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The Population of Murter in 1858 and 1915 – Data from the Murter Parish Anagraph
Kristijan Juran
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The anagraphs of the Murter parish, which contain data about Murter families in the period between 1854 to the second half of the twentieth century, are an indispensable source for researching the historical anthroponymy and demography of this settlement. Surrounded by an enormous quantity of data the author confines himself exclusively to the presentation of data which defines and rounds off a corpus of Murter names, surnames and nicknames in the years 1858 and 1915. The chronological framework thusly defined – in reality we are dealing with two wholly narrow frameworks – represents temporal points which were at the same time grounds for the mutual comparison of analyzed data. In such a way it was established that in less than 60 years the number of families in Murter grew by 60% – from 185 families in 1858 to 309 families in 1915. This growth is the consequence of natural growth, that is the role of immigration was insignificant. A comparison of the surname structure of the Murter populace during the said years – but also in respect to data concerning the anthroponymy of Murter in the period preceding the years under observation in this article published elsewhere – evinces a continuity of “old” families. Thusly only three new surnames appear in 1858 – a family that moved in and two men who married Murter women, while in 1915 we see two new families moving to Murter. However, the fund of first names greatly expanded within the targeted period – from the 89 male and female names known in 1858 to 266 names in 1915. In spite of this, newly born children were most frequently given centuries old saints’s names. Besides names and surnames, numerous nicknames have been recorded which are certainly the fundamental markers of a specific person or family.
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17.8.2004.
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