Names in the register
Cardoso
8 archival units in this register name Cardoso. 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/IL/028/00202 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/00477 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/02228 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/05745 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/07764 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/08017/1 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/10209 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/17806 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1780 |
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.