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There are many indicators that the name Rodriques may be of Jewish origin, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal.
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian Peninsula. The approximately 750,000 Jews living in Spain in the year 1492 were banished from the country by royal decree of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews of Portugal, were banished several years later. Reprieve from the banishment decrees was promised to those Jews who converted to Catholicism. Though some converted by choice, most of these New-Christian converts were called CONVERSOS or MARRANOS (a derogatory term for converts meaning pigs in Spanish), ANUSIM (meaning "coerced ones" in Hebrew) and CRYPTO-JEWS, as they secretly continued to practice the tenets of the Jewish faith.
Our research has found that the family name Rodriques is cited with respect to Jews & Crypto-Jews in at least 7 bibliographical, documentary, or electronic references:
List of (mostly) Sephardic grooms from the publication, "List of 7300 Names of Jewish Brides and Grooms who married in Izmir Between the Years 1883-1901 & 1918-1933". By Dov Cohen.
Dov Cohen has created an index of brides and grooms based on the organization of Ketubot (Jewish wedding contracts) from marriages within the Turkish community of Izmir. From this material we can identify the Jewish families who lived in Turkey since the Spanish expulsion in 1492 in two periods: the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the secular government of Turkish Republic. Events of these periods forced this community to emigrate to America.
ETSI, Volume 4, No.12 dated March 2001, "Aliases in Amsterdam", by Viberke Sealtiel-Olsen, a list of alias names used by Sephardim in Amsterdam. Alias Name=True Sephardic Name
When the Conversos fled Portugal to settle in Amsterdam they returned openly to Judaism. Because they often still had relatives in Portugal, they tried to protect them by using aliases in their transactions. However, it wasn’t only the Portuguese who wound up in Amsterdam. Even a century after 1492, conversos were finding their way from Spain to Amsterdam. Listing a person as a Portuguese merchant generally meant he was Jewish. Their family contacts worldwide, along with their language skills, were great commercial assets in their farflung business ventures. And in their contacts with family back home, they had to be discreet as to not bring suspicion on relatives left behind This work is a wonderful research tool for Sephardic research in Amsterdam.
ETSI, Volume 4, No.12 dated March 2001, "Aliases in Amsterdam", by Viberke Sealtiel-Olsen, a list of alias names used by Sephardim in Amsterdam. True Sephardic Name=Alias Name
When the Conversos fled Portugal to settle in Amsterdam they returned openly to Judaism. Because they often still had relatives in Portugal, they tried to protect them by using aliases in their transactions. However, it wasn’t only the Portuguese who wound up in Amsterdam. Even a century after 1492, conversos were finding their way from Spain to Amsterdam. Listing a person as a Portuguese merchant generally meant he was Jewish. Their family contacts worldwide, along with their language skills, were great commercial assets in their farflung business ventures. And in their contacts with family back home, they had to be discreet as to not bring suspicion on relatives left behind This work is a wonderful research tool for Sephardic research in Amsterdam.
List of the Interior Ministry -Sepharadic Community of Chile, Chile, 1999.
Several of the very first explorers to Chile were accompanied by Conversos. Legend maintains that the very first explorer in 1535, Diego de Almagro, came with a Converso by the name of Rodrigo de Orgonos. Five years later, Pedro de Valdivia, another conquistador, came with Diego Garcia de Caceres of Plasencia, Spain, who is also believed to have been a Converso. Scandals erupted in 1621 after the genealogy of Caceres was traced to include many prominent families in Santiago, including the founder of the Chilean independence movement, General José Miguel Carrera. Caceres' family roots were published in a pamphlet entitled La Ovandina, but the arrival of the Inquisition at that time forbade the circulation of the pamphlet, which was reprinted in 1915. The court of the Inquisition established in Lima in 1570 also had authority over what is now Chile, and the first auto-de-fé was held shortly afterward. Nevertheless, the Crypto-Jewish settlement in this relatively remote outpost of the Spanish Empire continued to grow. The persecution of Conversos ceased when the country gained formal independence from Spain in 1818. Jews have achieved prominent positions in the Chilean government and other realms of influence, and have played a key part in the founding of the country, both before and after its independence in 1818
Joseph Covo. The Jewish community and family names of Sephardic Jews in Ruschuk (Rousse), Bulgaria, in Etsi n° 15, vol. 4, pp. 10-13, Paris, 2001.
Joseph Covo, is a native of Sofia, Bulgaria. He holds a B.A. in political science and journalism and an M.A. in international law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He immigrated to Palestine in 1944 after spending two years in a forced labor camp during World War II. After the establishment of the State of Israel and service in the Israel Defense Forces, he was sent by the Jewish Agency to South America to promote the Aliya of young Jews. He devoted his career to the advancement of Israeli technological training systems in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. After retiring he studied Ladino literature at Bar Ilan University. His book on the history of the Jews of Bulgaria was published in 2002. In the newly-liberated Bulgaria of the late 19th century, Ruse was a cosmopolitan city with a multi-ethnic population. According to the first census conducted in 1883, Ruse was populated by 26,156 people,of which 1943 were Sephardic Jews.
Max Polonovski. Les Juifs Proteges de la France dans les echelles du Levant et de Barbaria. (XVIIIe et XIX siecles),(Jews under French protectorate in Levant and Barbaria in 18th-19th centuries), in Revue du Cercle de Genealogie Juive No 53, tome 14, Paris, 1998.
Gyorgy Ujlaki. Most Common Names from the Sophia (Bulgaria) Jewish Cemetery, compiled in Budapest August 30, 1997
Distinguished Jewish bearers of the Rodriques name and its variants include : Abraham Hayim Raphael Rodrigues (18th Century), Italian scholar Yitzhak Rephael de Jehudah Rodrigues (18th Century) Rabbi from Amsterdam Distinguished Jewish bearers of the Rodriques name and its variants include : Aron Rodrigue, author "De l'instruction a l'emancipation" (Paris, 1989)
Around the 12th century, surnames started to become common in Iberia. In Spain, where Arab-Jewish influence was significant, these new names retained their old original structure, so that many of the Jewish surnames were of Hebrew derivation. Others were directly related to geographical locations and were acquired due to the forced wanderings caused by exile and persecution. Other family names were a result of conversion, when the family accepted the name of their Christian sponsor. In many cases, the Portuguese Jews bear surnames of pure Iberian/Christian origin. Many names have been changed in the course of migration from country to country. In yet other cases "aliases", or totally new names, were adopted due to fear of persecution by the Inquisition.
Here are some locations where registries of Sephardic or Christianized Jewish families with this surname have been traced: Almeida, Portugal,Bahia, Brasil,Curralinho, Brasil,Diamantina, Brasil,Escalhao, Portugal,Fundao, Portugal,Minas Gerais, Brasil,Olinda, Brasil,Ouro Preto, Brasil,Pitangui, Brasil,Ponte de Lima, Portugal,Porto Alegre, Brasil,Rio de Janeiro, Brasil,Sao Caetano, Brasil,Serro Frio, Brasil,Aljustrel, Portugal,Cabeco de Vide, Portugal,Carcao, Portugal,Coimbra, Portugal,Elvas, Portugal,Estremoz, Portugal,Evora, Portugal,Jerumenha, Portugal,Lisbon, Portugal,Mesao Frio, Portugal,Trancoso, Portugal,Viana, Portugal,Vila do Conde, Brasil,Angra do Heroismo, Portugal,Argozelo, Portugal,Arraiolos, Portugal,Beja, Portugal,Belmonte, Portugal,Braganca, Portugal,Campo Maior, Portugal,Castelo de Vide, Portugal,Faro, Portugal,Medina del Campo , Spain,Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal,Portalegre, Portugal,Porto, Portugal,Vilarinho dos Galegos, Portugal,Amsterdam, Netherlands,Ancona, Italy,Bayonne, France,Bordeaux, France,Dutch Brazil, Brasil,Ferrara, Italy,Hamburg, Germany,Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal,Labastide-Clairence, France,Livorno (Leghorn), Italy,London, England,Madras, India,Melo, Portugal,Monsanto, Portugal,Paris, France,Portugal, ,Rouen, France,Saloniki, Greece,St. Esprit, Canada,Tunis, Tunisia,Vidaxe, France,Vila Flor, Portugal,Here are some locations where registries of Sephardic or Christianized Jewish families with this surname have been traced: Cairo, Egypt,Jeremia, Haiti,Paris, France,Rouen, France,Tantah, Egypt,Here are some locations where registries of Sephardic or Christianized Jewish families with this surname have been traced: Edirne, Turkey,Istanbul, Turkey,Khaskovo, Bulgaria,Rousse (Ruse), Bulgaria,Saloniki, Greece,Smyrna, Netherlands,Sofia, Bulgary,
Some interesting facts about the name this name are : Rodriques is a Sephardic family that is said to have emigrated with the Gradis family from Palestine at the time of Bar Kochba's 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 centuries.The name Rodrigues appears in the records of the Inquisition in Lisbon, Evora, Coimbra and in the Sinedrio napoleonicoIn the "Book of the Guilties", the name RODRIGUES, appears among the Brazilians 137 times. The name originated in 'Rodrigo' but may also have a Spanish origin. It appeared in Portugal around the 14th and 15th centuries, but there were many Rodrigues also among the Jews who, at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, emigrated from Spain to Portugal, although there may`not be any blood links between them. We know the curious case of Abin Rodrigues, in Spain, that remains popular in history; he was at the same time a Jew, a Christian and a MoslemIn the 2000 census, Rodriguez was the ninth most common surname in the United States, making it probably the first time in U.S. history that a non-Anglo name ranked among the 10 most common surnames.
Some common variations of Rodriques are Rodriques, Rodrigues, Rodriguez, Rodrigue, Rodric, Rodrig, Rodrique,
The following websites are relevant to the surname Rodriques:
http://www.saudades.org/names_rodriques.html
http://www.brasilsefarad.com/joomla/images/stories/Biblioteca/mitosobrenomes.pdf,http://abrahamabulafia.blogspot.com/2011/04/apellidos-judios-de-toledo.html,
