Teixeira, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The settlement of Teixeira, like the hinterland of Paraíba, took place as a result of the General Government's occupation project for the interior of Paraíba, after the expulsion of the Dutch. The governor-general had encouraged the Bahians for the aforementioned occupation project, hence a good number of pioneers from Bahia go up Pajeú in demand for unoccupied lands. The Teixeira mountain range was already being hit by land grabbers from Casa da Torre, who were climbing the same Pajeú. He highlights Coriolano de Madeiros, with his authority as a historian. The main founder of the village was Manuel Lopes Romeu, or Romeira, owner in Natuba, who moved with his family to sabugai in the mid-18th century. A man given to hunting, he went to the mountain in question where he found the spring known today by the name Cacimba de Baixo, at the foot of the current city. Shaded the fountain, tall and anoso angico, in which three hives of a species of bees called Canudos buzzed, giving the hunter the expressive name of the water eye of Canudos, later shortened to Canudos. The tradition preserved that, after Romeo took a long time on the excursion, his wife Verônica Lins, taken by fears, with a daughter and several servants demanded the mountain, opening a path that reached the plateau. They slept halfway up the slope. Late at night, a jaguar appeared and was stabbed to death by the two women. The trail became a road, still known today by the old name: Ladeira da Onça. Meeting with her husband, she expressed this desire to him to move there with the family and soon he did, starting to situate himself. Noticing that she needed a way through which the place could communicate with the sertão, the NE, it was also the woman helped by her daughter, who imagined the route and executed it, keeping the name of Verônica road until today. This path, conquering terraces, overcoming roughness, tramp the mountains until reaching the countryside, perpetuated a very rare vocation among women. Manuel Lopes and his brother João Leitão bought the allotment and started the village of Canudos, a name that could not overcome that of Serra do Teixeira, finally Teixeira. District created with the name of Teixeira, on October 6, 1857. Elevated to the category of village with the name of Teixeira, on August 29, 1859, separated from the municipality of Patos. On November 24, 1871, the village was extinguished. On September 5, 1874, the village of Teixeira was recreated, separated from Patos.

Local Offices
Cartório do Registro Civil Rua Dr. Antônio Farias, 12 Centro Teixeira Paraíba 58735-000 Telelphone: (83) 3472-2361 E-mail: jkfrocha@bol.com.br

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA DE SANTA MARIA MADALENA (1857)