Notes on the inhabitants of Lindar at the end of the 16th century and in the first half of the 17th century

Abstract

In her paper the author concentrated on the population of Lindar in the 16th and 17th centuries observed through various directories (after the temporary Venetian occupation or those urbarial), but also through Glagolithic entries in the register of baptisms, today kept in the Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as transliterated and published by dr. Hon. Caus. Dražen. The focus of her interest is dedicated to the trends in the number of inhabitants, birth rate years of crises, birth rate in general, seasonal trends in birth/conception and names and surnames of the baptized in the Parish of Lindar. She attempted to comprehend the motivation which led parents when giving names to their children. By studying the records on baptisms which, next to the records in the registers of marriages and deaths, often represent the only written trace of the existence of the so called “small man” in the observed period, the author made an effort to reconstruct a fragment of the everyday life in Lindar during that period.