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Hacı Abdullah Mekki Bey

Born 1849/50 (AH 1266) · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1871 to 1910 (AH 1288 to 1327)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 86/229, s.229

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1Mecca (Mekke)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Mecca (Mekke)

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Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

9 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Mecca (Mekke)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Tahrirat kalemi mülâzımı

      Calculated age 22

  3. 3

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 3 recorded years

    Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Tahrirat kalemi mülâzımı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi / Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi; Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi

      Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

      Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      55 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 3 recorded years

    Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      55 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi / Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi; Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi

    1. Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi

      Tahrirat kalemi görevlisi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi

      Kalem görevlisi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 30

  7. 7

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi / Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi; Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi

      Kalem görevlisi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi

      Şehadetname memuru refiki

      416 kuruşCalculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 4 recorded years

    Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi

    AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi

    1. Şehadetname memuru refiki

      416 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Şehadetname memuru refiki (Azil)

      Calculated age 35

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 19 recorded years

    Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi

    1. Mektubî kalemi mülâzımı

      Calculated age 42

    2. Şehadetname memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 60

    All 27 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi; Location not recorded

    1. Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi

      Şehadetname memuru

      350 kuruşCalculated age 61

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Mazuliyet

      350 kuruşCalculated age 61

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

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Pay in its time

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Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi20
    1890 to 1910 (AH 1308 to 1327)
  2. Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi5
    1871 to 1876 (AH 1288 to 1292)
  3. Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi5
    1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
  4. Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi5
    1875 to 1879 (AH 1292 to 1296)
  5. Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi2
    1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Rüsûmat Emaneti Mektubî Kalemi100 to 350
  2. Meclis-i Rüsûmat Tahrirat Kalemi100 to 150
  3. Rüsûm-ı Sitte Nezareti Tahrirat Kalemi416 to 500
  4. Rüsûmat Emaneti Tahrirat Kalemi55 to 300
  5. Cemiyet-i Rüsûmiye Kalemi300

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1896 to 1910 (AH 1314 to 1327)
  2. 1872 to 1879 (AH 1289 to 1296)
  3. 1891 to 1897 (AH 1309 to 1314)
  4. 1879 to 1884 (AH 1297 to 1301)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Dârülmaarif Rüşdiyesi şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Dârülmaarif Rüşdiyesi; Mahreç-i Aklâm Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 120, 121, 122

    190 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 86/229, s.229.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 34 dated years

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