São Vicente do Seridó, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The municipality has two stories. One linked to the foundation of the village of São Vicente and the other of the village of Santo Antônio. Around 1820, Manuel Barbosa and his brother José Barbosa, came from the city of Patos, Sertão da Paraíba in search of land to settle. Tired, they stopped to rest and the next day, they saw that there was water and a river (Rio Seridó). The brothers studied the place and decided that they would found a village there, which some time later gave rise to the village of Santo Antônio. They built a small wattle and daub chapel on the left bank of the river to worship the Catholic saint Santo Antônio (this image is in the museum of a school in the city of Cubati, PB. In 1870, the then Sítio Santo Antônio belonged to Maria Beata, who was a great goat breeder in the region, where there were already some houses on that property. The installation of a bolandeira on the site at the initiative of its residents, for the processing of cotton, since the region was a large cotton producer, was the decisive milestone for the development of the village. Many residents moved there, attracted by the offer of work, where they built residential and commercial houses. District created with the name of Santo Antônio ex-town, on March 30, 1938, subordinated to the municipality of Soledade. On November 15, 1938, the municipality of Soledade was renamed Juazeiro. On December 31, 1943, the district of Santo Antônio changed its name to Seridó. Under the same Decree-law mentioned above, the municipality of Juazeiro was renamed Ibiapinópolis. On September 17, 1948, the municipality of Ibiapinópolis was renamed Soledade. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Seridó, on December 22, 1961, separated from Soledade.

Local Offices
Oficial do Registro Civil das Pessoas Naturais Avenida Senador Rui Carneiro, 321 Centro São Vicente do Seridó PB 58158-000 Telephone: (83) 3388-1052 Cartório José Meira de Vasconcelos Rua Cicero dos Anjos, 237 Centro São Vicente do Seridó PB 58159-000 Telphone: (83) 8841-1794 E-mail: cartoriodeserido@gmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
Capela de São Cristovão PB-177 São Vicente do Seridó PB Centro 58158-000

Localities
Villages: Bom Jesus, Exú, Malhada, Poço da Pedra, Serra Santa, Varzea da Carneira