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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794

Czarnecka

separate records 2 · places 1 · registers 1789, 1790, 1794

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Separate entries for persons
2
Occurrences on the cards
4
Hearths in total
2,0
Localities
1

„Separate entries for persons” means: separate entries of a given name with a surname and a byname, not persons proved to have existed. The same man recorded in four registers is one entry, but two namesakes from the same village are sometimes impossible to tell apart, and over twenty years a parcel could pass to a son of the same name. The hearths given at a collective entry are an equal division among those named — a calculation, not a reading.

YearSourceEntriesPersonsHearths
1789Hearth tax register 1789111,0
1789List of possessors of holdings of 178911
1790Hearth tax register 1790110,5
1794Hearth tax register 1794110,5

The year 1789 stands twice in the table, and rightly so: these are two different sources. The register gives the hearths, the list of parcel-holders does not — which is why the list carries a dash and not a zero, and the hearths of 1789 are not counted twice.

No entry from 1775. This is the absence of the surname in the cards transcribed so far, not proof that the family was not there then: in the card file the 1794 register covers fewer villages than the others, and the 1775 one sometimes counts a whole starosty in a single entry, without surnames.

Where the surname occurs

The localities in which the card file records this surname, with the number of entries and of the hearths falling to it in each village.

The card file also records the form Czarnecki entries: 2 localities: 1 We record a surname as it stands on the card, because the feminine form is sometimes the only sign that the person is a woman; the two entries therefore stay separate. Whether this is the same family is for the reader to decide, not for this list.

The card-index entries

All the extracts for this surname in the wording of the cards. One block is one occurrence: this person, in this register. In a collective entry the same text of the card stands beside every person named — because the card names them together, and they must not be separated.

Jezioryparafia Łuków

Czarnecka
1789Hearth tax register 1789
T891 hearth1 manor housecz. ……… Czarneckiej 1 dwórcard 3)
In the place of the forename the card has a row of dots — the author of the card index himself left the forename empty; at 3× magnification nine separate dots are clearly visible, not effaced writing. Therefore the given name remains empty and I do not enter the recorded form of the name (this is not a form derived from a husband's name, only a gap in the source). A woman — the surname in the feminine form „Czarneckiej”. From T94 on the same card and from T089 on card 4) it follows that the holding of the Czarneckis was managed by Cecylia Czarnecka, but I do not identify this entry with her, because the card gives no forename.
CzarneckaCecylia
1789List of possessors of holdings of 1789
T₀89„ Cecylii Czarneckiej ;card 4)
the word „części” is replaced by a repetition mark. A woman — the surname in the feminine form. The same forename stands in T94 on card 3) („pod dożywociem Cecylii Czarneckiej”); two independent occurrences, the reading is certain. Beside this entry the card does NOT add „nie wysiewa 10 korcy”.
Czarnecka
1790Hearth tax register 1790
T901 · share of 0.50mothercz. Adama Czarneckiego po dożywociu [imię nieodczytane] Czarneckiej matki, - dym 1 (pł. of)card 2)

the same entry also names: Czarnecki Adam2 persons on 1 hearth

the holding passed to Adam after the expiry of his mother's life tenure; I have not read the mother's forename — [reading uncertain]. The marker „(pł. of)” the card sets at the end of the entry, after the number of hearths.

a forename of her own stands on the card, but I do not decide it — the glyph is legible as „…e…l…” with the ending „-ji”; the nearest fit is „Felicji” (Felicja), but [reading uncertain] and I do not enter the form. A woman: the surname in the feminine form („Czarneckiej”), named as Adam's mother, she held the holding in life tenure.
CzarneckaCecylia
1794Hearth tax register 1794
T941 · share of 0.50life tenurecz. Adama Czarneckiego pod dożywociem Cecylii Czarneckiej - 1 -"- ;-card 3)

the same entry also names: Czarnecki Adam2 persons on 1 hearth

This entry gives the forename of the woman whose forename it was not possible to read at T90, entry 2, on card 2) („po dożywociu [imię nieodczytane] Czarneckiej matki”): here „Cecylii Czarneckiej” stands clearly, and the same forename is repeated by T089 on card 4) („Cecylii Czarneckiej”). Two independent occurrences, the reading is certain. I do not change the record on card 2) — that is a matter for the owner of the work.

This surname in full edition of the hearth-tax registers — together with the search across all persons, the comparison of figures through the registers, the modern map and the Perthées engraving of 1786.