Lopes Pereira

Diogo Lopes Pereira /
Diogo de Aguilar /
Moses Lopes Pereira

Porto c. 1690 – London 1759

Itinerary
Porto – Lisbon (since c. 1712) – London (1721) – Vienna (1722-1756) – London (1756-1759)

Family
Son of Manuel de Aguilar.
Brother-in-law of Álvaro da Fonseca / Jacob Jesurun Álvares, Luís Álvares Pereira / Jacob Álvares Pereira and Daniel Dias Fernandes.

Business
In 1712, he took the Portuguese tobacco royal contract in his deceased father’s place. In the following year, he was imprisoned for debt to the Royal Treasury (ANTT, Junta da Administração do Tabaco, mç. 9).
Firm Pereira e Lima, with his brother-in-law Jacob Álvares Pereira (alias Gabriel de Lima). He represented the firm in Vienna, while Jacob Álvares Pereira was in London. When Lima died, he returned to London (YOGEV 1978: 39-40).
Financier of Empress Maria Theresa.
1725-1747: He held the tobacco monopoly in Austria.
Owner of capital stock in the South Sea Company.

Congregation
Finta since July 2, 1721 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 125v).

Denization
June 30, 1725 (SAMUEL, BARNETT & DIAMOND 1968-69: 124).

Other information
16 March 1726: he was conferred with the title of Baron (STENCHAUNER 2014: 68).
Privy council to the crown of the Netherlands and Italy.
Founder of the Spanish or Turco-Jewish community of Vienna.

Will
5 August 1759 (NA: PROB 11/848). Proved on 20 August 1759. Executors: son Ephraim Lopes Pereira, Daniel Mendes Seixas, nephew Isaac Jesurun Alvares, Raphael Francia. Witnesses: Philip de la Cour, Isaac Penha, and David Lameray (see pdf).

Residence
c. 1700: Rua da Reboleira, Porto (ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 6378, fl. 42)
1720: Santa Catarina, Lisbon (ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 1647, fls. 620-620v)
1756-1759: Bishopsgate, London (LTR).

Burial
Beth Haim Novo, 10 August 1759 (RODRIGUES-PEREIRA & LOEWE 1997: 24).

More bibliography
SOLOMONS 1928; ROTH 1942; HYAMSON 1951; BARNETT 1978; VIEIRA 2014; STENCHAUNER 2014.

Genealogy I
Genealogy II

 

Álvaro da Fonseca /
Jacob Jesurun Álvares 

Castile ? – London 1742

Itinerary
Castille – Portugal – London (since 1706)

Family
Married to Ester Lopes Pereira.
Brother in law of Moses Lopes Pereira/ Diogo Lopes Pereira and Luís Álvares Pereira / Jacob Álvares Pereira.

Congregation
Ketubah on 5 November 1721.
Witness of circumcision: Abraham Álvares Pereira (1726).
Witness of ketubah: Jacob de Moseh da Silva and Sara Rodrigues da Silva (10 July 1710).
Payment of the finta since 1706.
Fintador in 1708, 1711, 1714 and 1717 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 68, 82, 94, 109v).
Parnas in 1711-1712, 1715-1716, 1719-1720 and 1726-1727 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 83, 102v, 117v; LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 20v).
Parnas of Heshaim in 1713-1714 (LMA/4521/A/02/07/007).
Treasurer of the Mahamad in 1713-1714 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 90).
Contribution for the Mehil Sedaca since 1720: £50 (LMA/4521/B/10/001/01: 15).

Business
A holder of Bank of England stock: 1701-1742 (GIUSEPPI 1962: 151).

Will
1742 (NA: PROB 11/722/377).

Burial
Beth Haim Velho, 27 December 1742 (BARNETT 1962: 15).

Genealogy

Luís Álvares Pereira /
Jacob Álvares Pereira /
Gabriel de Lima /
Jacob Pereira de Lima

Spain? – London 1754

Itinerary
Spain – Portugal – London (since c. 1718)

Family
Married to Rachel Álvares Pereira.
Brother-in-law of Diogo Lopes Pereira / Moses Lopes Pereira and Álvaro da Fonseca / Jacob Jesurun Álvares.

Congregation
Ketubah on 29 August 1718. Witness: Abraham Dias Fernandes (LMA/4521/A/02/03/003: 66).
The witness of the circumcision of Ishac Gutierres, and Ishac de Campos.
Payment of the finta since 1719 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 116v).
Gabay in 1722-1723 and 1742-1743 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 133; LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 148v).
An offer of an half of the incomes of a lottery ticket to the Sedaka on 14 January 1723 (LMA/4521/A/01/02/001: 139v).
Parnas in 1726-1727, 1737-1738, 1741-1742 and 1747-1748 (LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 25, 115, 143, 198).
Treasurer of Heshaim in 1732-1733 (LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 65).
Parnas of Heshaim in 1747-1748 (LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 186).
Fintador in 1733 and 1736 (LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 82v, 109).
Hatan Torah in 1750-1751 (LMA/4521/A/01/03/001: 209).

Business
Firm Pereira e Lima, with his brother-in-law Diogo Lopes Pereira. He represents the firm in London, while Diogo Lopes Pereira was in London. (YOGEV 1978: 39-40).
A holder of Bank of England stock: 1720 (GIUSEPPI: 160).

Denization
December 7, 1730 (SAMUEL, BARNETT & DIAMOND 1968-69: 124).

Residence
1720-1754: Crutched Friars, Aldgate, London (LTR).

Burial
Beth Haim Novo, 20 August 1754 (RODRIGUES-PEREIRA & LOEWE 1997: 7).

Genealogy

João da Costa Varedo /
Moses da Costa Bareda /
John da Costa Bared

born Cádis 1693

Itinerary
Cádis – Bahia – Lisbon (1711) – London (1712) – Lisbon (1713) – London (before 1723)

Family
Married to Joana de Oliveira.
Brother of António Lopes da Costa.
Cousin of Diogo Lopes Pereira / Moses Lopes Pereira.

Inquisitorial trial
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 7264.
Arrested on 5 September 1714. Auto da fé on 14 October 1714 (see here an extract).

Business
An agent of Joseph Cortiços.

Denization
June 30, 1735 (SAMUEL 2004: 264).

Residence
1763: Mark Lane, London (SAMUEL 2004: 265).

Other information
In 1732, João da Costa was the author of a project for a new British colony on the north bank of the Rio de la Plata (BÉTHENCOURT 1949).
He and John da Costa Bared, the earliest Jewish notary public practicing in England, are probably the same person.
John da Costa Bared took the lease of a shop in Castle Alley in 1735. In 1755, he bought a landed state at Hammersmith.
After his wife Judith death in 1753, he married again a Christian woman, Mary Matthews in the following year.
Bared died in 1772. He was buried in the parish church of St Michael Bassishaw (SAMUEL 2004: 264-265)

Genealogy

António Lopes da Costa

born Viana do Castelo 1704

Itinerary
Viana do Castelo – Porto – Bahia – Lisbon – Brazil – Lisbon (1728-1729) – London (since c. 1730)

Family
Brother of João da Costa Baredo.
Cousin of Diogo Lopes Pereira / Moses Lopes Pereira.

Inquisitorial trial
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 6540.
Arrested on 3 June 1728. Auto da fé on 16 October 1729.

Business
In 1726, he was a slave trader, when he was captured by pirates off the coast of Brazil. Then, he disembarked in unknown territory on the north bank of the Rio de la Plata. When António arrived in London, he told his brother João da Costa about this territory, which drove him to project a plan for the foundation of a new British colony there (BÉTHENCOURT 1949).

Genealogy

João Gomes de Carvalho /
Abraham Gomes de Carvalho

Oporto 1700 – London 1754

Itinerary
Oporto – Lisbon (c. 1713) – Mogadouro (c. 1717) – Bahia (c. 1720) – London (1723) – Lisbon (1725) – London (after 1741)

Family
Brother-in-law of João da Costa Varedo / Moses da Costa Bareda.

Inquisitorial trial
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 8764.
Arrested on 10 July 1725. Auto da fé on 13 October 1726. (see an extract).

Will
23 January 1754. Proved on 19 March 1754. Executor and heiress: Wife Sarah Gomes de Carvalho. Witnesses: Moses Schomberg and Isaac Nieto (see pdf).

Burial
Beth Haim Novo, 15 March 1754 (RODRIGUES-PEREIRA & LOEWE 1997: 24).

Genealogy