Sebastião Cardoso was born on 6 April 1924, in Pitangui, Minas Gerais, Brazil as the son of Antônio Cardoso. He married Maria José Nascimento Cardoso on 8 December 1965, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He died on 27 January 2005, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, at the age of 80.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Mario, Pedro, Angel, Francisco, Luiz, Miguel, Armando, Jesus. Portuguese Joao, Joaquim, Agostinho, Duarte, Paulo, Afonso, Albano, Braz, Henrique, Marcio, Serafim.
Portuguese, Galician, and Spanish: habitational name from any of numerous places with this name, from cardo ‘thistle’ + the suffix -oso, denoting a place rich in this plant.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
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