Age Features of the First Marriage Among the Population in Left-Bank Ukraine According To the Materials of Registers of Birth and Church Searches in 1783–1820 and 1836–1860
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2020.02.078Keywords:
bride and groom, registers of births, average marriage age, average age of person’s first marriage, church searches, marriageAbstract
The aim. According to the materials of the register of birth in 1783–1820 and 1838–1856 and church searches in 1836–1860, indicators of the average age of people who first married were calculated and analyzed on the basis of gender characteristic in 23 parishes of the Left-Bank Ukraine.
Research methods. The content of the documentation and the purpose of the study stipulated the usage, in addition to general scientific, special-historical methods. Among the latter historical and comparative, critical analysis, deconstruction, visualization and other methods are applied.
Scientific novelty. Information from the sources of the church accounting and statistical direction created opportunities for combining comparative and historical-demographic approaches in studying the problem of age-related characteristics of first marriage.
Main results. The obtained quantitative age data for the first time married people are presented in tables and shown in graphs, age differences of men and women, separately urban and rural brides are highlighted are compared with similar indicators in different regions of Europe and Asia. The average age of the brides was 1783–1800, they entered into marriage for the first time, for men it was determined to be 22,1 years old, and for women – 19,4 years old. The corresponding indicators of 1801–1820 demonstrate the masculine (male) value of the first marriage within 21,7 years old, feminine (female) – 19,5 years old. With an increase in marriageable age, in accordance with the decree of 1830, a noticeable increase in the average age indicators of first-time married people for 1836–1860 were noticed. According to metrics, men first married an average at the age of 23,8 years old, and women at the age of 21,9 years old. Similar calculations are based on church searches amounted 23,4 and 21,5 years old. Men are married on average 2–3 years later, unlike women. The average age value of the first married people was 1–3 years higher among urban brides compared with rural brides. During the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries men were generally married after 20 years of age. Ukrainian women for 1783–1820 mainly married before the age of 20, and in 1836–1860 – older than this age.
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