Água Fria, Bahia, Brazil Genealogy

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

History
The lands where today is the current Municipality of Água Fria were inhabited by Tapuia Indians, whose village was found by the Jesuit Fathers of the Society of Jesus who, delighted with the fertility of their land and the abundance of water and dense forest, settled here. in mid-June 1562, which is why they chose Saint John the Baptist as their patron saint, began the catechesis of the Indians, and also began the construction of the Church that still dominates the landscape and impresses with its grandeur. It was built by domesticated Indians and slaves from Africa in the holds of slave ships at the beginning of the 16th century when Portuguese settlers also came to colonize the new land. The Tapuias that inhabited the land were decimated by the sertanista João Peixoto Viegas, who hunted them and branded them for slave labor on cattle ranches when he acquired the allotment and occupied it. Água Fria received its name because of the temperature of its waters with which drovers commanded by Garcia D'Ávila were supplied with their entrances, clearing the hinterland on the way to Piauí along the Pindá royal road or Ávilas royal road. In that period, the place was the seat and civilized center, whose domain area bordered with the city of Salvador until Jacobina according to the maps of the captaincy of Bahia de Todos os Santos. It had power and prestige. In its heyday, Água Fria, was Ecclesiastical District of Brazil Império, 2nd in Brazil, with Civil and Criminal Court, with Ordinary Judge of Orphans and Absents, a Court of Auxiliaries of Justice, very severe and more feared, even because of the rigor in the application of the Criminal Code of the Empire. In addition, the Church operated a Jesuit College. It was the seat of the Terço de Ordenança, with the Chair of Latin Grammar, Pelourinho na Praça e Forca, in addition to the Chamber Senate. At the end of the 18th century, due to the judgment of the image of Santo Antonio das Queimadas in the legal headquarters of Água Fria, people used to refer to the place in a pejorative way, even with plagues. ?I deliver to you the justice of Água Fria?, that so rigorously condemned even a Saint. In the struggle for Bahia's Independence, Água Fria had an important role, being represented in the Cachoeira Council by Father Francisco Jose Miranda, a parish priest at the time. also because of the rigor in the application of the Criminal Code of the Empire. In addition, the Church operated a Jesuit College. It was the seat of the Terço de Ordenança, with the Chair of Latin Grammar, Pelourinho na Praça e Forca, in addition to the Chamber Senate. At the end of the 18th century, due to the judgment of the image of Santo Antonio das Queimadas in the legal headquarters of Água Fria, people used to refer to the place in a pejorative way, even with plagues. ?I deliver to you the justice of Água Fria?, that so rigorously condemned even a Saint. In the struggle for Bahia's Independence, Água Fria had an important role, being represented in the Cachoeira Council by Father Francisco Jose Miranda, a parish priest at the time. also because of the rigor in the application of the Criminal Code of the Empire. In addition, the Church operated a Jesuit College. It was the seat of the Terço de Ordenança, with the Chair of Latin Grammar, Pelourinho na Praça e Forca, in addition to the Chamber Senate. At the end of the 18th century, due to the judgment of the image of Santo Antonio das Queimadas in the legal headquarters of Água Fria, people used to refer to the place in a pejorative way, even with plagues. ?I deliver to you the justice of Água Fria?, that so rigorously condemned even a Saint. In the struggle for Bahia's Independence, Água Fria had an important role, being represented in the Cachoeira Council by Father Francisco Jose Miranda, a parish priest at the time. in addition to the Chamber Senate. At the end of the 18th century, due to the judgment of the image of Santo Antonio das Queimadas in the legal headquarters of Água Fria, people used to refer to the place in a pejorative way, even with plagues. ?I deliver to you the justice of Água Fria?, that so rigorously condemned even a Saint. In the struggle for Bahia's Independence, Água Fria had an important role, being represented in the Cachoeira Council by Father Francisco Jose Miranda, a parish priest at the time. in addition to the Chamber Senate. At the end of the 18th century, due to the judgment of the image of Santo Antonio das Queimadas in the legal headquarters of Água Fria, people used to refer to the place in a pejorative way, even with plagues. ?I deliver to you the justice of Água Fria?, that so rigorously condemned even a Saint. In the struggle for Bahia's Independence, Água Fria had an important role, being represented in the Cachoeira Council by Father Francisco Jose Miranda, a parish priest at the time.

Água Fria was created as a Parish (Parish) on April 11, 1718, and as a Town and Municipality in 1727, remaining in this condition until 1832 when it lost its seat to Irará, only being fulfilled 10 years later the Imperial Embargo, on May 27, 1832. 1842, becoming the District of Irará, remaining in that condition until being emancipated on July 13, 1962

Local Offices
Ofício de registro civil das pessoas naturais e tabelionato de notas Av. Adilson dos Reis Figueiredo, 24 Centro Água Fria Água Fria 48170-000 Bahia Telephone: (0xx75) 3247-2081

Cemeteries
Cemitério São João Batista Beco do Cemitério, 2-24, Água Fria - BA, 48170-000

Cemitério Parque da Cantareira Av. Água Fria, 467 – Cj. 142 São Paulo/SP – 02333-000 Telephone: 11 2344-4999