Names of Mexicans Tried by the Inquisition 1528鈥�1815
Conversos and crypto-Jews were tried for Judaizing in New Spain (Mexico) during the colonial period. The Inquisition included people of every social status, including Conquistadors, government officials, and clergy. Inquisition records throughout the Americas list many of these names. If you find your family name on this list, it does not mean that you are descended from conversos. However, it might stimulate you to learn more about your family history and genealogy.
An asterisk * denotes more than one appearance in Inquisition records.
A
Abe帽a, Acosta*, Acu帽a, Aeres, Aguirre, Aguado, Aguilar, Agurto*, Alarcon, Alva, Albalaez, Alvares, Albor, Albuqerque, Alcazar, Alfar*, Alfaro, Aliaya Cardona, Almeyda*, Almonacer, Alonzo, Altamirano*, Altamiro, Alva, Alvarado, Alvares*, Amesquita*, Andrada*, Adrade*, Andres, Anfroy, Angel, Angeles, Angelini, Antonio, Antunez, Arana, Arango, Aranz, Araujo, Arbolaez, Ariano, Arellano, Arevalo, Arias*, Arizmendi, Arneo, Arrojo, Asana, Astorga, Ayllon, Azcazibar, Acevedo
B
Baca, Baez*, Baeza, Bandera, Bandejo, Batista, Batista del Bosque, Barajona, Barbosa, Barreta, Barrera, Barrientos, Barrios, Bases, Bautista, Baza, Bello, Belmonte, Benites, Benitez*, Bernal, Blandon, Bolta, Borullo, Bosque, Botello*, Brago, Bravo*, Brice帽o, Briones, Burgos*, Bustos*
C
Caceres*, Calvo Diez, Camargo, Campo, Campos*, Candia, Canizo, Caravallo, Carballo, Carabella, Carbajal, Carballo, Cardenas, Cardoso*, Carmona, Carrasco, Carretero, Carri贸n*, Carvajal*, Casta帽o, Castellanos, Castro*, Cegovia, Cercado, Cerda, Chartre, Cisneros, Cordova, Coronel, Correa, Corvera, Cruz*, Cubas, Cuello, Cueva
D
Diaz*, Diaz de Caceres, Diaz de Castella, Diaz Callero, Diaz de Castillo, Diaz Enriquez, Diaz de Espinosa, Diaz Flores, Diaz de Limos, Diaz de Llerena, Diaz Machorro, Diaz Marquez, Diaz Matara帽a, Diaz de Montoya, Diaz Nieto, Diaz Rojas, Diaz Santillan, Diaz de Silva, Diaz de Solis, Diaz Vaez, Diez, Diez de Lineo, Dominguez, Duarte*, Dura
E
Enrique, Enriquez*, Enriquez de Lineo, Enriquez Montillo, Enriquez de la Paiba, Enriquez de Silva, Enriquez Texoso, Ermita帽o, Esparta, Espejo, Esperanza, Espina, Espinola, Espinosa*, Esteves
F
Fajardo, Farinas, Febo, Felipe, Fernan, Fernandez*, Fernandez Barraun, Fernandez Cardado, Fernandez de Castro*, Fernandez Chillon, Fernadez Correa*, Fernandez de Elvas, Fernadez de Fonseca, Fernadez de Le贸n, Fernadez Pereyra, Fernadez Salseda, Fernandez de Torres, Fernadez Tristan, Ferreira, Figueroa*, Flores*, Flores Ballina, Fondevilla, Fonseca*, Francis, Franco*, Frayle, Fuentes
G
Gabriel, Gama*, Garc铆a*, Garc铆a del Brocel, Garc铆aCabezuelo, Garc铆a el Conde, Garc铆a de Santa Ana, Garc铆a de la Soria, Garc铆a de la Vega, Geronyma de Silva, Gerrera*, Guierra, Gil de la Guarda, Gogorron, Gois de Matos, Gomez*, Gomez Morales, Gomez de Acosta, Gomez Alvarez, Gomez Botello, Gomez Cardoso, Gomez Carballo, Gomez de Lima, Gomez Lobo, Gomez Navarro*, Gomez Pereira, Gomes de Silva, Gomez Silvera, Gomez Texoso*, Gonzalez*, Gonzalez Bermegero, Gonzalez de Escobar, Gonzalez Figueredo, Gonzalez Jamaica, Gonzalez de Saavedra, Gonzalez de Sobrerro, Goya Matos, Granada*, Granados, Guarda, Guerra, Guillermo
H
Henero, Henriquez*, Heredia, Hernandez*, Hernandez de Almeida, Hernandez de Alvor, Hernadez de Cazala, Hernandez Serodia, Hernadez Victoria, Herrador, Herrera*, Herrero, Hidalgo y Costilla, Holgado, Home, Huerta*, Hurtado
I
Ibernia, Isabel
J
Jacinto, Javares, Jerra, Jeronima, Jesus Maria, Jimenez Piquero, Jorge*, Juan, Juarez*
L
Lais, Lamport, Lanzarote, Laponte, Lauguaran, Le贸n*, Le贸n Carvajal, Le贸n y de la Cueva, Le贸n Jaramillo*, Le贸n Mendoza, Lescano, Lima, Linares, Lombard, Lopez*, Lopez de Aguarda, Lopez de Altavista, Lopez Blandon, Lopez Bravo, Lopez Cardado, Lopez de Chavez, Lopez Coronal, Lopez Coronel, Lopez Correa*, Lopez Diaz, Lopez Enriquez*, Lopez de Fonseca, Lopez de Granada, Lopez de Guarda, Lopez Home, Lopez de Huerta, Lopez de Llerena, Lopez Lobo, Lopez Lucena, Lopez Mejia, Lopez Mendez, Lopez de Mendizabal, Lopez Meza, Lopez Monforte*, Lopez de Morales*, Lopez de Nordo帽a, Lopez Nu帽ez*, Lopez de Ordu帽a, Lopez Ramirez, Lopez Regalon, Lopez Rivera, Lopez Sevilla, Lopez de Tepozotlan, Lopez Tristan, Lorenzo*, Lozado, Lozano, Lucena*, Lucerna, Luis*, Luna*
M
Machado*, Machorro*, Machuca, Maderos, Madrigal, Magdalena*, Mala, Maldonado, Muntillo, Manuel, Maria, Marin, Marquez*, Martinez*, Martinez de la Torre, Martinez de Villagomez, Matos, Mederos, Medina*, Mejia, Melendez*, Mella*, Melo, Mena, Mendez*, Mendoza*, Mener, Mercado*, Merino, Mexia, Mezquita*, Miguel*, Millan, Mirabel, Miranda*, Moisen Gomez, Molina, Montero*, Montes, Monteverde, Montoya, Morales*, Moreno, Morera*, Moro, Moron, Mosquera, Mu帽oz*
N
Narvaez, Navarro, Nieto, Noguera, Nu帽ez*
O
Obandajo, Ocampo, Diego de Oca帽a*, Olivera, Olivares*, Oliver, Ome*, Oporto, Ordaz, Ordo帽ez, Orosco, Orta, Ortega, Ortiz
P
Pacheco*, Pacheco de Le贸n, Paduano, Paiba, Pardo, Paredes, Paz, Pacual, Pe帽a*, Pe帽aloes, Pe帽alosa Betanzos, Peralta, Peregrino, Pereira*, Pereiras, Pereryra, Perez*, Perez de Albuquerque, Perez Arias, Perez del Bosque*, Perez Caldero, Perez Carello, Perez Correa, Perez Ferro, Perez Nu帽ez, Perez de Ocastelo, Perez Roldan, Perez de Salazar, Perez Trista, Perez de Villadiego, Perpente Joannes, Pimentel, Pinero, Pliego, Pomar, Ponce, Ponce de Le贸n*, Potello, Prieto de Villegas
Q
蚕耻颈帽辞苍别蝉
R
Ramirez*, Ramirez de Guzman, Ramirez Lopez, Ramirez Montilla*, Ramirez de Portella, Ramos, Rasen, Rasen, Raspiera, Raymundi y Arengo, Raaymundi, Renaldos, Reyes, Reza*, Ribera, Rios*, Riosas, Rivera*, Rivero, Robles*, Rocabal, Rodriguez*, Rodriguez Acu帽a, Rodriguez Alfaro, Rodriguez Arias*, Rodriguez del Bosque, Rodriguez Botello, Rodriguez de Carrasco*, Rodriguez Casta帽o, Rodriguez de Carvajal*, Rodriguez Cea, Rodriguez Deza, Rodriguez Falero, Rodriguez Garc铆a, Rodriguez de Gresta, Rodriguez de Herrera, Rodriguez Horta, Rodriguez Huerta, Rodriguez Juarez, Rodriguez de Ledesma, Rodriguez Lopez, Rodriguez de Mato*s, Rodriguez Matus, Rodriguez de Molina*, Rodriguez Nu帽ez*, Rodriguez Obregon, Rodriguez de Olivera, Rodriguez Paiba, Rodriguez de Seas, Rodriguez de Segura, Rodriguez de Silva, Rodriguez Sobremonte, Rodriguez Tavares, Rodriguez Tejoso, Rodriguez Tristan, Rodriguez Vaez, Roel, Roja, Rojas*, Rojas Ayara, Roman, Romero, Rosa, Roxas*, Rozaval, Ruipo, Ruiz*, Ruiz Esparza, Ruiz de Luna, Ruiz Marques, Ruiz Ortiz
S
Sa帽a, Sanchez*, Sanchez Manriquez, Sanchez de Sosa, Sandoval, San Ignacio, San Joseph, San Lucar, Santillan, Santoyo, Segovia*, Serrano*, Silba, Silva*, Silvera, Simon, Sobremonte, Sola*, Soria, Sosa*, Sosa y Prado, Sousa, Suarez*, Suarez de Figueroa*, Suarez de Mezquita, Suarez de Oca帽a, Susnabar
T
Tabera, Taboada, Tabora, Tal, Tavares, Tavarez, Teborio, Tejera, Tejoso*, Testa, Texoso*, Tinoco*, Tirado, Tobar, Torres*, Tovares, Trevi帽o, Tristan*
U
Ubago, Ullis de Luna, Uruzel
V
Vaez*, Vaez Alcaceria, Vaez de Acevedo, Vaez de Cateloblanco*, Vaez de Lemus, Vaez Mendez*, Vaez Mesignana, Vaez Pereira, Vaez de Rojas, Vaez Sevilla*, Vaez Torres, Valencia, Valle*, Vara, Vargas, Vasquez*, Vaz*, Vega, Vera, Vergara, Victoria, Villalta, Villardes, Villarreal, Villauriti, Villegas, Villena, Viveros, Voz Medrano
X
Ximenez de la Camara, Ximon, Xuarez*
Z
Zaldivar, Zarate, Zerda, Zerecedo, Zuarez
Sources
Archivo General de la Naci贸n de M茅xico. Ramo de la Inquisici贸n.
Dominguez Ortis, Antonio. Los Judeoconversos en Espa帽a y Am茅rica. Madrid: Ediciones Istmo, 1971.
Liebman, Seymour B. "Hernando Alonso, First Jew on the North America Continent." Journal of Inter-American Studies 5 (April 1963):291.
Liebman, Seymour B. The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World, (Coral Gables, Florida. University of Miami Press, 1974)
Liss, Peggy K., M茅xico and the Origins of Nationality, 1521-1556, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975)
Torroba, Bernaldo de Quiros, Felipe, Historia de Los Sefarditas (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires)