trading. Avraham Navarro was the most prominent of these. In 1688, the famous Sephardi poet Daniel Levy de Barrios wrote a poem in Amsterdam, with historical and geographical meaning. His information was usually most precise and drawing upon him we may receive a panorama of Sephardi life in the seventeenth century. There were six Jewish communities — Nieves, London, Jamaica, fourth and fifth in two parts of Barbados, and the sixth in Madras-Patan. During the 18th and 19th centuries Yemenite Jews started coming to Madras via Cochin. They were very religious. Some came from Najran. They were Rabbis and jewelry-makers. From the 19th centuries Yemenite Jews and Portuguese Jews started intermarrying. Paradesi synagogues and cemeteries The Paradesi Jews had built three Paradesi synagogues and cemeteries. In 1500 the first Madras Synagogue and cemeteries was built by the Amsterdam Sephardic community in Coral Merchant Street, George Town, Madras, which had a large presence of Portuguese Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Neither the synagogue nor the Jewish population remains today. In 1568 the first Cochin Paradesi Synagogue and cemetery was built in Cochin-Jew Street, adjacent to Mattancherry Palace, Cochin, now part of the Indian city of Ernakulam, on land given to them by the Raja of Kochi. In 1644 the second Madras Synagogue and Jewish Cemetery Chennai was built by Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia) also from Amsterdam Sephardic community in Madras, Peddanaickenpet, which later became the south end of Mint Street, It was demolished by local government in 1934 and the tombstones were moved to the Central Park of Madras along with the gate of the cemetery on which Beit ha-Haim (the usual designation for a Jewish cemetery, literally "House of Life") were written in Hebrew. The tombstones were moved again to Kasimedu, when a government school was approved to be built. In 1983, they were moved to Lloyds Road, when the Chennai Harbour expansion project was approved. In this whole process seventeen tombstones went missing, including that of de Paiva. Last Jewish Business House and Trust of Chennai, Owned by Henriques De Castro Family HDC Transports, Henriques De Castro family. HDC Industrial and management consultants, Henriques De Castro family. Isaac and Rosa Charitable Trust, Henriques De Castro family. Places named after Madras (Chennai) Jews Isaac Street was named after Isaac Henriques De Castro, who was killed in the Holocaust. Pereira Street was named after Pedro Pereira, a member