Padrões de nupcialidade do município de Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, no início do século XX

Abstract

The aim of this thesis was to identify patterns of nuptiality of the Parish of Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, corresponding at the time to the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in the years 1937 and 1938, with regard to age, marital status, location residence, place of birth and occupation of the bride and groom. For this, it was used as a source of information parish records of marriages, originally from Cúria Metropolitana de Natal and scanned by Laboratório de Experimentação em História Social, UFRN. These records were transcribed for Excell software information age, national origin, marital status, place of residence and occupation of the intending spouses, thus constituting one of 894 individuals database (among grooms, brides, parents grooms, and parents brides) mentioned in 149 records of marriages for the years 1937 (72 records) and 1938 (77 records). To make the descriptive analyzes (frequencies and crossings of information between brides and grooms), the database was exported to the Statistical Package Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Among the main results, it was found, older grooms their brides (with an average age of entry into the 29.9 year marriage to the bride and groom and 24 years for brides), natural and own parish residents (albeit with records of marriages between natural and residents of states surrounding the Rio Grande do Norte, especially for the bride and groom, and rare marriages involving foreigners), and singles (and larger indications remarriage for men than women). With regard to occupation, brides were mostly outside the labor market, while the groom, more entered the labor force, fell within the emerging professions of Natal modernization process (trade, public service, and professional services). Besides the marriage patterns of description of a demographic perspective, the main contribution of this work was the use of parish registers as a basis for development of a database containing marital information, for the time, are not possible to be explored through official sources. As a suggestion for future work can list the cohort analysis of the rare individual characteristics (age at marriage, place of residence, place of birth and occupation) for spouses and parents, and also the expansion of studies for all years available for half of the twentieth century.