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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794

Wójtostwo Łukowskie

Parish of Łuków, łukowski county.

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Offices: Dłuski Sebastian (starost of Zwoleń (starosta zwoliński)

More than five hearths in one hand: Dłuski Sebastian (9)

spellings on the cards: Woytostwo Łukowskie, woytowstwo Łukowskie, wóytostwo łukowskie, Wójtostwo

district of łukowski · parish of Łuków · cards 1

a wójtostwo — royal estates belonging to the starosty of Łuków, in the possession of Sebastian Dłuski; it lies right beside the town of Łuków on the north-east [Top.]. The hearth tax: 9 hearths in T90 („9 dymów miejskich”, town hearths) and 9 hearths in T89 (8 cottages with 1 householder + a cottage with a garden). The name is neither in Perthées nor on the map of Heldensfeld („Perth – niema –”, „Held – niema –”). The population of 1789 according to the St.89 extract: 58 persons (27 men, 31 women).

Population 1787
of whom Christians
of whom Jews
YearSourceEntriesHearths
T89Hearth tax register 178919
T90Hearth tax register 179019

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.

Caveats on the years' registers (1)

What the compiler noted beside the entry itself, and what the table above does not show:

  • T90 — The whole T90 extract for this unit fits into one entry: the card does not break the wójtostwo down into holdings and names no part-holding possessors.

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.

1790 T90Hearth tax register 1790

DłuskiSebastianstarost of Łuków (starosta łukowski)starost of Zwoleń (starosta zwoliński)
T909 hearthspossessorpossessorT90 – Woytostwo Łukowskie – dobra król.; w poses. Dłuskiego starosty zwolińskiego – 9 dymów miejskich, w tem(?) 1 przybył po r. 1789. –
The number of hearths („9”) is underlined on the card. This line gives no forename for the possessor — it is given only by St.89 („Sebastyana Dłuskiego”). The office: the card writes here „starosty zwolińskiego”, whereas St.89 and both cards of Cieszkowizna call the same person starost of Łuków — I do not reconcile the discrepancy. The addition „w tem(?) 1 przybył po r. 1789” — the abbreviation „tem” written above the line, the question mark in brackets set there by the compiler, the word „przybył” broken between the lines and running up to the right-hand edge of the frame [reading uncertain]. The description „dymów miejskich”, town hearths, the card applies to the wójtostwo (the wójt's holding), although the wójtostwo itself lies outside the town.
A DISCREPANCY IN THE SOURCE, checked under magnification on 19 IX 2026 and NOT smoothed over: the card writes plainly „w poses. Dłuskiego starosty zwolińskiego” [starost of Zwoleń (starosta zwoliński)]. All the remaining extracts for the same person — T89, T90, T94 and T₀89 of Cieszkowizna, T89, T90 and O83 of the town of Łuków — call him starost of ŁUKÓW. The card index does not explain this difference; it may be a slip of the author of the transcript, it may be a second starosty. To be resolved outside the card index.

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.