Names in the register
Pereira
4 archival units in this register name Pereira. 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/028/00194 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/02094 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/16059 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1605 |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/CX1576/13614 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1576 |
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.