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About Rebecca Vance
Rebecca Baptista (or Basticia) (c1621-after 1648). She is recorded in the birth record of her daughter Katherine as Rebacca Bastisia. Her surname suggests that she was a converted Jew, a Gypsy, or a foundling. She might have been a sister or daughter of the Italian physician John Baptista, who battled with the The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1665-1667 over his license to "sell drogs and use cures" in Edinburgh.
There were, however, few Jews in northern Ireland so early. Manuel Lightfoot, a Jewish tailor, was living in Belfast in 1652. See Ireland at Jewish Virtual Library.
"A permanent settlement of Jews was definitely established, however, in the late fifteenth century. Following their expulsion from Portugal in 1496, some of these Marrano Jews settled on Ireland's south coast. One of them, William Annyas, was elected as mayor of Youghal, County Cork, in 1555, there was also Francis Annyas (Ãnes) a three time Mayor of Youghal in 1569, 1576 and 1581. Ireland's first synagogue was founded in 1660 near Dublin Castle, and Ballybough Cemetery the first Jewish cemetery was founded in the early eighteenth century in the Fairview district of Dublin, where there was a small Jewish colony." History of the Jews in Ireland at Wikipedia, visited Dec. 28, 2012.
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Rebecca Vance's Timeline
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1621
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Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
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1641
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Londonderry, Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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May 24, 1643
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Londonderry, Derry, Ireland
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May 24, 1643
Age 22
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Londonderry, Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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1655
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Londonderry, Derry, UK
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