Names in the register
Mendes
14 archival units in this register name Mendes. 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-IC/025/00790 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IC/025/01153 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IC/025/08542/1 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IC/025/10493 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1594 |
| PT/TT/TSO-IE/021/06615 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/06573 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/06962 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07500 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07575 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/07800 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/09567 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/10964 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12549 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12550 | 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.