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To: TobagoJack who wrote (34764)	6/6/2003 3:47:15 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Portuguese-Maghreb-Jewish-New Christian-Brazilian. Boy I am more complicated than that, Jay! New Christians are Portuguese Jewish forced to become Christians (or fled) during the XV Century Inquisition. They had to take names of animals, things or trees: Coelho, my surname, means rabbit. Maghreb because they came across Gibraltar to have a look and stayed on Then Brazilian, because as my father uses to say: disgrace in small doses is sillyness :-) The Jews fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the inquisition at the end of the XV Century. Their descendants, traders and Businessmen in Gibraltar and North Africa, were invited back to Portugal by the Marquise de Pombal to help rebuild the economy after the devastating earthquake in 1755.

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