Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
In 1836, the town of Barra do Piraí began. On 02/19/1890 the city of Barra do Piraí was created.

Former Names: The Araris, Botocudos, Puris and Tamoios formed the large Timbaúba indigenous community, the first name of current Barra do Piraí.
 * Sítio Barra do Piraí
 * Povoado de Santana
 * Freguesia de São Jose do Turvo
 * Freguesia de São Benedito de Barra do Piraí

Localities
On 02/19/1890, by Decree nº 50, of the Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Francisco Portella, the city of Barra do Piraí was created. It was divided into six peace districts:
 * First District - District of the city of Barra do Piraí, comprising the former parish of São Benedito da Barra and the Candeias farm, belonging to the heirs of Antonio Moreira dos Santos, part of the former parish of Mendes from the mouth of Ribeirão de Sant 'Ana to Ribeirão do Pocinho, the following farms: Santa Maria (from Barão de Santa Maria), Ponte Alta (from Raimundo Breves de Oliveira Roxo), Garcia Irmãos, Manoel Rodrigues Vianna & Cia and those from Barra Ibicaba and Pocinho, below the Ribeirão of the same name, belonging to Joaquim Gonçalves de Moraes, part of the old parish of Ipiabas, comprised between Serra das Cruzes and the Paraíba River, from Ribeirão de Ipiabas to the limits of the old parish of NS da Glória de Valença, comprising the Aliança farms, Porto Alegre, Sant'Ana and São Paulo,belonging to the Companhia Lavoura, Indústria e Colonização, including the village of Barra do Piraí, Ibitiba farm (Carvalho and Faro), Prosperidade, São Jose das Pedras, Barbosa and Sobrinho, União (heirs of Baptista Caetano de Almeida, Ipiabas and Campo Bom (by José Luiz da Silva Oliveira), Boa Vista (heirs of Antonio Soares de Andrade
 * Second District - District of the city of Piraí, minus the dismembered part that passes into the first district and plus the part of the parish of S. Pedro and S. Paulo do Município and district of Itaguai, limited by Ribeirão do Ingá, Rio das Lages and serra da Sinhorinha
 * Third District - Arrozal District, made up of the former parish of the same name
 * Fourth District - District of Dores, made up of the former parish of the same name
 * Fifth District - Turvo District, made up of the former parish of the same name. Back in 1730, the lands where the District of São José do Turvo is located, the third and largest district of Barra do Piraí, belonged to the curate of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Campo Alegre da Paraíba Nova, which the Indians called Timburibá.
 * Sixth District - District of Mendes, made up of the old parish of the same name, which is separated from the municipality and district of Vassouras, minus the part that passes to the first district

Surrounding Municipalities

 * Sul: Piraí
 * Norte: Valença
 * Leste: Vassouras e Mendes
 * Oeste: Volta Redonda, Barra Mansa e Pinheiral