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Names in the register

Mart

4 archival units in this register name Mart. 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
AHN, Inquisición, 1708, Exp. 22Archivo Histórico Nacional1708
AHN, Inquisición, 1708, Exp. 3Archivo Histórico Nacional1708
AHN, Inquisición, 1711, Exp. 7Archivo Histórico Nacional1711
AHN, Inquisición, 1713, Exp. 12Archivo Histórico Nacional1713

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.