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Monumental inscription on Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Right here LYETH INTERRED The human body From E PESTELL Which DEPARTED This Lifetime This new 31st From DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Who Died The fourth Day’s SEPR 1714 Inside the YE FIFTYSIXTH 12 months Out of Their Age And you can YE Next 12 months Away from Their CHURCHWARDENSH1P During the WCH Office The guy INDUSTRIOUSLY Helped With the YE Rebuilding For the Chapel.” An equivalent art gallery is sold with Beaumont Pestell, child away from Alger and you will Jane Pestell, born 1721 and passed away 1724. That it 2nd Beaumont try the brand new grandson of the first one to because Alger, boy away from Beaumont and Sarah Pestell, is baptised inside St James Clerkenwell, London area, during the 1689.
Beaumont Pestell es Duke’s Put, London area, during the 1688. They had some other boy also Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised in the Fyfield, Essex, for the 1691. She ed just like the child-in-laws away from Beaumont Pestell in the Pestell’s have a tendency to. Sarah, the girlfriend of Beaumont Pestell off Georg’s Courte is tucked into the St James, Clarkenwell, .
Beaumont Pestell out of London, joiner, sued their cousin-in-laws Abraham Paveley to your low-percentage from ?29 16s 7d he told you was due from inside the lease and you can board of Abraham’s partner Katherine just before her relationship, getting things Pestell bought getting Katherine, to have really works Pestell did into the Paveley’s home and lots of other brief debts. Paveley testified one to Katherine worked for Pestell fatflirt as an effective housekeeper and you can that, together with ?95 Pestell due so you’re able to Katherine, Paveley got stood thread to have Pestell to numerous of Pestell’s other loan providers. It will be easy Pestell’s relocate to Jamaica try brought about by the fresh new have to eliminate financial institutions into the London area.
Beaumont Pestell out of St Catherine, joiner. Home probated during the Jamaica inside the 1715. Slave-possession at the probate: 103 out-of just who 52 have been noted given that male and you will 51 while the women. 0 had been noted as men, people otherwise children. Total worth of estate from the probate: ? Jamaican currency of which ?2333 currency was the value of enslaved somebody. Property valuation integrated ?132.5 currency cash, ?4092 currency costs and ? money plate.
His dad Rev. William Pestell possess an entrance inside the Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar off QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Away from Cole-Orton, Leics. next s. away from Thomas (1602). B.A great. 1634; Yards.A. 1638. Roentgen. from Cole-Orton, 1644; ejected, 1646, but reinstated after suffering high difficulty, 1660-96. R. of Ravenstone, 1667. Hidden Jan. 29, 1six95-6, on Cole-Orton. Sister off Thomas (1628) and you will father from Thomas (above). (D.Letter.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s parent Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) possess an entrance on the ODNB given that an effective clergyman and poet.
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James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of your own United kingdom West Indies (1875) p.64; Origins, The united kingdomt, Get a hold of Births and you can Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on the web].
batch zero. M02248-4; Origins, The united kingdomt, Pick Births and you may Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on line]; Ancestry, London, Church off The united kingdomt, Baptisms, Marriages and you can Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].
Ancestry, Cambridge School Alumni, 1261-1900 [databases online]; Gordon McMullen, ‘Pestell, Thomas (bap. 1586, d. 1667), Church from England clergyman and you can poet’, ODNB on line,
The audience is grateful so you can Kenneth Pestell to possess providing us with their transcription of often out of Beaumont Pestell and a great transcription out of files in the Chancery match Pestell v. Paveley.
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Item Goods I Share with my cousin Walter Pestell on Sity away from London Jewiller 25 pounds and all of very to my personal Cousin their partner Twenty-five weight to-be pd in order to him or her once they getting up coming Liveing the like Sterling Money from England contained in this 12 months just after my Decease Items I Bring unto my personal Neece Sarah Pestell Child out-of my brother Thomas Pestell Twenty four lbs Such as for example Sterling Money as pd to help you the lady if the following Liveing within this yearly immediately after my personal Decease Item We offer unto my Son-in-law John Jem 2 hundred pounds in order to be acceptance him out-of his thread that i now have now let’s talk about 300 lbs Imediately Immediately following my Death in the event that he feel up coming Liveing All of the rest Deposit out of my personal whole Estate We give my Beloved Son Alger Pestell and the new heires off their Muscles Lawfully getting Begotten for good ass but if my Son Alger occur to dye versus heires then my usually is that my whole Estate become Similarly (to be – crossed out) Devided betwixt my personal Sister Midlaton’s Child and you will my personal Neece Sarah Pestell and you can my brother Walter & his partner Display and you will Express similar and that i Doe hereby (Moninate) and Appoint my Dear Man Alger Pestell My entire Extor regarding which my personal Last usually revoking most of the former Wills by the Me personally Produced whereof I the fresh new Sd Beaumont Pestell enjoys right here unto sett My give and Seale it fourth day of August in of our own Lord 1000 Seven hundred & 14 Finalized Shut Had written and you can ed Beaumont Pestell are his Past commonly and you will Testamt throughout the visibility people and you may Signed from the you from the visibility of one’s Sd Beaumont Pestell
Mem: You to definitely to your Tenth day of February 1714 Really Checked in advance of me Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent and made oath towards the Holy Evangelist you to definitely they certainly were better accqainted for the Hands writeing off Beaumont Pestell Later of your Parish regarding St Catherines Joyner & which they carry out believe that the inside written Tool purporting the fresh Past Will & Testament of your own Sd Beaumont is all of the correct give writeing of told you Beaumont Pestell & which they know-nothing of any other tend to produced by the newest sd Beaumont Pestell which may usually the fresh new drawback of have a tendency to contained in this authored
All the more than is actually transcribed out-of a document on Isle Listing Workplace away from Jamica. Checklist Zero. RGO/SP Tw Liber 14 Fol. 133
The full file, for instance the memorandum at the base, is clearly written in an equivalent hands and is also most likely a legal number, instead of the modern have a tendency to published by Beaumont Pestell himself.
Mathew Gregory try a good Churchwarden (having Beaumont Pestell) in the St Catherine’s, inside St Iago de- los angeles Vega, later on called Spanish Town. Kenneth Pestell 2012.