of 9 Conway Street, Fitzroy square
Committed to the Fleet Prison on 25th January 1805, at the suit of a dozen or more creditors.
His schedule of assets consists of a lengthy statement roughly as follows -
He is the eldest son and heir at law of the late Isaac Pereira, of the island of Jamaica. He is entitled under the will of his late father to -
One undivided moiety or half part of two freehold estates named Shortwood and Eagles Nest, Sugar Plantations. (Place Names of Jamaica, p 156, gives -
'Shortwood Estate' St Andrews, consisting of 792 acres in the early 1830's on part of which the Shortwood Training College was established in 1885)
One undivided moiety or half part of two penns or farms named Dallas's Penn and Barton's Penn. One undivided moiety or half part of Mountain Polink, all the above are situate and being in the Parish of St Andrews, in the County of Surrey, Jamaica. He is also en-titled to two ninths of the other moiety or half part of all the estates listed above.
Under the will of Sarah Lousada, spinster, late of Bury Street, St Mary Axe, London, he is entitled to a one eighth share of £2,000 South Sea Annuities, upon the death of his mother, Mrs Rachael Pereira, should he survive her.The estates mentioned above are also charged with the payment of a legacy of £1,000 Ja. currency, together with thirteen years of accrued interest, under and by virtue of the last will and testament of his late grandfather Benjamin Pereira, formerly of the island of Jamaica.
But now claims are pending in the Court of Chancery, in Jamaica, wherein David Mendes Pereira and others, are complainants, and John Mclean and others are the defendants, and until such claims are settled and determined, an allowance of £200 Ja. currency is ordered to be payed to Benjamin Pereira for his support and maintenance.
Debtors Schedule dated 26th July 1806, plus a rough copy which has had the date amended to 23rd August 1806.
Benjamin Pereira was bailed out of the Fleet Prison on 8th September 1806 by three gentlemen, one being a creditor.Benjamin Pereira Document Ref DS/ 15/55
Benjamin Pereira, formerly of 9 Jubilee Place, Kings Road, Chelsea, London, late of 2 New Street, Brompton Road, London, was committed to the Fleet Prison on the 10th May 1813, at the suit of John Lewis for £24 and of James Winter for £11. 1. 6d.
The Debtors Schedule is dated 25th January 1814, and records 'nil assets'.Benjamin Pereira, bachelor, the eldest nephew of Sir Manasseh Lopez, Bart. MP., married Bridget Theresa Carroll, spinster, on 29th January 1814i by Licence at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Both parties were entered as 'from this Parish' and both parties signed their names.
Benjamin Pereira died on the 8th November 1828, age 56, at Great Harlborough Street, London, and was buried at St Annes, Wardour Street, Soho, on the west side of the Churchyard.St Annes, Wardour Street, Soho, on the west side of the Churchyard.
A Monumental Inscription, Ref - MX/ REG/ 4189 - MX R 153, reads -
Sacred to the memory of BENJAMIN PEREIRA Esq. ,of Kingston, Jamaica.
Late of MaryIebone, London, who departed this life 8th November 1828, age 56.
Also Mrs Margaret Carroll, the beloved mother in law to the above, who departed this life 12th January 1826 age 72.We sorrow not even as others which have no hope
for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.
Requiescant in Pace.
In 1824 Benjamin Pereira is shown on the parents and guardians list for the two brothers Henry and Edward Pereira at the Hyde Abbey School, Winchester.
His address was 8 Carburton Street, Fitzroy Square, London.
The address on the parents and guardians list for 1825 was 53 Great Marylebone Street, London.
At the end of the Mid Summer Term of 1826, his address was 1 Thayer Street, Manchester Square, London.
As Parent or Next of Kin, Benjamin Pereira also signed the Nomination Papers; of the Honorable Court of Directors of the Limited East India Company, for Cadet Henry Pereira, 182 nd Season for the intake of cadets, 1826 - 1827 Madras or Bombay Establishment.
Henry and Edward are children of younger Brother Manasseh by Maria du RhoneBenjamin's wife is mentioned in the Will of Manasseh Masseh Lopes, as is benjamin as being already deceased. The Will of Manasseh Masseh Lopes is Dated 21 Nov 1829, Proved 17 May 1831 - based on 9 Nov 1997 email to Linda Powers from Polly Lawrence.
CENSUS: Notes from Census event: showing that she died sometime between 1831 and 1841
Alive in 1831 as she is mentioned in Dame Charlotte's will (written in 1831).
Marriage Notes for Benjamin Lopez Pereira and Bridget Theresa Carroll
MARRIAGE: 29 January, 1814: Benjamin Pereira, bachelor, the eldest nephew of Sir Manasseh Lopez, Bart. MP., married Bridget Theresa Carroll, spinster, on 29th January 1814, by Licence at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Both parties were entered as 'from this Parish' and both parties signed their names.
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The most important Sephardi settler in the South-West, because of the part which he and his collateral descendants played in local and national affairs, was Manasseh Masseh Lopes. Lopes was born in Jamaica in 1755, where his father Mordecai Rodriguez Lopes had made a fortune from sugar plantations. He married Charlotte, only daughter of John Yeates of Monmouth, on 19 October 1795. [Information from pedigree entered at Herald's College by Masseh Lopes, 20 January 1806.] His father died six months later and left his fortune to Manasseh. He came to Devon in 1798, when he bought the manors of Maristow, which became his principal seat, Buckland Monachorum, Walkhampton, Shaugh Prior, and Bickleigh; and in 1808 he added the manor of Meavy, in all some 32,000 acres. Manasseh and Charlotte had an only daughter Ester who died in 1819, aged 23. Presumably she had never been expected to have children because when Manasseh or Massey, as he elected to be called, was created a baronet in 1805, there was an exceptional remainder to his nephew Ralph Franco. [Hyamson, Sephardim of England, p. 203. From this Sir Ralph were descended Lord Justice Lopes (Henry Charles Lopes) &emdash; later Lord Ludlow, Lord Roborough (Sir Massey Henry Lopes), and the future Viscount Bledislow. The family generously supported Exeter University when it was the University College of the South-West.] Massey was first elected to parliament in 1802 for New Romney, and he subsequently represented Barnstaple, Grampound, and Westbury. [For fuller details of his political career, see W. G. Hoskins, 'sheaf of modern documents', Devonshire Studies (1952), H. P. R. Finberg and W. G. Hoskins, eds., pp. 412-18.]
On April 5, 1910 in a letter to Willie Whittington, George wrote, "With regard to Sir M.M. Lopes' will, I think it must be the same money I tried to claim some years ago, and was told that we had nothing to do with it. Toppy [Beatrice] ... wrote to Sir H. Lopes who very civily replied that he knew nothing about it and advised her to search in Somerset House for the will. Maud wrote there and was informed that the will was not there but in Salisbury. She then wrote to Salisbury and was informed that no such will has been found. Maud is going to have another try."
In the Dictionary of National Biography (1893) is the following entry:
"Lopes, Sir Manasseh Masseh 1755-1831, politician, a descendant of a family of Spanish Jews, and only son of Mordecai Rodriguez Lopes of Clapham, Surrey, by his wife Rebecca, daughter of Manasseh Pereira of Jamaica, was born in Jamaica on 27 Jan. 1755.In 1796 he is mentioned in his father's will as "Manaseh Lopes."
In "Benny's History" Page 5 February 2000 - The Lopez Scroll
'Fernando Lopez was a wealthy man from Jamaica, who wanted to be an English Gentleman. He got himself baptised and gave all his Jewish things to the Emdon family. Amongst the items was a little Sefer Torah and they gave it to the Shul and it is still in the Ark and is now used as a Show piece."The History of the Emdon Family" by Bertram Harris Emdon April 1977
'Sir Massy Manassey Lopez came to the West in the last decade of the XV111 th century and bought the Maristow house and estate from the West country Slanning Family. He abandoned the Jewish Faith in 1802, but his family scroll of Law was presented to, and is still in possession of, the Plymouth Synagogue'Polly Lawrence wrote, "It would appear, from various notes on the family that I found, that the Lopes family came to Devon when Mannessah [sic] Masseh Lopes bought the estate of the late Sir James Modyford Heywood in 1798, presumably using part of the fortune left to him on his own father's death.
The note continues: 'This estate comprised the manors of Maristow, Buckland Monachroum, Walkhampton, Shaugh Prior and Bickleigh. In 1808 he purchased Meavy from Hugh Malet and calculated that he then owned thirty-two thousand acres in Southwest Devon. The Lopes family had originated in Cuba, but moved to Jamaica where a knighthood was bestowed for services to the Crown. Sir Mannaseh Masseh Lopes was born in Jamaica in 1755. His father - Mordecai Rodriguez Lopes - was a wealthy sugar plantation owner who had come to England and settled in Clapham. Mannaseh [sic] was an only son and after inheriting his father's large fortune, came to Devon in 1798, when the Heywood Estates were in the market. This, of course, included the lovely sited house of Maristow, which he made his principal seat.'"In the IGI is a record for the Christening of Manasseh Lopes on 30 Jun 1802 at Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, England. His father's name is given as "Mordet Lopes" and his mother is "Rebecca."
"In 1802 he abandoned judaism, conformed to the practices of the church of England, and was returned to parliament for New Romney, and on 5 Oct. 1805 was created a baronet (Gent. Mag. 1805, ii. 1231), with remainder to his nephew, Ralph Franco, only son of his late sister, Esther, wife of Abraham Franco, and he obtained a licence under the sign-manual to take the name of Masseh before his own. In 1812 he was returned to parliament for Barnstaple. Subsequently he arranged with one Hoare, a voter at Grampound in Cornwall, to procure his return for that constituency by dividing 2,000£ among the sixty freeholders of the borough. For this he was brought to trial at Exeter assizes before Mr. Justice Holroyd and a special jury on 18 March 1819, and on conviction was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of 1,000£. This conviction of a baronet and a member of parliament for corruption marks a great advance in the public demand for electoral purity. Pending this trial he had been returned for Barnstaple in 1818. His return had been petitioned against; it was proved that he had spent 3,000£ in bribes, and had bribed sixty-three out of three hundred resident electors at 5£ each. The committee before which it was heard reported that it deserved the serious consideration of the house, 9 March 1819. The house thereupon unseated him, and on 2 April directed the attorney-general to prosecute him, and he was sentenced on 13 Nov. by the court of king's bench to a further fine and term of imprisonment. But this mishap did not exclude him from public life. On his release from gaol he was returned in 1823 for his pocket borough of Westbury, though he was very unpopular there, and again in 1826, but he resigned the seat, upon what consideration is unknown, to provide one for Peel on his rejection by the university of Oxford in 1829. He died on 26 March 1831 at his seat, Maristow House in Devonshire, leaving a fortune of 800,000£, principally in government and East India stock, but also in land near Plymouth. He was a magistrate for Devonshire and Wiltshire, and recorder of Westbury. He married Charlotte, daughter of John Yeates of Monmouthshire, by whom he had a daughter, Esther, who died on 1 July 1819. His nephew and heir, Ralph Franco, assumed the surname Lopes on succeeding to the baronetcy."
MP for Evesham, S.Devon, Barnstable, Westbury
Passed Baronet Title to nephew Ralph Franco on his death in 1831
In "A Record of the Jews in Jamaica," Jacob Andrade wrote, "Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopez (1st Bart.) - English politician; born in Jamaica on January 22, 1755. Descended from ancient Sephardic stock. One of Jamaica's opulent families. In 1802 he was returned to Parliament for New Romney (having along with his father Mordecai Henriques Lopez embraced Christianity in that year). Between then and 1826 he was elected to Parliament on four occasions for various Constituencies. Lopez subsequently filled the office of Recorder of Westbury in Wiltshire, in addition to being a magistrate for two Counties. He was granted the rights by George III of Armorial Bearings on 1st November, 1803, and created a Baronet on 1st October, 1805, with remainder to his nephew Ralph Franco, only son of his sister Esther, wife of A. Franco. Lopez purchased in 1810 Westbury (the Urban District in the Westbury Parliamentary Division of Wiltshire) from the Earl of Abingdon. He died at Maristow House, Devonshire, on March 26, 1831, without leaving issue, and the Baronetcy developed to his nephew. The Baronetcy has become extinct." [p. 148]
In a letter from Exeter, dated 22 June 1820, Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes informs the Rev. Daniel Lysons about his large estate in south west Devon, near Plymouth. He had bought the estate from the late James M Heywood, through the latter's executors in 1798. This comprised the manors of Maristow, Buckland Monachoram, Walkhampton, Shaugh Prior and Bickleigh. In 1808 he rounded this off with the manor of Meavy, bought from Hugh Malet, esquire. "I calculate, that I have about 32,000 acres belonging to me altogether in a ring fence, including commons, waste land, etc.
This letter was almost certainly written from the Devon County Prison at Exeter, where Lopes was serving the sentence of two years imprisonment passed on him in the King's Bench Division on 13 November 1819 for outrageous electoral bribery, both at Grampound in Cornwall and at Barnstaple.
See included notes in Book called "Jamaican Ancestry"
In her will dated 9 Jul 1831, Dame Charlotte Lopes stated: "I do by Virtue and in exercise of the power given and vested in me in and by the last Will and Testament of my late deceased Husband Sir Manasseh Masseh LOPES, Baronet, bearing date the twenty first day of November One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, Give direct and appoint Ten thousand pounds Stock South Sea Annuities" to the following:
Niece Rebecca Lopes Barton, of Plymouth, widow, £1,000 of the stock annuities and each other 3 children now living £100 stock annuities.
Niece Abby Emma Radcliffe, wife of the Rev. Walter Radcliffe, £1,000 of the stock annuities and each of their 6 children £100 stock annuities.
Niece Leah otherwise Lydia Basden, wife of Charles Basden, Esq., £1,000 of the stock annuities and each of their 2 children £100 stock annuities.
Nephew Mordet otherwise Mordecai Pereira £500 of the stock annuities, and "each of his children by his present wife now living" £100 stock annuities.
Niece Abigail otherwise Ann Locke wife of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Locke, £500 of the stock annuities and each of their 2 children £100 stock annuities.
Nephew Manasseh Lopes Pereira, Colonel in the Hon. East India Co., £150 "out of and from my Residuary estate," and each of his 2 sons £100 stock annuities.
Nephew Isaac Pereira, £100 of the stock annuities and each of his 6 children £100 stock annuities. She also gave to Isaac £360 from her residuary estate.
Niece Rebecca Cowper, wife of Henry Cowper, Esq., £500 of the stock annuities and each of their 3 sons £100 stock annuities.
The 3 sons of my nephew Sir Ralph Lopes Baronet £300 of the stock annuities
"Also I give and bequeath, direct, limit, and appoint unto the said Sir Ralph LOPES and Walter RADCLIFFE and George HUNT of Plymouth, aforesaid Gentleman [sic], the sum of One thousand and four hundred pounds Stock, other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities, Upon trust
nevertheless and to and for the uses, ends, interests, and purposes following, that is to say Upon trust for the sole use and benefit of my niece Sarah ALBERT, Wife of William John ALBERT, Esquire, separate and apart from her said Husband, so that he shall have no control, power, or disposition over the same. And I do authorize and empower my said trustees to pay unto or for the use of the said Sarah ALBERT the whole or such part or parts of the said one thousand and four hundred pounds stock at such time and times and in such manner as they in their discretion shall deem meet and that the receipt and receipts of the said Sarah ALBERT alone from time to time shall be a good and sufficient discharge to my said trustees for payment thereof, and in case the whole of the said One thousand and four hundred pounds stock shall not be paid, applied, and disposed of in the lifetime of the said Sarah ALBERT, then I direct that the residue or remaining part of the said one thousand and four hundred pounds stock so unapplied and not disposed of shall be paid to such person or persons as the said Sarah ALBERT shall by any deed or deeds or by her last Will and Testament in writing, direct, appoint, and in default of such direction or appointment, then to be divided amongst her then surviving children equally between them share and share alike. Also I give and bequeath, direct, limit, and appoint unto each of the daughters of my said niece Sarah ALBERT now living the sum of one hundred pounds stock, other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities, on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years.""I do hereby declare that the several Legatees before named are children or Grandchildren of Rachel PEREIRA and Esther FRANCO two of the sisters of my late deceased husband Sir Manasseh Masseh LOPES Baronet."
"Also I give and bequeath all my Jewels, Diamonds, Watches, Rings, Plate and Plates, Wards, and Trinkets of every kind and description unto the said Sir Ralph LOPES Walter RADCLIFFE and George HUNT Upon trust nevertheless to sell and dispose of the same by private contract or public sale according to their discretion and as to them shall seem meet and the monis arising therefrom and
thereby I give and bequeath unto Susan Gibbs LOPES the Wife of my said nephew Sir Ralph LOPES the said Rebecca Lopes BARTON Abby Emma RADCLIFFE and Leah otherwise Lydia BASDEN to be equally divided between them share and share alike.""I Give and bequeath unto Theresa PERIRA the widow of my late Nephew Benjamin PEREIRA the sum of fifty pounds."
She gave to her executors, Sir Ralph LOPES, Walter RADCLIFFE, and George HUNT, £100 each.
"And I give unto the said Walter RADCLIFFE the large Looking Glass in the Drawing Room of the House in Saint Andrews Terrace, Plymouth in which I now reside."
All the Rest Residue and Remainder of my monies, securities for monies, monies in the Public stocks or funds, and all other my Personal and Testamentary estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and not herein before by this my Will given or disposed of I give and bequeath (subject nevertheless to the payment of my just debts funeral expeces and the charges of proving this Will) unto the said Rebecca Lopes BARTON Abby Emma RADCLIFFE and Leah otherwise Lydia BA to be equally divided between them share and share alike and to their several and respective executors and assigns."
"In Witness whereof I the said Dame Charlotte LOPES have to this my last Will and Testament and to a Duplicate hereof (each contained in five sheets of paper) set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say my hand to each of the four preceding sheets and my hand and seal to this fifth and last sheet hereof the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one - C LOPES (LS) -"
Will of Dame Charlotte LOPES, Plymouth, Devon, Widow.
Dated: 9 Jul 1831, Proved: 11 Jun 1833 [PCC]
PRO Ref: PROB11/1817/389
This is the last Will and Testament of me
Dame Charlotte LOPES of Plymouth in the County of Devon Widow
First3 I do by Virtue and in exercise of the power given and vested in me in and by the last Will and Testament of my late deceased Husband Sir Manasseh Masseh LOPES Baronet bearing date the twenty first day of November One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Give direct and appoint Ten thousand pounds Stock South Sea [x]4 Annuities which I am empowered to do in and by the said Will unto such person and persons and upon such trusts as are hereinafter mentioned concerning the same that is to say I Give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto my niece Rebecca Lopes BARTON of Plymouth aforesaid Widow One thousand pounds Stock part of the said ten thousand pounds Stock South Sea Annuities and I also give and bequeath direct and limit and appoint unto each of her three Children now living one hundred pounds Stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds Stock and to be paid to them on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years and in case either of the said Children shall die before attaining that age then the share or shares of the said child or children so dying shall go to and be paid to the survivors or survivor of them and to be equally divided between them on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto my niece Abby Emma RADCLIFFE Wife of the Reverend Walter RADCLIFFE the like sum of One thousand pounds Stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities And I also give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto each of their six Children now living One hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock and to be paid to them on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto my niece Leah otherwise Lydia BASDEN Wife of Charles BASDEN Esquire a Commander in the Royal Navy the like sum of one thousand pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities and I also give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto their two Children now living one hundred pounds Stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years I give and bequeath direct and limit and appoint unto my Nephew Mordet otherwise Mordecai PEREIRA the sum of five hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pound stock South Sea Annuities And I also give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto each of his children by his present Wife now living the sum of one hundred pounds stock other part of the said South Sea stock on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto my niece Abigail otherwise Ann LOCKE Wife of the Reverend Doctor Samuel LOCKE the sum of five hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities And I also give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto their two children now living one hundred pounds stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds Stock on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath unto my nephew Manasseh Lopes PEREIRA a Colonel in the Honorable East India Company's Service the sum of four hundred and fifty pounds to be paid and payable to him out of and from my Residuary estate And I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto his two sons now living one hundred pounds stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath direct and limit and appoint unto my nephew Isaac PEREIRA the sum of one hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities I also give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto his six children now living the sum of one hundred pounds stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath unto the said Isaac PEREIRA the sum of three hundred and sixty pounds to be paid and payable to him out of my Residuary Estate Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto my niece Rebecca COWPER Wife of Henry COWPER Esquire the sum of five hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities And I do hereby direct that her receipt alone notwithstanding her coverture5 shall be a good and sufficient discharge to the person
or persons paying the same Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto the three sons of the said Rebecca and Henry CO WPER now living the sum of One hundred pounds stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds Stock on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto the three sons of my nephew Sir Ralph LOPES Baronet now living the sum of three hundred pounds stock each other part of the said ten thousand pounds
stock South Sea Annuities on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto the said Sir Ralph LOPES and Walter RADCLIFFE and George HUNT of Plymouth aforesaid Gentleman [sic] the sum of One thousand and four hundred pounds Stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities Upon trust nevertheless and to and for the uses ends interests and purposes following that is to say Upon trust for the sole use and benefit of my niece Sarah ALBERT Wife of William John ALBERT Esquire separate and apart from her said Husband so that he shall have no control power or disposition over the same And I do authorize and empower my said trustees to pay unto or for the use of the said Sarah ALBERT the whole or such part or parts of the said one thousand and four hundred pounds stock at such time and times and in such manner as they in their discretion shall deem meet and that the receipt and receipts of the said Sarah ALBERT alone from time to time shall be a good and sufficient discharge to my said trustees for payment thereof and in case the whole of the said One thousand and four hundred pounds stock shall not be paid applied and disposed of in the lifetime of the said Sarah ALBERT then I direct that the residue or remaining part of the said one thousand and four hundred pounds stock so unapplied and not disposed of shall be paid to such person or persons as the said Sarah ALBERT shall by any deed or deeds or by her last Will and Testament in writing director appoint and in default of such direction or appointment then to be divided amongst her then surviving children equally between them share and share alike Also I give and bequeath direct limit and appoint unto each of the daughters of my said niece Sarah ALBERT now living the sum of one hundred pounds stock other part of the said ten thousand pounds stock South Sea Annuities on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years And I do will and direct that in case any or either of the children of my said nephews and nieces shall die before their respective Legacies of one hundred pounds stock South Sea Annuities shall become due and payable then and in that case the Legacy and Legacies of such child and children so dying shall go and be paid applied and divided amongst his her or their surviving Brothers and Sisters equally between them on their attaining their respective ages of twenty one years and I do hereby declare that the several Legatees before named are children or Grandchildren of Rachel PEREIRA and Esther FRANCO two of the sisters of my late deceased husband Sir Manasseh Masseh LOPES Baronet also I give and bequeath all my Jewels Diamonds Watches Rings Plate and Plates Wards and Trinkets of every kind and description unto the said Sir Ralph LOPES Walter RADCLIFFE and George HUNT Upon trust nevertheless to sell and dispose of the same by private contract or public sale according to their discretion and as to them shall seem meet and the monis arising therefrom and thereby I give and bequeath unto Susan Gibbs LOPES the Wife of my said nephew Sir Ralph LOPES the said Rebecca Lopes BARTON Abby Emma RADCLIFFE and Leah otherwise Lydia BASDEN to be equally divided between them share and share alike Subject nevertheless to the payment of such monies as my Residuary Estate shall be insufficient to pay and satisfy I Give and bequeath unto Theresa PERIRA the widow of my late Nephew Benjamin PEREIRA the sum of fifty pounds And I give and bequeath unto my Executors hereinafter named the sum of one hundred pounds each
And I give unto the said Walter RADCLIFFE the large Looking Glass in the Drawing Room of the House in Saint Andrews Terrace Plymouth in which I now reside All the Rest Residue and Remainder of my monies securities for monies monies in the Public stocks or funds and all other my Personal and Testamentary estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever and not hereinbefore by this my Will given or disposed of I give and bequeath (subject nevertheless to the payment of my just debts funeral expeces and the charges of proving this Will) unto the said Rebecca Lopes BARTON Abby Emma RADCLIFFE and Leah otherwise Lydia BA to be equally divided between them share and share alike and to their several and respective executors and assigns Provided always and I do hereby declare my mind and Will to be that if either of the trustees named in this my Will should die or be desirous of being discharged from the said trust or refuse or neglet to act in the execution of the same it shall be lawful for the surviving trustee or trustees or the executors adm[inistrat]ors or assigns of such surviving trustee by any deed or deeds writing or writings under his hand and seal attested by two or more credible witnesses to nominate or appoint some other person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in place of the trustee or trustees so dying or desiring to be discharged or refusing or neglecting to act as aforesaid and every new trustee to be appointed shall have the same powers and authorities as he would have had if he had been appointed a trustee in this my Will and that it shall be lawful for my said trustees to deduct and reinburse themselves all costs charges and expenses as they may sustain or be put unto attending the management of the trusts hereby reposed in them out of the trust monies which shall come to their hands and that none of them shall be answerable for the other or others of them or the receipts acts deeds neglects or defaults of the other or others of them or for signing receipts for the sake of conformity or for any more money than they shall actually receive or for any loss or misfortune which may happen in the execution of the said trusts unless the same shall happen by or through their wilful default or neglect And Lastly I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said Sir Ralph LOPES Walter RADCLIFFE and George HUNT Executors of this my Will hereby revoking and making void all former and other Wills by me made at any time heretofore made and I do make publish and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I the said Dame Charlotte LOPES have to this my last Will and Testament and to a Duplicate hereof (each contained in five sheets of paper) set my hand and seal in manner following that is to say my hand to each of the four preceding sheets and my hand and seal to this fifth and last sheet hereof the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one - C LOPES (LS) - Signed sealed published and declared by the said Dame Charlotte LOPES (the testatrix) as and for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto set our names as Witnesses -
Warwick A HUNT of Plymouth Att[orne]y at Law----
Henry T BARNES of Plymo[uth] Serivener./~
Proved at London 11th June 1833 before the Judge by the Oaths of Sir Ralph LOPES Baronet The Reverend Walter RADCLIFFE Clerk6 and George HUNT Esquire the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having first sworn the said Sir Ralph LOPES Baronet and The Reverend Walter RADCLIFFE Clerk before the Worshipful John DAUBENY Doctor of Laws and Surrogate and the said George HUNT Esquire (by Comm[issi]on)
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Marriage Notes for Manasseh Masseh Lopez and Charlotte Yeates
MARRIAGE: Peter T.Pereira sent photocopy of Marriage Certificate + cutting from Pevsner and Williamson Second edition 1994 on Horton on 23 Apr, 2004 :
This is Horton, Somerset where the local church was St.Peter [Telecon George Edward Lopes 20 April, 2009 ADP]
Manaseh Lopes of this Parish Batchelor and Charlotte Yates of the Parish of St Pancras, Middlesex were Married in this Church by Licence this nineteenth Day of October in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety-five by me Thomas Roberts Rector
This Marriage was folemnized between us{M. Lopes
{Charlotte Yeates
In the Prefence of Richd Bullock, Sarah Roberts, Mary Anne RobertsThe below paragraph was based on the assumption that the marriage took place in Horton, Buckinghamshire - George Lopes stated that Sir MML owned lands in Horton, Somerset and passed these on to his nephew Ralph Franco as part of his inheritance.
"Buckinghamshire" Ref. Pevsner and Williamson Second edition 1994 HORTON
Marooned among the gravel pits and reservoirs just beyond the Greater London boundary.
ST MICHAEL, Stanwell Road A sumptuous Norman N doorway. …"
PTP "Manasseh Masseh Lopes married Charlotte Yates at Horton on 19th October 1795 The A.A. Road Atlas of Great Britain shows 11 places with the name Horton. The above-named Horton, Buckinghamshire was transferred to the County of Berkshire in 1974"
NOTE Manasseh b.27Jan, 1755 Jamaica, Charlotte b.circa 1761 so he 40 and she 34The Maristow Succession
Collated August 1999 from Information Researched by Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press
References : Accession 874 (PWDRO) Maristow Archive Collection
Vivian, Visitations of Devon 1887
Jewers, Heraldic and Genealogical Notes from S.Devon Churches Volume 1. 1885
Worthy, Devonshire Parishes Volume 1, 1887
Hoskins, Old Devon 1966 and Miscellaneous Sources
Sir James Modyford Heywood was buried 22 April 1798 at Bickleigh. His memorial, now lost, apparently did not record his age. The name of his wife, and where he married, is not known.The co-heiresses jointly sold the Estate to Manasseh Massey Lopes in 1798. He was descended from a Jamaican jewish (j not J) family. But what, precisely, linked the Lopes family to the Modyfords – the "Jamaican connection" which must presumably have led to the purchase of Maristow by Sir M.M. Lopes – is not clear. Co-heiresses (four daughters) of the above (James Modyford Heywood); Sophie C. Musters, Emma Bertie, Maria H. Montolieu and Frances Hunter.
DEATH: First name(s) �tab�Ester
Last name �tab�Franco
Death year �tab�1819
Residence �tab�HAXTER LODGE
County �tab�DEVON
Court �tab�Canterbury Prerogative Court
Record set �tab�Index to Death Duty Registers 1796-1903
TNA ref �tab�IR27/28
Category «tab»Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection «tab»Wills & probate
Collections from «tab»Great BritainThe Exeter Flying Post Obituary Dated 1st July 1819
"Suddenly, on Friday morning last, at her father's house in Arlington Street, London, age 24, esther, daughter of Sir M.M. Lopes, Bart., of Maristowe in this County"
Friday is calculated as 25th June, 1819
email PTP 26 Sep, 2007aged 24 daughter of Sir MMLopes Bart of Maristowe and hence borne before 1 Jul 1795
may not have been biological daughter as the (adoptive) parents' marriage was late in 1795
she was probably a niece Esther Franco #745 named after her mother who died soon after the birthAs both her parents died before 1800 it is safe to assume that Esther 1409 and Esther 745 are the same person
Possible marriage from IGI
ABRAHAM FRANCO Spouse: FRANCES CHAUVETTE
Marriage: 05 SEP 1796 India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency,,Misc, , , India1st July 1799 Abraham Franco died in Lucknow, India
Bengal burials checked from 1793-1804: No entry found
Marriage Notes for Esther Lopez and Abraham Franco
MARRIAGE: Actual marriage recorded as Ester Lopes on 18 IYAR 5545, which is equivalent to 28 April, 1785
Bevis Marks Synagogue, Abstracts of Ketubah in the Registers
Abraham Franco the son of Raphael Franco married Ester Lopes the daughter of Mordecai Rodrigues Lopes on 18 Iyar 5545 28 April l785Records of Peter Thomas Pereira of Brighton (MAN-P letter 1 Feb, 2004/PTP letter 18 Feb, 2004)
From "The Gentleman's Magazine Page 420
SIR RALPH LOPES, BART.
Jan 23. At Maristowe, near Plymouth, aged 66, Sir Ralph Lopes, the second Baronet (1805) of Maristowe House, co. Devon, and of Westbury, Wilts, M.P. for South Devonshire, a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of Devonshire and Wiltshire, and a Deputy Warden of the Stannaries.
He was bom on the 10th Sept. 1788, the only son of Abraham Franco, esq. of London, merchant, by Esther, daughter of Mordecai Rodrigues Lopes, esq. of Clapham, co. Surrey, son of Abraham Lopes, of Jamaica. On the death, March 26, 1831, of his uncle Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, sometime M.P. for Barnstaple, Grampound, and Westbury, (on whom the Baronetcy had been conferred with a special remainder,) he succeeded to the title and estates, and by royal licence granted in May following he assumed the surname and arms of Lopes.[Devon Parish Registers]
Of the four sisters of Sir Ralph, Lydia was the eldest. Rebecca, the second, married Captain Barton, R.N. Abby Emma, the third was the wife of the Rev. Walter Radcliffe, of Warleigh; and Esther, the youngest, died in 1819. Sir Ralph departed this life 26 Mar 1831 , but Lady Lopes survived until 26 Mar 1870. He was succeeded in his title and estates by Sir Massey Lopes, M.P., the present respected Baronet of Maristow.Children of this marriage shown in The Birth Register (1767-1881) of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation, London
a possible death...
Deaths Jun 1847 Franco Lydia Alderbury 8 187