36. Guershon aka George Baruh Lousada
death and burial from ref 85 www.barrow-lousada.org which also records that he trained as an architect under David Mocatta ref 80 www.barrow-lousada.org but then became a stockbroker
birth death and burial from ref 85 www.barrow-lousada.org
Marriage Notes for Guershon aka George Baruh Lousada and Juliana Goldsmid
Marriage from JGSGB
Birth date estimated from JGSGB - aged 22 at marriage
Merchant - JGSGB
Birth date estimated from age 33 at marriage
Marriage Notes for Ada Juliana Lousada and Daniel Charles Stiebel
Marriage from JGSGB
the same marriage date but 6 Gloucester Terrace is given in Descendants of Israel Israel - which also suggests she married someone else before she married Daniel C Stiebel
From Israel Israel descendants, there were 4 children - Evelyn, Florence, Charles, and Arthur b27 Feb 1875 d 15 Feb 1949 m Frances Lucas 1906
Birthdate from ref 85 www.barrow-lousada.org
Norfolk Reg.
Peter Lousada reported she is descended from Edward 3 and has a pedigree to this effect
married a widower with 2 sons according family records - Anthony Gordon (email 2 may 2012)
from family records (Peter Lousada email 1 May 2012), there is a "French" story that a member of the family brought Napoleon III into exile in Kent which accounts for the "fact" that Napoleon I's campaign cutlery chest was presented to the British Museum by a Lousada. The donor was rumoured to be William Poulet Lousada, MC, Major, Royal Norfolks and man about town. He continued to drive a four-in hand around London well after 1918; until he ran out of money and had to marry a rich widow. The rich widow probably was a Mrs. Lloyd from N. Wales (4000 acres!) and changed her name to Lloyd Lousada but failed to leave him any money when she died before him. He died at Hove. A good friend can remember being taken to tea in his youth with Mrs. LL and described her as a grande dame.
Peter Lousada email 8 Dec 2015 added:
It is rumoured, and today I am the monger, that Great Uncle Willie Lousada, MC, Royal Norfolk Regiment, acquired from someone in the family the Chest of Cutlery (which Napoleon I would have taken to Russia on his ill-fated campaign to Russia) and Willie gave it to the British Museum. I have not checked but that seems a bit unlikely as Willie never had much money and had married a chorus girl called Flossie, so was perpetually short of readies. He would surely have sold it, if he ever had it. He was last heard of retired in Hove (near Brighton) where he took great delight in beating the young tearaways from the traffic lights in his supercharged Morris Minor. It must have reminded him of the glory days when he drove fairly fast cars at Brooklands and a four-in-hand around London. The story of where the chest came from is even more of a rumour but it was said that the Duke of L was an equerry to Napoleon III and he brought Empress Eugenie to London when things got too hot for the royal couple in Paris, together with the chest. As you know, they set up Court at Chislehurst in Kent. I never really believed all that stuff and tried to check on it when staying at a large house in the country which had a full set of "Illustrated London News" of the period. No mention of any Lousada, nor of any particular Equerry! Nor of a K,F,S and mug which had gone missing!
Memorial Leckhampton on his father's grave and Menin Gate
death from ref 85 www.barrow-lousada.org (notes below say 2 Nov)
following notes from Peter Lousada 2011
of Shelburne Hall, Lansdown Rd, Cheltenham
Lt Royal 2nd Sussex Reg.
Educated Cheltenham College 1903-7
RMC Sandhurst
commissioned 2nd Lt Royal Sussex Reg. Feb 1909
Promoted Lt Oct 1910
Went to France with 1st Div Aug 1914
Killed during desparate battles of Oct and Nov to deny the city of Ypres to the Germans
Has no known grave
There is a photograph of him in 'The Graphic' of 19 Sep 1909 en route to India
Brother Bertie and brother-in-law Capt. OWE Bannerman also killed WW1
Bertie and twin Edward both killed in WW1
Memorial Leckhampton on his father's grave, at Menin Gate, and RMC chapel
following notes from Peter Lousada 2011
educated Cheltenham College 1903-7
RMC Sandhurst
6 Feb 1909 commissioned 1st btn. York & Lancas Reg.
Promoted Lt 1 Sep 1911
Adjutant in 1914 in Jubbulpore India
left Bombay for France arriving Jan 1915
At beginning of May during 2nd battle for Ypres his Reg was part of 28th Div one of only 2 between Ypres and the German Army
Under the heaviest of artillery bombardments the Division fought to a standstill losing 128 officers and 4379 men between 23 Apr and 9 may
killed near Zonnebecke
no known grave
brother Edward Arthur and brother-in-law OWE Bannerman also killed WW1
Cousin of Sir Moses Montefiore
Baptized Barbados 27 June 1800 (from Barbados Settlers database on ancestry.com)
Merchant of Barbados and Brussels
twin of Walter Jacob Levi - Henry Roche email 20 Jan 2015
Marriage Notes for Esther Hannah Montefiore and Isaac Jacob Levi
marriage from ref 132 www.barrow-lousada.org #54 noting that there seems to be a typo given that the marriages are in date order with #53 1816 and #55 1818
Adopted the Montefiore surname like his brother Eliezer
MONTEFIORE, JACOB LEVI (1819-1885), merchant and financier, was born on 11 January 1819 at Bridgetown, Barbados, son of Isaac Levi and his wife Esther Hannah, née Montefiore; a member of a notable Sephardi family, she was a first cousin of Sir Moses Montefiore and connected to the Rothschilds by marriage. Jacob and his brothers adopted the name of Montefiore. After his father died in 1837 Jacob decided to join his uncle, J. B. Montefiore, in New South Wales and reached Sydney in the Lord William Bentinck in October. Jacob soon started trading on his own account. Well educated, he wrote plays including The Duel which he translated from the French; it was performed at the Theatre Royal in 1843. His operatic libretto, John of Austria, was set to music by Isaac Nathan and performed in 1847. In 1844 he visited England and on his return in 1845 became a partner of the wealthy Scot, Robert Graham. Montefiore, Graham & Co. soon opened a branch in Brisbane and in 1849 another in Melbourne where Jacob's brother Eliezer took charge. The firm also acquired a total of 270,000 acres (109,266 ha) of leasehold in the districts of Gwydir, New England, Moreton Bay, Wellington and in 1855 George Mocatta's runs in the Burnett; they were all transferred to Montefiore in 1861 when the partnership was dissolved.
Fascinated by political economy, Montefiore in 1853 was chairman of the committee which opposed Wentworth's constitution, thereby becoming a lifelong friend and sometimes creditor of Henry Parkes. In May 1856 Montefiore was nominated to the Legislative Council. In his pamphlet, A Few Words upon the Finance of New South Wales, addressed to the members of the First Parliament, he advocated a tax on unproductive land to encourage farming, reduce land speculation and provide revenue; he also recommended a central or national bank and a railway from Sydney to Melbourne. In 1861 he published Catechism of the Rudiments of Political Economy, 'an unanswerable defence' of free trade.
By 1855 Montefiore was a director of the Bank of Australasia, a committee member of the Chamber of Commerce in 1856 and a director of the New South Wales Marine Assurance Co. from 1857. In 1858 he arranged in London for Baron Rothschild to finance railway construction in the colony but Charles Cowper delayed in submitting the scheme to parliament. Montefiore was one of Sydney's foremost businessmen. He had become a magistrate in 1857, joined the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, and from 1863 was the Belgian Consul. Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in 1866-69 and 1874-75, he led its campaign for extending electric telegraphs and for a Pacific mail service. He was a founder of the City Bank and chairman in 1863-70, founding chairman of the Pacific Fire and Marine Insurance Co. formed with colonial capital in 1862, a director of the Sydney Exchange Co., the Australian Gaslight Co., the Moruya Silver Mining Co., the Tomago Coal Mining Co., the Glanmire Gold Mining Co. and the Northern Rivers' Sugar Co. In the 1870s he was chairman of the New Wallsend Coal Co. and a director of the Mutual Life Association of Australasia. In 1862-65 he traded on his own and lived at Birchgrove House, Balmain, with his brother Octavius and a cousin Herbert, whose firm was Montefiore & Montefiore. In 1866 he joined them in Montefiores & Te Kloot but in 1867 with S. A. Joseph established Montefiore, Joseph & Co. In the 1870s they were agents for the Aberdeen Clipper Line. In 1864-72 Montefiore held 82,000 acres (33,185 ha) in the Leichhardt District and in 1870-82 Montefiore, Joseph & Co. held 135 sq. miles (350 km²) in the South Kennedy District. With J. R. Young and J. B. Rundle he held over 100 sq. miles (259 km²) on the Darling Downs.
In 1864 Montefiore had addressed a public meeting in support of free trade and dissolution of the assembly over the fiscal policy. Next year he was president of the Free Trade Association. A director of the Sydney Sailors Home, he served on the commission to plan the public reception of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. He condemned Geoffrey Eagar, colonial treasurer, for ruining the colony's credit by mismanaging the sale of debentures. In 1869 he sat on the royal commission on alleged kidnapping of natives of the Loyalty Islands. Disgusted by the Opposition he nominated George King for East Sydney in the mercantile interest, a seat that Parkes was contesting. Montefiore told Parkes that they were unlikely ever to 'think alike in politics', but in the 1872 elections he decided to abstain from any political action and offered Parkes 'to aid the cause with my purse'. Later that year he visited North America and Europe. In October 1873 he advised Parkes not to appoint Edward Butler chief justice, fearful that 'giving to the Roman Catholics the majority on the Bench will raise all churchmen throughout the country'. In 1874 Montefiore was appointed to the Legislative Council on Parkes's recommendation but resigned in 1877.
A member of the Jewish congregation from his arrival in the colony, Montefiore had advocated the claims of the Jewish community for a share in state aid to religion in 1845. In 1868 he secured official recognition by the Council of Education of the Sydney Hebrew Certified Denominational School despite opposition from James Martin. In 1876 he was a representative commissioner for Philadelphia and Melbourne Exhibitions. After a farewell banquet organized by the Chamber of Commerce and a 'handsome money testimonial', he returned to London.
In London Montefiore was a director of the Queensland National Bank and the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Co. In 1878 he joined a syndicate that offered to lay a submarine cable between Java and Cape York, the profits to be divided between the syndicate and the New South Wales government. Despite repeated appeals to Parkes the government took the advice of Sir Daniel Cooper who rejected the plan as 'absurd' and too costly. Montefiore was also a member of the Australian Transcontinental Railway Syndicate which planned a railway from Roma to the Gulf of Carpentaria in return for a land grant of 10,000 acres (4047 ha) per mile (1.6 km). However, the railway bill, introduced by Thomas McIlwraith, was defeated in the Queensland parliament on its second reading in 1883. Montefiore repeatedly asked Parkes in vain to appoint him agent-general for New South Wales and advised Parkes to take advantage of cheap money and consolidate all 'the debts of New South Wales into a permanent funded stock'. In 1880 Montefiore served on the London Commission for the Sydney International Exhibition which he had promoted.
A fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute from 1877, Montefiore missed 'that country of my adoption' but in 1881 wrote to Parkes that 'It may be you are right that I could have been more useful out there than I can be here but I am afraid that the callings of ambition are in some degree the prompters for here I am lost among the millions and to court public favour is rather too costly an experiment'. He died from heart disease at his home Keir Bank, Upper Norwood, on 24 January 1885, leaving his estate to his wife Caroline Antonine Gerardine Louyet, whom he had married in London on 9 July 1851.(Insert: cemeteryscribes.com has a gravestone for him at Balls Pond Road!)
Select Bibliography
D. J. Benjamin, ‘The Sydney Hebrew Certified Denominational School’, M. Z. Forbes, ‘Jewish personalities in the movement for responsible government in New South Wales’, Australian Jewish Historical Society, Journal, 4 (1954-58); Votes and Proceedings (Legislative Assembly, New South Wales), 1858-59, 1, 93, 2, 905, 1861, 1, 833; Votes and Proceedings (Legislative Assembly, Queensland), 1862, 5, 789, 1879-80, 5, 590; Sydney Mail, 13 Feb 1864; Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Mar 1876, 28 Jan 1885; Henry Parkes letters (State Library of New South Wales); CO 201/503, 522, 526, 577, 584.Author: Martha Rutledge
Print Publication Details: Martha Rutledge, 'Montefiore, Jacob Levi (1819 - 1885)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp 270-271.
Caroline Antonine Gerardine Louzet
Surname from JewishGen.org; Australian Dictionary of Biography has Louyet
His gravestone at Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery in Islington shows his Barbados birth.
The Australian dictionary of Biography writes of Joseph Barrow Montefiore: "MONTEFIORE, JOSEPH BARROW (1803-1893), merchant and financier, was born on 24 June 1803 in London, the youngest son of Eliezer Montefiore, merchant, of Barbados and London, and his wife Judith, née Barrow. As a scion of a wealthy Sephardi family he was educated at Hurwitz's school at Highgate and at Garcia's academy at Peckham. On leaving school he was articled to a firm of London tea brokers, thus continuing in the tradition of the Montefiores of Barbados, who made their fortune in colonial trade. In 1826 he became one of the twelve 'Jew brokers' in the city of London, buying the privilege for £1500. However, being young and enterprising and with a penchant for larger speculative ventures he decided in June 1828 to emigrate to New South Wales, where he proposed to invest some £10,000 in the wool industry and the cultivation of drugs; he applied for a grant of 5000 acres (2024 ha
Recommended by the Treasury as 'most respectable' and a valuable acquisition to the colony, he arrived in Sydney in February 1829 in the Jupiter with his wife Rebecca, née Mocatta, and their two children, his partner David Ribeiro Furtado and his wife, and his brother-in-law George Mocatta. They established the trading firm J. B. Montefiore & Co., with an office in O'Connell Street. Montefiore acquired large tracts of land in New South Wales and by 1838 owned 12,502 acres (5059 ha) by grant or purchase, including Nanima station, near Wellington. Though a landowner, he never became an 'agriculturist' as he had originally intended. In partnership with his brother Jacob (1801-1895), who in 1835-39 was a member of the South Australian Colonization Commission in London, he made a large fortune in real estate, helped to found the Bank of Australasia and was one of the channels through which English capital contributed to the pastoral expansion and speculative boom of the late 1830s. Joseph B. Montefiore was one of the sponsors of the bill, which became known as the Forbes Act of 1834, advocating interest rates free from statutory limits to encourage the flow of capital into the colony: 'restrict the rate of interest', he warned a sub-committee of the Legislative Council, 'and you at once destroy the stamina of the colony'. After the depression the Montefiore firm in Sydney went bankrupt. The London firm had suspended payment in 1841 and Montefiore had returned to England
By 1844 the Montefiore brothers, assisted by numerous friends and possibly the London Rothschilds, were back in business and Joseph B. Montefiore decided to try his luck in South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide from London on 27 July 1846 bringing with him his wife, nine daughters and two sons, two servants, 'a harp, a piano and 300 packages', and soon set up in business with his nephew Eliezer Levi Montefiore as importers and shipping agents. Joseph invested heavily in copper mines and served on the board of a number of mining companies, notably the Royal South Australian Mining Co. He was a member of the stock exchange, a committee member of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce and an original trustee of the Savings Bank. In 1851 he stood for election to the East Adelaide seat of the Legislative Council as a 'good friend of free trade and moderate, unhurried reform and an opponent of state aid' but was roundly defeated. True to the Montefiore tradition he retired from business when still in his fifties and in 1860 returned to London where he was active for many years as one of the founders and stalwarts of the Jewish reform movement. Montefiore was one of the earliest free Jewish settlers in New South Wales and was active in Jewish communal life from the start. He was the first president of the Jewish congregation of Sydney upon its official foundation in 1832 and helped to secure a land grant for a Jewish cemetery in 1835. In 1847, together with E. L. Montefiore, he pressed for a Jewish share in state aid to religion, by which means the nascent Jewish community of Adelaide meant to assert Jewish equality in South Australia. Likewise in 1851 he welcomed the General Education Act on behalf of the Adelaide Jewish community
Enterprising, urbane, and noted for his wit and prodigious memory, he was perhaps the outstanding representative in the Australian colonies of the richly endowed Sephardi merchants, financiers and scholars of London, the vanguard of Jewish expansion into a new world and of the Jewish emancipation movement in the old. He died on 8 September 1893 in Brighton leaving ten daughters and three sonsThese are the children of Joseph Barrow Montefiore and his wife Rebecca Mocatta, we learn from http://miriamhakedosha.blogspot.com/2008/08/montefiore-family.html: Georgiana Judith Barrow Montefiore [b.1828 London] Esther Hannah Barrow Montefiore [b.1829 at Sea]married to Eliezer Levi Montefiore Emily Barrow Montefiore [b.1831 Sydney NSW]married Moses Henriques Sarah Evelina Barrow Montefiore [b.1832 Sydney NSW] Justina Barrow Montefiore [b.1835 Sydney NSW]married 1863 Brazil to Joseph Levi Montefiore Augusta Barrow Montefiore [b. 1836 Sydney NSW] Josephina Barrow Montefiore [b.1837 London]married Leopold Offenheim Herbert Barrow Montefiore [b.1839 London] Marion Barrow Montefiore [b.1842 London] Horace Barrow Montefiore [b.1843 Isle of Thanet Kent]married Edith Lacey Thompson George Frederick Barrow Montefiore [b.1845]married Dorothy Frances Fuller Ada Barrow Montefiore [b.1848 Adelaide SA]married Saul Joshua Edith Barrow Montefiore [b.1848 Adelaide SA]married to David Nathan Helen Barrow Montefiore [b.1855 Adelaide
from http://www.oztorah.com/2013/03/the-jewish-emigrants-from-britain-australia-new-zealand/
The free settlers came from a higher socio-economic group than most of the convicts. The free settler movement was a generally middle-class phenomenon, and some of its leading members belonged to the interlinked prominent families of Anglo-Jewry known as “the Cousinhood”. One notable example was Joseph Barrow Montefiore (1803–1893), a cousin of Sir Moses Montefiore. Born in London, he was the youngest son of Eliezer and Judith Montefiore. In 1826, at a cost of ₤1,500, he had bought a seat on the London Stock Exchange and become one of the twelve “Jew brokers” in the City. After arriving in Sydney with his wife and two children in 1830, he invested in the wool trade and mining, also acquiring extensive landed property by 1838. Together with his elder brother, Jacob Montefiore (1801–1895), he established JB Montefiore & Co. and helped to found the Bank of Australasia. It was at the suggestion of Sir Moses Montefiore that Jacob was one of the eleven commissioners appointed by King William IV to plan a convict-free colony in South Australia. When Australia’s first Jewish congregation (forerunner of Sydney’s Great Synagogue ) was established in 1832, Joseph Montefiore served as its first president, his name being a guarantee of Jewish respectability. The economic boom burst in 1840, however, and his firm went bankrupt. He returned to London but was soon back in business (with his nephew) as an importer and shipping agent in South Australia, where he became a leader of the Adelaide Jewish community. Eliezer Levi Montefiore, also prominent in communal affairs, was one of the country’s leading artists. Altogether, the Montefiores made a historic contribution to the development of Australia; and it is hardly surprising that there is a township called Montefiores in New South Wales and a Montefiore Hill overlooking the city of Adelaide.
Had a brother Gershon/George who came to Australia with them
Marriage Notes for Joseph Barrow Montefiore and Rebecca Mocatta
1 Heshvan 5587 BMR2 #1675
145. George Frererick Barrow Montefiore
from Colyer-Fergusson, Society of genealogists, London