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I found this information about an early Lazaro Bejarano on Curacao:
"Various historians have speculated that among the shipmates of Columbus there were a great number of marranos. There is no historical proof, however, that any professing Jew settled on Curaçao during the Spanish period. One of the island's Spanish governors was Lazaro Bejarano, today a common Spehardic surname in Turkey, hence he could have been of marrano descent. He was, in fact, interrogated and subsequently punished by the Roman Catholic Church, not on the usual accusation of judaizing, but because he had not dedicated himself diligently to propagating the faith among the Indian population; he had not brought nay Catholic missionaries to the island and had been satisfied with constructing only a small chapel on the Santa Barbara estate."
Titus Rivas
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