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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794
Karcze
Parish of Zbuczyn, łukowski county.
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Extracts from outside the registers
Records under sigla which the card index does not expand. They give no hearths, so they enter no total.
note: A one-line note of appurtenance, without hearths and without persons — exactly the same type of entry as „MP - Ruska wola - do starostwa kąkolewnickiego” on card 2). After the siglum a full stop („MP.”). It does not enter the reckoning of hearths, in keeping with the practice of the village files so far. It is worth noting that MP speaks of the STAROSTY of Zbuczyn, and T90 and T89 of the LEASEHOLD of Zbuczyn — I do not unify the two forms.
labour dues: householders: 6
note: A description of the village in the formula known from other Ls89 cards („w. do star. …; osiadłości gosp. N; grunta …, łąki …”). The figure „gospodarzy 6” is the state of settlement, NOT hearths — it does not enter the the hearths figure field; it agrees exactly with the figure „6 chat. o 1 gosp.” from T89 on card 1), but these are two different sources and I do not merge them. THE THIRD LINE OF THE ENTRY REMAINS UNREAD: four words written in the same ink as the rest, the last of them struck out with a long horizontal stroke and thereby illegible. The first word: five or six letters, ending in a descender loop („-y” or „-z”), roughly „?ewcy”. The second: it begins with „ż” (a dot above the letter), has a descender loop in the second position and a tall ascender loop in the third, and ends with a letter carrying a diacritic stroke — roughly „ży?o?i”. The third: seven letters ending in „-ik”, roughly „?er?cik”, and after it the numeral „1”. The reading was made under magnification up to fourteenfold, with separation of the colour channels, levelling of the background and enhanced contrast — without result; it requires inspection of the original. The siglum is written without a space and with a full stop: „Ls89.” (on card 2) „Ls. 89”, on card 2) „Ls.89”, on card 2) read as „Lsp 89”). The abbreviation „wś.” with a dot over the „s” (that is, „ś”).
note: A NEW SIGLUM, FROM OUTSIDE THE LIST OF SOURCES — „St. 89”, written with a ligature of „S” + „t” with a full stop, then „89”. An entry without hearths and without surnames. The card's reckoning closes exactly, down to a single person, and confirms the reading: men 6 (gosp.) + 14 (syn.) + 2 (chałupn.) + 4 (syn.) = 26; women 6 + 8 + 2 + 4 = 20; together 46, exactly as many as the card gives in brackets, „46 l. (26 m., 20 k.)”. The abbreviation „k.” the author sets both beside the wives and beside the daughters — in both places it has the shape of a „k” with a tall stem, checked under ninefold and fourteenfold magnification; the last „4 k.)” is squeezed against the very right-hand edge of the card and runs into the closing bracket [reading uncertain as to the shape of this one abbreviation; the reckoning unambiguous]. A NOTE ON THE SOURCES: these 46 persons are NOT the figure from S87 (card 1): „45 l.”). They are two different censuses from two different years — 1787 and 1789 — and the difference of one person I do not smooth away, do not reconcile, and do not require either side to yield.
spellings on the cards: Karcze
district of łukowski · parish of Zbuczyn · cards 1), 2)
a royal village of the starosty (leasehold) of Zbuczyn; an inn, 6 cottages with one householder each, a cottage without land or garden, a cottage with a garden [O83 (IX), T89, T90, MP]; householders 6, the land middling, few meadows [Ls89]
| Year | Source | Entries | Hearths |
|---|---|---|---|
| T89 | Hearth tax register 1789 | 1 | 9 |
| T90 | Hearth tax register 1790 | 1 | 8 |
Without an extract for 1775 and 1794 — no card of this village carries that tariff. It is a missing extract in the card index, not a gap in the numbering of the cards.
This locality in the full edition of the hearth-tax registers — together with a search across all persons, a modern map, Perthées’s engraving of 1786 and a statistical summary.