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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794

Żurawieniec

Parish of Zbuczyn, łukowski county.

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Propination, inns, breweries: Piotrowski Jan (brewery, inn, propination)

Extracts from outside the registers

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

Perth.card 1)Perth. Iwanow Zurawieniec
note: A BACK-REFERENCE TO IWANÓW ŻURAWINIEC (card, `wies-iwanow-zurawiniec.json`): the map of Perthées notes this village under the two-part name „Iwanow Zurawieniec”, the same which that cross-reference card gives in its first line. The siglum is written in abbreviation and in haste — the first word is a „P” with two or three letters and a full stop; I read „Perth.”, because in this card index that line stands always in the triad Perth./Held./Top. and always in this place (cf. card, Iwanów Kościesze, where the same siglum is written out distinctly) [reading uncertain as to the letters of the abbreviation, certain as to the sense]. After the name there is neither a closing full stop nor any figure.
Held.card 1)Held. Zurawiniec.

note: The map of Heldensfeld: the name in one part, in the variant „Zurawiniec” (without a dot over the Z), without the part „Iwanow”. Between „Zu” and „rawiniec” the hand made a break — this is a scribal space, not two words.

Top.card 1)Top. Zurawieniec .

note: The Topography: the name in one part, in the variant „Zurawieniec” (without a dot over the Z). Neither a description of the position nor a cross-reference to a neighbouring village — unlike the neighbouring cards of Iwanów Przywary, where Top. gives the direction.

spellings on the cards: Żurawieniec, Zurawieniec, Żurawiniec, Zurawiniec, Iwanow Zurawieniec, Iwanow Zurawiniec

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

noble holdings, the largest of them the holding of Piotrowski [O83 (IV)]; in 1775, 7 hearths, given as one figure, without a breakdown into holdings and without surnames [T75]; in 1789 — 6 hearths in two holdings, with a manor house, a brewery and an inn at the holding of Jan Piotrowski [T89]; in 1790 — 6 village hearths of the second class in the same two holdings [T90]; in 1794 — 6 hearths, the larger holding at Tadeusz Piotrowski [T94]; the list of possessors of 1789 knows three holdings, and propination at the holding of Piotrowski [T₀89]; in 1787, 31 people and 2 Jews, together 33 [S87]; in Perthées and in the Description of 1783 under the two-part name „Iwanów Żurawiniec” [Perth., O83]

Population 1787
33
of whom Christians
31
of whom Jews
2
persons per hearth
5.5
YearSourceEntriesHearths
T75Hearth tax register 177517
T89Hearth tax register 178926
T90Hearth tax register 179026
T94Hearth tax register 179426
Caveats on the years' registers (7)

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

  • T89 — The heading does not repeat the name of the village — after the siglum stands only „– wieś –”. The card gives its own total: „Razem 6 dymów.”; 5 + 1 = 6, it agrees.
  • T₀89 — A list of the possessors of the holdings of 1789: not a single figure of hearths on the whole card, hence the hearths figure = null at every entry and the total from the card = null — so it is meant to be, this is no failure of reading. The heading does not repeat the name of the village: after the siglum „T₀89 –” the first entry follows at once. The numbering of the entries „1”–„3” is editorial, the card does not mark the entries. THREE HOLDINGS, AND IN THE REGISTERS TWO: T89, T90 and T94 know two holdings in this village (that of Piotrowski and that of Stelegowski/Sztelegowski), while this list adds a third — that of the Dębowskis; the card index does not explain this difference, and I do not smooth it away.
  • T90 — The whole T90 extract written in blue ink, the only such on the card. The heading does not repeat the name of the village — after the siglum entry A) follows at once. The card itself gives the total: „Razem 6 dymów wiejskich 2giej klasy.–”, the figure 6 underlined twice; 5 + 1 = 6, it agrees. Of the marks „/pł. of./”, „/n. pł. of./”, „/p. of./” beside the persons there is NOT ONE — instead of them a collective qualification, „dymy wiejskie 2giej klasy”. Between the surname and the number of hearths in both lines runs a long leading stroke.
  • T94 — The numbering of the entries „1”, „2” is editorial — the card marks the entries neither with figures nor with letters (unlike the T90 on card 1), where „A)” and „B)” stand). The name of the village in the heading in the form „Żurawiniec” WITH A DOT over the „Z” (checked on the joining of the lower edge of strip 2 with the upper edge of strip 3, under tenfold magnification). The card gives its own total: „Razem 6 dymów;”, underlined twice; 5 + 1 = 6, it agrees. T94 does not break down the buildings — the figures of hearths alone.
  • S87 — A one-line extract, without persons and without hearths. The card's reckoning agrees: 31 + 2 = 33. The figures checked under ninefold magnification. The abbreviation beside the „2” is „ż:” (with a colon, not a full stop). The card names no dissenters. The parish of Zbuczyn does NOT fall within the range of the printed edition of Fr. B. Kumor which we have transcribed (`kumor1787.json` = the parish of Trzebieszów, `kumor1787-tuchowicz.json` = Tuchowicz), and so this figure has here no independent comparison. The name in this line: „Zurawiniec”, a capital Z WITHOUT a dot.
  • O83 — A two-line extract, without a figure of hearths, written with the thickest pen on the card. The Roman numeral in brackets underlined: „(IV)”. The same formula and the same Roman numeral as at Radzików Wielki („O83(IV). Radzikow Wielki - cząstki szlacheckie;”). The name of the village in this line IN TWO PARTS — „Iwanow Zurawiniec”, both words without diacritics; this is the second place on the card, after Perth., where the part „Iwanow” falls.
  • V48 — A cartographic record of the name alone, without hearths and without persons. THE ONLY PLACE ON THE WHOLE CARD WHERE IN AN EXTRACT THE CAPITAL „Z” HAS OVER IT A DISTINCT DOT (checked under tenfold magnification) — in S87, Held., Top., Perth. and O83 there is no dot; besides this it is had only by the name in the heading line. The form „Żurawiniec” (i-n-i-e-c), not „Żurawieniec”.

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.

1789 T89Hearth tax register 1789

PiotrowskiJan
T895 hearths1 manor house, 1 brewery, 1 inn, 1 cottage with 1 householder, 1 cottage with a gardencz. Jana Piotrowskiego - dwór, brow., karcz., chat. o 1 gosp., chat. z ogro-dem, = 5 d.card 2)
A BREWERY AND AN INN — read at sevenfold magnification, letter by letter: „brow.” (b-r-o-w-full stop) and „karcz.” (k-a-r-c-z-full stop), both abbreviations separated by commas, both in the run of the enumeration of the buildings. The word „propinacja” the card does NOT USE in this place, so I do not set the annotation „propinacja” — I record only what stands there. The line breaks at the right-hand edge of the card stock: „chat. z ogro-” ends exactly at the edge of the card, and „dem,” opens the next line; the preposition „z” is certain, because what follows gives the singular („ogrodem”), not the plural. The buildings as written out add up: 1 manor house + 1 brewery + 1 inn + 1 cottage with 1 householder + 1 cottage with a garden = 5 = the number of hearths. The figure „5” is overlined with a horizontal stroke and underlined twice.
StelegowskiJózef
T891 hearth1 manor housecz. Józefa Stelegowskiego - dwór = 1 d.card 2)
The surname in this extract WITHOUT a „z” after the „S”: „Stelegowskiego” (checked at fourteenfold magnification — after the capital „S” there follows at once a „t” with a crossbar). T90 on card 1) writes the same person „Sztelegowskiego”. I do not unify the discrepancy. The figure „1 d.” is underlined twice.

1789 T₀89List of possessors of holdings of 1789

PiotrowskiJan
T₀89propination (the right to sell drink)cz. Jana Piotrowskiego propinacja;
PROPINATION — the word read at twelvefold magnification, letter by letter: p-r-o-p-i-n-a-c-j-a, spelt in full, without abbreviation, closed with a semicolon. This is the ONLY place in the whole village where the card index uses this word; a brewery and an inn stand beside the same holding in T89 on card 2), but the word „propinacja” is not there. The right of propination falls here to the same, larger holding which T89 and T90 assign to Jan Piotrowski, and T94 — to Tadeusz Piotrowski.
SztelegowskaAnna
T₀89née Staniszewskacz. Anny z Staniszewskich Sztelegowskiej zaprzys. mąż Józef Sztelegowski;

the same entry also names: Sztelegowski Józef2 persons on a holding without hearths

THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE WHOLE VILLAGE. The card gives her own forename („Anny”, in the genitive), her married surname in the feminine form („Sztelegowskiej”) and her maiden surname in the formula „z Staniszewskich” — hence the status: „z domu Staniszewska”, née Staniszewska, on the model of Franciszka née Głuchowska Nurzyńska (Szaniawy Matysy) and Katarzyna née Karwowska Radzikowska. This is not a husband-derived form, so the recorded form of the name remains empty. The maiden surname „Staniszewski” is attested in this neighbourhood (SLOWNIK-OKOLICY.md). The abbreviation „zaprzys.” (z-a-p-r-z-y-s-full stop) I leave unexpanded: the card does not say whether it is „zaprzysiągł” or „zaprzysiężona”, and from the word order it follows only that the oath was taken for her by her husband, Józef Sztelegowski — and beyond that I do not expand it. The surname in this extract with „Sz” and without an ogonek: „Sztelegowskiej”; over the junction of the „l” and the „e” stands a small stroke, whose function I do not resolve (an accent? a correction? the beginning of an ogonek?) [reading uncertain as to this sign, certain as to the letters]. A discrepancy with the other sigla: T89 and T94 (card 2) write this family without the „z” — „Stelegowski”.
SztelegowskiJózef
T₀89husbandcz. Anny z Staniszewskich Sztelegowskiej zaprzys. mąż Józef Sztelegowski;

the same entry also names: Sztelegowska Anna2 persons on a holding without hearths

THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE WHOLE VILLAGE. The card gives her own forename („Anny”, in the genitive), her married surname in the feminine form („Sztelegowskiej”) and her maiden surname in the formula „z Staniszewskich” — hence the status: „z domu Staniszewska”, née Staniszewska, on the model of Franciszka née Głuchowska Nurzyńska (Szaniawy Matysy) and Katarzyna née Karwowska Radzikowska. This is not a husband-derived form, so the recorded form of the name remains empty. The maiden surname „Staniszewski” is attested in this neighbourhood (SLOWNIK-OKOLICY.md). The abbreviation „zaprzys.” (z-a-p-r-z-y-s-full stop) I leave unexpanded: the card does not say whether it is „zaprzysiągł” or „zaprzysiężona”, and from the word order it follows only that the oath was taken for her by her husband, Józef Sztelegowski — and beyond that I do not expand it. The surname in this extract with „Sz” and without an ogonek: „Sztelegowskiej”; over the junction of the „l” and the „e” stands a small stroke, whose function I do not resolve (an accent? a correction? the beginning of an ogonek?) [reading uncertain as to this sign, certain as to the letters]. A discrepancy with the other sigla: T89 and T94 (card 2) write this family without the „z” — „Stelegowski”.
DębowskiAdam
T₀89possessorpossessorcz. Józefa Dębowskiego, w pos. Adama Dębowskiego, ojca;

the same entry also names: Dębowski Józef2 persons on a holding without hearths

Two persons and a kinship named outright: the holding belongs to Józef Dębowski, and it is held („w pos.” = w posesji, in possession) by Adam Dębowski, called plainly „ojcem”, the father. The word „ojca” I do not expand into a relation wider than the card states: Adam is a father in relation to Józef. The surname „Dębowski” is attested in SLOWNIK-OKOLICY.md. The line breaks at the right-hand edge of the card stock: „Dębowskie-” ends the line, „go, ojca;” opens the next. The family of the Dębowskis DOES NOT OCCUR in any other extract of this village — neither in T75, nor in T89, T90, T94; it appears here alone.
DębowskiJózef
T₀89possessorcz. Józefa Dębowskiego, w pos. Adama Dębowskiego, ojca;

the same entry also names: Dębowski Adam2 persons on a holding without hearths

Two persons and a kinship named outright: the holding belongs to Józef Dębowski, and it is held („w pos.” = w posesji, in possession) by Adam Dębowski, called plainly „ojcem”, the father. The word „ojca” I do not expand into a relation wider than the card states: Adam is a father in relation to Józef. The surname „Dębowski” is attested in SLOWNIK-OKOLICY.md. The line breaks at the right-hand edge of the card stock: „Dębowskie-” ends the line, „go, ojca;” opens the next. The family of the Dębowskis DOES NOT OCCUR in any other extract of this village — neither in T75, nor in T89, T90, T94; it appears here alone.

1790 T90Hearth tax register 1790

PiotrowskiJan
T905 hearthsA) cz. Jana Piotrowskiego ——— 5 dymów wiejskich 2giej klasy;–card 1)
SztelegowskiJózef
T901 hearthB) cz. Józefa Sztelegowskiego ——— 1 „ „ „ „card 1)
The description of the hearths is rendered on the card by four marks of repetition („dymów wiejskich 2giej klasy” from line A). The surname read at elevenfold magnification letter by letter: S-z-t-e-l-e-g-o-w-s-k-i-e-g-o, without an ogonek under the second „e”; the form of the card „Sztelegowskiego”. In the same neighbourhood the card index knows the surname „Szteleczowski” (Izdebki Błażeje) — possibly the same family, but I do NOT bend the reading to that form.

1794 T94Hearth tax register 1794

PiotrowskiTadeusz
T945 hearthscz. Tadeusza Piotrowskiego 5 d.,card 2)
A FORENAME OTHER THAN IN T89 AND T90: here „Tadeusza” (T-a-d-e-u-s-z-a, the reading certain at sixfold magnification), and in T89 on the same card and in T90 on card 1) — „Jana”. The same holding, the same figure of 5 hearths, two different forenames; the card index does not explain whether the holding changed its possessor between 1790 and 1794. I do not smooth the discrepancy away and I correct neither of the forenames. The figure „5 d.” is underlined.
StelegowskiJózef
T941 hearthcz. Józefa Stelegowskiego 1 d.;card 2)

The surname as in T89, without a „z” after the „S”. The figure „1 d.” is underlined twice.

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

Piotrowski
O83O83(IV) – Iwanow Zurawiniec - cząstki szlacheckie, największa część Piotrowskiego;card 1)

The card gives no forename in this line — the surname alone. That Jan Piotrowski is meant follows from T90 on the same card (entry A, 5 of the 6 hearths), but I do not enter this with the person, because O83 does not say it.

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.