Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
THE TERRITORY began to be explored in the mid-seventeenth century. The first explorers to explore the region came from Bahia and demanded the swamp area, crossing the Serra dos Cariris Velhos, a branch of Borborema. Then came the drovers and travelers, following the same path. Once the climb was over, they stopped their march at the top of the mountain and started there. The place was marked by the existence of leafy umbuzeiro, a large and abundant plant species in the region, which offered them shade and fruits. In a short time, the former Pouso do Umbuzeiro, the nucleus of the same name, was already established and, close by, that of Natuba, this one with greater progress, initially. They were economically boosted by farming and cattle raising.

At the beginning of the 18th century, Natuba already had a chapel, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Conceição, and the appearance of a village on the rise. Years later, however, that nucleus went into decline and Umbuzeiro entered a phase of more accentuated progress. Around 1830, the first brick houses were built, and José da Silva Pessoa, Coronel Assunção, Gervásio Travassos Sarinho, Coronel Calafange and others surnamed Figueiredo, Costa Lima, Gonçalves and Gomes, the the first from Alagoas, the second and third from Pernambuco, and the others from Ingá and Itabaiana, in Paraíba, which constituted the trunk of families that still exist there today.

The attempt to change the toponymic designation to Pio IX, promoted by Father José Maria de Ibiapina, known as Frei Ibiapina, did not succeed due to lack of receptivity among the population. According to the interpretation accepted by the Indianists, Umbuzeiro comes from Umbu, a corruption of the indigenous expression am-bur, and means "that is standing", referring to the straight trunk of the native plant that proliferates in spontaneous culture in several points of the Serra da Borborema.

Elevated to the category of village with the name of Umbuzeiro, on May 2, 1890, separated from Ingá. Headquarters in the village of Umbuzeiro. On May 2, 1892, he transferred the headquarters from the village of Umbuzeiro to the village of Barra da Natuba. On November 19, 1904, the headquarters were re-established with the name of Umbuzeiro.

Local Offices
Cartório do Registro Civil da Sede da Comarca de Umbuzeiro Avenida Dr. Carlos Pessoa, 122 Centro Umbuzeiro PB 58497-000 Telephone: (83) 98149-3060 E-mail: faustinocrc@yahoo.com.br

Cartório do Registro Civil do Distrito de Mata Virgem Rua Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 107 Mata Virgem Umbuzeiro PB 58499-000 Telephone: (81) 3602-1002 E-mail: cartoriorcmatavirgem@gmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
PARÓQUIA DE NOSSA SENHORA LIVRAMENTO – 1902 Praça Coronel Antônio Pessoa, S/N Centro Umbuzeiro PB 58497-000 Telephone: (83) 3395-1327