Nomes Sefarditas

da Costa: (also see Acosta, Costa) Sephardic family probably identical with the family of Mendes da Costa (Mendes of the coast) The family is a central key to Sephardic family trees because of its wide connections to Marrano families. It can be traced to 17th cent., and there were branches in Holland, Italy and England. Jewish Encyclopedia has four family trees and numerous biographies. J.E. article on "Coat of Arms" has the Costa and Acosta family crests. U.J. has a biography of Uriel Acosta (1585-1640) Related to Bravo, Bueno, Dias, Fernandez, Gradis, Jachia, Lopez, Silva, Suasso, Pinto, Mesquita, Ricardo, Belmonte, Capadose, Hendriques, Aguilar, Osorio, Villa-Real, Franco, Quiro, Paiba, Lindo, Mocatta, Belinfante, Homen and Rivera.See also U.J. and E.J. Another variation may be Cota
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Pereira: [also Pereire, Pereyra] Spanish-Dutch family traced back to 17th cent.; the French variation is Pereire. Jewish Encyclopedia has biographies. PD has family records, related to Arnstein. Jewish Encyclopedia article on "Coat of Arms" has family crest. See family history in article by Abraham Yaari in ''Isias Press" commemorative book [1953]. Related to Itzig, Pool, Aguilar, Rodriques, Pinto, Quitino, Nunez, Belmonte and Abendana. Also see Peyrere
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RODRIQUES http://www.saudades.org/names_rodriques.html : Sephardic family that is said to have emigrated with the Gradis family- from Palestine at the time of Bar Kochba insurrection (125 C.E.) and settled first in Portugal and later in Spain. Many Jews with the name Rodriquez were martyred by the Spanish Inquisition in the 17th and 18th cent. JE mentions numerous people in Spain and Portugal, Italy, Amsterdam, Hamburg, France, from the 15th cent. on. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has a Rodriquez family crest. Related to; Salvador, Pereire, Foa, Nunes and Brudo.
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MACHADO http://www.saudades.org/names_machado.html : The Judaica Encyclopedia, describes the Machados as "A Portuguese Marrano Family." It is a great honor for us that this Encyclopedia gathers the history of the family and its prominent representatives. It mentions the name of Dr. David Mendes Machado, died in 1753, a theologian and priest who escaped Lisbon in 1732. The Inquisition suspected that he practiced Judaism in secret. He moved to Savannah, Georgia, in 1733, the year that he also married Zipphorah Nunez. The next year he was appointed Hassan to serve the Portuguese-Spanish synagogue of New York; The Shearit Israel. This synagogue is considered one of the oldest and most beautiful/famous in the ( new world). It is important to notice that he served the synagogue until he died, and that he was really an expert in Hebrew and Jewish traditions to serve at that level since he arrived in the United States. Dr. Mendes Machado's daughter, Rebecca (1746-1831), married Jonas Phillips (1736-1803), who was a patriot during the revolution war and received great honor for the Machado family in the United States. Machado ; "Name of Jews who emigrated from Portugal to Mexico and the West Indies in the 17th Cent. J.E.has eight biographies, and JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the family crest. Related to Nunes/z, Phillips, Moses, Seixas, Uriah P.Levy, Noah and Arnstein."
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Texeira: Noble Portuguese Marrano family whose name was originally Sampayo. In 1900, members were in Hamburg, London, Holland, Vienna and Venice.See J.E., which has three biographies beginning 17th century. Also see family histories in J.F.F., Nos.17 and 29, and A.J.F, 1912, p.5.J.E. article on "Coat of Arms" has the family crest. Related to Aboab, Gomez, and Sousso.
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Duran: Family from Provence, 14th century. The name means "from Oran" (Algeria) J.E. has fourteen biographies. Also see family tree of Moses ben Nahman Gerondi in J.E. Related to Bongoda, Maestre, Gabbai, Tawwah and Desmaestre.
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Rodriquez: Sephardic family that is said to have emigrated [with the Gradis family] from Palestine at the time of Bar Kochba insurrection [135 CE] and settled first in Portugal and later Spain. Many Jews with the name Rodriquez were martyred by the Spanish Inquisition in the 17th and 18th cent. J.E. mentions numerous people in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Amsterdam, Hamburg, France, from the 15th cent. on. Also see Encyclopedia Judaica article Amatus Lusitanus [1511-1568] Jewish Encyclopedia article on ''Coat of Arms'' has a Rodriquez family crest. Related to Salvador, Pereire, Foa, Nunez and Brudo
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Gomes: (also Gomez, Gomes de Sosa, Gomes de Sossa) Sephardic family descended from Isaac Gomez, a Marrano who left Madrid for Bordeaux in early 17th cent. His son went to London and later to New York, and there are many descendants in the USA. JE and AJA have family trees. There was also a Portuguese family Gomez at Antwerp in 16th cent. JE article on ''Coat of Arms'' has the Gomez and Gomez de Sosa crests. Related to Murchazo, de Tour, de Leon, Nunez, Campos, de Lucena, Lopez, Hendricks, Isaacs, Peixotto, Hart, Alexander, Nathan, Cardozo, Solis, de Campo, Mendes, Trebino, Usque, Teixeira, Basurto, Wagg and Aboab.Fonseca: also Fonswqua. -Portuguese family of Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, southern France and USA. JE has nineteen biographies. See family histories in KB and KS. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the family crest. Related to: Aboab, Belmonte and Mendes
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Castro, de Castro, Castro: Sephardic family in Spain and Portugal , 15th cent. During the Inquisition, members dispersed to Bordeaux, Bayonne, Hamburg and Amsterdam. CAJ has a family tree. LBIS has de Castro family notes. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the family crest. JE has twenty-five biographies. Related to: Mattos, Pinto, Fereira, Lopes-Suasso, Penha, Montalto, Ezekial, Simon, Orobio and Aquilar.Netto, Neto, Nieto: Nieto: JE has biographies from 17th and 18th cent. Portugal, England and Italy. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has a family crest.-related to Mendes Neto: UJ has article on 17th cent. Rabbi Isaac Neto of Surinam.
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Lopes, Lopez, Lopes-Dubec, Lopes Rosa, Lopez Suasso: Spanish name for "Wolf" JE and UJ have biographies beginning in the 16th cent. England. Lopes-Dubec was a Sephardic family active in France, 18th and 19th cent.Lopes Roza was a 17th century Portuguese family. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the Lopez and Lopes-Suossa family crests. Related to Franco, Costa, Moise, Rivera, Gomez, Seixas, Hendricks, de Sola, Nunez, Mendez, Montaigne, Ames, Farrar and Castro
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Hendriques: [Also Hendriquez, Hendricks, Enriquez, Enriques] American family connected with families of the same name in London and Amsterdam, of Sephardic origin. Descended from Jacob Hendriques, who settled in Jamaica in the early 18th century. J.E. has family trees and biographies for both Hendriques and Hendricks families. Related to Quixano, Gutterez, Leon, Mesquita, Meldola, Mendes, Costa, Warburg, Aboab, de Sola, Chaves, Gomez, Lopez, Levy, Isaacs, Judah, Nathan and numerous others in USA _______________________________________________________
de Sola: Sephardic family whose earliest known members lived in Toledo and Navarre in 8th and 9th cent. Descendants were living in Holland, England, Canada, USA and Curacao in the 1900's. JE has extensive family tree and 34 biographies, from 9th through 18th centuries. Relatives include; Joseph, Meldola, Mendes, Lopez, Benveniste, Alvares/z, Oliveira, Hendriques, Furtado, Hoheb, Torres, Monsanto, Lima, Senior, de Pinna, Levy, Myer, Luria, Asher, and more
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Solis: [also de Solis, da Solis] Portuguese and Spanish family, some of whose family members escaped to the Netherlands, France, England, USA and the West Indies. The US branch is descended from Solomon Solis and his wife, born Isabel da Fonseca, who moved to Amsterdam from Spain in the 17th cent. JE has a family tree and eight biographies from the 15th, 17th and 18th and 19th cent. Relatives include; Gomes/z, Binswanger, Carvalho, Hays, Nathan, Norris, Ritterband, Samuels, Sarfaty, Valentine and many more in the USA.
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Aguilar: Sephardic name taken from a district in the province of Valencia, Spain, where Jews can be traced back to 1290; see JE article on "Coat of Arms" which includes the family crest of Diego d'Aguilar (1699-1759) was born Pereira; see EJ, related to Costa, Meldola, Castro, Samuda.
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Albelda: Family name taken from a town in Castile, Spain, where Jews can be traced back to the 11th cent. Moses Albelda of Turkey, 16th cent. Bible commentator, is descended from this family ;see JE
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Albalia: [also Abrabalia, Albala, Albalah, Albali ]One of the more ancient Jewish families of Spain, traced to 11th cent. Cordova and supposed to be descended from the noble family of Judea at the time of the Emperor Titus, 70 C.E.. See JE.According to UJ, Isaac Albalia (1035-1094) was an ancestor of Abraham ibn Daud. EJ has article on Zionist David (b.1886 in Yugoslavia) related to Baruch.
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Alfandari: Family of Eastern rabbis prominent in Smyrna, Constantinople and Jerusalem in 17 &18th cen.; The name may be taken from a Spanish locality, possibly Alambra. The family claims descent from Bezalel of the tribe of Judah. See JE, which has a family-tree chart; also EJAlmeida: [also Almeyda] Sephardic family. Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. XVI,p.702, has a family tree. Related to Belmonte, Carabajal, Nunes.
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Alvares: [also Alvarez] Spanish-Portuguese family containing many scholars and martyrs. It can be traced back to 16th cent.; by 1900 there were branches in Holland, France and the USA. See JE, which also has the Alvares/z family crest in its article on ''Coat of Arms." Also see Correa Families of Curaçao and Brasil. Related to de Sola, Montefiore, Zacuto.
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Andrada : [also Andrade] French and Portuguese name; JE has biographies from 17 &18th cent., also Andrade family crest in its article on ''Coat of Arms''
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Antonio : [also Antunyes] Portuguese family living in Lisbon first half of 16th cent. See JE. Also see Antunyes Antunyes Marrano family from Portugal which settled in Brasil in 1557. Branches have also been traced in 17th cent. in Amsterdam, Surinam and the British West Indies;see EJ. ________________________________________________________
Lindo: One of the oldest and most esteemed Sephardic families of London.It can be traced back to Isaac Lindo [d.1712] J.E. has a family tree and six biographies. Related to: Abarbanel, Fereira, Mattos, Macotta, Costa, Norsa, Lyon, Aloof, Levy, Henry, Garcia, Alexander and Disraeli.
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Mendes: [ also Mendez, Mendesia, Mendez da Costa, Mendez Furtado] Sephardic name of at least two main families: 1) a family that emigrated from Spain to Portugal and later settled in Holland, England and U.S.A. J.E. has nine biographies, beginning 16th cent., 2) an old Spanish family that remained in Spain after expulsion of 1492. Descendants went to France, Holland, Italy, and Turkey in 16th and 17th cent,; one branch fled from Spain to the West Indies in 1786. J.E. has a family tree and eight biographies for this branch, whose relatives include Pereira, da Costa, Gomes/z, Vaez, Osorio, Sola, Sespedes, Quiros, Hendriques, Soares, Casado, Morro, Bonito, Gradis, Fonsequa, Nunes, Corcho, Netto and Nasi. C.A.J. has family records from Barbados. J.E. article on "Coat of Arms" has a Mendes and Mendez family crest. Other relatives include Coronel, Meldola, Pool, Miguez, micas, Mocatta, Abenaes, Abendana, Benjamin, Franco, Benveniste, de Lara, Disraeli and Williams.
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Salvador: London family originally named Rodriques. J.E. has three biographies from England, France, and U.S.A., 18th -19th cent. AJA has a family tree. JE article on "Coat of Arms" has the family crest. Related to Brandon.
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Baptista: [also Battista] J.E. has article on Giovani Battista [d.1588], a baptized Jew who was professor of Hebrew. An Egyptian branch of the family was related to Levita.
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Morais: Italian family that came there after fleeing the portuguese inquisition. Jewish Encyclopedia has two biographies from 19th cent. U.S.A., descendents of the original family. Related to Weil.
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Moreno: (also Morenu) Proper name adopted as a family name by spanish-portuguese jews. Families with this name were in Bayonne, London and Hamburg in 17th cent., and also in Turkey in 1900. J.E. has four biographies; JE article on "Coat of Arms" has a family crest. Related to: Hendriques, Paz and Shalom.
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Morro -related to Mendes Morenu -related to Moreno de Mora -related to Bueno
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Bueno: Sephardic family of spanish origin comprising many physicians and scholars. By 1900 members had settled in southern France, Italy, Holland, England and the USA. The family can be traced back to the 16th cent. David Bueno de Mesquita of amsterdam, 17th cent., was married to a granddaughter of Francisco Fernandes de Mora. See JE., which has sixteen related biographies, as well as a family crest in its article on "Coat of Arms". elated to Bonus, Costa
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Aguiar: Sephardic name taken from a district in the province of Valencia, Spain, where Jews can be traced back to 1290; see JE article on "Coat of Arms" which includes the family crest of Diego d'Aguilar (1699-1759) was born Pereira; see EJ, related to Costa, Meldola, Castro, Samuda
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Caballero -not listed, closest to this is de la Caballeria: (also Cavalleria)Marrano family of Aragon, Spain, influential through wealth and scholarship. Descended from Solomon ibn Labi de la Caballeria in the 15th cent., who had nine sons. Two sons took the name Pedro, another Gonzalo; a daughter married the rich landowner Don Apres de Paternoy, a Marrano of Verdun. EJ has a family tree chart under Cavalleria. Also see EJ, Related to Benveniste.
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Belmonte: Belmonte is a Portuguese-Dutch Marrano family traced back to Don Iago y Sampayo, to whom in 1519 King Manuel of Portugal gave the city of Belmonte, allowing Iago to take its name. A later branch is the Belmont family of Alzey in Rhein-Hessen. It is descended from Isaac Simon, who at the end of the 18th cent.took the family name Belmont. His father, Ephraim Simon [d.1742], was the son of Joseph Iessel [d.1738], son of Simhah ben Ephraim [d.1685]. The two names, Belmonte and Belmont, can be found in both branches, and its possible the two branches are related to each other. Some members of both branches translated the name to the German Schonenberg or Schoenberg, others changed to Joseph of Emmanuel.
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JE has a Belmont family-tree chart and many biographies; its article on ''Coat of Arms'' has the Belmonte family crest. The best history, linking the Sephardic and Germanic branches, is ''The Belmont-Belmonte Family: A Record of 400 Years.''. The Americam financier August Belmonte [1816 -1890], although born in Alzey, is not necessarily related to the above family. _______________________________________________________
Relatives of the Sephardic branch include; Aranyo, Moniz, Souza, Correa, Sanches, Miranda, Carvalho, Chevallier, Penso, Atias, Machora, Rafael, Abenatar, Mathos, Laparrea, Ximenes, Curiel, Mendes, Costa, Querido, Mascarenhas, Lancastre, Fonseca, Oliveyra, Rachoa, Ergas, Gaon, Escapa, Zousa, Pereyra, Almeyda, Vaz, Nunes and Abendana.
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Relatives on the German side include Reinach, Lorch, Elsass, Bamberger, Feist, Landauer, Leopold, Alzey, Laib, Perry, Brach, Behrend, Sternberg, Friedenwald, Neuberger and Bischoffsheim
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Nunes: [also Nunez] Marrano family dating from 15th cent. JE has ten biographies. Related to Rodriques, Lopez, Homem, Machado, Gomez, Pereyra, Abendana, Mendes, Phillips, Almeyda, Pina, Belmonte, Vias, Vaez and Disraeli.
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Vaz Dias = related to Penha
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Homen: [also Homem] Sephardic name. JE and UJ have articles on Portuguese martyr Antonio Homem [d.1624] His father was Vaez Brandao, his mother was a granddaughter of Nunez Cardozo, and his grandfather was Moses Boino. Related to Acosta and Nunez. ____________________________________________________
Almeida: [Also Almeyda] -Sephardic family. Jewish Quaterley review, Vol.XVI, p.702, has a family tree. Re;lated to Belmonte, Carabajal, Nunes
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Ferreira =related to Lindo and Castro
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Salvador: London family originally named Rodriques. JE has three biographies from England, France and USA., 18th -19th cent. AJA has a family tree. JE article on ''Coat of Arms'' has the family crest. Related to Brandon
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Mello:.[also Melo] JE has article on Rabbi David Melo [b.1550 in Spain, d. in Amsterdam] Related to Abenatar.
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Pinto: [also de Pinto] Portuguese family. Some members were in Italy and Syria in the 16th cent., in Holland in the 17th cent., and in Brazil and USA in the 18th cent. See JE article on ''Coat of Arms'' has the family crest. Related to Torre, Costa, Castro, Francia, Pereyra and Vital.
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Felix: JE has biographies from the 19th cent. France and Austria. Also see EJ article on Rachel [1821-1858] Related to Bernat.
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Fernandes: Sephardic name. Fernandes was one of the Portuguese-Jewish families expelled from the town of Dax, France, in 1684. JE and EJ have biographies of 17th cent Portuguese-French politician Manuel Fernandes Villareal. CAJ has a family tree. Related to Villareal, Costa, Bueno
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Assumpcao: Sephardic name. EJ has article on Diogo da Assumpcao, Marrano martyr [1579-1603]
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Soares =related to Mendes
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Davide: ( also Davidoff Davidson, Davydov, David, Davidovich, Davidson, Davidsohn] Ashkwenazi name of numerous families in many countries. The prominent David family of Canada came to Montreal from Wales about 1750. JE, UJ and EJ have many biographies. CAJ has a David family tree beginning in the 18th cent. AJA has a family tree related to Abraham Mendelson and Peiser. LBIS, Nos, 29, 32 and 34. Also see "Die Familie Davidson" and "It began with Zade Usher." Related to Samuel, Hays, Michaels, Hart, Azulai, Dulcken, Veit, Cohen, Dunner and List.
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Faria: JE and EJ have biographies of 17th century Marranos Mocatta: English family of Sephardic origins, originally named Lumbrozo in Spain. It can be traced back to 17th cent. JE has a family tree and five biographies and family crest. Related to: Lindo, Ximenes, Mattos, Lamego, Lousada, Brandon, Costa, Montefiore, Nahon, Schloss, Elkin, Goldsmid, Lucas and Mendes.
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From ''Finding Our Fathers: A Guide Book to Jewish Genealogy'' by Dan RottenbergRandom House New York;1977 ISNB 0-394-40675-3AJA- American Jewish Archives, CincinnatiAJHS- American Jewish Historical Society, Waltham, Mass.CAJ - Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, JerusalemEJ- Encyclopaedia JudaicaHUC - Hebrew Union College Library, New YorkJE -Jewish EncyclopediaJTS - Jewish theological Seminary Library, New YorkLBI - Leo Baeck Institute Library, New YorkNYPIJ - Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, PhiladelphiaUJE- Universal Jewish EncyclopediaYIVO -Yivo institute for Jewish Research, New York