Cabaceiras, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
It is believed that the first penetration into the territory of the Municipality was made by Captain-Mor Teodósio de Oliveira Lêdo, in the mid-seventeenth century. 1670, beginning of a settlement in Boqueirão (today Carnoió) to serve as a base for the flag that was intended to fight the Bodopitás and Cariris Indians, primitive inhabitants of the region. From a small village, where there was a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora das Cabaças, the Municipality emerged. It is said that Antônio Ferreira Guimarães and Domingos de Farias Castro, starting from opposite points, agreed to build a chapel in the same place where they met. Where today the headquarters of Cabaceiras is located, close to the Taperoá river, it is believed to be the place where the two adventurers met and raised the small church. The founder of Cabaceiras was the Captain-Major Domingos de Faria Castro, Portuguese born in Cheleiros, married to Isabel Rodrigues de Oliveira, daughter of Isabel Rodrigues and her sister Cristina Rodrigues de Oliveira, married to Captain Antônio Ferreira Guimarães, he took as a dowry a part of the Cabaceiras site, also worth 250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand réis). Subsequently, the first of the above sons-in-law bought from his father-in-law Pascácio de Oliveira Ledo, by deed, the remainder of the same Cabaceiras farm, for 500,000 (five hundred thousand réis) and transformed it into Fazenda Cabaceiras, with a lot of cattle, a flour mill and a still. In 1735, due to the devotion of his wife, the Captain-Major Domingos de Faria Castro built the Chapel of Na. Mrs. of Conceição. (MEDEIROS, 1989). The village began around it, which would be transformed, in 1834, into Vila Federal de Cabaceiras. The following year, in 1835, the parish of NS da Conceição, in Cabaceiras, was created. In 1885, the name of the municipal seat was changed to Vila de Cabaceiras and it was given the title of city. The vast majority of the inhabitants of Cabaceiras and neighboring towns descends from the couple Captain-General Domingos de Faria Castro and Isabel Rodrigues de Oliveira, through their children: Isabel Rodrigues de Faria, 1st wife of Colonel José da Costa Romeu; Ana de Faria Castro, married to the future Captain-General Antônio de Barros Lira; Sergeant Major Inácio de Faria Castro, married to Ana Maria Cavalcante; Maria de Faria Castro, married to Sergeant Major Manuel Tavares de Lira; Captain Filipe de Faria Castro, married to Maria da Purificação. District created with the name of Vila Federal de Cabaceiras, on August 29, 1833, subordinated to the municipality of Campina Grande. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Vila Federal de Cabaceiras, on July 21, 1834, dismembered from Campina Grande.

Local Offices
Serviço Registral de Pessoa Naturais Avenida 4 de junho, 34A Centro Cabaceiras PB 58480-000 Telephone: (83) 8719-8728

Online Resources

 * Brazil, Paraíba, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2013 no Registros Históricos do FamilySearch

Local Churches
'''PARÓQUIA DE NOSSA SENHORA DA CONCEIÇÃO E SÃO BENTO 1835 Rua Joaquim Gomes Henriques, S/N Centro Cabaceiras PB 58480-000 Telephone: (83) 3356-1132