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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794
Łaski
separate records 21 · places 9 · registers 1775, 1789, 1790, 1794
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„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.
| Year | Source | Entries | Persons | Hearths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1775 | Hearth tax register 1775 | 12 | 11 | 61,0 |
| 1789 | Hearth tax register 1789 | 9 | 9 | 85,0 |
| 1789 | List of possessors of holdings of 1789 | 11 | 11 | — |
| 1790 | Hearth tax register 1790 | 9 | 9 | 80,0 |
| 1794 | Hearth tax register 1794 | 10 | 10 | 80,0 |
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.
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.
- ZaolszynieTrzebieszówrecords 1 · hearths 1,0
- Stary KrzeskZbuczynrecords 5 · hearths 110,0
- ŁazyŁukówrecords 23 · hearths 124,0
- NurzynaŁukówrecords 1
- Szaniawy-PoniatyTrzebieszówrecords 4 · hearths 33,0
- SzczepankiTrzebieszówrecords 4 · hearths 15,0
- WierzejkiTrzebieszówrecords 4 · hearths 15,0
- WylanyTrzebieszówrecords 6 · hearths 4,0
- ZalesieŁukówrecords 5 · hearths 4,0
offices and dignities standard-bearer and civil-military commissioner of the Łuków Land (chorąży i komisarz cywilno-wojskowy ziemi łukowskiej) standard-bearer of Łuków (chorąży łukowski) standard-bearer of the Łuków Land (chorąży ziemi łukowskiej) standard-bearer (chorąży), civil-military commissioner of the Łuków Land master of the hunt of Czernichów (łowczy czernichowski) master of the hunt of Czerniechów and civil-military commissioner of the Łuków Land (łowczy czerniechowski i komisarz cywilno-wojskowy ziemi łukowskiej) lieutenant of the National Cavalry (porucznik kawalerii narodowej) land judge of Łuków (sędzia ziemski łukowski)
establishments recorded with this surname brewery Łazy Stary Krzesk Szaniawy-Poniaty Szczepanki inn Łazy Stary Krzesk Szaniawy-Poniaty Szczepanki mill Łazy propination (the right to sell drink) Łazy Stary Krzesk Szaniawy-Poniaty Szczepanki
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.
ZaolszynieTrzebieszów parish
Stary KrzeskZbuczyn parish
the word „złączona” [reading uncertain] — the word is broken across the line („z łą- / czona”), and over the nasal letter a sign like a tilde. The buildings: 1 + 2 + 3 + 23 + 1 = 30, which agrees with the card's own total. The hearths are counted jointly for three villages (Królowa Niwa, Krzesk Stary, Wesołka), not for Krzesk Stary alone.
in T75 this holding is held by Wojciech Łaski, in T90 by Józef Łaski — different forenames, I do not smooth this over
Łazyparafia Łuków
the only entry in which the compiler of the card index wrote the word „część” in full; further on he shortens it to „cz.”
the forename stands on the card in the nominative („Jan”), although the surname is in the genitive, and the compiler of the card index himself furnished it with a question mark: „Jan (?)”. The doubt comes therefore FROM THE CARD, not from the reading — the writing itself is legible. That it is Jan Łaski, master of the hunt of Czerniechów, is confirmed by T90 (card 3) entry 2), T94 (card 2) entry 2), T89 (card 4) entry 3) and O83 (card 5).
the same entry also names: Łaski Krzysztof †2 persons on 2 hearths
A WOMAN: the second person of the entry is a widow whom the card names neither by forename nor separately by surname — there stands only „i wdowy”, and the surname only at the end, collectively („Łaskich”). Therefore the recorded form of the name = „wdowy”, and the surname is recorded as it stands on the card, in the masculine plural. The card does not say whose widow she is — I do not expand that. A CORRECTION ON THE CARD: after „i wdowy,” the compiler of the card index wrote one more word, „kowal” (with a flourish for the „Ł”), struck it out and carried it lower, into a separate entry 13 („tamże kowal Łaskiego dym 1”); that is why in this entry only two persons with a hearth each are counted.
the same entry also names: Łaski2 persons on 2 hearths
A WOMAN: the second person of the entry is a widow whom the card names neither by forename nor separately by surname — there stands only „i wdowy”, and the surname only at the end, collectively („Łaskich”). Therefore the recorded form of the name = „wdowy”, and the surname is recorded as it stands on the card, in the masculine plural. The card does not say whose widow she is — I do not expand that. A CORRECTION ON THE CARD: after „i wdowy,” the compiler of the card index wrote one more word, „kowal” (with a flourish for the „Ł”), struck it out and carried it lower, into a separate entry 13 („tamże kowal Łaskiego dym 1”); that is why in this entry only two persons with a hearth each are counted.
„tamże” refers to the place of entry 12, that is to the mill. The hearth is the hearth of the SMITH, whom the card does not name by forename; „Łaskiego” is the owner of the holding, likewise without a forename. The same word „kowal” the compiler of the card index first wrote in entry 11 and struck it out there.
„tamże” as in entry 13. After the surname stand two letters with dots — „Ł. O.” — clearly written (the first has a shape identical with the „Ł” in „Łaskiego” of the same line), but UNRESOLVED: it is not known whether these are the initials of a second person or an abbreviation of a designation of the building [the reading of the letters certain, the meaning uncertain]. The card gives no forename of the owner. The word „budynek” is here the only designation of the buildings, too general to be set out in the breakdown of buildings.
„(chorąży ziemi łuk.)” is an addition written above the surname. The reading of the word „młyn” is confirmed by O83 from card 5 („młyn spustoszały, spalony”) and by T90 entry 8 and T94 entry 8 („przy młynie”). THE OFFICE: here and in T90 Antoni Łaski is standard-bearer of the Łuków Land, while O83 calls him land judge of Łuków — a discrepancy of the sources, not an error of reading
at the end of the line the card is corrected: above the word „ogrod…” „bez” was added, and the original form was struck through; the reading „3 chat. bez ogrodów” has been adopted [reading uncertain as to the ending]. The reckoning 1+1+2+4+3+3 = 14 agrees with the figure given on the card
the same entry also names: Łaski Marjanna2 persons on 2 hearths
Marjanna Łaska — a woman; in the collective entry the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Łaskich”), and so it is recorded as „Łaski”. On card 5 (T₀89 entry 7) the same person appears in the feminine form: „Maryanny Łaskiej”
the same entry also names: Łaski Jacenty2 persons on 2 hearths
Marjanna Łaska — a woman; in the collective entry the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Łaskich”), and so it is recorded as „Łaski”. On card 5 (T₀89 entry 7) the same person appears in the feminine form: „Maryanny Łaskiej”
a woman — the surname stands on the card in the feminine form („Łaskiej”); the same person in T89 (card 4, entry 5) recorded as „Marjanny … Łaskich”
the office written with the abbreviation „chor. Łukowskiego”; T89 (card 4, entry 1) and T90 (card 3, entry 1) call him standard-bearer of the Łuków Land — in agreement. The last line of the list and the last line written on the cards of Łazy in this sequence
the first line of card 6; „p. d.” = the continuation of the list from card 5. Here the word „części” is again written out in full, and lines 9 and 10 have a repetition mark in its place. Beside this and the two following entries there is no longer the addition about korce
the first letters of the word „czerniechowskiego” corrected on the card, written over another word; the ending „-rniechowskiego” legible [reading uncertain]
the card names only the successors of Antoni Łaski and counts „po dymie 1 – dymów 2”, that is two successors with a hearth each; in T94 (card 2), entry 4) the corresponding entry names Jacek and the successors of Antoni Łaski
the same entry also names: Łaski Jacek2 persons on 2 hearths
the forename „Jacka” corrected on the card, the letters reworked [reading uncertain]
the same entry also names: Łaski Antoni †2 persons on 2 hearths
the forename „Jacka” corrected on the card, the letters reworked [reading uncertain]
the same entry also names: Łaski Jan2 persons on a holding without hearths
a short description of the village, not a list of holdings — the card gives no hearths here. O83 names NEITHER an inn, nor a brewery, nor propination, although T89 on card 4 counts 5 inns and 3 breweries at Łazy — the description names only the mill, and that as laid waste and burnt. THE OFFICE: Antoni Łaski is here land judge of Łuków, while T89 (card 4) and T90 (card 3) call him standard-bearer of the Łuków Land and civil-military commissioner — a discrepancy of the sources
the same entry also names: Łaski Antoni2 persons on a holding without hearths
a short description of the village, not a list of holdings — the card gives no hearths here. O83 names NEITHER an inn, nor a brewery, nor propination, although T89 on card 4 counts 5 inns and 3 breweries at Łazy — the description names only the mill, and that as laid waste and burnt. THE OFFICE: Antoni Łaski is here land judge of Łuków, while T89 (card 4) and T90 (card 3) call him standard-bearer of the Łuków Land and civil-military commissioner — a discrepancy of the sources
Nurzynaparafia Łuków
the same entry also names: Kamieńska Krystyna2 persons on a holding without hearths
A WOMAN — a forename of her own, Krystyna, the surname in the feminine form „Kamieńskiej”, as in T90 (card 2) and T94 (card 3); this is the same person as „Wojciechowa Kamieńska wdowa” from T75 (card 1) and „Kamińska” from T89 (card 3). The novelty of this card: her holding is in 1789 IN THE POSSESSION of Jan Łaski — „w pos.” I expand as „w posesji/posiadaniu”, in possession, the card abbreviates it. The surname of the possessor read from a threefold magnification: the capital letter is an „Ł” (a loop struck through with a crossbar), so „Łaski”, not „Zaski”. Łaski is here a NEW person — on none of the four earlier cards of the village does he appear.
Szaniawy-PoniatyTrzebieszów parish
the office from the addition in the margin of the card: „(chor. ziemi łukow.”; T90 (card) gives it more fully: „chorążego, komisarza cywilno-wojskowego Ziemi Łukow.”
the card does not say outright whose standard-bearer he was; the margin of card adds „chor. ziemi łukow.”
T94 gives no office; see T90 (card) and T89 (card)
SzczepankiTrzebieszów parish
The breakdown closes: 1 + 1 + 1 + 6 = 9. The nine hearths take in the holding in Szczepanki together with the holding in the village of Wierzejki („z częścią na wsi Wierzejkach złączona”) — the 1789 register counts both together, and so the figure must not be taken for the state of Szczepanki alone. The word „złączona” is written without diacritics; the tail of a „g” from the line above cuts across it from the top [reading uncertain as to the letter, certain as to the sense].
The whole village („wś”), not a holding. The name of the neighbouring village is written here „Wierzeykach”, and in T89 on card „Wierzejkach”.
Before the forename a one-letter abbreviation „u.” — probably „u[rodzonego]”, of the wellborn, but the card does not expand it [reading uncertain].
The card gives no forename in this line; T90 and T089 call the possessor Antoni Łaski, and O83 makes Wojciech Łaski the hereditary owner of the village — we do not merge them.
WierzejkiTrzebieszów parish
The card index refers this holding to the card of Szczepanki („zob. Szczepanki”).
WylanyTrzebieszów parish
the same entry also names: Łaski Józef2 persons on 1 hearth
two persons on one hearth
the same entry also names: Łaski Jan2 persons on 1 hearth
two persons on one hearth
Zalesieparafia Łuków
The same person returns in T90 on card 3, also with one hearth („2) cz. Andrzeja Łaskiego /pł. of./ dym 1”) — fifteen years later the holding unchanged.
The card writes „Jędrzeja”; in T94, entry 9, and in T₀89, entry 12, the same person stands as „Andrzej”. I leave the form of the card.
There is no annotation about sowing beside this entry; it is at the same time the last entry of card 8).
The entry passes from one strip of the frame to the next. The figure „1” is underlined.
The same person as in T75, entry 2, on card 1 — in both registers one hearth.
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.
