| | West Prussian Land Register 1772/73 - Komra-Kz (R. Drefs) Published by the Odessa Digital Library - 21 Jun 1999 http://www.odessa3.org This document may be freely used for personal, nonprofit purposes or linked by other WWW sites. It may also be shared with others, provided the header with copyright notice is included. However, it may not be republished in any form without permission of the copyright owner. Copyright 1999, Reuben R. Drefs Published with the kind permission of Dr. Peter Woerster of the Herder-Institut, Marburg, and edited by Marty McMahon, June 1999, revised 3 Aug, 1999. This is one of 18 files of surnames. Due to the size of the orginal data file, 15+ megabytes, we have created 16 smaller files covering the alphabet. All files are named "kk-x.txt" with the "x" being replaced with the letter of the 1st surname listed. - MM Content and Access: ------------------ On page 188 of Walther Maas' book, "Zur Siedlungskunde Westpreussens 1466-1772," Georg Dabinnus was mentioned as one of the first researchers who had viewed and published general reports of the 1772 land registry of Frederick the Great. Maas suggested actual names were preserved from this West Prussian land registry. Through discussions with many genealogical experts in Germany the filmed documents of the 1772 land registry, called Kontributionskataster (KK), were discovered at the Marburg State Archive, Marburg, Germany. I have copies of these eleven KK films and will give these to one of the Germans from Russia institutions at a later date. The KK was filmed off typed sheets already extracted from the German script in the 1920's. Additional statistical information is on the film but was not extracted onto this database. Generally, in addition to the full name of the head of household there are 7 columns of data: Number of adult males in household Wife, listed as a statistic (1 or left blank) Number of boys over/under 12 Number of girls over/under 12 Number of male hired workers Number of female hired workers Total number of persons in household. If you find a surname in a particular town which interests you which could be your ancestor, then you may e-mail me a request to check this name for more details from the film. Unfortunately, the Netze River District, an area that is especially important to Germans of Bessarabian descent, is not included in these transcriptions because we could not obtain written permission to post the Netze counties on the Internet from the Bromberg State Archive which currently holds these documents. However, I have the extracted information in my possession from three microfilms of the Netze River District Counties. In summary I would advise that the importance of this land registry lies in finding the surname and the town/village of the surname. My hope is that this document might give some early clue regarding the town in which your ancestor lived in the year 1772 that will lead you to verify the information through church records or other sources. Following below is a more formal description of the history of the KK. - RRD Introduction: ------------ After the occupation of West Prussia and the District of the Netze River by Prussia during the first partition of Poland in the year 1772, the Geheime Finanzrat Rembert Roden was ordered by Frederick the Great to prepare a land survey of these territories. The land survey should produce the necessary foundation for the introduction of the Prussian taxation system in the new territory. In the years 1772/73 three commissions with about 60 officials and 40 surveyors were occupied with this work. For each town a land register was established which could contain up to 91 items. This was largely a head of household registration and not a poll tax or one that counted every person. Thus the listing of names is restricted to the head of household at the time of the registration. Most head of households were male although there are a few women listed. The most frequent enumeration of women comes as widow and thus lists the surname of the deceased husband. Unfortunately, many women are listed without a surname, this is also the case with male Jews, and to some extent people with Polish heritage. An important aspect of this land tax register is the listing of children. The number of children living in 1772 are numerically indicated, most of the time designated as over and under 12 years of age. Additional information about this data in a separate introduction in English, German, and Polish. The reader is encouraged to read this introductory material to gain a much greater understanding of this data. LAST NAME, FIRST TOWN Govern. Off. COUNTY SECTION NO Film Pge REG# REMARKS Kupski, Anth. Gross Schlatau Putzig Neustadt 18011050 6037 845 108 Kupski, Anth. Gross Schlatau Putzig Putzig 18011050 6037 23 93 Kupski, Joh. Gross Schlatau Putzig Neustadt 18011050 6037 845 108 Kupski, Joh. Gross Schlatau Putzig Putzig 18011050 6037 23 93 Kupski, Nicolaus Sobondz Amt Kyschau 18011031 6035 605 90 Kupski, Nicolaus Sobuntz Kyschau Kreis Berent 18011031 6037 433 409 also Sobonsch Kupsky, Jos. Vor dem Olivaschen Tor Amt Danzig 18011019 6034 869 3552 |
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