will proved 15th June 1831
97. Judith Lopes Pereira d'Aguilar
received a bequest in the will of Emanuel #135 for looking after his son Jacob when in England
see his will extract on http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/Jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=358
Predeceased Joseph Barrow
Date of death from Bevis Marks Records pt6 - buried at New Cemetery
Will written 11 Aug 1797; proved 28 Sep 1798
see her will on http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/Jewish-will-extracts-18th-19th-century/?value=359
had a sister Rachel Norsa
Buried at Novo Cemetery; death from Bevis Marks Records pt6 4175
Obituary is in Gentleman's Magazine 19 Aug 1825 she was 73
aka Judah Low Pressburg and from BMR2#1451 Judah bar Simon
From the Susser Archive:
In the wake of Wolf Liepman, founder of the Westminster Synagogue, there had come over from Vienna to London his two nephews, the sons of Samuel Pressburg*, the affluent Austrian banker and Government agent. One of this couple was to play a very important part in London life in his day. This was R. Leib Pressburg, to give him the Synagogue name, known in the outside world as Baron Lyon de Symons, of Great Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, and Lower Tooting. A wealthy diamond-merchant, he was active at quite an early date in the affairs of the Great Synagogue, and his exertions in 1785 in conjunction with Rabbi Tevele Schiff, on behalf of a Jewish boy who had got into trouble, show clearly that he enjoyed valuable society connexions and influence. Indeed, "Mr. de Simon", with his uncle Wolf Liepman, Mr. (Aaron?) Franks and Mr. Moses Zunz, "at Mr. Salter's the grocer corner, in Pulteny Street", together with Mr. d'Almeida in Took's Court, Chancery Lane, and an Italian Jewish 'cellist named Graziani, were among the persons whose names Mozart's father noted down as useful connexions when he brought his son to London in 1764. Lyon de Symons married a daughter of Aaron Goldsmid's, served in all the executive offices of the Great Synagogue, and for some years before his death in 1814 was one of the outstanding characters of London Jewry. With his Continental experience and his passion for organisation, he took a leading part in many of the reforms which were to take place in these years.
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There was a portrait of Baron Lyon de Symons 1743-1814 in the possession of Mrs H. B. Lewis-Barned...........Later on, with the vast increase in the London Jewish population, the growth in the number of synagogues, and the collapse of the communal unity which had existed under Hart Lyon, anarchy again prevailed, and conditions at the close of the eighteenth century were so serious that the need for reform was urgent. A meeting of the representatives of the Ashkenazi synagogues in the City was accordingly convened on April 18th, 1792, at which Baron Lyon de Symons brought forward an entirely new and comprehensive scheme for the organisation of the Kosher meat supply. His plan envisaged the establishment of a supervisory committee on which all the London congregations (including the Spanish and Portuguese) should be represented. Under its auspices, there was to be erected a Central Hall with twenty shops for the sale of meat: while the Christian butchers who received the surplus were also to pay a small amount for each head of cattle slaughtered. The co-operation of the Sephardi community was essential for the success of the scheme: and, in forwarding them the plans and estimates, Isaac Bing, the Secretary of the Great Synagogue, pointed out that the congregation would actually save money by adopting the proposals.
* Samuel cannot have been his father - see the BMR evidence above. Perhaps his father died young and Samuel was his grandfather
Mekla Goldsmid