Coxixola, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
oxixola - Shall we make a Cochicholo? According to oral tradition, someone who passed to the south of Coxixola, found caboclos that beat bricks. When buried because they made bricks, they answered: Vazer make a Cochicholo (Small House- Tupi-Guarani). Once the small Chalet was built, the drovers who used to come here gathered to eat, dance, pray and sleep. So the village began in its southern part. North of the Espinheiro stream, the first resident was Felix Tito, great-great-grandson and cowboy of Captain Domingos de Farias Castro, a Portuguese who came to own land and cattle in Brazil in 1700, acquiring land from the Oliveira Ledo. This captain had 10 children and among them there were two daughters who generated descendants who owned land or lived in Coxixola. The daughter Izabel de Farias married José da Costa Romeu who, after being a widower, married Izabel Bezerra, being the parents of Hilario da Costa Romeu, father of Major Domingos da Costa Ramos, our first inhabitant, born on May 7, 1797. He was a pioneer in the carri, in the use of the press for baling cotton. Another daughter of Domingos Faria Castro was Ana de Faria Castro, descended from Inácio de Faria Castro, grandson of Antão da Cruz Porto and Ana de Oliveira, sister of Teodósio de Oliveira Ledo, founder of Campina Grande. Desce, was born Porfilio José Limeira, father of Firmino José Limeira who lived in Coxixola. Well, his inventory started in 1916 talks about a place called Muqueca, close to our village. Tito de Sousa Aragão was also the son of Inácio Faria Castro, father of Felix Tito, born in 1854, one of the first residents of Coxixola. Our resident of the southern part, Mjor Domingos died in 1878 leaving Major Domingos II here. He left here in 1892, selling his lands to Mr. Zeca Cipriano, who was married to Dona Florzinha, with whom he had 17 children. The youngest, Mr. João Zeca, born on May 9, 1902 and died on December 22, 1999. According to him, his father had purchased the cotton steamer that occupied the lives of all his children, drovers who ginned cotton and drive to Campina Grande, on their donkeys that were tied up where today is Praça da Bandeira. In 1937, the district named Cochichola appears in the municipality of São João do Cariri. On March 30, 1938, the district of Cochichola began to spell Coxixola. On April 27, 1959, the district of Coxixola ceased to be part of the municipality of São João do Cariri, being annexed to the new municipality of Serra Branca. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Coxixola, on April 29, 1994, separated from Serra Branca.

Local Offices
Cartório de Registro Civil de Pessoas Naturais Rua Manoel José das Neves, s/n Centro Coxixola Paraíba 58588-000 Telephone: (83) 3306-1062 E-mail: adevaniramorim@gmail.com

Online Resources

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