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Names in the register

Gomes

10 archival units in this register name Gomes. 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/IC/025/00911Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/00116Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/00543Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/01033Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/01225Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/01751Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1751
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/03279Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/04271Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/05935Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IP/002/0010/00005Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1546

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.