Santa Luzia, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
Sabugi, the region where the current Municipality of Santa Luzia is located, is a word of indigenous origin that means noisy waterhole. The contact of the indigenous people with the first pioneers, Sergeant Major Matias Negreiros, Alferes Marcos Rodrigues Cabral and Manoel Monteiro, took place in 1702, with the occupation of a vast area of ​​land, at the end of which is the Municipality, then called Data de Moicó or Moinocó. In the first decade of the 18th century, Isidoro Ortins de Lima settled there and built cattle corrals, next to the Ingá waterfall. Portuguese Geraldo Ferreira was the first to build a house on land where the City is now located. He became the owner of numerous plots, which he bequeathed to his nephew, Geraldo Ferreira Nunes Sobrinho, from Mamanguape. With the death of his uncle, his heir added a sesmaria to the patrimony, in the Saco creek, granted during the government of Francisco Xavier de Miranda Henriques. In 1773, Geraldo Nunes Sobrinho built the chapel of Santa Luzia and, in 1857, the parish of the same name was created. Around 1866, the northeastern missionary, Father Ibiapina, arrived in the town and expanded the dam built by Geraldo Nunes Sobrinho, then called Açude da Caridade. The district was created with the name of Santa Luzia do Sabugi on October 6, 1857. Elevated to the category of village with the name of Santa Luzia do Sabugi, on November 14, 1871, separated from Patos. On November 15, 1938, the municipality of Santa Luzia do Sabugi was renamed simply Santa Luzia.

Local Offices
Serviço Registral das Pessoas Naturais Rua Valdemiro Ferreira de Souza, 34 Antonio Bento Santa Luzia PB 58600-000 Telephone: (83) 3461-2703 E-mail: petasantana@hotmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA DE SANTA LUZIA (1957) R. Padre Jovino, 111 Centro Santa Luzia PB 58600-000

Localities
Districts: São Mamede, São José do Sabugi (Caapoã), Várzea (Sabugirana), Junco do Seridó