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Monumental inscription on the Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Here LYETH INTERRED The body From Elizabeth PESTELL Whom DEPARTED Which Lives Brand new 31st Off DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Just who Passed away Brand new next Day’s SEPR 1714 Inside the YE FIFTYSIXTH Seasons Regarding His Years And YE Second Year Out of Their CHURCHWARDENSH1P Into the WCH Work environment The guy INDUSTRIOUSLY Aided With the YE Reconstructing From the Chapel.” An equivalent art gallery comes with Beaumont Pestell, boy out of Alger and you will Jane Pestell, born 1721 and you can died 1724. So it second Beaumont are the fresh grandson of your own very first you to definitely while the Alger, child off Beaumont and you may Sarah Pestell, are baptised from inside the St James Clerkenwell, London, inside 1689.

Beaumont Pestell es Duke’s Put, London area, in 1688. That they had some other man and additionally Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised from inside the Fyfield, Essex, inside the 1691. She ed because the son-in-rules from Beaumont Pestell in Pestell’s usually. Sarah, the new girlfriend off Beaumont Pestell off Georg’s Courte is hidden in St James, Clarkenwell, .

Beaumont Pestell out of London, joiner, charged their cousin-in-law Abraham Paveley for the low-payment from ?31 16s 7d which he said are due inside rent and you can board regarding Abraham’s wife Katherine ahead of the lady relationship, to have items Pestell ordered to possess Katherine, getting work Pestell did to your Paveley’s house and lots of other brief costs. Paveley affirmed one Katherine struggled to obtain Pestell given that an excellent housekeeper and you will you to definitely, and additionally ?95 Pestell owed so you’re able to Katherine, Paveley got stood bond to possess Pestell to numerous regarding Pestell’s other financial institutions. It will be possible Pestell’s proceed to Jamaica are set off by the fresh have to escape creditors in London area.

Beaumont Pestell of St Catherine, joiner. Property probated within the Jamaica in the 1715. Slave-ownership on probate: 103 regarding just who 52 have been listed due to the fact male and you may 51 just like the people. 0 was detailed as the guys, people otherwise people. Total value of estate on probate: ? Jamaican money at which ?2333 currency are the value of enslaved anybody. House valuation provided ?132.5 currency cash, ?4092 money debts and you can ? money dish.

His dad Rev. William Pestell have an entry in the Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar regarding QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Out-of Cole-Orton, Leics. 2nd s. out-of Thomas (1602). B.Good. 1634; M.A. 1638. Roentgen. regarding Cole-Orton, 1644; thrown, 1646, however, reinstated after distress higher adversity, 1660-96. Roentgen. from Ravenstone, 1667. Tucked Jan. 30, 1six95-six, at Cole-Orton. Aunt regarding Thomas (1628) and you may father out-of Thomas (above). (D.N.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s grandfather Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) features an entry in the ODNB because the a good clergyman and poet.

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James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of one’s British Western Indies (1875) p.64; Ancestry, The united kingdomt, Look for Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [databases on the internet].

group zero. M02248-4; Ancestry, The united kingdomt, Look for Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on line]; Ancestry, London area, Church off England, Baptisms, Marriage ceremonies and Burials, 1538-1812 [databases on the web].

Origins, Cambridge School Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on line]; Gordon McMullen, ‘Pestell, Thomas (bap. 1586, d. 1667), Chapel from The united kingdomt clergyman and you will poet’, ODNB on line,

The audience is thankful so you can Kenneth Pestell having giving us his transcription of your tend to off Beaumont Pestell and you can a transcription of files about Chancery suit Pestell v. Paveley.

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Items Item I Give my brother Walter Pestell throughout the Sity regarding London area Jewiller 25 pounds and all of therefore in order to my Cousin their partner Twenty-five weight to be pd in order to her or him if they be then Liveing such like Sterling Money off England contained in this a year shortly after my Decease Item We Promote unto my Neece Sarah Pestell Girl out-of my brother Thomas Pestell Twenty four weight Such Sterling Currency is pd in order to the girl in the event the up coming Liveing inside one-year just after my personal Decease Product We render unto my personal Son in law John Jem 200 pounds to be allowed your away from their thread which i actually have now let’s talk about 3 hundred pounds Imediately Immediately following my Dying in the event the he become then Liveing All rest Residue from my entire Property I give to my personal Beloved Man Alger Pestell and the brand new heires out-of their Looks Legitimately becoming Begotten permanently butt however if my Guy Alger accidentally dye without heires then my commonly is the fact my personal whole Estate getting Similarly (to be – crossed-out) Devided betwixt my Aunt Midlaton’s Daughter and you may my Neece Sarah Pestell and you will my cousin Walter & his wife Express and you can Display alike and i Doe hereby (Moninate) and you can Hire my personal Dear Kid Alger Pestell My personal whole Extor away from this my personal Past often revoking all previous Wills by the Me personally Produced whereof I the latest Sd Beaumont Pestell possess right here unto sett My give and you can Seale so it next day’s August around of your Lord 1000 Seven hundred & 14 Finalized Sealed Had written and you can ed Beaumont Pestell become their History have a tendency to and you may Testamt about exposure of us and you will Finalized of the us in the presence of the Sd Beaumont Pestell

Mem: One to for the 10th day’s March 1714 In over here person Searched just before myself Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent making oath toward Holy Evangelist one to they were better accqainted into Hands writeing of Beaumont Pestell Late of Parish out of St Catherines Joyner & that they manage accept that the within authored Device purporting this new History Commonly & Testament of your own Sd Beaumont is perhaps all of one’s right hand writeing of your own told you Beaumont Pestell & that they do not know anything of every most other tend to made by the new sd Beaumont Pestell that may commonly the fresh downside of the commonly within this created

Most of the over try transcribed out-of a document on the Island Checklist Office of Jamica. Number Zero. RGO/SP Tw Liber 14 Fol. 133

The whole of the document, like the memorandum within foot, is really printed in a similar hands and is also most likely a courtroom checklist, instead of the new have a tendency to published by Beaumont Pestell himself.

Mathew Gregory was an excellent Churchwarden (which have Beaumont Pestell) on St Catherine’s, when you look at the St Iago de la Vega, after called Language Urban area. Kenneth Pestell 2012.