Ancestors of Charles Jeremy Lousada

Notes


512. Aaron Baruh Lousada

First-born son was David so father probably not Isaac #42 and perhaps his older brother. That is he was a stepson but still a (half-)sibling of the children of Isaac #42 - he describes Moses David and Abraham as brothers.

Will was written 9 May 1693 and proved 3 Oct 1695. The death date given in Shilstone ref 61 has Aaron dying 10 Oct 1695, and gives his age as 25 years, each of which seems to be an obvious mistake. The death date must lie between the will writing date and the proving date. It was almost certainly in late 1695 given his brother David received a pass on 17 Apr 1696 (ref 182) to visit Barbados. Applying the hebcal converter to 17 Tisri 5456 the gravestone date gives 26 Sep 1695 but Gregorian dates are 10 days bigger than Julian dates so the Julian date of death would be 16 Sep 1695. The origin of the age at death is unnknown - ref 61 does not give the Portuguese text for this. A common gravestone transcription error is to read a 7 as a 2; so perhaps age at death was 75.

Endenized 20 Aug 1675 (ref Wilfred Samuel). Edgar Samuel suggests he went to Barbados in 1659, since in his will he mentioned 26 years of slavery in connection with the 1685 family accounts which he did not sign.

This was the  Aaron Baruh Lousada of whom it was said (quoted by Wilfred Samuel) 'His grandson and namesake  was also a Barbados Jew, and from him (so Sir Thos. Colyer-Fergusson, the genealogist, states) are descended all the English Louzadas, including that Isaac Louzada in whose favour the Spanish dukedom “de Losada y Lousada” was revived in 1848.' There is a problem with this suggestion insofar as it relates to the first grandson Aaron #714. Aaron of Jamaica #125 and Jacob Baruh Lousada share the ancestry of the English Lousadas and these two are Jamaican. See www.barrow-lousada.org for discussion on this. Aaron #125 is a son of Emanuel #41 and he was the grandson who was the ancestor of the Lousada Dukes.


513. Rachel Gomez Henriques

Sister of Isaac Gomez Henriques as from this passage from Wilfred Samuel

The other two assessors (with Abraham Abudiente) of the 1680 Jews' Levy were ISAAC GOMEZ HENRIQUES and Abraham de Soza Mendes; the former, a brother-in-law of Aaron Baruch Louzada, was usually known as Isaac Gomez, and he, too, was one of the wealthy Barbados merchants who ultimately withdrew to London. His brothers were probably those outstanding Jamaican planters, David and Abraham Gomes Henriques, who had been endenizened there in 1668. David died in 1673 owning over 3,000 acres in that Island. Although Isaac Gomez Henriques had settled in London long before 1701, nevertheless, his wife, Benvenida (Grasia), was laid to rest in Barbados on the 31st August of that year.

From her will (included in Samuel) brother Isaac Gomez is to invest in London funds to provide a dowry for daughter (and last child) Hannah. Failing Isaac Gomez fulfilling this task Isaque Dias a nephew is to take charge of the money.

Date of birth and death (1703) from Jews of Caribbean PAF and Shilstone; Samuel however says she survived husband by 13 years; but even if he assumes Aaron dies 1693 as he did there is only an 10 year difference so there is an obvious mistake here.

Her will in Portuguese is dated 29 Oct 1703 (from Samuel)

The birthdates of the children surviving infancy are from Samuel but from Aaron's will Jacob and Emanuel didn't survive long


514. Aaron Lamego

of Jamaica but first appears as a Bank of England stockholder in 1714 and in Bevis Marks in 1716, his son Moses appears in 1731 and his grandson Jacob Lousada married there in 1743.

death date given is probate date from will ref NA 1265 synagoguescribes and also the will from National Archives

burial #967 9 Sivan 5507 converted using Hebcal


515. Rachel Acosta

she predeceased him

#968 ref 98 8 Adar 5496

possible surname indicated from Aaron's cousin Joseph Henriques -see Aaron's will extract www.barrow-lousada.org key documents though a more likely scenario is than Aaron Lamego came to Jamaica because Acosta relatives were there and his wife was an Acosta

however, since Beatriz Henriques had Acosta brothers perhaps the surnames are aliases for each other


528. Simon Michael Pressburg

this person is well known from the sources given in www.barrow-lousada.org

death date - not a primary source


529. Hannah Menzels

online genealogies confuse Hannah Menzels with Edel Drach who is sometimes suggested as a second wife (unconvincingly in view of his death date shown)


532. Moses Raphael Montefiore

birth suggested by James Greener
lived in Pesaro may have moved to Livorno 1690


533. Rachel

name suggested by James Greener