Manuel Jorge Abas/ Lopes Ramire

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Manuel Jorge Abas/ Lopes Ramire, birth 1541 Coimbra, Portugal, died 1 Aug 1602 Lisbon, son of Jorge Rodriguez Abas and Branca Lopes Ramires
Married 1585 to:
Violante Mendes de Brito, birth 1555, daughter of Yaakov Mendes de Brito and N.N.

1) Beatrix Mendes Jorge Abas/ Mendes de Brit, birth 1587 Amsterdam, died Amsterdam
Married 1610 Amsterdam to:
Luis Alvarez, birth 1587 Amsterdam, died Amsterdam
Woonden o.a. in Antwerpen

2) Branca Jorge Abas/ Mendes de Brit, birth 1588
Married Amsterdam to:
Francisco d'Andrade, birth 1588 Amsterdam, died Amsterdam
Woonden o.a. in Venetie

3) Lea Abas Lopes Ramires alias (ynes Lopes Jorge), birth 1589 Amsterdam
Woonden o.a. in Florence, Haaren Amsterdam
Married Amsterdam to:
Jacob Curiel/ Da Fonseca (alias Duarte Nunes da Costa , birth 26 Sep 1587 Lissabon, Portugal, died 3 Apr 1664 Altona, Hamburg, occupation: Ambassadeur van Portugal in Hamburg, son of Dr. Abraham Curiel/ (Nunes da Costa) Vitoria (alias Fernao Lourenco Ramires and N.N.
Ambassadeu van Portugal te Hamburg.
John IV of Portugal, discovering Curiels skill in financial matters, sent him (c. 1650) to Hamburg as his agent, andconferred upon him the title of "Hidalgo da casa Real" (Noble of the Royal House).
In 1655 he was elected a warden of the Portuguese Synagogue, to wich he donated a "Tebah" (fes kodes)
He was buried in the Portuguese cemetry at Hamburg-Altona in 1665.

CURIEL
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CURIEL, Marrano family, active in Jewish life in Amsterdam and Hamburg under the name of Nu?ez da Costa. The origin of the name is Curiel del Duero in Castile. Jews whose origin was from this village bore the name after they had left it. A certai n David Curiel from Avila, who decided to leave Castile in 1492, probably settled in Coimbra, with which the Curiel family became identified. It seems that in Coimbra the family descended from Abigail Curiel, alias Guiomar da Costa, after the forc ed conversion of 1497. Abigail was kept as a mistress for several years by Jeronimo de Saldanha, a nobleman with some Jewish ancestry, who was the father of a son raised in Coimbra as a Jew or Crypto-Jew. Hence the claim of the Curiel family to Po rtuguese nobility. Part of the family moved to Lisbon, some escaped from Portugal and reverted to Judaism, others moved to the New World. Several members of the family were tried by the Inquisition in Coimbra. These trials reveal much about the Je wish practices maintained by the family. Several members of the family lived in Covilh?. The departure of the Curiel family from Portugal was the result of indiscreet correspondence between the Jewish branch of the family living in Italy and th e Portuguese New Christian branch. JACOB CURIEL, alias Duarte Nu?ez da Costa (1587-1665), born a Marrano in Lisbon, moved via Pisa and Florence to Amsterdam and later to Hamburg. Having made himself useful to members of the royal house of Portuga l in Hamburg, he was made Portuguese diplomatic representative. His elder son, MOSES (Jer?nimo Nu?ez da Costa; died 1697), was Portuguese agent in Amsterdam, where he was prominent in the Sephardi community and represented his coreligionists in ca ses before the Dutch authorities. Jacob's younger son, SOLOMON (Manoel Nu?ez da Costa), succeeded his father in Hamburg. The family held diplomatic positions in both cities until the late 18th century.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Roth, Marranos, 303; ESN, 178; J. Caro Baroja, Jud?os en la Espa?a moderna y contemporanea, 2 (1962), 243-4; I. Da Costa, Noble Families among the Sephardic Jews (1936), index; H. Kellenbenz, Sephardim an der unteren Elbe (1958), index; W.C. Piete rse, Daniel Levi de Barrios als geschiedschrijverà (1968), index. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Samuel, in: Jewish Historical Studies, 31 (1988-90), 111-36 (also in: E. Samuel, At the End of the Earth, (2004), 43-67).
[Kenneth R. Scholberg /
Yom Tov Assis (2nd ed.)]
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Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.

4) Jacob Manuel Jorge Abas/ Mendes de Brito (Alias: Philippe Jorge de Brito, birth 1590, died 5 Aug 1688 Amsterdam
Married 1609 Amsterdam to:
Maria Jorge Abas/ Nunes Da Cost, birth 1588 Amsterdam, died Amsterdam, daughter of Philippe Jorge Abas/ Lopes Ramire and Margarita Nunes Da Costa/ Vitori
Woonden in Glueckstadt

5) Ribca Abas/ Lopes Ramires (alias: Gracia Mendes Jorge, birth Amsterdam, died Amsterdam
Married Amsterdam to:
Mozes Nael (alias: Duarte Nunes da Costa), birth 1514 Amsterdam, died 1576

6) Hana Jorge Abas/ Lopes Ramires Mendes de Brito (alias: Joanna Jorge, birth 1597 Amsterdam, died Amsterdam

7) Salomon Abas/ Lopes Ramires Mendes de Brit, birth 1598 Amsterdam, died 26 Nov 1641 Amsterdam
alias: Francisco Dias George.

oonde in +/- 1630 in Florence
alomon was als vetegenwoordiger van Beth Jisrael, betrokken bij de onderhandeligen van de Uniao (V.O.C.) in 1638.
Hij was bij de opstellers van de 42 artikelen van de Uniao (V.O.C.).
In 1641 was hij een van de ondertekenaars van de ==(onleesbaar)== ..waarbij Haham Menasse ben Israel van Haham Isaac Aboab de functie van Ruby bij Talmud Tora overnam.
Op 15 april 1639 ondertekende hij de papieren voor de eerste verhuizing van pernassim van Talmud Tora. to:
Gracia Mendes De Brito/ Aba, birth 1611 Amsterdam, died 11 Jun 1665 Amsterdam, daughter of Jacob Manuel Jorge Abas/ Mendes de Brito (Alias: Philippe Jorge de Brito and Maria Jorge Abas/ Nunes Da Cost

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