Jacob Dias Fernandes

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1814

Biography

London merchant, partner with Isaac Aguilar (q.v.) and his own son Benjamin Dias Fernandes the younger.

Will of Jacob Dias Fernandes merchant Russell Square proved 13/01/1814. The will, made in 1811, left everything to his wife Esther.
Esther Dias, age 88, gentlewoman, born Jamaica, living in Whitechapel in the census of 1851 with her children Rebecca Dias age 70, David Dias age 66, Sarah Aguilar age 64, Rachel Dias age 59 and two female servants. She died in Whitechapel, Q4 1852.

We are grateful to David Barker for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Sources

PROB 11/1558/272.
1851 census online; Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 [database online].

We are grateful to David Barker for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Esther

Children

Benjamin, Daniel, David, Isaac

Will

PROB 11/1558/272 - precis.

Jacob Dias Fernandes of Russell Square, merchant.

All my estate both real and personal in Great Britain, Jamaica or elsewhere to my dear wife Esther Dias Fernandes. My said wife and sons Benjamin Dias Fernandes, Isaac Dias Fernandes, David Dias Fernandes and James Dias Fernandes to be executrix and executors.

Signed 07/11/1811.

Proved at London 13/07/1814.

Occupation

Merchant

Religion

Jewish

Associated Estates (2)

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