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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794
Krynka
Parish of Łuków, łukowski county.
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The village has been transcribed incompletely.
Card 2 is missing from the card index (numbering within the village). A FINDING CONFIRMED, BUT IN ANOTHER SHAPE THAN THE FIRST RECOGNITION ASSUMED. The facts read from the cards: (a) card 3) has the number „3” in its heading — the figure checked at fourfold magnification of a tight cut-out of the left edge of the heading; it stands in the same line as the rest of the heading, on our card, and is preceded by an oblique stroke („3/”), as is „6/” on other cards of this card index; (b) card HAS NO NUMBER AT ALL — the place before „Łuk.” is empty, checked at the same magnification (the edge of the card is visible and at once „Łuk.”, without a figure, without a bracket and without a trace of an erased sign); the trace of „1)” visible at the upper edge lies ON THE STRIP OF THE NEIGHBOURING CARD, above the edge of our card, and is the number of the next card — it agrees sign for sign with the heading of card 1) („1) Łuk. — Ławki — Łuków”). ¶ THE ORDER OF THE CARDS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED FROM THE CONTENT, NOT FROM THE ORDER OF THE CARDS. On card stands the full set of opening extracts: S87, MP, T75, T90, V48, O83 (IX), T89 — and S87 in this card index always opens the first card of a village. On card 3) stand the closing extracts: Ls.89 and St.89, that is those which at Ciosna, Myrcha, Karcze, Baranek or Kot Wiśniowski stand only on the last card of a village. The content therefore runs card → card 3), although the order of the cards runs the other way (668 lies in the card index before 669). The cards are TRANSPOSED in the drawer. ¶ HENCE THE RECONSTRUCTION: card = card 1 (no number was written on it), card 3) = card 3, and card 2 IS NOT IN THE CARD INDEX. The number „1” in the numbering of cards within the village is A CONCLUSION FROM THE CONTENT, and not a reading — it is not on the card, and that is why in the the list of cards section `nr_w_wsi: null` stands beside card. If card were card 2, card 1 would be missing as well; but nothing speaks for that, because in this card index no extract stands before S87. ¶ WHAT IS MISSING ON THE LOST CARD 2: two extracts which in this card index always stand between O83 and MP/Ls, and which are on neither of the two surviving cards — T94 (the register of 1794, „dziedz. — N dymów”) and T₀89 (the list of possessors of holdings of 1789, with a note on propination and pledges). For Krynka we therefore have neither the number of hearths of 1794, nor the list of possessors of 1789, nor any information on propination from T₀89. ¶ CARDS 668–671 RUN IN THE CARD INDEX IN AN UNBROKEN SEQUENCE, without a gap, so this is not a card passed over in the transcribing of the card index, but a card absent from the drawer or laid aside elsewhere. There are no repetitions (the same card recorded twice) in this village.
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: The inspection of 1789 (lustracja) — a siglum outside the list of eight sources, hence the extract stands here and not in the reckoning of hearths. A description of the land and of the forest, without hearths and without surnames; hence the hearths figure and the list of persons are empty. [READING UNCERTAIN] in the third line: after „brzezinę młodą” stand two words, of which the first I read as „w sobie”, while the second (a participle ending in „-ący” or an adjective in the comparative) I do not settle; the whole formula („lasek … w sobie mający”) is a fixed turn of phrase in inspections of this kind, but I do not bend the reading to it. The rest of the line is legible. The figure of „czterech sołtysów”, four village headmen, is certain and agrees with T89 on card, where there stands „6 chat. o 1 gosp. sołtysich”.
note: The statistical census of 1789 — a siglum outside the list of eight sources, hence the extract stands here and not in the reckoning of hearths; the hearths figure is empty, because the extract counts people, not hearths. THE RECKONING CONFIRMS THE READING TO A SINGLE PERSON: men 37 householders + 39 sons up to 15 years + 32 sons over 15 years = 108; women 45 + 64 daughters = 109; together 217 Catholics. Jews: 4 m. + 5 k. = 9. ¶ THIS IS NOT THE SAME FIGURE AS S87 on card (392 l. + 13 ż. = 405 l.) — two different sources and two different years (1787 and 1789), and the difference is too large to be explained by growth; S87 covers in all probability the whole estate complex (klucz) with its appurtenances, St.89 the village alone. Neither of the figures do I strain.
note: A cartographic note (Perthées's map) — a siglum outside the list of eight sources, hence the extract stands here and not in the reckoning of hearths. Without figures and without persons. The card records that both on the map and in the list of royal villages the name reads „Skrynka” (with an „S”), unlike in the heading and in all the remaining extracts („Krynka”). The last words („starostwo łukowskie”) stand right at the right-hand edge of the card and the last letter runs beyond the frame [reading uncertain as to the ending of the word, the sense beyond doubt].
spellings on the cards: Krzynka, Skrynka, Skrzynka
district of łukowski · parish of Łuków · cards 1), 3)
a royal village, belonging to the starosty of Łuków; with the Krzyński grange it forms one estate complex (klucz) [O83 (IX), T90]; a manor house, a brewery, an inn, 37 cottages with 1 householder, 7 cottages with 2 gardeners, 2 empty cottages and 6 village headmen's cottages with 1 householder = 55 hearths [T89]; four village headmen in the village, a copse beside the village, the land poor, the pastures middling, few meadows [Ls.89]; in 1789 leased to the possessor A. Koziorowicz [St.89]
| Year | Source | Entries | Hearths |
|---|---|---|---|
| T75 | Hearth tax register 1775 | 1 | 0 |
| T89 | Hearth tax register 1789 | 1 | 55 |
| T90 | Hearth tax register 1790 | 1 | 55 |
Without an extract for 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.
These years count more here than the locality itself: 1775 — Krynka with its appurtenances. Such a figure must not be set beside the other years as two measurements of the same locality — these are different units of account, not a loss of hearths.
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.