Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski (Jan 2022)

Spisy ludności rzymskokatolickiej parafii Bończa z pierwszej połowy XVIII wieku

  • Jarosław Roman Marczewski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18276/pdp.2022.44-04
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44

Abstract

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Population censuses from before the second half of the 18th century are rare in Poland. Therefore, an exceptional find in the parish archives of the former Latin rite Chełm diocese is the confessional register from Bończa, dating from 1728–1750. Its publication, which is the inclusion into academic circulation of valuable source material, provides an opportunity for specialists in historical demography to study the data it contains, especially with regard to household structure and the developmental cycle of domestic groups. Wider research is also made possible by the parish registers of baptisms and deaths preserved from that period.

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