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Subject: [SEPHARDIM] Fwd: MB post: Re: Lopez de Rivera, Lopez Pereiria 16-1700s Spn/Portugal/Austria
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 20:07:51 +0000


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Subject: Re: Lopez de Rivera, Lopez Pereiria 16-1700s Spn/Portugal/Austria
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:29:39 -0700

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Dear Bill,

Thank you for your message. Your data agree with the information I have. The
1st Baron d'Aguilar moved to England after living in Austria for many years.
Here is what I know.

A page on Jewish heraldry states that
"Moses Lopez Pereira (1699-1759) a Marrano from Spain, reverted to Judaism
in Vienna, was made baron d'Aguilar in 1726, later moved to London"

"From Spain".Yet, he appears as Portuguese a in an article I read on
Portuguese Jews. They call him "Moiss Lopes Pereira" - that is the exact
translation to Portuguese - and say he was a tobacco merchant.

There was a 2nd Baron d'Aguilar, Ephraim Lopez Pereira (1739-1802), who was
the 1st Baron's son. Some web pages show his name as "Ephraim Lopes
Pereira". He lived in England. There is a genealogy website that shows many
of his descendants.

It is quite a coincidence that among my ancestors I find a Jewish woman
named Beatriz Lopez Pereira, born circa 1665 in Spain, who had at least
three children, all born before she crossed the border to Portugal with her
husband. One of those was my ancestor Leonor Rodriguez, who was born in 1686
and married a Jewish tobacco merchant. The others were Dr. Miguel Lopez
Pereira, born circa 1693, who married the daughter of a Jewish tobacco
merchant, and Francisca Lopez Pereira who was still unmarried in 1721. Of
course, the children's surname appears in documents as Lopes instead of
Lopez since they lived in Portugal.

Moses Lopez Pereira may have changed his name when he reverted to Judaism,
since Moses doesn't look like a Christian name at all. I have searched for
information on his ancestry, but found nothing up to now. I think there is
a good chance Beatriz Lopez Pereira was his aunt or even his mother.

Greetings from Portugal,

Rui Pereira


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