Piancó, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Piancó ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History
In the last decades of the 17th century, the region of the Piancó River was explored by pioneers from São Paulo and Bahia, coming from São Francisco and also from Piauí, and who divided the lands between them. The indigenous people of the region "Cariris" united and resisted, extending the struggle for the first two decades of the 18th century, until the total submission of the forestry people, from which many villages were left from which towns and cities emerged. Documents record 9 Cariri villages, including Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Curoma (current headquarters of the Municipality of Coremas, spun off from Piancó) and São José do Panati, which gave rise to Piancó. It was the captain-major Manoel de Araújo Carvalho who first created cattle ranches and built houses in the river valley, after peace had been reached with the Coremas, on November 8, 1748. For this reason, he is credited with founding Piancó. In 1800, precisely on the 18th of September, Francisco Dias Gomes, lord of Casa da Torre and owner for more than three decades of a cattle farm in that locality, called Pinho Sol, ceded a good part of this land to form the heritage of the second church, dedicated to Saint Augustine, built on the banks of the Piancó River, with an enviable architecture, maintained until the present day. The Master of Field Pedro Alves Cabral (son of the founder of the village Francisco de Paulo) represented the donor during the legal act of transferring the assets and, as curator and administrator of the beneficiary, Sergeant Major Manuel da Silva Passos. This event is seen as the official milestone of the official foundation of Piancó, which is why the date is annually remembered with several commemorations. Elevated to the category of town with the name of constitutional town of Santo Antônio do Piancó, on December 11, 1831. Elevated to the condition of city and municipal seat with the name of Piancó, on November 21, 1933.

Local Offices
Cartório do Registro Civil da Pessoas Naturais Rua Antônio Brasilino, 428 Centro 58765-000 Telephone: (83) 9129-8652 E-mail: Gilberto.mendonça@yahoo.com.br

Online Resources

 * 1) Brazil, Paraíba, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2013 FamilySearch

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA DE SANTO ANTÔNIO (1732) Rua Euclides Leite s/n Bairro Ouro Branco 58765-000 Telephone: (83) 9122-5144 / CLARO (83) 9956-9022 / TIM E-mail: santoantonio.pianco@gmail.com

Localities
Districts: Água Branca, Boqueirão dos Cochos, Olho D'Água, Catingueira (Jucá), São Francisco do Aguiar, Curema, Santana dos Garrotes, Nova Olinda (Andreza), Itajubatiba