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Monumental inscription on the Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Here LYETH INTERRED You Regarding E PESTELL Who DEPARTED Which Life The fresh 31st Away from DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Exactly who Passed away The next Day of SEPR 1714 Inside the YE FIFTYSIXTH Season Out of Their Decades And you can YE Next Season Off His CHURCHWARDENSH1P Into the WCH Office The guy INDUSTRIOUSLY Assisted Toward YE Rebuilding In the Chapel.” A similar art gallery is sold with Beaumont Pestell, child off Alger and you will Jane Pestell, created 1721 and you may died 1724. That it second Beaumont are the fresh new grandson of one’s basic one to since the Alger, son regarding Beaumont and you can Sarah Pestell, are baptised in the St James Clerkenwell, London, in 1689.
Beaumont Pestell es Duke’s Place, London, into the 1688. They had various other kid also Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised from inside the Fyfield, Essex, when you look at the 1691. She ed due to the fact man-in-law of Beaumont Pestell in the Pestell’s commonly. Sarah, the new girlfriend out-of Beaumont Pestell off Georg’s Courte try buried for the St James, Clarkenwell, .
Beaumont Pestell of London, joiner, sued his sibling-in-rules Abraham Paveley towards the low-commission out of ?30 16s 7d he said was due for the lease and you may board regarding Abraham’s partner Katherine ahead of this lady matrimony, getting points Pestell ordered getting Katherine, having works Pestell performed to the Paveley’s family and several almost every other brief debts. Paveley affirmed you to Katherine worked for Pestell once the a great housekeeper and you may you to, also ?95 Pestell due so you can Katherine, Paveley got stood thread to possess Pestell to many away from Pestell’s most other loan providers. It’s possible Pestell’s go on to Jamaica was triggered by the brand new must refrain creditors when you look at the London area.
Beaumont Pestell from St Catherine, joiner. Property probated into the Jamaica in the 1715. Slave-possession within probate: 103 out-of just who 52 was in fact noted since the male and you may 51 since the women. 0 were detailed due to the fact males, female or children. Total value of estate at probate: ? Jamaican money where ?2333 currency was the worth of enslaved somebody. House valuation provided ?132.5 money dollars, ?4092 currency debts and ? money plate.
Their father Rev. William Pestell provides an entry for the Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar from QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Off Cole-Orton, Leics. second s. out-of Thomas (1602). B.A great. 1634; Meters.Good. 1638. R. out of Cole-Orton, 1644; ejected, 1646, however, reinstated shortly after distress great difficulty, 1660-96. Roentgen. away from Ravenstone, 1667. Tucked Jan. 30, 1six95-six, during the Cole-Orton. Brother regarding Thomas (1628) and you may father off Thomas (above). (D.N.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s parent Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) has an entry from the ODNB due to the fact an excellent clergyman and you can poet.
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James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of your British Western Indies (1875) p.64; Ancestry, England, random hookup Scottsdale See Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on the internet].
group no. M02248-4; Origins, The united kingdomt, Come across Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on the internet]; Origins, London, Church of England, Baptisms, Marriages and you may Burials, 1538-1812 [database on line].
Ancestry, Cambridge College or university Alumni, 1261-1900 [databases on the web]; Gordon McMullen, ‘Pestell, Thomas (bap. 1586, d. 1667), Church of The united kingdomt clergyman and you will poet’, ODNB on the web,
We are grateful in order to Kenneth Pestell for giving us his transcription of your own tend to regarding Beaumont Pestell and you may an effective transcription away from documents from the Chancery match Pestell v. Paveley.
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Goods Product I Give my cousin Walter Pestell on the Sity out of London Jewiller 25 pounds as well as therefore to my personal Cousin his spouse Twenty-five weight to-be pd so you’re able to them whenever they be upcoming Liveing such like Sterling Money out of England within a year after my personal Decease Goods We Render unto my personal Neece Sarah Pestell Girl away from my brother Thomas Pestell Twenty five pounds Eg Sterling Currency as pd to this lady in the event the after that Liveing inside one-year once my personal Decease Goods We promote unto my Son in law John Jem 2 hundred lbs to be welcome your away from their thread that we now have now for 300 lbs Imediately Once my personal Demise if the guy become after that Liveing All other people Deposit out of my personal entire Estate I share with my personal Beloved Child Alger Pestell also to new heires of their System Legally as Begotten permanently ass however if my personal Man Alger affect color rather than heires after that my will is the fact my entire Estate end up being Similarly (to get – crossed-out) Devided betwixt my Sister Midlaton’s Daughter and you may my Neece Sarah Pestell and you can my buddy Walter & his girlfriend Share and you can Express similar and that i Doe hereby (Moninate) and you may Hire my personal Precious Son Alger Pestell My whole Extor of so it my Past usually revoking all of the former Wills by the Me personally Produced whereof We brand new Sd Beaumont Pestell features right here unto sett My hands and you may Seale which last day’s August in the year of our Lord a thousand Seven-hundred & 14 Closed Sealed Had written and you can ed Beaumont Pestell become their Past have a tendency to and you may Testamt throughout the presence folks and you can Closed of the us in the presence of your own Sd Beaumont Pestell
Mem: You to toward 10th day’s March 1714 In person Looked prior to me personally Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent and made oath for the Holy Evangelist one to these people were better accqainted towards the Hand writeing away from Beaumont Pestell Later of your Parish out-of St Catherines Joyner & that they carry out accept that the within written Device purporting new Last Tend to & Testament of Sd Beaumont is perhaps all of your proper hand writeing of your own said Beaumont Pestell & which they do not know anything of any almost every other usually produced by this new sd Beaumont Pestell which could usually the fresh disadvantage of the often within composed
The more than are transcribed regarding a file from the Isle Number Workplace away from Jamica. Number No. RGO/SP Tw Liber fourteen Fol. 133
The entire file, for instance the memorandum in the foot, is really printed in an equivalent give and is probably a judge list, instead of the brand-new have a tendency to compiled by Beaumont Pestell himself.
Mathew Gregory is actually a Churchwarden (which have Beaumont Pestell) during the St Catherine’s, in the St Iago de la Vega, later on titled Foreign-language Urban area. Kenneth Pestell 2012.