 1829 - 1904 (74 years)
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| Name |
Eliza Meldola de Sola [5, 6, 7] |
| Born |
13 Sep 1829 |
London, Middlesex, England  [6, 7, 8, 9] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
28 Mar 1904 |
New York [6, 7, 8] |
| Alt. Death |
14 Apr 1904 |
New York, New York (Manhattan), NY [10] |
| Reference Number |
3685 |
| Person ID |
I3685 |
aojd |
| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2011 |
| Children |
| | 1. Rabbi Frederick de Sola Mendes, b. 8 Jul 1850, Montego Bay, WI , d. 26 Oct 1927, New Rochelle, Westchester, NY (Age 77 years) |
| | 2. Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes, b. 15 Apr 1852, Birmingham, England , d. 20 Oct 1937, Mt. Vernon, Westchester, NY (Age 85 years) |
| | 3. David Mendes, b. 1849, d. 1849 (Age 0 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1288 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- The following has been extracted from Geoffrey Pinto's contribution to The Moon 2005, on the topic of historical family memoirs from Jamaica.
Early in 1848 Eliza deSola, daughter of David Aaron and Rebecca (Meldola) deSola, travelled from England to Jamaica to get married. She travelled on a sailing ship. Her departure was delayed because her chaperone became ill, and eventually Eliza sailed under the personal protection of the ship's captain. When they arrived in Jamaican waters, Eliza was delayed once again. The ship was not allowed to land as the town was in quarantine for yellow fever. When it came to the wedding day itself (19 March 1848) Eliza was unable to wear her heavy brocaded wedding dress as it was too hot. She wore instead 'a light summer dress'.
Geoffrey Pinto continued: "All this information came to me as if it was direct from the good lady herself; this is because I was lucky enough to get it first hand from her grand-daughter Elise (Mendes/Tucker) Lightstone, who was brought up by Eliza. Cousin Elise, who was then in her 80's and lived with her daughter Lily Hockman in Montreal, was a charming French lady who had spent most of her life in Paris. Here she had the most terrible times during the war. But she had been brought up by her grandmother Eliza Mendes, so had all these Montego Bay stories first hand with her marvelous memory.
"Meeting Elise was a wonderful and warm experience and it is the only time in my life that I have deliberately missed my plane home (to MoBay). I know that Brahm, who was kindly taking me to the airport, enjoyed this special occasion too.
"The wedding was in the new Montego Synagogue on the corner of King and Market Streets with three churches on the other corners. It was certainly one of the first weddings held there and the bridegroom was Abraham Pereira Mendes, its Hazan, born Kingston in 1825. He had studied in London under his future father-in-law Hazan deSola. In 1851, after giving Montego Bay a try, they decided to return to London as Eliza could not keep her health in this tropical climate. Apparently she felt the heat terrribly but in spite of this went on to have no less than 14 children (I have identified only 12 children). One was lost during the Montego Bay years. They went on to Britain where Abraham became the Minister in Birmingham and later they started the famous Northwick College in Maida Vale in London, where many of our family were first educated including, some years later, my father Ralph Pinto, who lived round the corner.
"Now my most intriguing historic touch - for me anyhow. The handwritten Record Book of The Montego Bay Synagogue, House of Jacob, records the betrothal of Abraham Pereira Mendes to Eliza deSola in March 1848, and there were two members of the Montego Bay Hart family (ancestors of Geoffrey Pinto's wife, Patricia Anne Hart) who were witnesses. I am so pleased about that, for this was the wedding of my great grandmother's sister. My great grandmother, Rosetta (deSola) Pinto, was one of Eliza's older sisters."
In the rest of this article, Geoffrey refers to this wedding of Abraham Pereira Mendes to Eliza deSola as being the first of (so far) five family weddings to take place in Jamaica. After Abraham and Eliza were the weddings of Geoffrey Pinto to Patricia Hart in 1956, Kathryn Pinto to Frank May in 1988, Lisa Elkin to Joseph Clement in 1999, and David Pinto to Davina Soleyman in 2001. The 6th wedding between Shalom Elkin and Susana Chandroga is scheduled for April 2005.
Source: Geoffrey Pinto, in the 2005 edition of The Moon
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- [S4] PG. 191 MENDES (Reliability: 3).
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- [S4] PG. 60 DE SOLA (2) (Reliability: 3).
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- [S80] YEAR: 1920;CENSUS PLACE: MANHATTAN ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 7, NEW YORK, NEW YORK; ROLL: T625_1198; PAGE: 2A; ENUMERATION DISTRICT: 568; IMAGE: 213. (Reliability: 3).
- [S132] MENDES, ELIZA P., CERT # 14526 (Reliability: 3).
age 74
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