I don't see a FAJA DOS CUBRES on the map that I have of Sao Jorge.
Do you know which other villages it is near?
Shirley in CA
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  From: Guida Leicester 
  To: azores@googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:48 AM
  Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] presence of jews in the azores and portuguese 
jewish surnames


  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



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    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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