Fajã dos Cubres--not sure how close these two villages are, but perhaps we
could be related?
Guida
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From: Shirley Allegre <shir...@digitalpath.net>
To: azores@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] presence of jews in the azores and portuguese
jewish surnames
Hi: You sparked my curiosity. My
husband's AZEVEDO line is from Rosais, Sao Jorge, Azores.
Do you know which village your Manuel Azevedo was
from?
Shirley in CA
----- Original Message -----
>From: Guida Leicester
>To: azores@googlegroups.com
>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] presence of jews in the azores and portuguese
>jewish surnames
>
>
>Excellent info! Obrigada. Manuel Azevedo was my grandfather's name. He was
>born and raised on São Jorge Island. Although there are no hard and fast
>rules regarding names--how prominent is the name 'Azevedo' among Portuguese
>Jews?
>
>
>Manuel, Do you know Stan Hordes, New Mexico historian/professor on
>crypto-Jews here in the Southwest region of the USA? I think I came across
>your name via Stan several years ago.
>
>
>Best,
>Guida Leicester
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: emmanuel lopes <emmanuelo...@gmail.com>
>To: azores@googlegroups.com
>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 3:22 AM
>Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] presence of jews in the azores and portuguese
>jewish surnames
>
>
>Jews in the azores and portuguese jewish surnames
>
>
>greetings,
>
> regarding the
presence of jews in the azores, i have posted several articles and
information from various sources such as surnames from the 1604
"levy" for the general pardon amongst new christians in the
azores, as well as notarial records from the 17th century in amsterdam
which often have reference to the azores.
> the
surnames bemsaude, benarus, sequeira, etc. refer to jews who
immigrated to portugal after the demise of the inquisition around 1770,
albeit the inquisition was not formally abolished until 1821 by a
liberal national assembly.
> in the 1770's,
the marquis de pombal, portugal's enlightened despotic "prime
minister", abolished the distinction between new christians and old
christians and invited jews back to portugal. accordingly, sephardic
jews, that is, jews whose ancestors were from the iberian peninsula but
had fled the realm after the spanish expulsion of 1492, and the
forced baptism of 1497 in portugal (mainly in the 17th and 18th
centuries), returned to form communities in lisbon, faro, sao
miguel, terceira and faial where there are extant cemeteries. those
communities also had synagogues. Pedro Merlin, deceased, wrote a book
about the Jews of Terceira, "Os Hebreus da
Terceira".(?)
> the lisbon community dates
from 1804. the lisbon synagogue, which was restored in 2004, was built
in 1904. in faro there is a museum of the jewish cemetery. the cemetery
in Faial which i have visited has about 17 tombs and the one in
Terceira about 50 (last burial in 1961 or so in both cemeteries, Faial
later). I have not visited the cemetery in Sao Miguel. I have also read
that there are several tombs in Flores but i am not aware of any actual
evidence of such burials.
> little is known about
the early settlement of the azores by jews. for example, witness the
name of "Porto Judeu", a village in Terceira. i have heard that the
original name of Terceira, 'Island of Jesus Christ" was changed due to
the majority jewish presence on that island, but again have not seen
any
actual documenatry evidence.
> professor drummond
braga has written an unpublished phd thesis on azorean jews and
muslims in the portuguese inquisition from which i extracted the
1604 census information.
> i have also
translated the trial of the first Azorean woman to be burned in the
inquisition (Maria Lopes from Sao Miguel (A native of Viseu), 16th
century) which i hope to publish along with the trials of 6 other women
in the portuguese inquisition.
> this is an area
crying for research but so far has been largely neglected. for example,
there is a dearth of information about the jewish connection with the
origin and rituals of the brotherhood of the holy spirit (irmandade do
espirito santo).
> assuming that surnames of plants
such as Oliveira, Silva, Pereira are Jewish is too simplistic; they may
be, but not necessarily so. there is no hard and fast rules
about portuguese jewish surnames. when portuguese jews were forced to
the baptismal fonts in 1497, they were often given the names of their
christian godparents. sometimes they adopted names from their places of
birth.
> there are very few records indicating a
person's jewish name and their adopted new christain name in
1497.
> in my opinion, the best source to determine
the "jewishness" of a portuguese surname is probably the records of the
inquisition housed in the national archives, torre de tombo. in
addition, there are several good dictionaries and internet
resources.
>manuel
azevedo
>http://ladina.blogspot.pt/
>
>
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