Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the first impression
- Preface to the second impression
- 1 Introduction: The history of the family
- 2 Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
- 3 The evolution of the family
- ENGLAND
- WESTERN EUROPE
- 8 A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644
- 9 Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861
- 10 Household and family in Tuscany in 1427
- 11 Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769–71
- 12 Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 13 Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801
- SERBIA
- JAPAN
- NORTH AMERICA
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769–71
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the first impression
- Preface to the second impression
- 1 Introduction: The history of the family
- 2 Some demographic determinants of average household size: An analytic approach
- 3 The evolution of the family
- ENGLAND
- WESTERN EUROPE
- 8 A southern French village: the inhabitants of Montplaisant in 1644
- 9 Size and structure of households in a northern French village between 1836 and 1861
- 10 Household and family in Tuscany in 1427
- 11 Structure of household and family in Corsica, 1769–71
- 12 Variations in the size and structure of the household in the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 13 Size of households before the industrial revolution: the case of Liège in 1801
- SERBIA
- JAPAN
- NORTH AMERICA
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The French national archives have preserved a splendid collection of documents relating to the demographic and economic life of the island of Corsica after its accession to the territory of France in 1769. There are five series of papers which have survived and it might be useful to briefly describe each series.
1. Papers relating to a Census in 1758, and to a subsequent undated Census.
2. Papers relating to a nominal Census begun in July 1769 in Bastia and finished in 1771 in Ajaccio. The people responsible for this count were the Commissioners of the King for the ‘Départments’ (Ajaccio, Corte and Bastia). Some villages were undoubtedly left out of this Census; at least two of the pièves belonging to Aleria and two villages belonging to Bastia. In the final returns the population which the omitted communities had had in 1758 was allotted to them. Fig. 11.1 presents a particularly interesting extract from one of the original returns.
It is this Census which we have chosen to analyse in the present chapter, in spite of these omissions and the fact that particulars as to names are not entirely regular. The results were eventually collated by hand on printed forms and seem to have been submitted to the French sovereign in 1773. The Census is described in detail below.
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- Household and Family in Past Times , pp. 283 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972
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