Angical, Bahia, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The left bank of the São Francisco River belonged to the Province of Pernambuco until 1828, when it was annexed to that of Bahia. In a letter dated 1700, the governor of Pernambuco, Dom Fernando de Mascarenhas e Lencastro, declared: - ″The Casa de Torre, the heirs of Antonio Guedes de Brito and Domingos Afonso Sertão are lords of the entire hinterland of Pernambuco″. And Borges de Barros, in his work Bandeirantes e Sertanistas, informs: ″The colonization of the western part of the São Francisco River, in the region that goes from Casa Nova to Remanso, to Pilão Arcado, Barra do Rio Grande, Santa Rita do Rio Preto, Campo Largo, Angical, Santa Maria da Vitória, Sant′Ana do Brejos, Barreiras, Correntina, and Rio Carinhanha, obeyed in the 17th and 18th centuries the orientation of the Casas da Torre and da Ponte″. There is no doubt, therefore,

At the beginning of the 19th century, the lands that were called Brejo do Angical, due to the existence of extensive forests of angico, surrounded by swamps or swamps, came to belong to the Almeida brothers: José Joaquim de Almeida, Joaquim Herculano de Almeida, and Manuel Frederico de Almeida, the former being the main founder of the municipality. Descendants of an illustrious family in Portugal, owned a large number of slaves dedicated to collecting diamonds in the mouths of the Chapada Diamantina, later used in the construction of dams, in the production of crops, especially cereals, and in cattle raising. Their herds crossed the São Francisco River and were driven to the Lençóis area. The prosperity of these pioneers reached a peak. They enjoyed, before the Emperor, a remarkable prestige. The opulence that surrounded them allowed them to build sumptuous residences, attested even today by their ruins. In 1810 they built the first church, endowing it with imposing works of art and adorning it with gold and silver objects. In 1821, the parish was erected with the name of Sant′Ana do Sacramento do Angical, belonging to the bishopric of Pernambuco, until 1828.

With the enactment of the Lei Áurea, in 1888, the abolition of slavery completely dismantled the economic organization of this family, with some of its members withdrawing to Rio de Janeiro, selling their properties.

Parish was created with the name of Santana do Angical, in 1821.

Elevated to the category of a village with the name of Santana do Angical, by Act of July 5, 1890, dismembered from Campo Largo.

Local Offices
Civil registration office of natural persons Rua Abdon Passos, s/n Loteamento Santana Angical Angical 47960-000 Bahia Telephone: (0xx77) 3622-2139

Local Churches
Paróquia Senhora Santana (1834) Praça Santana, s/n Centron 47960-000 Telephone: (77) 99942-9697

Localities
Distritos: Brejo Velho, Buritisinho e Missão de Aricobe, Barão de Cotegipe, Santa Helena (Miriquita), Missão de Aricobé.