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The 1857 Hungarian CensusIntroduction by Peter Absolon Introduction
The 1857 Census is a population census, enumerating individuals of all religions, regardless of property ownership. The census was mainly recorded in the German language. The 1857 Census is distinguished from others because it was conducted for the purpose of counting men for military service. For this reason, it includes an exact birthdate for men between the ages of 14 and 20 while others in the household were asked only for their year of birth. Prescribed categories were used for classification by profession. Representatives of both sexes were put into age categories, but females had fewer and broader age groups than males. FamilySearch has filmed
portions of the 1857 Census for nine counties but none of these have been
indexed to date. The amount of surviving material is considerable. The
material of many towns survived, but some are incomplete: Buda, Győr,
Sz�kesfeh�rv�r, Szentes, T�rkeve, Baja, Kecskem�t, Cegl�d, Magyar�v�r in
Hungary, T�rgu Mureş, Satu Mare,
Baia Mare in Transylvania (Romania), Kosice (Kassa) in Slovakia. At this time,
the rural archive material is also significant, including census sheets for the
counties of S�ros (379 villages in Slovakia) and Aba�j-Torna (134 villages in
Hungary, 123 villages in Slovakia). Very important surviving materials remain
in county Maramaros (Transylvania, 165 villages), Zempl�n (17 villages, mostly
in Slovakia), N�gr�d (54 villages in Slovakia), Sopron (16 villages in Hungary,
51 in Austria), Tolna (8 villages in Hungary), Csan�d (32 settlements, most of
them in Hungary, some of them in Romania), Esztergom (3 villages in Hungary, 2
in Slovakia). The red areas and dots
on the map below represent counties and communities where the 1857 Census
schedules are extant. Information in the Original Data
The original Census includes
9 main columns of information, as follows: a)
Family number b)
Surname, given
name, relationship c)
Date of birth d)
Religion e)
Occupation,
profession or source of income f)
Age group
(separately for males and females) g)
Marital status
(separately for males and females) h)
Presence during
the census (separately for males and females) i)
Notes The occupations are grouped into 16 categories: a)
Priests b)
Clerks c)
Soldiers /
Military personnel d)
Scholars and
Artists e)
Lawyers f)
Medical personnel g)
Land owners h)
House owners i)
Tradesmen j)
Merchants k)
Boat owners and
Fishermen l)
Farm workers m)
Factory workers n)
Commerce helpers o)
Other
servants/helpers p) Day laborers Creation of the Database
Peter Absolon and Eric M.
Bloch, members of the JewishGen Hungarian Special Interest Group (H-SIG), have
been the main force behind the 1857 acquisition and transcription effort. The available records from Aba�j-Torna
county have been photographed and transcribed, together with 6 towns from Zempl�n
county that were found available online. Efforts are now focused on Sáros
county (the second county with the highest amount of surviving material). Database Format
The fields displayed in this
database are:
Transcription Rules
Names from the original
Census were entered exactly as they appeared on the original list. If the name was abbreviated, it was
transcribed exactly as abbreviated.
No changes were made in the spellings of the name, either. If a surname
was omitted (for family members) then the assumed surname was entered in square
brackets. Also, following obvious misspellings of people or town names, the probable
correct spelling was added in brackets. All diacritical marks (the
little accent marks used above certain letters) were ignored, with the
exception of umlauts, which we included.
This simplified transcription and data entry. Their only function is to
guide pronunciation, which was not necessary in the construction of the
database. Records in the database
The database currently
contains more than 11,000 records, as follows:
Notes on Searching the Database
The 1857 Census is searchable
via the JewishGen Hungary Database.
In addition to the usual search of surnames and towns, you can use the
"Global Text Search" of all fields to find all entries for a
particular county (megye) or given name. If you are searching for a
hyphenated town name or county, you must enter only the name before the hyphen
or after the hyphen, but not both.
At this time, the search engine is not capable of handling hyphenated
names.
Last Update: 12 Mar 2019 WSB
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