1869 Slovak Census house number questions
I am determining if I can merge two Mihaly Rohaly's, born circa 1850: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/L8DB-NRT and https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6WZ-Q4N
I know all of L8DB-NRT's children were born in Krivostany, house number 27. And now, thanks to the sleuths on this board, I know on his marriage certificate (https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/172802/cant-find-slovak-marriage-record), L8DB-NRT was from house number 27.
For L6WZ-Q4N, I found this census record:https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK8-N38G-H?cat=385993&i=348&lang=en
where he is listed in household "II". Unfortunately, his baptism record for household II does not contain a house number. However, I've found the baptism records for the children in household "I" cite house number 27.
Is it safe to assume since all three households are on the same census page, they are all in house number 27? Or perhaps there's a house number hidden in plain sight that I simply don't understand because it's all in Hungarian?
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The census pages were done by dwelling, so yes, all of those families lived at number 27.
I haven't particularly paid attention, but if forced to guess a start date for the use of house-numbers in church registers (in Hungary), I would say mid-1850s in most places — but this is definitely the sort of detail that must be determined individually for each place. (Some places, the numbers stayed stable for multiple generations. Other places, they re-numbered at least part of the village practically every time someone built a new outhouse. Similarly, some clerics were progressive and started recording the numbers as soon as the bishop made vaguely-approving noises about them, while others apparently never heard of them, so there's no sign of house-numbers until the old guy retires and the younger guy takes over.)
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I have been doing research in a few villages in Western Slovakia. The extremely detailed minister in Vrbovce in the 1780s put house numbering into birth and death records for a couple years when it was new and then dropped it. It was because of an Imperial edict on house numbering and a census that no longer survives.
I mention this because I was able to use the detail to assign a uniquely identified location to 2/3rds of the families in town in the late 1780s. And also, through observation, I can tell that except for the center of the town, most of the houses were renumbered for the 1869 Census. So even if you find the older numbers, they likely wouldn't stay constant between the 1700s and 1869.
Also, I'm descended from a family that had 3 nuclear families in one house in 1869 (adult siblings, spouses, and children). So I can confirm that they are on multiple sheets associated with the same house number.
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Thank you for sharing your insights and experience. It is greatly appreciated
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