Urodzenia i akuszerki w wiejskiej parafii Biesiadki w latach 1840–1879
Births and Midwives in the Rural Parish of Biesiadki, 1840–1879
Author(s): Justyna TrepaSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Modern Age, Demography and human biology, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: childbirth; midwives; peasantry; cholera epidemics; the great galician famine; Biesiadki; Lewniowa; Żerków; Galicia; 19th century; historical demography
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to present changes in births in the rural parish of Biesiadki in the years marked by three cholera epidemics and the greatest famine in Galicia. The main source used in the work were the Liber Natorum of the Biesiadki parish from 1840–1879. The annual number of births, their monthly seasonality, day intervals between births and baptisms, the scale of extramarital and multiple births, the selection of names and godparents and the midwives’ activity were analyzed. Statistical, comparative and case study methods were used. The research revealed that births were usually delivered by local village midwives.
Journal: Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
- Issue Year: 47/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 161-189
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Polish
