Edward? Henry? Lewis 6
Ancestry untraced. Assume born very approximately 1770 6,7
Married
Children
Sophia Levy, born in Ramsgate about 1790/1 4
Lewis (Louis), born cc1795
Catherine, born on the 26th of September 1800 - in Germany? 5
James Graham, born 1804 in London 2,3
George Coleman Hamilton, born 1805/6 in Portsmouth, Hampshire 2,3
Buried
Notes
1 Catherine's baptism entry upon her conversion to Catholicism in 1836 gives her father's name as Edward Lewis
2 Louis's father is named as Henry in the marriage
register and names his first two sons Edward Henry and Louis Henry.
However his sister Catherine names her father as Edward. Note there is a
Lewis, son of H.L. Lewis, born on the 25th of October 1806 in Jamaica
but the other sons Andrew, Moses, Henry have no apparent connection with
this family and the Henry L. Lewis of Jamaica appears to be a red
herring. Perhaps someone assumed Louis was the son of Henry?
2 A biography of Lafcadio Hearn ('A Fantastic Journey' by Paul Murray p251), when talking about the social background of Agnes Eliza and her husband, Henry Molyneux, states that Catherine Lewis was the aunt of 'Sir George Lewis'. This is by no means a unique identification but there was a well-known lawyer of that name who was Jewish. If this is the Sir George Lewis intended then Catherine would be the sister of James Graham Lewis and George Coleman Hamilton Lewis. These two Lewis are supposed to be of Sephardic origin which would not, of itself, explain Catherine's birth in Germany.
3 The will of George Drew Keogh, Catherine's husband, in 1847, names as executors his wife Catherine and George Coleman Hamilton Lewis.
4 The will of Sophia Levy Lewis names Kate Keogh as her sister and Lewis, George Graham and George Coleman Hamilton as her brothers. She has a son Charles Vallancy Lewis.
4 Sophia is listed as George Coleman Lewis's sister, but a widow, in the 1851 and 1861 census - is this a sister-in-law or did Sophia Lewis marry another Lewis?
5 The 1841 and 1881 say Ireland. The 1861 census gives Catherine birthplace as Germany, the 1871 as - Flanders? Flareberg? Flarewen??
6 Possibly Noah Edward Lewis. Noah's will refers to his wife Frances and a Fanny aged '70' is resident at 20 Woburn Place which appears to have been the Lewis family home.
7 "George Henry Lewis {Edward's grandson} belonged to a family of Sephardic Jews from the Netherlands who settled in England in the eighteenth century, afterwards changing their name from Loew to Lewis." Lewis and Lewis