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Names in the register

Álvares

8 archival units in this register name Álvares. That means a person of this name appears in the document — nothing more. Whether they are your ancestor, and whether they were Jewish or converso, is what the document itself has to answer.

ReferenceArchiveDate
PT/TT/TSO-IE/021/01559Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IE/021/01703Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07370Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/08343Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12031Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1558
PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12947Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/13175Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO-IP/002/00007/00001Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo

There is no official list of Sephardic surnames, and there never was. The commonest names in Portuguese Inquisition trials are Rodrigues, Lopes and Fernandes — a fact about Portuguese demography, not about Jewish descent.