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| Judith Maduro Brandon |
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| David Henry Brandon |
Judith Maduro (1862-1940) was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She was the third of eight children born to Esther Piza and Salomon Levy Maduro, both from St. Thomas and with roots in Curacao.
David Henry Brandon (1855-1903) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Esther Athias and Jacob Brandon of Jamaica. The Brandon family, descendants of Portuguese Jews, had migrated to Jamaica from England in the middle and late 1600's.
The Brandon (Brandón) family name sometimes used the original Portuguese spelling of Brandão - pronounced nearly the same as Brandón since the "ão" in Portuguese sounds something like a nasalized "ow" in English.
David Henry Brandon with his brothers Nathaniel and Isaac Brandon founded finance and import firms. He was also elected Commander-in-Chief of the Panama Fire Department, the Cuerpo de Bomberos, to reorganize and modernize that volunteer fire brigade. He was honored a half-century after his 1903 death with this postage stamp.
Judith Maduro eventually moved to New York with her ten youngest children, and some years later to Havana, Cuba where several of her grown sons lived. She died in Havana in 1940.
Today there are Brandon-Maduro descendants throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and Israel.
Hi Sita:
ReplyDeleteEsther Athias's brother, Joseph, married Amelia DePass and one of their daughters, Sarah Amelia Athias, married Reuben Alexander Alexander, thus tying into the Alexanders who married into the Rodrigues Da Costa family. But you probably know all that!
Dorothy
Thanks, Dorothy. Actually I didn't know that! I don't have any siblings for Esther Athias, and there had also been some question whether her father was of the Athias Robles or Athias Silveyra family.
ReplyDeletedid david henry brandon have a daughter named rose or diane who died in panama and was married to a george hanbury
ReplyDeleteClaudia, that wasn't one of his children, and I don't have the name Hanbury in my database.
ReplyDeletethank you my mother was born in panama city,her mother was a brandon but we do not know her first name. but we know her famly came from jamaica.my daughter is ill with a blood disorder,and we are trying to find out what my grandmother died of
ReplyDeleteAs Sita knows, i am related to many of those names. My paternal grandmother was a Robles, My maternal grandfather was a Sasso, and maternal grandnother was a Halman
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