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Isaac Rodrigues Lindo
Born1636 (1636)
Died1712 (aged 7576)
London
SpousePerpetua Leah Lopes
FatherJoao Rodrigues Lindo
FamilyLindo family

Lourenco (Issac) Rodrigues Lindo (c. 1638 –1712) was a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who settled in London in the 17th century. [1]

Life

He was born in Badajoz in 1638 to Joao Rodrigues Lindo and Constance Nunes. [2]

From 1653-56, he lived in London with his uncle Antonio Fernandez Carvajal.[3]

In 1656, he and his wife were arrested by the Inquisition in the Canary Islands and released after .[4]

In 1675, they settled in London and in 1681 he became a Sworn Broker on the Royal Exchange.[5] He was an elder of Bevis Marks and a signatory of the Ascamot of 1694.

He and his wife Perpetua Lopes had three children:

  • Alexander (1666-1726) m Rachel Lopes Pereira
  • Elias (1690-1727) m Rachel Lopes Fereira
  • Constanza, who married Abraham Franco (1707) of Devonshire Square[6]

References

  1. "Who was Lindo?". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  2. "Constance Nunes Lindo". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  3. "Moses Lindo Follows Ten Generations, Since Cromwell, to London Burial Plot". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  4. Church, Catholic; America, Renaissance Society of (2001-01-01). Jews in the Canary Islands: Being a Calendar of Jewish Cases Extracted from the Records of the Canariote Inquisition in the Collection of the Marquess of Bute. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8450-7.
  5. England, Jewish Historical Society of (1925). Miscellanies - The Jewish Historical Society of England. Jewish Historical Society of England.
  6. Hemming, T. D.; Freeman, E.; Meakin, David; Freeman, Ted (1994). The Secular City: Studies in the Enlightenment : Presented to Haydn Mason. University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-416-6.

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