Coutinho

Name of a Jewish-Portuguese family, members of which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, resided in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Brazil, and the West Indies.

1\. Abraham Pereyra Coutinho:

Mentioned as living in Amsterdam in 1675.

2\. Baruch Mendes Coutin:

Member of the benevolent society Sha'are Ẓedeḳ, founded in Amsterdam 1678.

3\. Daniel Coutinho:

Mentioned with No. 1.

4\. David Mendes Coutinho:

Mentioned with No. 2.

5\. Isaac Henriques Coutinho:

Mentioned in a Jamaica document of the year 1698. Resided at Amsterdam in 1675.

6\. Jacob Coutinho:

Son of Moses Henriques Coutinho (No. 11).

7\. Jacob b. Abraham Mendes Coutinho:

A brother of Moses (No. 10).

8\. Lourença Coutinho:

Mother of the dramatic poet Antonio José da Silva, and widow of João Mendes da Silva; arrested in Rio de Janeiro as a confessor of Judaism, and brought before the tribunal of the Inquisition at Lisbon, where she was imprisoned, and died in 1713 at the age of sixty-one.

9\. Manuel Rodriguez Coutinho:

Punished (for the third time) by the Inquisition at Lisbon on the charge of a relapse to Judaism.

10\. Moses b. Abraham Mendes Coutinho:

From 1696 to 1711 the owner of a Hebrew printing-establishment at Amsterdam.

11\. Moses Henriques Coutinho:

Perhaps a brother of Isaac Henriques (No. 5); lived for a time in Barbados, and settled in Jamaica 1679.

12\. Samuel Gomes Coutinho:

Mentioned with No. 1.

Bibliography:

  * Monatsschrift, ix. 333;
  * Wolf, Antonio José da Silva, p. 11;
  * Ersch and Gruber, Encyklopäe, sect; 2, xxviii. 69;
  * Publications American Jew. Hist. Soc. i. 108, v. 55, 88;
  * De Castro, De Synagoge der Port.-Isr. Gemeente te Amsterdam, pp. xlviii. et seq.;
  * Grünwald, Portugiesen-Gräber auf Deutscher Erde, p. 103.



G. M. K.