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Aleksander Panjek and Miha Zobec


               Table 4.1 Peasant Holdings (Households) and the Černe Family in Tomaj Village
                        1758–1870
               Year                  Tomaj village         Černe family
                                         Number          Number           Percent
                                   + * =                            .
                                                                      .
                                                                     .
               Notes  *Holdings belonging to other manor, estimated number. Based on data from ast,
               atta, 242.1, 3 (for 1758); ast, cf, oc, Tomaj and šak, žat, sa 1 (farm and family re-
               construction based on F. cadastre 1820 and status animarum 1822 by Leonida Ravšelj); šak,
               žat, sa 5 (for 1870).


               an illegitimate child and was tried for attacking his brother, none of the
               family members acted as godfather. In the years around 1715, when Andrej
               was mayor, he was godfather only once and his brother Tomaž only twice
               (1711–1720). Tomaž was then mayor for a long time in the third and fourth
               decades of the century, but he was godfather only once in the meantime
               (1721–1740). Moreover, in his whole life Andrej acted as godfather only six
               times, lastly in 1728, that is, even less than his oldest brother Štefan, who
               had no children and therefore no real power as an heir in the family.
                 Very much the same happened with Ivan Černe, Andrej’s son. Around
               1726, when the excesses of the youth abbey with Ivan Černe as a protago-
               nist occurred, there is a Černe godfather in 1725 and none until 1728. Later,
               while he was in office as a mayor (1748–1752), Ivan was recorded as a god-
               father only once. In 1753–1754, when he lost his position and was flood-
               ed by lawsuits regarding unpaid debts and dowries, no Černe appears as
               godfather in Tomaj. In his whole life, Ivan was godfather to only seven
               children and his misdeeds were later, when he was godfather for the last
               time in 1757, partly forgiven. From this point of view, his younger brother
               Jakob appears to be more attractive, since he acted as godfather ten times
               or more (until he became mayor). But the most popular of all Černe men in
               Tomaj between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must have been
               Jožef (son of Tomaž, Andrej’s brother), who scored about twenty records
               as godfather between 1745 and the early eighties, when homonymies make
               it virtually impossible to distinguish between the various Jožefs, Jakobs,
               Markos and so on, since no specific information is given about godfathers
               apart from their name. Both Jožef and Jakob appear as godfathers also
               around the time when they were mayors (1771 and 1779, respectively), but
               it is not possible to identify them with certainty. In any case, while in of-


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