| Husband: | Pedro DECASTRO (1625- ) | |
| Wife: | Anna Maria de TORRES (1625- ) | |
| Children: | Josefa DECASTRO (1646- ) | |
| Blas DECASTRO (1647- ) | ||
| Juan (David) DECASTRO Y TORRES (1648?-1712) | ||
| Juan Antonio DECASTRO (MENDOZA) (1653?-aft1710) | ||
| Gaspa DECASTRO ( - ) | ||
| Marriage | 1646 | Spain |
| Name: | Pedro DECASTRO | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1625 | Jaen, Spain |
| Name: | Anna Maria de TORRES | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1625 | Arcos, Cadiz, Spain |
| Name: | Josefa DECASTRO | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | Apr 1646 | San Jose, Granada, Spain |
| Name: | Blas DECASTRO1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1647 | Jaen, Spain |
| Name: | Juan (David) DECASTRO Y TORRES1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Anna (Abigail) Maria NAVARRO OROBIO (1655-1704) | |
| Birth | 1648 (app) | Jaen, Spain |
| Occupation | Master of Arms/Merchant | |
| Death | 21 May 1712 (age 63-64) | Amsterdam, Holland |
| Name: | Juan Antonio DECASTRO (MENDOZA) | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Anna Maria OSORIO RIVERA (1665- ) | |
| Birth | 1653 (app) | J(H)aen, Andalusia, Spain |
| Baptism | 1660 (age 6-7) | Church of San Lorenzo |
| Jaen, Andalusia, Spain Reseacher Matthew Hovious |
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| Religion | Jewish Sephardi | |
| Occupation | Master Swordsman/Merchant | |
| Death | aft 1710 (age 56-57) | ? |
| Name: | Gaspa DECASTRO1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
Examination of the books containing the marriage certificates of some parishes such as San Juan, San Lorenzo, San Pedro and El Sagrario between 1645 and 1660 has revealed no marriage certificates between Pedro de Castro and Ana de Torres or between Pedro de Castro and Ana de Morales.
Names of parents on baptism record of Son Antonio held in records of Church of San Lorenzo, Jaen found by researcher Matthew Hovious
Request for information by the Inquisition of Seville 18 June1697 - "Blas de Castro, alias "Castilla", native (born M.P) of Jaén, 50 years old, who is recorded in the case against Gaspar de Castro and against Juan Antonio de Castro y Mendoza. He (Blas) was a merchant and was imprisoned in Seville"1
Record of the 1680 auto da fe in Madrid.
Conviction n. 61 of Juan de Castro y Torres, alias Don Juan de Castro, of Portuguese ancestry, born in Jaén, residing in this jurisdiction (Madrid), no profession, aged 29, judaiser, and was read out to him his sentence with merits, it abjured his errors and was reconciled with confiscation of property - that he had no-, habit and life imprisonment.
Take name David De Castro in Amsterdam1
AHN, Inquisición, lib. 522, fol. 16. Letter of 11 April 1696: He is the son of Pedro de Castro, alias de Castilla, and Ana María
de Torres, former neighbours of Jaén and Arcos.
Also used the alias Juan Antonio de Castro. He married, possibly to his sister-in-laws sister Ana Maria and started a family. He later was living together out of wedlock with a woman called Ángela de Montalván at the time of his imprisonment in 1696. According to
what the prisoner said in the hearings before the Holy Office, this was not just a passing affair, but apparently a consolidated relationship.
He seems to have travelled around, to places including such as Seville, Granada and Badajoz, but was based in Cadiz. Antonio was arrested by the Inquisition in 1696 and placed in their Seville dungeon. Wife and children escape to Holland apx 1698.
Much of the Spanish Inquisition archive have now been recovered and also many destroyed over the years. Antonio Mendoza was reconciled to the Church at a small auto-da-fe in the Church of Santa Ana in 1698.The Seville Tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition wrote to all the other Tribunals and the Suprema in Madrid alerting them that Antonio had jumped bail. David Mendoza researcher believes he surfaced a few years later in Amsterdam, as David de Mendoza, a witness at a family wedding. Other researchers state the witness was in fact his brother Juan (David) DeCastro y Torres.
Translation:-
II. Information on Don Antonio Mendoza alias Don Juan Antonio de Castro, prosecuted at the Inquisition in Seville on 21 December 1698. Auto da fe held in Seville on 21 December 1698 in the parish church of Santa Ana. A.H.N de Madrid. Libro 667. Conviction n.3421
Don Antonio de Mendoza, alias Don Juan Antonio de Castro y Mendoza, master at arms by profession, born in the city of Jaén, resident in Seville, tall with good body, white face, grizzled hair, thick, detained for the crimes of communicating with prisoners and suspicions of Judaism. He appeared at the auto in a hair shirt, recanted vehemently and was sentenced to the loss of half his goods, hair shirt and imprisonment for 6 months, exile from the cities of Seville and Jaén and from being within 10 leagues of them. He was also banned in perpetuity from any ports (sea or river) or being within 12 leagues of them, and notified that he was not to use the surname de Mendoza, but that of his relatives, on penalty of 200 lashes.
Researcher David Mendoza believes he was the David Mendoza buried 26 April 1722 in Sephardi Velho, (Old) Cemetery, Mile End, London. Other researchers believe he died elswhere during the Inquisition (Spain/Portugal) before 1713.2
| 1 | "Maurie Prendergarst " (http://maurie.customer.netspace.net.au/). |
| 2 | "David Mendoza article "S&P magazine." 2018". |