Araças, Bahia, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
On August 7, 1831, José Rodrigues Pontes, parish priest of the parish of Alagoinhas certifies that in this parish there are two houses of prayer, one in the place of Aranha, not yet finished, not yet blessed and without a chaplain..." On August 11, 1832, the Town Hall of Inhampupe, swears in as justices of the peace of the curated chapel of Senhor Menino Deus do Aranha Pedro Joaquim de Novaes, ensign José da Silva Araújo, captain Joaquim José de Novaes, and Antonio Januário de Castro and take the oath of the law and style was granted to them by the form and manner prescribed in the same law = We swear to the holy gospels to carry out the obligations of justices of the peace of the healed chapel of Senhor Menino Deus do Aranha in the parish of Santo Antonio das Alagoinhas, term of the village of Inhambupe de Above and in 1834,the same chamber declares to have created a new district in the chapel of Senhor Menino Deus do Aranha, separating the one from the parish of Santo Antonio das Alagoinhas, to which it belonged, comprising within its limits "the passage of the Quiricozinho river downstream to the Barro creek and from there crossing looking for the road that goes to the farm of Campestre from the same passage of Quiricozinho road of Sismaria down to the passage of Quiricó grande on the right side the entire term of this municipality to the new district of a Aranha and on the left side to that of Alagoinhas = on what concerns the distance of the seats, the 4th of August was set for the election of justice of the peace and alternate to which the precise determinations will be issued."comprising in its limits "from the passage of the Quiricozinho river downstream to the Barro creek and from there crossing to look for the road that goes to the farm of Campestre from the same passage of the Quiricozinho road of the Sismaria down to the passage of the large Quiricó on the right side all the way the term of this municipality for the new district of a Aranha and on the left side for that of Alagoinhas = on what concerns the distance of the seats, the 4th of August was set for the election of justice of the peace and alternate to which they will be issued the precise determinations."comprising in its limits "from the passage of the Quiricozinho river downstream to the Barro creek and from there crossing to look for the road that goes to the farm of Campestre from the same passage of the Quiricozinho road of the Sismaria down to the passage of the large Quiricó on the right side all the way the term of this municipality for the new district of a Aranha and on the left side for that of Alagoinhas = on what concerns the distance of the seats, the 4th of August was set for the election of justice of the peace and alternate to which they will be issued the precise determinations."from the passage of the Quiricozinho river downstream to the riacho do Barro and from there looking for the road that goes to the farm of Campestre from the same passage of the Quiricozinho road of the Sismaria down to the passage of the large Quiricó on the right side the entire term of this municipality to the new district of a Aranha and on the left side to that of Alagoinhas = on the basis of the distance between the seats, the 4th of August was set for the election of justice of the peace and alternate to which the precise determinations will be issued."from the passage of the Quiricozinho river downstream to the riacho do Barro and from there looking for the road that goes to the farm of Campestre from the same passage of the Quiricozinho road of the Sismaria down to the passage of the large Quiricó on the right side the entire term of this municipality to the new district of a Aranha and on the left side to that of Alagoinhas = on the basis of the distance between the seats, the 4th of August was set for the election of justice of the peace and alternate to which the precise determinations will be issued."

At the time of the empire, there was a road that came from Subaúma and passed through the village of Aranha. “Araçá” was a farm that was close to this village. The Araçá farm belonged to Captain Manoel Dantas Novaes.

Once in the village of Aranha an epidemic occurred, from which a large number of people died. As the terrain of this village was stony, a group of people got together and went out to look for a sandy terrain to build a cemetery, finding it at Fazenda Araçá.

Captain Manoel Dantas Novaes decided to donate one hundred tasks of land so that the chapel and the cemetery could be built, given that his cousin João Barbosa Novaes was a priest and during his life, the place was the Parish of Senhor Deus Menino dos Araçás. After his death, Araçás religiously belongs again to the parish of Alagoinhas, Bahia.

Manoel Dantas Novaes allowed the residents who lived on the farms to build houses, called ranchos, on the lands of the Araçá farm to attend to the rituals of the Catholic Church, which made the center of Araçás develop a lot. Two sheds were built where the fairs were held, there were grocery stores and even a townhouse, the home of Father João Barbosa Novaes. At this time Antonio Conselheiro, leader of the Canudos revolution, decided to spend a night in Povoado. People who were against his ideas threw bees and ants in the place where he slept. Indignant, Antonio Conselheiro kicked his boots hard and said: “Araçás will never be guava, but always araçá, it will never go beyond that”. But, according to José Calasans Brandão da Silva, in O Matricídio de Antonio Conselheiro "In turn, the Archdiocese was also informed of what was happening in the Bahian backlands, in the area visited by the Councilor. First, the events in the parish of Senhor Deus Menino dos Araçás, when three people lost their lives in one of the moments when the pilgrim was preaching and a woman was taken by hallucination."

District created with the name of Araçás, on 21-06-1872, subordinated to the village of Alagoinhas. Elevated to the category of a municipality with the name of Araçás, on December 24, 1989, dismembered from Alagoinhas.

Local Offices
Cartório de Registro Civil com Funções Notoriais Praça da Matriz, s/n Centro 48108-000 Telephone: (75) 3451-2102 Email: x@tjba.js.br

Local Churches
Paróquia Deus Menino Praça da Matriz, 62 Centro 48108-000 Telephone: (75) 3451-2464