Genealogical Oddities (XLI): An Italian Jewish Convert to Catholicism in 18th Century Cadiz
Marking the start of Hannukah, here’s a rare reference to a modern-day convert from Judaism in Spanish sacramental registers. At the chapel of Cádiz’ La Carraca arsenal on 29 June 1787, Benjamin Norza, ‘known as Alejandro Ferreti in the Marine Batallions’, aged 34 or 35, was baptised a Catholic and given the names Pedro Antonio…