Jewish community in London in seventeenth-century and the Bnei Anusim community in the Canary Islands.

The connection between the first Jewish community in London in seventeenth-century and the Bnei Anusim community in the Canary Islands.

La Orotava, Tenerife.

The first Jewish community of London and Canary Islands' Bnei Anusim Community is highly related. Some of the signatories of the request for the establishment of a Jewish community in London to Lord Oliver Cromwell lived in the Canary Islands for a long time and some of their families stayed in the Canary Islands. This is the case of the sister of Antao Fernandez Carvajal (Antao Israel Carvajal ) Lucina Rodriguez Arias. Lucina and her husband Gonzalo Rodriguez Baez and part of his family stayed in Tenerife and lived in La Orotava (in the north of the island). Lucina, her husband and other family members were arrested and were imprisoned in the prison of the Inquisition of Gran Canaria, but were finally freedom and could continue in their lives. Antao, Robles and other founders of Bevis Mark Synagogue were too Bnei anusim as Lucina, but in a new country they could create their own Jewish community.

Thanks to those Bnei anusim who chose London  Jews can live free in United Kingdom. I hope one day their descendants and families of those who could not come to London and escape the Inquisition can return to their faith.

Original petition to Cromwell 

They will be forever in my memory and in my prayers.

The last post was a tribute to one of my grandmothers my sixteen grandmother Isabel Nunes.

Vergara Bracamonte's house La Laguna Tenerife.

This is a tribute to one of my ancestors who was burned by the Inquisition of Seville and to his descendents by eight lines. 










She was Isabel Lopes wife of Nuno Nunes and mother of Alonso Nunez Villavicencio and  Nuno Nunes Villavicencio who came to the city of La Laguna in the early sixteenth century. In the book of Lucien Wolf Jews in the Canary Island page six is counted as Alonso Nunez was found crying and praying because his mother was imprisoned in the castle of the Inquisition of Seville: This registered in August 15, 1520 in Seville, page 142 files of the Inquisition in the Canary Islands also registered the case against Isabel Lopes in the archives of the Inquisition of Seville, National Historical Archive.

These are some of my ancestors descendants of Isabel Lopes:

Magdalena Nunez Villavicencio married in 1584 with Salvador Perez de Medina / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Mateo Diaz Villavicencio married in 1619 with Catalina Tabares / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Andres Diaz Villavicencio married in 1625 with Polonia Bethencourt / Tejina, Tenerife.

Maria Nunez Villavicencio married in 1642 with Juan Perez Canican / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Amaro Lopez Villavicencio married in 1656 with Magdalena Hernandez / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Pedro Medina Villavicencio married in 1670 with Catalina Estevez / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Francisca Lorenzo Villavicencio married in 1732 with Lucas Hernandez Prieto / Tejina, Tenerife.

Maria Perez Villavicencio married in 1740 with Salvador Gonzalez Rico / La Laguna, Tenerife.

Note that all of them for centuries strove to perpetuate its tradition and lineage. Thanks to all of them, its struggle and its legacy. 

They will be forever in my memory and in my prayers.