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To: muawiyah
Carvahal is a pretty common crypto-Jewish name in the new world. I can't tell you about its Galician origins.

Luis de Carvahal was burned at the stake as a heretic in Mexico in the mid 1500s. Not quite crypto enough about his Judaism.
1,340 posted on 10/06/2005 8:46:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Travis McGee
I thought Luis was burned because a mob got carried away burning Jews he was transporting from Brazil to New York so they went ahead and burned him too.

The other name for Galicia is, in fact, Carvajal. It's one of the three kingdoms founded by San Cho Noe I when he came from Cornwall to initiate the Reconquista.

It failed to last as a kingdom.

Several mariners named Carvajal worked with Christopher Columbus. One headed up the voyage that discovered Puerto Rico.

About half the officers on Magellan(McWallace)'s epic voyage around the world were also named Carvajal.

Today, most of the folks with that Surname live in South Florida. They used to live in Cuba. Before that they lived in Galicia. And as common as the name might seem, there are only a handful of them who show up in the record of passengers to the West Indies kept at St. Petersburg by the Spanish.

1,343 posted on 10/06/2005 9:04:12 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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