Coremas, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The region that today is occupied by the city of Coremas was, in its beginnings, inhabited by the COREMBÊS (fallen lower lip), the name of a numerous tribe, belonging to the Cariris nation, which occupied part of the western hinterland of Paraíba. Brave warriors, they bravely resisted the colonizers. The pacification between the colonizers and the Indians who inhabited the municipality was thanks to the effort and temerity of Colonel Manoel de Araújo Carvalho, who, seeing the impossibility of defeating them by violence and desirous of complying with the orders issued by the governor general, D. joão de Alencastro, in a risky and courageous move, managed, at the end of the 17th century, with the help and support of three Indian prisoners belonging to that tribe, with whom he had become friends, to reach the cacique's presence and so he negotiated the honorable peace between both parties. With this real fact, he obtained the pacification of the Piancó region. The region could henceforth be inhabited with relative security by colonizing farmers. The founders of Coremas are the farmers and merchants: João Soares Evangelista, Manoel Gonçalves Piranhas, Antônio Moreira de Oliveira and Antônio Lucas de Lacerda. The city, which has always belonged to the municipality of Piancó, appearing unofficially in 1910 in municipal documents, already emerged with an approximate total of 26 houses, many of them made of mud for housing and an incipient trade. Officially, it appears in 1911, when the administrative division of Brazil, configuring with the name of "Curema" - district of the city of Piancó. Its first organized fair took place on May 19, 1919. Undoubtedly, the municipality had its greatest population boost, with the beginning of the construction of the Estevam Marinho reservoir, in mid-1936, when a considerable number of people came to live. employed in the work. Due to the lack of housing for the construction workers, a camp was built for the DNOCS staff, with approximately 100 residences, offices, a school group, cinema, hospital and chapel. The small village was founded with the name of Boqueirão do Curema, due to its location where the Piancó river forms a mouth. Today, in this place, the dam is erected, damming the waters of the largest dam in Paraíba and 3rd in Brazil. with the start of the construction of the Estevam Marinho reservoir, in mid-1936, when a considerable contingent of people employed in the work came to live. District created with the name of Curema, on January 7, 1896, subordinated to the municipality of Piancó. On March 30, 1938, the district of Curema was renamed simply Boqueirão do Curema. On November 15, 1938, the district of Boqueirão do Curema was renamed simply Coremas. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Coremas, on December 30, 1953, separated from Piancó.

Local Offices
Cartório Francisca Garrido de Souza Rua Manoel Cavalcante, 71 Centro Coremas Paraíba 58770-000 Telephone: (83) 3433-1009 E-mail: grazigarrido@hotmail.com

Church Records
Paróquia Santa Rita de Cassia Rua José Pergentino de Araujo, 112 Centro Coremas Paraíba 58770-000 Telephone: (83) 3433-1224

Online Resources

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