Rachel DE ALMERDA

1675 - 1708  (~ 33 years)

• Name	Rachel DE ALMERDA
  Birth	CA 1675	Spain   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1708	London, England   [1]
  Person ID	I11021	Doddridge County Roots
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2012

  
  

  Father	Abraham DE ALMERDA
  Mother	Sarah ___
  Family ID	F3953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacob DE LOUZADA,   b. CA 1670, Spain d. 12 Jun 1729, New York City, NY (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	1698	London, England   [1]
  	This was actually a remarriage at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. Jacob and Rachel were earlier married in Spain without the Jewish rites.
  Notes	The De Louzada family were Sephardic Jews. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jews were forced to become practicing Catholics, or else be burned at the stake or escape to another country. The Jews who joined the Catholic Church were called "conversos." Many of these conversos remained secret Jews and were called "marranos," literally "pigs" in Spanish. Jacob De Louzada was probably such a secret Jew, since he and Rachel remarried in a Synagogue when they had an opportunity. Jacob and Rachel had fled from Spain to Portugal and then to England. After the death of Rachel in 1708, Jacob and his two sons, Aaron and Moses, emigrated in 1710 to America where Jacob became a wealthy chocolate merchant in New York. Jacob was buried in the Chatham Square Burial Grounds in New York City, but his body was reinterred on June 9, 1856 at the Third Cemetery of Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel (also known as the 21st Street Burial Grounds) to accommodate mercantile growth in the city. Jacob's gravestone is inscribed in Hebrew. https://archive.org/stream/calendarofnewjer03newj/calendarofnewjer03newj_djvu.txt https://books.google.com/books?id=4eoeBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA100&dq=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&f=false The Colonial and Early National Period 1654-1840: American Jewish History https://books.google.com/books?id=rrHKAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA103&ots=gEyyZ2-1wW&dq=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&f=false https://blog.ice.edu/2016/08/19/in-search-of-chocolate-in-old-nyc/ [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Aaron LOUZADA,   b. 17 May 1695, London, England d. 27 Dec 1764, Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ (Age 69 years) + 2. Moses LOUSADA,   b. 2 Feb 1701, London, England d. 11 Sep 1750, New Jersey (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F3952	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2615] Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, The Descendants of Jacob de Louzada, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/LUZADER/jacob.htm). [S1968] Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker (editor), Lewis County West Virginia: Her People and Places, (Hackers Creek Pioneers Descendants, Horner, WV 26372 (2000)), pp. 136-137.