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Monumental inscription on Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Right here LYETH INTERRED Your body Away from Elizabeth PESTELL Exactly who DEPARTED It Lifestyle The 31st Out of DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Just who Died The fresh fourth Day of SEPR 1714 Into the YE FIFTYSIXTH 12 months Out-of His Many years And you may YE Next 12 months Out of His CHURCHWARDENSH1P During the WCH Work environment The guy INDUSTRIOUSLY Assisted To the YE Reconstructing Associated with the Church.” An equivalent art gallery comes with Beaumont Pestell, man away from Alger and Jane Pestell, created 1721 and you will died 1724. Which second Beaumont was the latest grandson of the earliest one while the Alger, boy regarding Beaumont and you will Sarah Pestell, is baptised in the St James Clerkenwell, London area, for the 1689.
Beaumont Pestell es Duke’s Lay, London, when you look at the 1688. They’d some other guy and Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised within the Fyfield, Essex, in the 1691. She ed because boy-in-law of Beaumont Pestell within the Pestell’s tend to. Sarah, the latest girlfriend of Beaumont Pestell out of Georg’s Courte is buried for the St James, Clarkenwell, .
Beaumont Pestell out of London, joiner, sued his sister-in-law Abraham Paveley on low-payment away from ?29 16s 7d which he told you are due into the book and board regarding Abraham’s spouse Katherine prior to this lady matrimony, having circumstances Pestell purchased getting Katherine, for functions Pestell performed towards Paveley’s domestic and lots of most other quick costs. Paveley affirmed one Katherine struggled to obtain Pestell while the a great housekeeper and you may one, including ?95 Pestell due so you can Katherine, Paveley had endured thread to own Pestell to many out of Pestell’s other loan providers. You’ll be able to Pestell’s proceed to Jamaica are brought about by the brand new must refrain creditors inside London area.
Beaumont Pestell out-of St Catherine, joiner. Estate probated for the Jamaica for the 1715. Slave-control in the probate: 103 from who 52 had been indexed since the men and you can 51 due to the fact women. 0 was indeed listed once the men, people otherwise pupils. Full worth of estate in the probate: ? Jamaican money at which ?2333 money is actually the value of enslaved anybody. Estate valuation included ?132.5 money dollars, ?4092 currency expense and you can ? money plate.
Their father Rev. William Pestell has actually an entry during the Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar away from QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Out of Cole-Orton, Leics. 2nd s. from Thomas (1602). B.A. 1634; Meters.A. 1638. R. out of Cole-Orton, 1644; ejected, 1646, but reinstated after suffering higher hardship, 1660-96. R. off Ravenstone, 1667. Tucked The month of january. 31, 1695-6, within Cole-Orton. Cousin away from Thomas (1628) and you can father away from Thomas (above). (D.Letter.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s pops Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) enjoys an entrance on ODNB as an effective clergyman and you may poet.
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James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of one’s British West Indies (1875) p.64; Origins, The united kingdomt, Select Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on the web].
group no. M02248-4; Ancestry, England, See Births and you can Christenings, 1538-1975 [databases online]; Ancestry, London, Church out of The united kingdomt, Baptisms, Marriage ceremonies and you can Burials, 1538-1812 [database on line].
Ancestry, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [databases on the web]; Gordon McMullen, ‘Pestell, Thomas (bap. 1586, d. 1667), Chapel out-of The united kingdomt clergyman and you may poet’, ODNB on the web,
The audience is pleased so you’re able to Kenneth Pestell having giving us his transcription of the will regarding Beaumont Pestell and you will a good transcription away from files regarding the Chancery fit Pestell v. Paveley.
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Goods Item I Share with my buddy Walter Pestell on Sity out of London area Jewiller Twenty-five weight and all sorts of so so you can my personal Cousin his spouse Twenty five pounds are pd so you can her or him once they feel up coming Liveing such-like Sterling Currency regarding England inside 12 months just after my personal Decease Goods I Offer unto my personal Neece Sarah Pestell Daughter regarding my brother Thomas Pestell Twenty four pounds Eg Sterling Money to be pd to the lady in the event that upcoming Liveing within a year after my Decease Product I render unto my Son-in-law John Jem 2 hundred weight to end up being allowed him from his thread that i now have now for 3 hundred pounds Imediately Immediately after my Passing if the he getting upcoming Liveing All of the others Deposit out of my personal entire Property I give my Precious Man Alger Pestell and to the newest heires away from their Looks Lawfully to get Begotten for ever ass but if my personal Boy Alger affect dye in place of heires upcoming my personal often is that my personal whole House getting Similarly (is – crossed out) Devided betwixt my personal Sis Midlaton’s Child and you may my Neece Sarah Pestell and you can my brother Walter & their girlfriend Express and Share exactly the same and that i Doe hereby (Moninate) and you may Designate my personal Dear Kid Alger Pestell My whole Extor out of it my personal Last have a tendency to revoking every previous Wills of the Me Produced whereof I the fresh Sd Beaumont Pestell have right here unto sett My personal hands and you will Seale which 4th day of August in of your Lord a lot of Seven-hundred & fourteen Finalized Close Authored and ed Beaumont Pestell to-be their History tend to and you may Testamt throughout the exposure people and you will Finalized because of the us throughout the presence of the Sd Beaumont Pestell
Mem: That towards the Tenth day of March 1714 In person Searched before me Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent and made oath with the Holy Evangelist you to definitely these people were really accqainted with the Hands writeing out of Beaumont Pestell Later of your Parish away from St Catherines Joyner & that they do accept that the within composed Software purporting brand new History Will & Testament of your Sd Beaumont is all of your right hand writeing of said Beaumont Pestell & which they know-nothing of any almost every other usually created by new sd Beaumont Pestell which may tend to the latest disadvantage of your own commonly within this written
All of the above is transcribed off a document on Island snapsext Listing Office from Jamica. Number No. RGO/SP Tw Liber 14 Fol. 133
The entire document, such as the memorandum during the foot, is obviously written in an identical hands and it is most likely a court number, rather than the brand spanking new tend to compiled by Beaumont Pestell himself.
Mathew Gregory is actually good Churchwarden (having Beaumont Pestell) within St Catherine’s, inside St Iago de- la Vega, later titled Foreign-language Town. Kenneth Pestell 2012.