Itapipoca, Ceará, Brazil Genealogy

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

History[edit | edit source]

Before 1823: Vila Velha (at the time the headquarters were located in the village of the current district of Arapari in Serra da Uruburetama)

1823: Municipality of Imperatriz with headquarters in the village of São José;

1862: Municipality of Imperatriz with headquarters in the village of Itapipoca;

1889: Itapipoca;

1911: Itapipoca [Included the districts of Itapipoca, Assunção, Ipu da Rajada, Pão de Açúcar (now Missi), São Bento d'Amontada (now Amontada) and São José (now Arapari)];

1920: Itapipoca [Included the districts of Itapipoca, Assunção, Ipu da Rajada (current Rajada), Pão de Açúcar, São Bento d'Amontada, São José and São Pedro da Timbaúba (current Miraíma)];

1933: Itapipoca [Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Assunção, Barrenta (currently Cruxati), Pernambuquinho (currently Icaraí de Amontada), Rajada, São Bento d'Amontada (currently Amontada), São José (currently Arapari) and Timbaúba (currently Miraíma) , not including the Pão de Açúcar district];

1937: Itapipoca [Included the districts of Itapipoca, Assunção, Barrenta (present-day Cruxati), Lagoa Comprida (present-day Aracatiara), Pernambuquinho (present-day Icaraí de Amontada), Rajada, São José (present-day Arapari), São Bento (present-day Amontada), São Pedro da Timbaúba (currently Miraíma)];

1943: Itapipoca [Included the districts of Itapipoca, Assunção, Cruxatí (formerly Barrenta), Icaraí (formerly Pernambuco), Imperatriz (currently Arapari), Lagoa (currently Aracatiara), São Bento (currently Amontada) and Timbaúba (currently Miraíma) ];

1950: Itapipoca (Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Amontada, Aracatiara, Arapari, Assunção, Cruxati, Icaraí and Miraíma);

1951: Itapipoca (Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Amontada, Aracatiara, Arapari, Assunção, Barrento, Cruxati, Icaraí, Marinheiros and Miraíma);

1963: Itapipoca (Included the districts of Itapipoca, Barrento, Betânia, Cruxati, Deserto and Marinheiros);

1964: Itapipoca (Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Barrento, Bela Vista, Betânia, Cruxati, Deserto and Marinheiros);

1965: Itapipoca (Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Amontada, Aracatiara, Arapari, Assunção, Barrento, Bela Vista, Cruxati, Icaraí, Marinheiros and Miraíma);

1988: Itapipoca (Included the districts of Itapipoca, Arapari, Assunção, Barrento, Bela Vista, Cruxati, Deserto and Marinheiros);

1991: Itapipoca [Includes the districts of Itapipoca, Arapari, Assunção, Baleia, Barrento, Bela Vista, Betânia (ex-Cruxati), Deserto, Ipu Mazagão and Marinheiros]

2005: Itapipoca [Included the districts of Itapipoca, Arapari, Assunção, Baleia, Barrento, Bela Vista, Calugi, Cruxati (ex-Betânia), Deserto, Ipu Mazagão, Lagoa das Mercês and Marinheiros].

Source: IBGE.

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Online Resources[edit | edit source]

1982-1999 Brazil, Ceará, Civil Registration, 1982-1999 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images

Local Offices[edit | edit source]

1st civil registry office, title. and documents and notary's office of notes and protest
Amelia Frota Notary
Av. Anastácio Braga, 557
Center
Itapipoca
Itapipoca
62500-000
Ceará
Telephone/Fax: (0xx88) 3631-2207
Email: coficio@radioconnect.com.br