Uma Freguesia ao Sul de Mato Grosso: famílias, ilegitimidade e compadrio em Santa Rita de Nioac (1877-1892)

Abstract

The present work has as objective to analyze the constitution process of Freguesia Santa Rita de Nioac, and based on Baptisms Records to demonstrate the population heterogeneity, the family structures and the godfathering of the population that lived in the Freguesia boundary. At the same time this study intends to show the reorganization of this society after the War with Paruaguay (1864-1870) and the important military and ecclesiastical centrality of Village of Nioac, in the southern part of the province of Mato Grosso, at the end of the 19th century. I used as primary source the book number 1 of baptisms records from Santa Rita de Nioac Parish, which records Baptisms of free people, slaves and indigenous residing in the parish between the years 1877 and 1892. Were also used maps, trips reports, laws/legislation, census and reports of provincial presidents and local writers, which were of paramount importance for the construction of the analysis. This research aims to fill a gap in the regional historiography, because it deals with an understudied locality and that still lacks works and productions that contemplate it as space of analysis.