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.
| Reference | Archive | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PT/TT/TSO-IE/021/01559 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IE/021/01703 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07370 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/08343 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12031 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1558 |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12947 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/13175 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IP/002/00007/00001 | Arquivo 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.