Borborema, Paraíba, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
Boa Vista was the first name of the place where the current city of Borborema was built. This exuberant and beautiful region, admired for its green forests and abundant water; became even better known, when in 1912; The Doctor. José Amâncio Ramalho, Bachelor of Laws, coming from the city of Araruna-PB, acquired these lands, and decided to clear them. Being a man of good ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit, he began his attempts by building a dam, and later, by building a hydroelectric plant, which until 1962 provided lighting to the cities of Pilões, Serraria, Solânea, Bananeiras and the Borborema itself. Then he installed a rice pulper and a starch mill. The pioneering spirit of Dr. José Amâncio Ramalho, made the ?Vila Camucá? population nucleus that later became the seat of the municipality of Borborema. The Doctor. José Amâncio Ramalho, in addition to being inclined towards engineering, hired a renowned engineer to plan the expansion of the city. ? This fact is explained by the non-existence of crooked streets in our city. A decisive event for the progress of the then Vila de Camucá took place, with the arrival of the train, in 1913. ? The expansion of a flourishing agriculture; and the construction in the twenties of the church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo, were important decisions, for new residents to settle in the locality, and together to participate in the climb towards progress. In 1937, the Borborema district appears in the municipality of Bananeiras. On December 31, 1943, the Borborema district was renamed Camuçá. On September 17, 1948, the district of Camuçá was renamed Borborema again. Elevated to the category of municipality with the name of Borborema, on May 18, 1959, separated from Bananeiras.

Local Offices
Cartório do Registro Civil de Pessoas Naturais Arlindo Ramalho, 265 Centro Borborema Paraíba 58394-000 Telephone: (83) 3360-1062 E-mail: regia_sena@hotmail.com

Online Resources

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