Santa Helena, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
At first, we have to inform you that the community born at the beginning of this century, Santa Helena had its acceleration stimulated in 1922, when the Railroad was built (RVC) Rede Viação Cearense, today belongs to Rede Ferroviária Federal S/A, and which at that time was activated for the transport of passengers. The aforementioned railway, which today only works for the transport of cargo and parcels, connects Fortaleza to Recife, passing through the Santa Helena Central Network. Exactly in the place where the Municipal Headquarters is located today, the railroad workers' camp was set up and soon after, classrooms, residences for the staff, station and so on were built, of the aforementioned Railroad. The old village whose founders were Raimundo Luiz da Silva, Joaquim Alves de Oliveira and Gonçalo Vitoriano was initially called "Canto do Feijão". Considering the reasonable production of the product in the region. In 1927, Raimundo Luiz da Silva and one of his employees realized before the murderous fury of the Cangaceiro de Lampião gang that, coming from Brejo das Feiras to Ceará, looted the village Canto do Feijão. Raimundo Luiz da Silva, one of the founders of the village Canto do Feijão, today Santa Helena, was killed by Lampião's gang, and his partner Joaquim Alves de Oliveira continued in the struggle for the development of the locality. To this end, he donated a strip of land for the construction of the Chapel, which was done in 1933. The aforementioned Chapel is today the Mother Church of the city whose patron saint is Saint Helena. District created with the name of Santa Helena ex-town on June 24, 1957, subordinated to the municipality of Antenor Navarro. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Santa Helena, on December 12, 1961, spun off from Antenor Navarro.

Local Offices
Cartório de Registro Civil Tabelionato Rua Joaquim Alves de Oliveira, 143 Centro Santa Helena PB 58925-000 Telephone: (83) 3542-1036 E-mail: edpequeno@hotmail.com

Online Resources

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

Local Churches
Paróquia de Santa Helena Praça Matriz, s/n Centro Santa Helena PB 58925-000 Telephone: (83) 3542-1109