Marital Options at Orthodox Parish of Caransebeş Between the Years 1873 – 1895
Marital Options at Orthodox Parish of Caransebeş Between the Years 1873 – 1895

Summary/Abstract: The Collection of Church Registry Records from Caraş Severin County contains some of the oldest documents created in the area of the present Caraş Severin County. The foundation, in 1951, of the State Archives branches in the districts of Oraviţa and Caransebeş, comes after a century from the foundation of the State Archives from Moldova and from Ţara Românească and after more than a decade from the foundation of the Regional Branch of the State Archives from Timişoara. This situation had an important impact on the archival material preserved at Caraş Severin County Department of the National Archives, where the oldest documents kept are from the 18th century. Within this context, the birth, marriage and death church records are considered to be of utmost importance for the historical research of this area. The present study is based on the information from the marriage church book of Romanian - Orthodox parish of Caransebeş from the moment when the town switched from a military to a civil settlement till 1895 the year when the public Registry Court was founded. Dealing with aspects such as: the age of the people that married, the frequency of the marriages in different months of the year, the evolution of the number of marriages in different years, the remarriage of the widowers, the mixed religions marriages, the social status or the place of birth of the people that married I have tried to outline the framework and the important elements in founding of the future families in the town of Caransebeş within the interval 1873-1895.

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