Myrcha

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.

MPMP - Myrcha v. Myrsze - do starostwa wiśniowskiego;

note: A one-line note of affiliation, without hearths and without persons — the same type of record as „MP - Ciosna - do starostwa wiszniowskiego” on card 1), „MP. - Karcze - do starostwa zbuczyńskiego” on card 1), and „MP - Ruska wola - do starostwa kąkolewnickiego” on card 2). The siglum without a full stop („MP-”), the same as beside Ciosna; the card index gives no expansion and I do not add one. It does not enter the reckoning of hearths, in keeping with the practice of the village files so far. ¶ SECOND FORM OF THE VILLAGE NAME: after „Myrcha” stands „v.” (vel) and a word read as „Myrsze” [READING UNCERTAIN as to the middle consonants]. After „Myr” come two zigzag strokes and an „e”, without any letter with an upper loop — which rules out the ending „-cha” (compare „Myrcha” two words earlier in the same line, where the „h” has a tall loop). I therefore read „sz”, but I do not decide between „Myrsze” and a spelling with a doubled sibilant. This is the only place in the whole village where this form occurs. ¶ The name of the starosty here has the form „wiśniowskiego” — three diacritic dots (over the „i”, over the „ś” and over the second „i”) and the ending „-owskiego”; this is the most legible spelling of this name on either card. Unlike „wiszniowskie” in T89, unlike „Wiśniów” in T90, and unlike the adjective read „wiśniewskiego” in Ls.89 on card 2) — I DO NOT UNIFY the forms. The line is closed with a semicolon; below it the card is blank.

Ls.89card 2)Ls.89. w. do star. wiśniewskiego; w. quondam tylko młynarze gruntu mało średni, łąki grondowe i błotne młynarz

note: A transcript under a siglum outside the list of sources, without one hearth count, without one establishment and without one person — it does not enter the reckoning of hearths. The siglum is written „Ls.89.”, without a space, with a full stop after „s” and after „89” (on card 2) „Ls. 89”, on cards 2) and 361 „Ls.89”, on card 2) „Ls89.”, on card 3) „Ls.79”). The abbreviation for the village is „w.” with a full stop — as on cards 3), 211, 222 and 361; in the second line the same abbreviation has a closed loop at the end and could on its own be read as „ws.”/„wś.” (as on card 2) [reading uncertain as to this one letter; the sense is the same]. ¶ THE NAME OF THE STAROSTY [READING UNCERTAIN AS TO SPELLING]: I read „wiśniewskiego”. In favour of this reading: (1) a columnar measurement shows that in the whole word there are only TWO descenders below the writing line — at the „g” in the ending „-giego” and at the closing full stop — and none after „wi”, whereas this hand writes „z” with a clear undercut (this is exactly how the same word is described in Ls.89 at Ciosna, card 2), where it was read „wiszniowskiego”); (2) the vowel before „-skiego” has the shape of a closed loop with a crossbar, identical in form to the „e” in the ending „-giego” of the same word, and not the oval without a crossbar of the „o” in the same ending — that is, „-ewskiego”, not „-owskiego”; (3) above the third letter of the word stands a small diacritical mark. Against it: there are more minims in the middle of the word than „-śni-” requires, and at tenfold magnification they can also be read as „-szni-”, giving „wiszniewskiego”. I do not decide between these two spellings; in either case it concerns the wiśniewskie starosty (leasehold), the same one beside which Ciosna stands, and T90 on card, for the same village, writes this name „Wiśniów”. ¶ MILLERS: the word „młynarze” (with a final „e”) in the second line, and, standing on its own, the word „młynarz” (without „e”, the last character a zigzag „z”, checked by comparing the two words at sevenfold magnification) at the end of the third line. After „młynarz” there is nothing more: at the right edge of the card there remains blank paper about the width of two letters, so the word is NOT CUT OFF by the edge of the card — the transcript simply breaks off mid-thought. Whether this is an abbreviation for „młynarze” or the start of a sentence the author never finished — the card does not decide, and neither do I. ¶ „quondam” (Latin: formerly) is written in full, with a clear „q”. I transcribe the phrase „gruntu mało średni” literally, keeping the card's syntax; presumably „gruntu mało i [jest on] średni” (little land, and it is middling). The spelling „grondowe” follows the card (cf. „grondowe” in Ls.89 Ciosna, card 2), and „grondowiznie” in Ls.79 Dębowierzchy, card 3). THIS TRANSCRIPT GIVES NEITHER HEARTHS, NOR HOUSEHOLDERS, NOR ANY ESTABLISHMENT — unlike Ls.79 Dębowierzchy („brow. karcz. osiadłości gosp. 12”), Ls.89 Lipniaki („osiadłości gosp. 18. brow, karcz.”) and Ls89 Karcze („gospodarzy 6”). ¶ A NEW COMPARISON (after reading the whole of card): the same name has four other forms on the first card — „Wiśniów” (T90), „wiśniow|skie” and „(klucz wiszniowski)” (O83), „wiszniowskie” (T89) and „wiśniowskiego” (MP). The cleanest of these renderings, „wiśniowskiego” in MP, has three diacritical dots and the ending „-owskiego”. MY READING OF THIS WORD ON card 2) REMAINS UNCHANGED („-ewskiego”, on the strength of the vowel with a crossbar): I do not smooth over discrepancies or bend a reading to match the forms on a neighbouring card. ¶ MILLERS: the note „w. quondam tylko młynarze” and the separately standing word „młynarz” now have factual confirmation on card, where O83 (IX) lists a „młynek”, and T89 counts a „młyn” as one of six hearths. The earlier reservation that the word „młyn” itself appears on no card is now out of date — it does appear, on card.

St.89card 2)St.89 - osada Myrcha 19 l. (9 m., 10 k.); w tym gosp. (4 m., 4 k., 4 syn. 2 cór.); kom. (1 m., 1 k., 1 cór); luźni (1 k., 1 cór);

note: SIGLUM OUTSIDE THE LIST OF SOURCES — „St.89”, written as a ligature of „S”+„t” (an upper and a lower loop, a crossbar on the „t”), with a full stop, then „89”; in this card index known so far from only one card — card 2) (Karcze), where it takes the form „St. 89” with a space. The initial letter is CERTAINLY different from the „L” in „Ls.89.” in the first line of the same card: „L” has an open left loop and a straight stem, „S” has two closed loops — compared side by side at nine-times magnification. The extract gives no hearths and no surnames; its content (a breakdown of the population into men, women, sons and daughters, separately for householders, lodgers and the landless) points to the census of 1789 — the card does not spell out the siglum and I do not supply it myself. ¶ THE CARD'S OWN ARITHMETIC CLOSES TO THE PERSON AND CONFIRMS THE READING: men 4 (householders) + 4 (sons) + 1 (lodger) = 9; women 4 (householders) + 2 (daughters) + 1 (lodger) + 1 (daughter of a lodger) + 1 (landless woman) + 1 (daughter of the landless) = 10; total 19, exactly what the card gives in brackets as „19 l. (9 m., 10 k.)”. This arithmetic settles the last, most tightly written bracket at the right edge of the card: „luźni (1 k., 1 cór)” — had it read „1 m.” there, the men would come to ten, while the card says nine. ¶ SOURCE-CRITICAL NOTE: these 19 people are NOT the figure from S87 (card: „17 l.”). These are two different censuses from two different years — 1787 and 1789 — and I do not smooth over the difference of two people. ¶ The name of the village in this extract reads „osada Myrcha” — the only place on either card where the name is accompanied by a noun; „osada” (settlement), not „wieś” (village), agrees with the description from Ls.89 („quondam tylko młynarze”, formerly millers only). The abbreviation „k.” the author uses for wives too, while for daughters he has a separate abbreviation „cór.”; „kom.” = lodgers, „luźni” = the landless, both words written out in full.

spellings on the cards: Myrcha, Mercha, Myrsze

district of łukowski · parish of Zbuczyn · cards 2

a small royal village, the starosty (the estate complex, the leasehold) of Wiszniów; a small mill [O83 (IX)]; 4 village hearths of the 2nd class [T90]; a mill, 4 cottages with 1 householder and 1 cottage without land or garden = 6 hearths [T89]; to the starosty of Wiśniów [MP]; a village formerly inhabited solely by millers, little land and middling, upland and boggy meadows [Ls.89]; „osada” (a settlement), 19 people in 1789 [St.89]

Population 1787

of whom Christians

of whom Jews

persons per hearth

4.2

Year	Source	Entries	Hearths
T89	Hearth tax register 1789	1	6
T90	Hearth tax register 1790	1	4

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.