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Coutinho (Cuitiño)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or 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.
- Monatsschrift, 9:333;
- Wolf, Antonio José da Silva, p. 11;
- Ersch and Gruber, Encyklopäe, sect; 2, 28:69;
- Publications American Jew. Hist. Soc. 1:108, 5:55,88;
- De Castro, De Synagoge der Port.-Isr. Gemeente te Amsterdam, pp. et seq.;
- Grünwald, Portugiesen-Gräber auf Deutscher Erde, p. 103.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Coutinho (Cuitiño)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/c/coutinho-cuitia-o.html. 1901.
