Cardoso - Cardozo

Yitsjak Cardozo:"Lived in the XVII cent.Amsterdam
Aaron Nunez Cardozo circa 1850 Gibraltar
Isaac Cardoso Early 1800's Rome
Fernando Isaac Cardozo early 1500's Venice
Abraham Miguel Cardozo 1663 Lybia *
Abraham Mijael Cardozo 1703 Egypt * same individual
Isaac Cardoso Nunez circa 1880's Morocco
Jessurun Cardozo late 1890's Philadelphia
Michael Cardoso, circa 1645 Brazil
I have the actual quotes on the above and more sources if this helps.
Not all Cardozo names carried Nunez as a hyphenated name. In Spanish tradition it is common to add the mothers maiden name, my son is David Nahman-Ramos, Ramos being his mothers family name.

"Yitzak Cardozo lived in Amsterdam,Holland, where in 1679 he wrote"Las excelencias y calumnias de los hebreos."(no Nunez)

Gibraltar: "As a result of the 1749 reversal (of the British law forbidding jews from living on the rock)the community grew and they represented one third of the civilian population. Aaron Nunez Cardozo
was the most outstanding of this community. During the Napoleonic wars, his house in Almeida was converted into the municipal seat in the middle of the XIX cenury."

Italy:circa 1815. "One of the authors and participators in the debate raging in the community over Sabetai Zevi ( the self proclaimed messiah)was Isaac Cardoso."

Venice:XVI cent; "A few of the marrano physicians included Elias Montalto, who had been the personal physician of the queen of France and Fernando Isaac Cardozo who had been the same at the Royal Court of Spain.Both of them were frequently known as writers and philosophers."

Egypt;1703:"In 1703 the propagandist for Zevi,Abraham Mijael Cardozo moved to Egypt, where he became the physician to the Turkish Governor Kara Ahmad Pasha."

Lybia:"The jewish community grew, with the arrival of the jews from Livorno, Italy.In 1663(? see Egypt) Abraham Miguel Cardozo,a Zevi follower, arrived in Lybia and conducted a campaign in fafor of the
"Messiah"

Algeria:early 1800's. "The representatives of the Bey to the european nations were Aaron Nunez Cardoso and Salomon Pacifico of Gibratar." (see second item above.)

Morocco:circa 1780's. " Among them (influential)were the families Attal and Cardoso,(no first names given) who were in the service of the Ruler. But Cardoso attracted the envy of the Attals, which cost him his life.

Some of the persons that stimulated friendship with the United States, where some of their associates had immigrated and with whom they had important commercial relations, were Isaac Cardoso Nunez, interpretor of the Sultan of Marakesh and Isaac Pinto, also established himself in the U.S. They were responsible for signing the treaty between Morocco and U.S. in 1787 when the Congress decided to pay Morocco to protect U.S. naval interests in the Mediterranean.(from pirates.)"

Richmond, Virginia "The preservation of the Hispano-Portuguese ritual at the "Mikveh Israel" synagogue is owed to the knowledge by erudites like Rev.L.H. Emaleh, Rev. D.A. Jessurun Cardozo, and other devoted rabbis and hazans." (Cantors)(This Sephardic Synagogue celebrated its 98th anniversary of its founding in 1971.)

Recife,Brazil;1645: " Michael Cardoso, first jewish lawyer in the western hemisphere."

Source:Above quotes: Book, "Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia" by Nissim Elnecave, Ediciones "La Luz"Buenos Aires, Argentina 1981.
(Translation from the Spanish,mine, accurate but not verbatim.)

More:

Cardosa(1)
Cardoso(1)(2)(4)(5)(6a)(6c)(7)
Cardosso(2)
Cardoza(5)
Cardozo(1)(2)(3)(5)(7)
Cardozo De La Penha(2)
Cardozo Frias(1)

(1) From the civil records of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(2) From the records of Bevis Marks, The Spanish and Portuguese
Congregation of London.
(3) From the burial register of Bethahaim Velho Cemetery. Published by
the Jewish Historical Society of England.
(4) From the book, "History of the Jews in Venice" by Cecil Roth
(5) From the book, "Finding Our Fathers" by Rottenberg
(6) "The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World" by Seymour B.
Liebman
Those names labeled (6a) represent people who appeared before the inquisition in New Spain. (6b) represents those who appeared before the inquisition in New Granada. (6c) Peru. (6d) Rio de La Plata.
(7) From the book, "A History of the Marranos" by Cecil Roth
(8) From the book, "Jews in Colonial Brazil" by Arnold Wiznitzer

Source: Harry Stein
taken from the anusim list

Salud Y Shalom,
Ben Nahman

Portugal

CARDOSO - CARDOZO