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Monumental inscription on Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Right here LYETH INTERRED The human body Of Elizabeth PESTELL Just who DEPARTED That it Lifestyle The new 31st From DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Whom Passed away The fresh new 4th Day’s SEPR 1714 Inside YE FIFTYSIXTH 12 months Away from Their Decades And you will YE 2nd Seasons Regarding His CHURCHWARDENSH1P Within the WCH Workplace He INDUSTRIOUSLY Aided To your YE Reconstructing On the Chapel.” The same art gallery comes with Beaumont Pestell, guy away from Alger and you can Jane Pestell, produced 1721 and you can died 1724. Which 2nd Beaumont is this new grandson of your own first you to because Alger, child regarding Beaumont and Sarah Pestell, is actually baptised from inside the St James Clerkenwell, London, within the 1689.
Beaumont Pestell parece Duke’s Lay, London, inside 1688. That they had several other guy together with Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised during the Fyfield, Essex, from inside the 1691. She ed as the man-in-rules off Beaumont Pestell within the Pestell’s often. Sarah, the wife out of Beaumont Pestell off Georg’s Courte is actually tucked from inside the St James, Clarkenwell, .
Beaumont Pestell away from London, joiner, charged his sis-in-laws Abraham Paveley towards the non-percentage regarding ?30 16s 7d which he told you was owed inside lease and panel of Abraham’s partner Katherine ahead of the lady wedding, having circumstances Pestell purchased getting Katherine, to have performs Pestell performed toward Paveley’s household and many almost every other short costs. Paveley testified one to Katherine struggled to obtain Pestell since an excellent housekeeper and you will one to, plus ?95 Pestell due so you’re able to Katherine, Paveley had stood bond having Pestell to numerous away from Pestell’s most other loan providers. It’s possible Pestell’s proceed to Jamaica was set off by the fresh new need to avoid financial institutions from inside the London.
Beaumont Pestell from St Catherine, joiner. Home probated when you look at the Jamaica when you look at the 1715. Slave-ownership on probate: 103 out-of just who 52 was listed since the male and you will 51 just like the people. 0 was indeed detailed because males, women otherwise pupils. Full value of property on probate: ? Jamaican money from which ?2333 money is actually the value of enslaved someone. House valuation incorporated ?132.5 currency cash, ?4092 currency expenses and you will ? money dish.
His father Rev. William Pestell features an entry inside Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar regarding QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Out of Cole-Orton, Leics. 2nd s. of Thomas (1602). B.A good. 1634; M.A great. 1638. Roentgen. out of Cole-Orton, 1644; thrown, 1646, however, reinstated shortly after distress high hardship, 1660-96. R. of Ravenstone, 1667. Buried Jan. 30, 1six95-6, during the Cole-Orton. Sister out-of Thomas (1628) and you can dad away from Thomas (above). (D.N.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s parent Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) have an entrance regarding the ODNB just like the a good clergyman and you will poet.
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James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the Uk Western Indies (1875) p.64; Origins, The united kingdomt, Discover Births and you may Christenings, 1538-1975 [databases on the web].
group no. M02248-4; Origins, The united kingdomt, Get a hold of Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [databases on the internet]; Origins, London area, Chapel of The united kingdomt, Baptisms, Marriages and you may Burials, 1538-1812 [databases on the internet].
Ancestry, Cambridge College or 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 online,
The audience is pleased to Kenneth Pestell getting providing us with their transcription of one’s have a tendency to of Beaumont Pestell and an effective transcription of files on Chancery fit Pestell v. Paveley.
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Product Item We Give my cousin Walter Pestell in the Sity from London Jewiller Twenty five lbs and all so so you’re able to my personal Sister their wife 25 lbs to-be pd so you can them when they getting next Liveing such like Sterling Money of England in this 12 months shortly after my personal Decease Goods We Bring unto my Neece Sarah Pestell Child away from my cousin Thomas Pestell Twenty four weight Instance Sterling Money are pd to the woman if after that Liveing in this twelve months just after my personal Decease Items We offer unto my Son in law John Jem 2 hundred weight in order to getting anticipate him of his thread that i currently have now for 300 pounds Imediately Immediately after my Dying in the event that he be after that Liveing Every people Deposit of my entire Home We give my personal Dear Kid Alger Pestell in order to the newest heires regarding his Human anatomy Lawfully become Begotten for good ass but if my Guy Alger affect dye as opposed to heires following my personal have a tendency to would be the fact my whole Estate feel Equally (to-be – crossed out) Devided betwixt my personal Brother Midlaton’s Child and you may my Neece Sarah Pestell and you may my cousin Walter & their partner Express and you may Share similar and that i Doe hereby (Moninate) and you may Hire my personal Precious Son Alger Pestell My entire Extor of that it my personal Past usually revoking every previous Wills from the Myself Produced whereof We the brand new Sd Beaumont Pestell keeps right here unto sett My personal give and you may 
Seale this next day’s August in the year of one’s Lord a lot of Seven-hundred & 14 Signed Closed Blogged and you will ed Beaumont Pestell is his Last commonly and you will Testamt from the presence of us and you will Finalized by us in the exposure of the Sd Beaumont Pestell
Mem: That towards the Tenth day’s March 1714 Personally Featured in advance of myself Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent and made oath with the Holy Evangelist one these people were really accqainted on Hands writeing of Beaumont Pestell Later of your Parish out of St Catherines Joyner & which they do accept that the interior created Instrument purporting this new Last Tend to & Testament of Sd Beaumont is perhaps all of your best hand writeing of said Beaumont Pestell & which they do not know anything of any other have a tendency to made by this new sd Beaumont Pestell which may commonly this new downside of your usually within this written
All the more than was transcribed out of a document on Island Number Place of work away from Jamica. Number Zero. RGO/SP Tw Liber 14 Fol. 133
The entire document, including the memorandum during the feet, is really written in an equivalent give and is also most likely a courtroom listing, as opposed to the amazing have a tendency to compiled by Beaumont Pestell themselves.
Mathew Gregory is an effective Churchwarden (having Beaumont Pestell) at St Catherine’s, when you look at the St Iago de- la Vega, later named Foreign-language City. Kenneth Pestell 2012.
