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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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