Taperoá, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The first civilized inhabitants of the lands of the current Municipality of Taperoá were the licensee Francisco Tavares de Melo, captain Gonçalo Pais Chaves and the assistant Cosme Pinto, who, by concession of the captain major Francisco de Abreu Pereira, received from the Crown, in 1703, the dates on the slope of the Serra da Borborema, an extension of twelve leagues on the bank of the Unebatucu River (today Taperoá). There those three heads of families settled, founding some cattle ranches and developing light cultivation of the soil. The main centers of life and development in those lands were called Serrote, Bonito. Salgado, Carnauba and Cosme Pinto. Here the most remote origin of the Municipality of Taperoá. In the area of ​​the current city, according to some historians, a great battle was fought in 1824 between the republicans of the Confederation of Ecuador, who were trying to withdraw to Ceará, and the loyalist forces. The latter were the victors. This fact resulted in the name of Battalion for the locality, in memory of the great battle (battalion) that had been fought there. There are, however, those who want to relate the primitive name of Battalion to the armed clashes with the remaining Cariri Indians and the first civilized people who penetrated the region and settled there. In any case, the primitive name of Battalion resembles a great battle. Focusing better on the beginnings of the seat of the Municipality and its evolution, we see in 1830, approximately, Manuel de Farias Castro, descendant of the Farias Castro of São João do Cariri, founding a farm in the area of ​​the current city of Taperoá. There he took up residence and started a family. Your children and in-laws. who were numerous, began to inhabit, populate and explore the sites called Campos do Coxo, Várzea do Sales and Alto Batalhãozinho. These were soon joined by the Portuguese Costa Vilar who, with his descendants and family members, greatly contributed to the development of local life. In 1860, the idea of ​​building a chapel around which the population centers were concentrated in order to create conditions for the creation of the future district and Municipality was born. This construction, however, only began in 1865, after the dispute between Manuel de Farias Castro, Silvério de Farias Castro and his brother-in-law Sales had been resolved over the exact place where the chapel should be built. The works began under the spiritual guidance of the missionary Hermenegildo Herculano Vieira da Costa (Fr Herculano). The works went slowly and were only completed in 1874, under the ecclesiastical direction of Father José Antônio Maria Ibiapina. The religious action developed on the basis of the new chapel attracted new and numerous residents to its surroundings, significantly influencing the rapid growth of the village, which. in 1880, it already had more than 50 residential houses. District created with the name of Batalhão, on October 13, 1873. Elevated to the category of town with the name of Batalhão, on October 6, 1886, separated from São João do Cariri, headquartered in the village of Batalhão. On November 23, 1905, the municipality of Batalhão changed its name to Taperoá.

Local Offices
Cartório do Registro Civil Avenida Getúlio Vargas, s/n Centro Taperoá Paraíba 58680-000 Telelphone: (83) 3463-2451 E-mail: cartorioribeirotoledo@hotmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA DE NOSSA SENHORA DA CONCEIÇÃO (1904)