My Genealogy Home Page:Information about Jacob Israel BERNAL
Jacob Israel BERNAL (d. Bet. 1766 - 1776)
Notes for Jacob Israel BERNAL:http://www.eclipse.co.uk/exeshul/roth/index.htm
History of the Great Synagogue
[London]
Cecil Roth
This book is an essential source for the study of Anglo-Jewish history. It is now a very rare volume, and has been out of print for almost half a century. I am making it available for the benefit of all those who are researching Anglo-Jewish history and family history, and who are unable to make use of Dr Roth's great scholarship.
Chapter VI
DAILY LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
When in I744 Jacob Israel Bernal, a descendant of a family of Inquisitional martyrs and Gabbai of the K. K. Sahar Asamaim, applied to the Mahamad for leave to marry Johebed Baruch, a tudesca, he was compelled to resign, and the most humiliating conditions were imposed before the ceremony was authorised, and then only in a truncated form. (It was because of this episode that the Bernal family, who afterwards furnished English politics and society with some beloved figures, began to become estranged from Judaism.)
More About Jacob Israel BERNAL:
Occupation: merchant.
Religion: Sephardi Jew.
Residence: Bevis Marks, London.
More About Jacob Israel BERNAL and Johebed (Josebeth) BARUCH:
Marriage: 1744
Children of Jacob Israel BERNAL and Johebed (Josebeth) BARUCH are:
- +Jacob Israel BERNAL, d. 1811.
- Abraham BERNAL.
- Isaac BERNAL.