Names in the register
Castro
5 archival units in this register name Castro. 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/028/02311 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/03053 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/05697 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/07657 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/09042 | 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.