Nathan Meyer Samuel, the eldest brother of Moses and Louis Samuel, had a daughter Eliza who married Michael Henry on 5 May 1836. Michael and Eliza (Samuel) Henry had four daughters and one of them, Miriam Eliza Henry, born 26 January 1837 in Liverpool, married David Lindo.
The Jewish Chronicle for 15 June 1860 recorded the marriage as: On the 6th inst., David, eldest son of Elias Lindo, Esq., to Miriam Eliza, eldest daughter of Michael Henry of Effingham House, Highbury New Park.
- David Lindo was the son of Elias Lindo and his mother was Susan Lyon. Elias was the son of David Abarbanel and Sarah de Mattos (Mocatta) Lindo. David Lindo died 21 June 1892 at 103 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, London. Probate £32.
Miriam Eliza (Henry) Lindo died on 29 May 1902.
Another daughter Michael and Eliza (Samuel) Henry, Rebecca, married David Lindo Henry on 17 August 1881 in London. They were first cousins. (see Henry Family Page). David Lindo Henry’s mother was Abigail Lindo who was the daughter of David Abarbanel and Sarah de Mattos (Mocatta) Lindo. (see charts below).
David Abarbanel Lindo was born on 18 August 1772 London, His father was Elias Lindo and his mother was Grace Lumbroso De Mattos Mocatta.
David married Sarah Lumbroso De Mattos Mocatta on 17 September 1794, and they had at least eighteen children, many of whom married into well-established Sephardi families.
His sister Bathsheba Lindo married Joshua Basevi whose sister Maria Basevi was the mother of the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
David Abarbanel was NOT the uncle of Disraeli’s as many sources claim, however he did carry out Disraeli’s circumcision in 1804.
His wife, Sarah Lumbroso De Mattos Mocatta had a sister, Rachel Lumbroso de Mattos, married Joseph Elias Montefiore and their son was Moses Montefiore.
Lindo, who opposed the founders of the Reform movement in London, was warden of Bevis Marks Synagogue several times between 1809 and 1838.
He died in London on 26 February 1852 and was buried on 27 February at the Novo Cemetery in Mile End, London. His remains, along with those of about 7,500 other Jews buried there, were removed in 1974 and re-interred at Brentwood Jewish Cemetery, Essex.
Another daughter of David Abarbanel and Sarah de Mattos (Mocatta) Lindo was Abigail Lindo (3 August 1803 – 28 August 1848). She was the first British Jew to compile a Hebrew-English dictionary and is considered to be the only woman to have made a significant contribution to philology in the nineteenth century.
From The Jewish Chronicle, 25 August 1905: Another well-known Sephardic author was the late Mr. E. H. Lindo, whose most important book was his “History of the Jews of-Spain and Portugal,” a work of great profundity which shed much light on the history of our people in the Iberian Peninsular. It made a great impression at the time of its publication, and was most favourably reviewed by both Christian and Jewish critics. Lindo, E. H. [= Elias Hayyim Lindo] (Born Island of St. Thomas 1783; died in London June 11, 1865). [His father was Moses Lindo the brother of David Abarbanel Lindo.]
