see his will extract from http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/Jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=372 uploaded to www.barrow-lousada.org go to 'key documents'
he was in Jamaica on 14 April 1743 when he witnessed the will of Abraham Rodrigues Lopes #1202 and travelled soon thereafter to London as he was married later in the same year
will signed 20 Aug 1752 and probate 23 Nov 1752 ref 85 p17
her will was litigated as reported in:
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oWQwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=lousada&source=bl&ots=M-2T8PUDbG&sig=AGEpyFQtc29oyO3kBF0CAonrAZQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBThuahUKEwi8-NHslOzIAhVC1h4KHXYvB0c#v=onepage&q=lousada&f=false
ka Diego Lopes Pereira
There are many versions of the story of Baron d'Aguilar - where the dates of his going to Vienna, the duration of his holding the Austrian tobacco monopoly, his return to England etc differ. Some versions are shown below. The text on www.barrow-lousada.org attempts to confine itself to the indisputable!
from kittybrewster
Diego (Moses) Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar. Baron of the Holy Roman Empire (cr.1726). Born Portugal 1699. Died London 10 August 1759. Buried Portuguese Jews Burial Ground, Mile End. He was a Marrano financier, born in Lisbon, Portugal, where his father held the tobacco monopoly. He himself farmed the tobacco revenue in Portugal before establishing branches of his banking house in London and Amsterdam. After the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1722 Diego Lopes Pereira followed Charles VI to London, where he established a firm in the City called Pereira and Lima. It was one of the Jewish firms which imported gold from Portugal. (Other Jewish merchants who did so included Francis Salvador and Moses Mendes da Costa.) The firm continued to prosper when in 1736 he went to Vienna, to make proposals to the then Empress to farm the tobacco and snuff duties, in which he was very successful, so much so that the Empress appointed him her cashier. Immediately on his arrival, he reverted to Judaism (i.e. probably he was circumcised; he probably practised Judaism privately already), adopting the name of Moses and championing other Jews whenever persecution threatened. To this day they hold an annual service in his honour in the Sephardi synagogue in Vienna. In 1726 the emperor created him Baron D’Aguilar, Maria Theresa made him a Privy Councillor, and he was responsible for building the imperial palace at Schönbrunn. Ultimately, the Spanish government requested the extradition of ‘this wealthy renegade’ for trial by the Holy Office. In order to avoid being returned to Portugal to face the Inquisition, in 1757 (UNLIKELY TO BE SO LATE - ONE REPORT HAS HIM IN LONDON AS EARLY AS 1749) he moved, with his fourteen children, together with his retinue of servants and slaves, to London, where he was active in the Sephardi community. Presumably the family originally came from Aguilar De Campóo, a fortress town in Castile, in the District of Palencia, northern Spain, before the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492. Matriculated his arms: Gules an eagle or beneath a plate, on a chief argent three hillocks vert on each a pear or slipped vert [Rietstap]. Married 1722 Donna Simha da Fonseca (died 1755).
In 1722 left Portugal to avoid the Inquisition and went to London to set up Pereira and Lima which imported gold from Portugal. This d'Aguilar went to Vienna in 1736 where he set up a similar tobacco monopoly to that which his family had successfully farmed in Lisbon. He became director of the Austrian tobacco monopoly. He gained the favour of Empress Maria Theresa and was appointed her Treasurer, and is said to have raised the money to build Schonbrunn.This claim isn't accurate - see below. The modifications by Empress Maria Theresa were mainly to the interior.
He was made a Baron in 1726, the first professing Jew to be ennobled in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was Privy Councillor to the crown of the Netherlands and Italy presumably the Empire's territories in Tuscany). He settled in England in 1756 with a large fortune.
See p206 of 'The Court Jew' Selma Stern Philadelphia JPSA 1950
Report for Mary Lousada on www.barrow-lousada.org shows many more than 5 children but no Samuel d'Aguilar
The golden age of Schonbrunn began with Maria Teresa of Austria ( 1717-1780) and was only to end with the definite decline of the Hapsburg empire. The empress commissioned court architect Nikolaus von Pacassi with the remaining works, which were completed between 1746 and 1749. he concentrated on the interiors, lightening the original Baroque style with many touches of Rococo. The Great and Small Galleries were completed to be used as receptions and, at Maria Teresa's personal request, a court theater was built as an addition to the original plans. The park too was finally completed and took on the appearance it still has today.
http://www.castles.org/castles/Europe/Central_Europe/Austria/austria4.htmfrom http://www.turkofamerica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=552&Itemid=174 we get further variations on the story of Baron d'Aguilar:
According to the tale, a child named Mose Lopez Perera, in Madrid, is taken away from his family and is converted to Christianity. His name is changed to Diego d’Aguilar and he is trained as a priest. Diego, who speedily progresses in his education, becomes one of the passionate defenders of Inquisition and becomes a bishop. Mose Lopez’s mother and his sister are Marranos, converted Jews who secretly continue practicing their faith. His sister is caught as a result of denunciation, tried, and sentenced to be burned alive (Auto de Fe). One day before the execution, the hopeless and sorrowful mother visits Bishop Diego d’Aguilar and begs for the forgiveness of her daughter. However, the bishop rejects this request. In despair, the mother tells the Bishop the truth, that she is his mother, the convicted is his sister, and that his real name is Mose Lopez. This name instills many memories from childhood in the mind of the young priest. Sobbing greatly, the bishop leaves the palace running; however, it is already too late. His sister has lost her life in a tragic way. As he has taken off and thrown away his bishop’s clothes, Diego –or Mose -- can not stay in the country any longer. Escaping from there, he goes to Austria, where Maria-Teresa, who, as Archduchess, had given a golden chain to him during her visit to Madrid with her father Emperor Charles VI, is now reigning as Empress. The Empress allows Mose and a few more Jewish people that were able to escape with him to stay in and take refuge in her country and to practice their religion freely. ACCORDING TO THE ENCYLOPEDIA JUDAICA The plot of this story is different in the Encyclopedia Judaica and in historical research. According to the Encyclopedia, Mose Lopez Pereira was born in 1699 in Portugal as the son of a ‘Marrano’ banker. The father, Pereira, was privileged to hold the monopoly in the tobacco business. As it was difficult to secretly live as a Jew (this is referred to as being a ‘Marrano’) in Portugal, Diego first migrated to London in 1722, and, then, to Vienna. Renouncing Christianity, Diego returned to practicing Judaism and using his birth name, Mose (Moses) Lopez Pereira. From 1723 to 1739, Mose Lopez had control of the Austrian State Tobacco Monopoly, acquired by the exchange of 7 million florins, and he received the title of Baron in 1726. Meanwhile, he contributed to the construction of the Schönbrunn Palace in the amount of 300,000 florins. Appointed to the Palace as a specialist consultant with the title of Hofjude (Jew in the Palace), Lopez used his influence not only in Austria but also in other countries in order to protect the lives and rights of his fellow coreligionists. He helped the Jews in Moravia in 1742, in Prague in 1744, in Mandua and Belgrade in 1752. There are Hebrew writings, which reads ‘Mose Lopez Pereire – 5498’ (1737-1738), on the decorations of a silver Sefer Torah crown that was found in the Vienna Synagogue. Until it was destroyed in 1938, prayers were read in the synagogue on behalf of him, as the founder of the community, on the major fasting day of Yom Kippur.
Yet another version is from:
http://iamthewitness.com/books/Cecil.Roth/A.History.of.the.Jews.in.England/P.13.Additional.Notes.htm
Another noteworthy case was that of Diego Lopez Pereira (d. 1759), who had farmed the tobacco revenue in Portugal, established branches of his banking house in London and Amsterdam, and after the War of the Spanish Succession followed Charles VI to Vienna to administer the tobacco retie. Immediately on his arrival he declared his allegiance to Judaism, adopting the name of Moses and proving a constant champion for his brothers in faith at an time when persecution threatened. The emperor created him Baron D'Aguilar; Maria Theresa made him a privy councillor; and he was responsible for the rebuilding of the imperial palace at Schonbrunn. Ultimately the Spanish government requested the extradition of this wealthy renegade for trial by the Holy Office. He then settled in London with his fourteen children and his retinue of servants and slaves. His son, Ephraim Lopez Pereira (d.1802), succeeded to his title and his fortune, and became notorious as the miserly proprietor of 'Starvation Farm' at Islington. (R.E.J.xcvii. 115 sqq.; Wilson, Wonderful Characters, ii. 92-7.). (200)From http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2015/04/jews-habsburg-tobacco-monopoly/ can be found the following information: A new vice entered Central Europe during the Thirty-Years War (1618-48) via English soldiers. Although opposed by the Catholic and Protestant churches as well as traditional rabbis, tobacco was rapidly adopted by soldiers of both sides of the conflict and through them disseminated to the general population. In the second half of the seventeenth century, the countries north of the Alps began organizing a tobacco trade. In 1701, the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I published a general charter for all his provinces, where he declared that tobacco trade and production was to be a state monopoly. Like the Spanish king, he embraced tobacco as a taxable commodity and source of revenue for the crown. The revenues generated by tobacco taxes did not live up to the hopes of the Emperor and his Treasury, and the Treasury decided in 1722 to set up its own tobacco factories, as was standard in the Western European countries. The first and primary factory was erected in September 1722 in Hainburg (Lower Austria) with Baussart von Sonnenfeld, a Privy Councillor at the Imperial Treasury, as its first director. In 1723, the Treasury expanded its tobacco bureaucracy across the Empire, establishing provincial branches of the central tobacco administration in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Upper Austria, Styria-Carinthia, Carinola and the Austrian Littoral (i.e. the area of Trieste, Istria and Gorizia). The erection of state-owned factories, provincial and district administration offices, all manned by properly paid civil servants was expected to be the first step toward proper organization of the tobacco monopoly in the Habsburg Monarchy. However, shortcomings on the local level resulted in corruption, rising prices and a simultaneous decrease in product quality. These shortcomings lend to an enhanced black market trade and Charles VI (1685-1740) invited to Vienna Diego Lopes Pereira to bring order to the marketplace. His family had been active in the tobacco business since 1653 and Diego learned the business in Portugal from his father Manuel. He quickly pinpointed the deficiencies in the organization of the Habsburg monopoly after his arrival in Vienna in 1725. He elaborated a plan, according to which he would lease the monopoly for the whole Monarchy for eight years (enough time for efficient restructuring), paying an annual rent beyond the profit of the best year. In return, he stipulated terms that would allow him to effectively eradicate the reigning defects and deficits. The Court Treasury dismissed the propositions; partly because of economic conservatism, partly because of anti-Semitism. They were scandalized by the idea of a Jew ruling over Austrian civil servants. Moreover, they conjured the threat of him infiltrating Austrian tobacco trade with huge numbers of Jews that would considerably augment the (legally restricted) number of Jews residing in the Bohemian Lands. After two months of tedious negotiations, leasing the monopoly for the whole Monarchy was agreed, together with a Christian companion (Marchese Carignani), for a yearly rent of 400,000 florins during the first five years and 500,000 florins during the remaining three years. Furthermore, he and Carignani had to sign a Letter of Commitment neither to employ Jews in the administration nor in points of sale; for retail sale, they were permitted to use the services of Jews who were legal residents of the Habsburg Monarchy. Despite much resistance, Diego Lopes Pereira provided the Imperial Treasury with constantly growing revenue for almost 25 years.
birth and death dates from some of the children from Mason Family Tree on ancestry.com
25 Iyer 5561 death #280 from ref 61 www.barrow-lousada.org which also gives an analysis of conflicting data about the life and death of Simon Barrow of Barbados
His will was 'entered' on 21 May 1801 in Barbados (see Frank Cheesman's notes on www.barrow-lousada.org). Though this death date precedes the entry of the will by 13 days, this is - as today - a very short time to have probate proven but perhaps there were no challenges.
A probable red herring is that geni.com gives Judith Lumbroso de Matos Mocatta #65 as his wife - and certainly this reference gives the same parents (of the two brothers Abraham and Jacob Lumbroso de Matos Mocatta plus the 2 daughters Judith and Gracia Lumbroso de Matos Mocatta) as the two parents of Abraham and Jacob as nominated by manfamily.org ie Moses Lambroso de Mattos and Rebecca Sarah Mocatta. However, geni.com also gives the Judith's husband's lifespan as 1705-59 and geni.com also gives the husband of Judith Lumbroso de Matos Mocatta as an Ashkenazi Jew emigrating to the US in the 1800s and so we should probably dismiss this particular candidate for the first wife of our Simon Barrow.
spelling from family records (rear of image of Simon Barrow of Bath held by Peter Barrow) see www.barrow-lousada.org - go to image of Simon Barrow of Bath. Peerage.com has Isabel Montefiore as the wife of Simon Barrow 1 and so does the Barrow family tree.
death of Bella from ref 61 www.barrow-lousada.org #281
We are seeking confirmation for our conjecture that she was a sister of the first English Montefiore!
Edgar Samuel provided the following information on her gravestone inscription:
Simon's wife Bella died (281) on 1st October 1773 aged 53. They are buried side by side in Bridgetown, Barbados cemetery.
In the Hebrew epitaph on her tombstone, which he obviously drafted, his name is given as Shimon bar Baruch, which is the Ashkenasi form for 'Simon son of Baruch'.
by email 5 May 2013
also called Semaya
Death from ref 88 www.barrow-lousada.org is given as 7 Mar or May 1768 buried Hunts Bay. (Ref 81 of www.barrow-lousada.org shows wife of Aaron as Grace 1718-23 Oct 1737 but this is Aaron Hezekiah Haim Baruh Lousada #1174.
He was a Kingston merchant - who willed his wife Rachel 4000 pounds and 6 of his black house servants on the condition that she remain a widow (ref 89 of www.barrow-lousada.org). He owned 140 acres in St John Parish 1754 ref 45 p219.
Aaron #125 rates no mention in the will of his probable cousin Aaron Lousada #1174 d1768 and neither does he appear in the will of Aaron Lamego. However, there seems to be clear evidence that he was the son of Esther Lamego in the will of Esther Lamego #386 which is on www.barrow-lousada.org - perhaps there were other reasons for this omission eg that he was amply provided for elsewhere and perhaps when he came of age in 1727 he was given the family business in Jamaica when Aaron Lamego and his sons Isaac and Moses went to London.
Simon Greenfield pointed out that in the will of Daniel Mendes da Costa there is a bequest to his son-in-law suggesting Aaron was alive then as does another bequest in the 1764 will of his brother-in-law Isaac Mendes da Costa. This is consistent with the 1768 date given in ref 88 and 89 above.
Daughter of Daniel Mendes da Costa of Kingston and sister of Isaac Mendes da Costa of London. The 22 Dec 1789 date of death is from ref 88 www.barrow-lousada.org #227.
The notes of the great-great-great-granddaughter of the first Lousada Duke in the Molyneux -Seel papers (ref 34 www.barrow-lousada.org) suggest Rachel died in 1807 at Kingston. Inspection of the will shows that it was proved in London at that time and hence that the date of proving the will was confused with the much-earlier death date.