Names in the register
Lopes
6 archival units in this register name Lopes. 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/028/01238 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/06030 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/06267 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07481 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12907 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IP/002/00001/00002 | 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. Why the surname is not the evidence.