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Hearth Tax Registers of the Łuków Land 1775–1794

Piotrowski

separate records 4 · places 2 · registers 1789, 1790, 1794

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Separate entries for persons
4
Occurrences on the cards
6
Hearths in total
15,0
Localities
2

„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 1789115,0
1789List of possessors of holdings of 178911
1790Hearth tax register 1790225,0
1794Hearth tax register 1794115,0

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.

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.

establishments recorded with this surname brewery Żurawieniec inn Żurawieniec propination (the right to sell drink) Żurawieniec

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-BłażejeZbuczyn parish

PiotrowskiJan
1790Hearth tax register 1790
T90~~E) cz. Jana Piotrowskiego ———— 5 dymów wiejskich tejże klasy; –~~card 2)
THE WHOLE ENTRY IS STRUCK OUT with a single horizontal stroke — together with the ordinal letter and the number of hearths. It does not enter into the total „Razem – 13 dymów wiejskich 2giej klasy” (1+1+2+9 = 13), so the hearths figure = null, although the struck-out wording gave 5 hearths. I record the entry, because the surname is named in the source.

ŻurawieniecZbuczyn parish

PiotrowskiJan
1789Hearth tax register 1789
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.
PiotrowskiJan
1789List of possessors of holdings of 1789
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.
PiotrowskiJan
1790Hearth tax register 1790
T905 hearthsA) cz. Jana Piotrowskiego ——— 5 dymów wiejskich 2giej klasy;–card 1)
PiotrowskiTadeusz
1794Hearth tax register 1794
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.
Piotrowski
O83A description of 1783 [the expansion of the siglum to be confirmed]
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 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.