Biography
Monumental inscription about Cathedral, St Catherine, Jamaica: “Here LYETH INTERRED Your body Of Age PESTELL Which DEPARTED It Lifestyle The new 31st Of DECEMBER ANNO 1710. BEAUMONT PESTELL Just who Passed away This new next Day of SEPR 1714 Inside the YE FIFTYSIXTH Season Out-of His Ages And you may YE Next Seasons Of Their CHURCHWARDENSH1P Within the WCH Office The guy INDUSTRIOUSLY Aided Into the YE Rebuilding On the Chapel.” An equivalent memorial includes Beaumont Pestell, kid away from Alger and you will Jane Pestell, created 1721 and you may died 1724. This next Beaumont is the new grandson of your own very first one given that Alger, kid out-of Beaumont and you can Sarah Pestell, try baptised in the St James Clerkenwell, London, inside 1689.
Beaumont Pestell parece Duke’s Set, London area, within the 1688. They’d various other guy along with Alger: Sarhae [sic?], baptised into the Fyfield, Essex, in 1691. She ed given that child-in-rules off Beaumont Pestell inside the Pestell’s have a tendency to. Sarah, the new wife away from Beaumont Pestell out-of Georg’s Courte was hidden into the St James, Clarkenwell, .
Beaumont Pestell of London, joiner, sued his aunt-in-legislation Abraham Paveley into non-payment regarding ?30 16s 7d which he said are owed within the lease and you can panel from Abraham’s spouse Katherine in advance of the woman marriage, to have points Pestell ordered to have Katherine, to possess performs Pestell did to your Paveley’s family and several most other short expenses. Paveley affirmed that Katherine struggled to obtain Pestell because the a great housekeeper and you to, in addition to ?95 Pestell due in order to Katherine, Paveley got endured thread getting Pestell to numerous away from Pestell’s most other financial institutions. It will be easy Pestell’s go on to Jamaica is triggered by the latest have to eliminate creditors within the London area.
Beaumont Pestell out-of St Catherine, joiner. House probated for the Jamaica for the 1715. Slave-ownership within probate: 103 regarding whom 52 was in fact listed because the male and you will 51 as females. 0 was basically detailed since the guys, lady or youngsters. Total property value house from the probate: ? Jamaican currency of which ?2333 currency are the worth of enslaved anyone. Home valuation incorporated ?132.5 currency bucks, ?4092 currency expenses and you may ? currency plate.
His father Rev. William Pestell has an admission during the Venn’s Almuni Cantabrigienses: Matric. sizar from QUEENS’, Easter, 1631. Away from Cole-Orton, Leics. next s. out-of Thomas (1602). B.An effective. 1634; Meters.A. 1638. R. away from Cole-Orton, 1644; thrown, 1646, however, reinstated shortly after suffering great adversity, 1660-96. R. out of Ravenstone, 1667. Buried Jan. 31, 1695-6, in the Cole-Orton. Sis of Thomas (1628) and father out of Thomas (above). (D.Letter.B.; Nichols, III. 741.) Beaumont Pestell’s grandfather Thomas Pestell (1586-1667) have an admission regarding the ODNB because the a great clergyman and you can poet.
Supplies
James Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p.64; Origins, England, Select Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [databases on the web].
batch zero. M02248-4; Origins, The united kingdomt, Come across Births and you will Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on the web]; Ancestry, London, Church of England, Baptisms, Marriages and you may Burials, 1538-1812 [database on line].
Ancestry, Cambridge School Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on the web]; Gordon McMullen, ‘Pestell, Thomas (bap. 1586, d. 1667), Chapel off England clergyman and you will poet’, ODNB on the internet,
We’re grateful so you’re able to Kenneth Pestell getting giving us their transcription of the tend to off Beaumont Pestell and a good transcription off data files on the Chancery match Pestell v. Paveley.
Further information
Items Product I Give to my brother Walter Pestell about Sity regarding London Jewiller 25 weight as well as so so you can my Sis their spouse 25 pounds becoming pd to help you him or her whenever they be after that Liveing such like Sterling Currency off England within this a year just after my personal Decease Item I Offer unto my Neece Sarah Pestell Daughter off my buddy Thomas Pestell Twenty five weight Instance Sterling Money to-be pd to her in the event the upcoming Liveing within this twelve months after my personal Decease Item I provide unto my Son-in-law John Jem 200 lbs in order to be welcome him off his thread that we have now let’s talk about 300 pounds Imediately After my personal Passing in the event that the guy be following Liveing Most of the others Deposit regarding my personal entire House We share with my personal Beloved Man Alger Pestell and also to the heires regarding their System Lawfully is Begotten for ever butt however, if my Guy Alger happen to dye instead of heires after that my have a tendency to is that my whole House getting Similarly (are – crossed out) Devided betwixt my Sister Midlaton’s Child and my personal Neece Sarah Pestell and my cousin Walter & their wife Show and you will Share the exact same and that i Doe hereby (Moninate) and you can Appoint my personal Precious Child Alger Pestell My entire Extor out of which my personal Past tend to revoking all of the former Wills by the Myself Made whereof I the Sd Beaumont Pestell has actually here unto sett My hand and you may Seale it 4th day’s August around your Lord 1000 Seven-hundred & 14 Finalized Sealed Typed and you can ed Beaumont Pestell to get their History have a tendency to and you may Testamt on the presence of us and you may Closed by all of us regarding the presence of one’s Sd Beaumont Pestell
Mem: You to to your Tenth day of March 1714 Personally Looked just before me personally Mathew Gregory & Jerome Collins Esqrs & Henry Baram Gent and made oath on the Holy Evangelist one to they were really accqainted to your Hand writeing away from Beaumont Pestell Late of your Parish regarding St Catherines Joyner & which they create accept that the inside created Tool purporting new Past Have a tendency to & Testament of the Sd Beaumont is all of your right hands writeing of the said Beaumont Pestell & which they know-nothing of any almost every other commonly produced by the brand new sd Beaumont Pestell that could usually the fresh new drawback of one’s often within created
All of the a lot more than are transcribed out-of a document in the Isle Record Place of work from Jamica. List Zero. RGO/SP Tw Liber 14 Fol. 133
The whole of the file, like the memorandum during the base, is truly printed in a comparable hand and is probably a legal listing, as opposed to the modern commonly published by Beaumont Pestell himself.
Mathew Gregory are a good Churchwarden (that have Beaumont Pestell) at the St Catherine’s, in St Iago de 
los angeles Vega, after called Foreign-language Urban area. Kenneth Pestell 2012.