18 December 2023 à 22:22
In my search for the Cansinos, I inevitably came across with the monumental work of Professor Juan Gil, "Los conversos y la Inquisición sevillana", published in 8 volumes. I recently purchased the entire collection, and found some familiar Sephardic surnames in the onomastic index. One is Sarfaty, which is linked to the branch we match via DNA in the Senior Coronel family. Sarfaty appears as Cerfati, Zarfate and Carfate (orginally, Çarfate), and the name is concentrated in the coastal town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, not too distant from Palos de la Frontera, where the Alonso Cansinos (a branch from the Cansino family in Seville) left Spain for the Americas. Coincidentally, or not, these Cansinos, most of them sea captains and merchants, went to the Americas in the early 1500s, as their relatives in the Diaspora were settling in the Netherlands and other welcoming territories outside Spain and Portugal. Since I have not found any references to the the Senior Coronel family in Andalusia, it is possible that the Cansinos were related to the Senior Coronel family via the Sarfaty family. In any case, anyone interested in checking other Sephardic or converso surnames from Andalusia, please let me know and I will look them up in the index.
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