1909

Rebecca de Joseph da Costa Andrade

This person's grave was destroyed by a WW2 bomb. The name is on the south-west face of the pedestal.

Born circa 1837 in London as Rebecca Samuel, she was the fourth of the six children of Daniel Samuel (c.1800-1878) and Elizabeth Samuel née Uzzielli (born c.1801). He five siblings were: Mordecai Samuel (born c.1832); Samuel Samuel (c.1833-1882); Elias Samuel (born c.1835); Sarah Samuel (born c.1838) and Rachel Samuel (born c.1839).

In the 1841 census she is shown as aged 5 years and living in Petticoat Lane, Spitalfields, Middlesex (now Greater London), with her parents and her five siblings. Her father was described as a baker.

When the 1851 census was undertaken she was shown as aged 14 years and together with her sister, Rachel, were listed as scholars, boarding at Claremont Villa, Folkestone Road, Hougham, Dover, Kent.

She married Joseph da Costa Andrade (c.1836-1888) in the 3rd quarter of 1857 in the London City Registration District and their daughter, Esther Josephine Andrade (1858-1946) was born on 10 June 1858.

She was described as aged 23 years in the 1861 census, living at 4 Caspa Villas, Lower Road (now renamed as Essex Road), Islington, Middlesex (now Greater London), with her husband, who was described as an ostrich feather manufacturer and their daughter, together with a nurse.

She was living at 99 Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, Middlesex (now Greater London) when the 1871 census was compiled. She was listed as aged 34 years and was residing with her husband, an ostrich feather merchant, her sister-in-law Rebecca Da Costa Andrade, their niece, Bessie Solomons, together with a cook, a housemaid and a needle woman.

The 1881 census shows her as aged 43 years, living with her husband who was described as feather merchant at 34 Devonshire Place, Marylebone, London, together with a butler, a cook, a lady's maid, a footman and a kitchen maid.

Electoral registers from 1891 to 1896 confirm she was listed at 34 Devonshire Place, but from 1897 to 1906 she was registered at 92 Gloucester Place, Marylebone, London.

In the 1901 census she is shown as a widow aged 63 years and living on her own means. She was residing at 92 Gloucester Place, Marylebone, together with a butler, a footman, a lady's maid, a cook, a housemaid and a kitchen maid.

Her death was registered, aged 72 years, in the 2nd quarter of 1909 in the Marylebone Registration District, London. Probate records confirm that her address was 92 Gloucester Place, Marylebone and that she died on 31 March 1909. Probate was granted on 11 May 1909 to two solicitors: John Joshua Hands and Robert Andrade and her effects totalled £30,327-8s-11d.

She is shown as 'Rebecca de Joseph da Costa Andrade 1909' on the pedestal at the centre of the circular walled enclosure at the Novo Beth Chaim Cemetery, Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, London, E1.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.