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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794

Klimki

Parish of Łuków, łukowski county.

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Offices: Potocki Kajetan (starost of Dymir (starosta dymirski)

Extracts from outside the registers

Records under sigla which the card index does not expand. They give no hearths, so they enter no total.

MPcard 1)MP – do dzierżawy gręzowskiej;
note: The siglum „MP” is outside the list of sources — it does not enter the reckoning of hearths. The line is short and clean, the reading certain. It agrees with T89 („należąca do dzierżawy gręzowskiej”) and with Ls.89 („do star. gręzowskiego”) of the same card: Klimki is a hamlet of the Gręzówka lease (starosty), and not an estate complex (klucz) of its own.
Ls.89card 1)Ls.89. wś. – do star. gręzowskiego. karcz. 2ch poddanych na polach pieszych, wś. w borze lokowana, grunta
note: The siglum „Ls.89” is outside the list of sources (the same course was taken at Kot Wiśniowski, card, and Baranek, card) — it does not enter the reckoning of hearths. The extract breaks off at the word „grunta” and has its continuation on card 2). A WORD FROM THE WATCHED THREE — „karcz.”: the reading is CERTAIN, settled by a comparison of hands, not by conjecture. The word, written in the same lighter ink as the whole of Ls.89, looks at first glance like „kwer.”, because this hand writes the group „rcz” as three low, round signs. I set it in one frame with the word `karczma` written out in full by the same hand and in the same ink on card 2) (Kownatki, Ls.89): the first five signs are identical — k, a, „r” as „v”, „c” as „e”, „z” as „r” — and here after the fifth sign stands the full stop of an abbreviation. It is therefore neither „kwer.” nor any other word: it is „karcz.” = karczma, an inn. UNCERTAIN READINGS in this line: „na polach pieszych” [reading uncertain — the penultimate word could also be „pieskich”; the sense „poddani piesi”, that is subjects without draught animals, speaks for „pieszych”]; the figure „2ch” is certain.
Ls.89 cont.card 2)Ls.89. … wś – c.d. … w większej części piaszczyste, w części sapowate i mokre, łąki błotniste –
note: The continuation of the Ls.89 extract from card 1), taken up exactly where that card broke off: „…grunta” (card 1) + „w większej części piaszczyste…” (card 2). The dots in the line are the card index's own mark (the omission of a portion of the transcript), not mine. The vocabulary („piaszczyste”, „sapowate”, „łąki błotniste”) is the same that this hand uses in the Ls.89 of Kownatki on card 2) („grunt sapowaty… łąki błotne”), which confirms the reading. The words „w części” in the middle of the line stand right at the right-hand margin of the frame [reading uncertain as to the division of the lines, not as to the wording]. The extract gives neither hearths nor any person.

spellings on the cards: Klimki

district of łukowski · parish of Łuków · cards 1), 2)

a royal village, of the life lease of Potocki, starost of Dymir (starosta dymirski) [reading uncertain]; belonging to the Gręzówka lease (starosty); an inn and 13 cottages with 1 householder = 14 hearths; the village founded in a pine forest, the land for the greater part sandy, in part boggy and wet, the meadows marshy [O83 (IX), T89, Ls.89]

Population 1787
104
of whom Christians
96
of whom Jews
8
persons per hearth
7.4
YearSourceEntriesHearths
T89Hearth tax register 1789114
T90Hearth tax register 1790114

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.

The card-index entries

Every extract for this locality in the wording of the cards, year by year. One block is one occurrence: this person, in this year. At a collective item the same card text stands beside every person named — because the card names them together and they must not be separated. The hearths given at a collective item are an equal division among those named, not a reading.

O83 O83A description of 1783 [the expansion of the siglum to be confirmed]

PotockiKajetanstarost of Dymir (starosta dymirski)starost of Dymir (starosta dymierski)starost of Dymin (starosta dymiński) [reading uncertain]
O83leaseholder for lifepossessorO83 (IX) – wieś królewska, dzierżawy dożywotniej Potockiego, starosty dymirskiegocard 1)
A description of the village from O83, section (IX). Without hearths. A DISCREPANCY OF THE SOURCES TO BE RECORDED, not to be smoothed over: O83 names POTOCKI as the leaseholder for life, whereas MP, T89 and Ls.89 of the same card speak only of the belonging of Klimki to the Gręzówka lease/starosty and name no possessor at all. The two records cannot be reconciled from the card and I correct neither of them.
The card gives no forename — only the surname and the office; I do not add the forename. The office [reading uncertain]: the second line of the extract, „starosty dymirskiego”, runs across the seam between strips c and d of the frame and I read it from the stitching of both strips under magnification; certain are the beginning „dymi-” and the ending „-skiego”, doubtful is the fourth letter (r / n), so „dymińskiego” is also possible. In favour of „dymirski” speaks the fact that the starosty of Dymir (Dymir/Dymer in the Kiev Voivodeship) really existed; I do not, however, stretch the reading to that knowledge and I leave the question mark.

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.