Re: Correa as a Sephardic name
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Correa as a Sephardic name
Harry Stein 7/17/01
It was customary in the kingdoms of Castile and Portugal, during the XIV and XV centuries, for recently converted Jews to be baptized in the Catholic faith and given the names and surnames of the lords for which they worked.In fact, it was not uncommon to find "marranos" Who were called Pedro de Mendoza, Sebastian de Avila, Alonso de Guzmán, or Antonio Correa.Some of them had exactly the same names and surnames as their patrons, for which they were they worked as accountants, scribes an even were their physicians.Hence, there are Mendozas non-Jewish and Mendozas of jewish ancestry, and Correas non-Jewish and Correas "marranos".
Two examples of this cases can be seen in the marriage of don Alonso Correa de Sotomayor, Count of San Bernardo, with doña Catalina Sarmiento de Quiros, Marquesa de Mos, in Galicia, Spain, during the XVIII century.He was a descendant of the Suevian and the Visigothic kings of Spain in the VIII century, and both were related to the Royal House of Spain.These noblemen were under surveillance of the Inquisition, and had to prove their genealogy, clear of infidels and heretics, besides other non-Aryan races, in many generations.
I happen to be a descendant of Portuguese Correas (Rodrigues Correia), probably of Jewish ancestry.There were many Portuguese colonists that went to Puerto Rico, my homeland. when Spain and Portugal united into one kingdom, after the tragic death of king Dom Sebastiao of Portugal, during the reign of king Philip II of Spain.
We have to be careful when identifying Jewish origin.There is an old saying that goes: "Not everything that shines is made of gold."
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