Juarez Távora, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The first buildings began to appear on a farm called Água Dôce, approximately in the year 1880. In a short time, new houses were being built, until they took on the appearance of an urban agglomeration, remaining with the toponym of Água Dôce, due to the existence in the village of a drinking water well. Other families were arriving and settling in the region, it was when Lieutenant José Justino, set up a cotton ginning plant, to take advantage of both the cultivated culture and the existing labor in the place. The Plant prospered in significant proportions, and the inhabitants with the same objective, worked to develop more and more the agglomeration that at the time belonged to the current municipality of Alagoa Grande. With the growing ascension of the village, its residents gradually dynamized the place, when the farmer Silvano Domingos de Araújo paid for a music band that, under the regency of the maestro and carpenter, ?Mestre Toninho?, animated the local festivities. But, the claims were emerging according to the needs; installed a Post and Telegraph Agency, then, also under the influence of Mr. Silvano Domingos, a telephone line was obtained connecting the village to Alagoa Grande, which, together with other countrymen, managed to set up a District Registry in Água Dôce. The change of the toponym of Vila de Água Dôce to Juarez Távora, arose from a movement of its inhabitants after the victory of the 1930 revolution, with the purpose of honoring that military man. In 1937, it appears in the municipality of Alagoa Grande, the district of Juarez Távora. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Juarez Távora, on July 16, 1959, dismembered from Alagoa Grande.

Local Offices
Cartório de Ofício de Notas e Registro Civil Adalberto Pereira de Melo, s/n Centro 58387-000 Telephone: (83) 3267-1005 Email: cartoriodoregistrociviljt@hotmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
Paróquia Nossa Senhora das Dores