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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794
Ostoyski
separate records 12 · places 2 · registers 1775, 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 | 5 | 5 | 5,0 |
| 1789 | List of possessors of holdings of 1789 | 8 | 7 | — |
| 1794 | Hearth tax register 1794 | 8 | 8 | 10,0 |
No entry from 1789 and 1790. 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.
- Izdebki-KosnyZbuczynrecords 5 · hearths 3,0
- OstojeZbuczynrecords 16 · hearths 12,0
The card file also records the form Ostoyska entries: 3 localities: 2 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.
Izdebki-KosnyZbuczyn parish
AN ADDITION, not a separate holding: in the right-hand column, directly below the first line. „zaprzys.” (took the oath) is a formula known from other cards of the index. It means that the return for the holding belonging to the wife of Tomasz Ostoyski was sworn by him himself; the card gives no forename for the wife. It may concern Maryanna Ostoyska of entry 27
the surname in this extract „Ostoyskiego”; in T90 the same man stands as „Jana Ostojskiego”
the same holding joined with Izdebki Błażeje as in T90 entry K
OstojeZbuczyn parish
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Marcin5 persons on 5 hearths
The second forename in the enumeration is STRUCK THROUGH with a horizontal stroke and, under the striking-out, illegible [reading uncertain]; from the outlines of the letters (a tall loop, a descender below the line, humps, a final „a”) it comes closest to the form „Szymona” — and a Szymon Ostojski does indeed stand in T89 on card 2) — but I do not vouch for the reading and do not enter this person into the list of persons. The reckoning confirms that the struck-out one does not count: Józef + 2 Wawrzyńców + Marcin + Jakób = five persons „po 1 dymie” = 5 hearths. „2 Wawrzyńców” (two of the name Wawrzyniec) are two namesakes — entered as two persons. The card index here writes „Ostoyskich”, and in entry 3 „Ostroyskiego”.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Marcin, Ostoyski Jakób5 persons on 5 hearths
The second forename in the enumeration is STRUCK THROUGH with a horizontal stroke and, under the striking-out, illegible [reading uncertain]; from the outlines of the letters (a tall loop, a descender below the line, humps, a final „a”) it comes closest to the form „Szymona” — and a Szymon Ostojski does indeed stand in T89 on card 2) — but I do not vouch for the reading and do not enter this person into the list of persons. The reckoning confirms that the struck-out one does not count: Józef + 2 Wawrzyńców + Marcin + Jakób = five persons „po 1 dymie” = 5 hearths. „2 Wawrzyńców” (two of the name Wawrzyniec) are two namesakes — entered as two persons. The card index here writes „Ostoyskich”, and in entry 3 „Ostroyskiego”.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Jakób5 persons on 5 hearths
The second forename in the enumeration is STRUCK THROUGH with a horizontal stroke and, under the striking-out, illegible [reading uncertain]; from the outlines of the letters (a tall loop, a descender below the line, humps, a final „a”) it comes closest to the form „Szymona” — and a Szymon Ostojski does indeed stand in T89 on card 2) — but I do not vouch for the reading and do not enter this person into the list of persons. The reckoning confirms that the struck-out one does not count: Józef + 2 Wawrzyńców + Marcin + Jakób = five persons „po 1 dymie” = 5 hearths. „2 Wawrzyńców” (two of the name Wawrzyniec) are two namesakes — entered as two persons. The card index here writes „Ostoyskich”, and in entry 3 „Ostroyskiego”.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Marcin, Ostoyski Jakób5 persons on 5 hearths
The second forename in the enumeration is STRUCK THROUGH with a horizontal stroke and, under the striking-out, illegible [reading uncertain]; from the outlines of the letters (a tall loop, a descender below the line, humps, a final „a”) it comes closest to the form „Szymona” — and a Szymon Ostojski does indeed stand in T89 on card 2) — but I do not vouch for the reading and do not enter this person into the list of persons. The reckoning confirms that the struck-out one does not count: Józef + 2 Wawrzyńców + Marcin + Jakób = five persons „po 1 dymie” = 5 hearths. „2 Wawrzyńców” (two of the name Wawrzyniec) are two namesakes — entered as two persons. The card index here writes „Ostoyskich”, and in entry 3 „Ostroyskiego”.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Marcin, Ostoyski Jakób5 persons on 5 hearths
The second forename in the enumeration is STRUCK THROUGH with a horizontal stroke and, under the striking-out, illegible [reading uncertain]; from the outlines of the letters (a tall loop, a descender below the line, humps, a final „a”) it comes closest to the form „Szymona” — and a Szymon Ostojski does indeed stand in T89 on card 2) — but I do not vouch for the reading and do not enter this person into the list of persons. The reckoning confirms that the struck-out one does not count: Józef + 2 Wawrzyńców + Marcin + Jakób = five persons „po 1 dymie” = 5 hearths. „2 Wawrzyńców” (two of the name Wawrzyniec) are two namesakes — entered as two persons. The card index here writes „Ostoyskich”, and in entry 3 „Ostroyskiego”.
On the card „Wawrzeńca” — the same as in T89 on card 2), and differently than „Wawrzyńca” in T90 and T94.
The first line of the continuation on card 4) („T₀89 – c.d.”). The addition „nie wysiewa 10 korcy” — evidence that the possessor did not have the property census — read at an enlargement, without doubt.
„podobnież” (likewise) stands exactly beneath the addition „nie wysiewa 10 korcy” from the line above and refers back to it — hence the same annotation. Piotr Ostoyski occurs in the whole village ONLY here; he is in no register (the Piotr the registers record is Piotr Izdebski).
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef †, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Jan, Ostoyska Zofia, Ostoyski Wojciech6 persons on 6 hearths
A WOMAN: Zofia — the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Ostoyskich”), recorded beside her in the feminine form, since the forename settles the gender. THE REACH OF THE WORD „sukcesorów” IS AMBIGUOUS: it stands once, before the whole enumeration of six forenames in the genitive, so grammatically it could take in all of them. I refer it to Józef alone, since T90 settles this on card 2) („…Zofji wdowy i sukces. Józefa – Ostojskich”), where „sukces.” stands beside Józef alone, and the remaining five are listed as living; the same five are also alive in T89. I leave the decision, however, for the owner to confirm. Six persons, six hearths „po 1 dymie” — the count closes.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef †, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyska Zofia, Ostoyski Jakób, Ostoyski Wojciech6 persons on 6 hearths
A WOMAN: Zofia — the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Ostoyskich”), recorded beside her in the feminine form, since the forename settles the gender. THE REACH OF THE WORD „sukcesorów” IS AMBIGUOUS: it stands once, before the whole enumeration of six forenames in the genitive, so grammatically it could take in all of them. I refer it to Józef alone, since T90 settles this on card 2) („…Zofji wdowy i sukces. Józefa – Ostojskich”), where „sukces.” stands beside Józef alone, and the remaining five are listed as living; the same five are also alive in T89. I leave the decision, however, for the owner to confirm. Six persons, six hearths „po 1 dymie” — the count closes.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Jan, Ostoyska Zofia, Ostoyski Jakób, Ostoyski Wojciech6 persons on 6 hearths
A WOMAN: Zofia — the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Ostoyskich”), recorded beside her in the feminine form, since the forename settles the gender. THE REACH OF THE WORD „sukcesorów” IS AMBIGUOUS: it stands once, before the whole enumeration of six forenames in the genitive, so grammatically it could take in all of them. I refer it to Józef alone, since T90 settles this on card 2) („…Zofji wdowy i sukces. Józefa – Ostojskich”), where „sukces.” stands beside Józef alone, and the remaining five are listed as living; the same five are also alive in T89. I leave the decision, however, for the owner to confirm. Six persons, six hearths „po 1 dymie” — the count closes.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef †, Ostoyski Jan, Ostoyska Zofia, Ostoyski Jakób, Ostoyski Wojciech6 persons on 6 hearths
A WOMAN: Zofia — the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Ostoyskich”), recorded beside her in the feminine form, since the forename settles the gender. THE REACH OF THE WORD „sukcesorów” IS AMBIGUOUS: it stands once, before the whole enumeration of six forenames in the genitive, so grammatically it could take in all of them. I refer it to Józef alone, since T90 settles this on card 2) („…Zofji wdowy i sukces. Józefa – Ostojskich”), where „sukces.” stands beside Józef alone, and the remaining five are listed as living; the same five are also alive in T89. I leave the decision, however, for the owner to confirm. Six persons, six hearths „po 1 dymie” — the count closes.
the same entry also names: Ostoyski Józef †, Ostoyski Wawrzyniec, Ostoyski Jan, Ostoyska Zofia, Ostoyski Jakób6 persons on 6 hearths
A WOMAN: Zofia — the surname stands once, in the masculine plural („Ostoyskich”), recorded beside her in the feminine form, since the forename settles the gender. THE REACH OF THE WORD „sukcesorów” IS AMBIGUOUS: it stands once, before the whole enumeration of six forenames in the genitive, so grammatically it could take in all of them. I refer it to Józef alone, since T90 settles this on card 2) („…Zofji wdowy i sukces. Józefa – Ostojskich”), where „sukces.” stands beside Józef alone, and the remaining five are listed as living; the same five are also alive in T89. I leave the decision, however, for the owner to confirm. Six persons, six hearths „po 1 dymie” — the count closes.
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.
