Lindo family

One of the oldest and most esteemed of London Sephardic families, it traces its descent to Isaac Lindo.

Isaac was the son of Joao Rodriques Lindo of Campo Maior and Constance Nunes of Guarda His maternal uncle was Antonio Fernandez Carvajal.

Isaac and his wife were released by the Inquisition in 1662, and lived in France before settling in London in around 1675. In London he became an elder of Bevis Marks Synagogue, and was one of the first Jewish brokers of the Royal Exchange, London in 1681 and a signatory of the *Ascamot of 1694.[7][8] His children included:

• Alexander Lindo (1666-1727) became a sworn broker in 1683, married Rachel Lopes Pereira, a cousin of Diego Pereira d'Aguilar, in 1708 and had six children.
• Elias Lindo (1690-1727), sworn broker, commissioned the Lindo lamp in 1708 to celebrate his marriage to Rachel Lopes Ferreira with whom he had six children.

For eight successive generations a members of the family were sworn brokers of the city of London, until the registration of sworn brokers was abolished in 1886:[9][10][11]

1. Issac Lindo (1638-1712): became a sworn broker in 1681, married Leah Lopes and had issue including:
2. Elias Lindo (1690-1727): sworn broker, married to Rachel Lopes Ferreira and had issue including:
   

   This is the first medal issued under the 1697 Act.  Belonged to Elias Lindo, one of the brokers originally sworn in 1697, and is currently in the collection of the Museum of London. This medal was one of the first issued, and Elias Lindo was one of the first twelve Jewish Brokers to be admitted. 
3. Isaac Lindo (1709-1766): sworn broker, married Bathseba Abarbanel and had issue including:
4. Elias Lindo: sworn broker, married Grace Lumbroso de Mattos and had issue including:
5. Moses Lindo (1760-1837): sworn broker, married Sarah DaCosta and had issue including:
6. Moses DaCosta Lindo (1784-1866): Sworn broker, married Leah Norsa and had issue:
7. Sarah DaCosta Lindo (1814-) who married her cousin Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889), sworn broker and solicitor, and had issue including:
8. Joseph Norsa Lindo (1837-): was issued the last " Jew Broker ” medal of the family in 1858 [12]

Moses DaCosta Lindo (1784-1866) Broker's Medal

The Lindos were closely related to many other "cousinhood" families of note in Britain, including the Mocatta, Goldsmid and the Montefiores.

Members of the family have been active in the affairs of the Sephardi community.

Moses Lindo (1760-1837) served as President of Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1817 to 1829. Moses' brother, David Abarbanel Lindo, married Sarah Lumbroso de Mattos and had no less than eighteen children, many of whom married into well known Sephardic families. [13]

David's son Nathaneel Lindo (1810-1889) was a City solicitor who operated the firm Lindo & Co., which had long acted as solicitors for the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue and the Italian consulate in London, a tradition which his sons: Gabriel (1838-1908) and Arthur Lindo (1839-1905) continued.

David Lindo Alexander, was President of Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1903 to 1917.

In 1937, Frank Charles Lindo (1872-1938), a great grandson of David Abarbanel Lindo, donated the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London.

Alexandre Lindo (1742-1812)

Alexandre Lindo migrated to Kingston, Jamaica from Bordeaux in 1765 and became an important merchant, banker and planter. Per Stanley Mirvis' The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition, Lindo "was perhaps the most notorious Jamaican Jewish slave trader, absentee planter, and moneylender at the end of the eighteenth century. He was among Jamaica's top four slave traders—in terms of volume sold..."[14]

By 1780 he was operating Lindo's Wharf on Princess Street in Kingston.

In 1802 he made a £560,000 loan to Napoleon, which was never repaid.[15]

In 1803, he moved to London, and leased part of Benjamin Goldsmid's Roehampton estate called Putney Spot, while he constructed a mansion in Finsbury Square, where he died in 1812.[16]

He had two wives and at least 26 children.[17][18][19] including:

• Rachel (1770-) married Moses Franco [20]
• Esther (1773-1824) married Abraham Mendes Belisario and had issue Isaac Mendes Belisario
• Marianne (1774-) married Abraham David Nunes Henriques
• Abraham Alexander Lindo[21] married Luna Henriques and had issue including: Abraham Lindo, Frederick Lindo and David Lindo (chemist). The brothers operated as importers and retailers. Their businesses included the Fire Proof Store (provisions and estate supplies), Medical Hall (Druggist), Waterloo House (dry goods business), cigar and tinware factories and a newspaper, the Falmouth Post.[22] Abraham was a Vestryman, a Magistrate and Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was also the Chairman of the Falmouth Water Company.[23]
• Joseph Alexander Lindo (1777-1816) m Sarah Da Silva and had issue include: Alexander Joseph Lindo
• David Alexander Lindo (1778-1852) m. Mathilda Prager and had issue including: Mark Prager Lindo and Philip Moravier Lindo
• Hannah (1782-1862) m Daniel Mackinlay (1773-1826) and had issue including: Guillermo MacKinlay Lindo, father of Mattias Mackinlay_Zapiola, and Harriet who married William Parish Robertson
• Miriam (1800–65) married Benjamin Israel Ricardo, a stockbroker and brother of David Ricardo
• Elizabeth (1804-1887) married Benjamin Goldsmid Levien (1806-1890), and had five children including: Jonas Levien and Henrietta (died 1864) who married Sir Saul Samuel.