Official
Mehmet Şakir Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Samsun in 1863/64 (AH 1280). On record 1878 to 1904, 25 annual entries.
Archive reference 0083_0065; 127
Life#
Mehmet Şakir Efendi was born in Samsun in 1863/64 (AH 1280). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Belediye Reisi.
Schooling recorded: Sıbyan Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Amasya in 1878/79 (AH 1296): Telgraf. The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 400 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1878/79, the official was about 16 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1878/79, shows Muhabere Memuru in Amasya, with 400 kuruş a month. In 1880/81 the record shows Aşar Memuru in Amasya, with 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Amasya). In 1882/83 the record shows Asar Kol Kitabeti in Amasya, the salary going from 400 to 950 kuruş a month (before: Aşar Memuru in Amasya). In 1885/86 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Kavak, the salary going from 950 to 250 kuruş a month (before: Asar Kol Kitabeti in Amasya). In 1888/89 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Samsun, the salary going from 250 to 200 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Kavak). In 1889/90 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Trabzon, the salary going from 200 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Samsun). In 1899/1900 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Of, the salary going from 400 to 450 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Trabzon). In 1903/04 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Alaçam, the salary going from 450 to 380 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Of). No annual entry is recorded for 1894/95.
The highest salary, 950 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1882/83 as Asar Kol Kitabeti. 81 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 25 years with a salary the median is 400 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and 4 cuts. The largest rise, 550 kuruş, is seen in 1882/83. From the first salary to the last the salary fell by 0.2 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1903/04, when 34 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Birthplace
- Samsun
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Belediye Reisi
Education
- Primary
- Sıbyan Mektebi (4 years)school for young children (primary school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives yes.
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Place
- Amasya
- First job as worded
- Telgraf
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 16
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 400
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 400
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Telgraffirst work | Amasya | 400first-salary field |
| 1878 to 1880AH 1296 to 1297 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 400 |
| 1880 to 1882AH 1298 to 1299 | Aşar Memuru | Amasya | 400 |
| 1882 to 1885AH 1300 to 1302 | Asar Kol Kitabeti | Amasya | 950 |
| 1885 to 1888AH 1303 to 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Kavak | 250 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Samsun | 200 |
| 1889 to 1894AH 1307 to 1311 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 |
| No annual entry: 1894/95 (AH 1312) | |||
| 1895 to 1899AH 1313 to 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 400 |
| 1899 to 1903AH 1317 to 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Of | 450 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Alaçam | 380 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79 | 400 | 600 | 420 | 18% |
| 1879/80 | 400 | 500 | 380 | 35% |
| 1880/81 | 400 | 500 | 635 | 34% |
| 1881/82 | 400 | 500 | 635 | 31% |
| 1882/83 | 950 | 500 | 81% | |
| 1883/84 | 950 | 500 | 81% | |
| 1884/85 | 950 | 500 | 82% | |
| 1885/86 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 6% |
| 1886/87 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 6% |
| 1887/88 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 7% |
| 1888/89 | 200 | 500 | 400 | 5% |
| 1889/90 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 42% |
| 1890/91 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1891/92 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1892/93 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 44% |
| 1893/94 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 46% |
| 1895/96 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 30% |
| 1896/97 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 32% |
| 1897/98 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 32% |
| 1898/99 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 31% |
| 1899/1900 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1900/01 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1901/02 | 450 | 500 | 400 | 45% |
| 1902/03 | 450 | 500 | 380 | 46% |
| 1903/04 | 380 | 475 | 350 | 34% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Named in scholarly works#
No link between a work and an official has been accepted. Each entry was found by fixed rules on the name and the recorded fields, and says what it rests on.
Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Samsunlu devlet memurları (1879-1909) (MERVE ÖZİNAN, 2026). Name as printed: Mehmed Şakir Efendi. Printed page 24, PDF pages 35, 48 and 88.
Probable link: same name, birthplace and birth year (within one year); served in the place the work covers
What the work records:
- Birth recorded in 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Father named 'Hüseyin Ağa' (PDF page 35)
- Father's occupation as worded: 'Kavak Belediye Reisi' (PDF page 35)
- Languages as worded: 'Türkçe okuryazar' (PDF page 48)
- Schools as listed: 'Sıbyan Mektebi'; 'Muallim-i Mahsustan ders' (PDF page 48)
- Post as worded: 'Amasya Sancağı Kavak Nahiyesi Muvakkat-ı Aşar Kol Memuriyeti' (PDF page 88)
- Post as worded: 'Kavak Nahiyesi Aşar Kitabeti'; pay in the same row of the table: 950 kuruş (PDF page 88)
- Post as worded: 'Kavak Merkez Memuriyetleri Vekaleti'; pay in the same row of the table: 250 kuruş (PDF page 88)
- Post as worded: 'Trabzon Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi Muhasebe Memuriyeti'; pay in the same row of the table: 500 kuruş (PDF page 88)
- Post as worded: 'Trabzon Telgraf Merkezi Muhabere Memuriyeti'; pay in the same row of the table: 500 kuruş (PDF page 88)
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Hafız İbrahim Kazım EfendiTrabzon, 9 shared years
- Mehmet Besim EfendiTrabzon, 9 shared years
- Hacı Kâmil EfendiTrabzon, 9 shared years
- Salih EfendiTrabzon, 9 shared years
- Abbas Zihni EfendiTrabzon, 9 shared years
76 officials in all. Officials recorded in Trabzon
Same school recorded
- Ahmet Sadettin EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Ali Riza EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Eyüp Ragıp EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Hafız Süleyman EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Hasan EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1878/79 (AH 1296)
744 officials in all. Officials with Sıbyan Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- İstepan EfendiSamsun, born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Hafız Recep Recai EfendiSamsun, born 1869/70 (AH 1286)
- Nişan Sultanyan EfendiSamsun, born 1855/56 (AH 1272)
- Recep Tevfik EfendiSamsun, born 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ali Mazhar EfendiSamsun, born 1884/85 (AH 1302)
9 officials in all. Officials born in Samsun
Full record
Annual entries (25)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Aşar Memuru | Amasya | 400 | Finance (Maliye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Aşar Memuru | Amasya | 400 | Finance (Maliye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Asar Kol Kitabeti | Amasya | 950 | Finance (Maliye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Asar Kol Kitabeti | Amasya | 950 | Finance (Maliye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Asar Kol Kitabeti | Amasya | 950 | Finance (Maliye) | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Kavak | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Kavak | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Kavak | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Samsun | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Trabzon | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Muhabere Memuru | Of | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Of | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhabere Memuru | Of | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Of | 450 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Alaçam | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0083_0065; 127 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (23)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Şakir Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1280 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | samsun | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Samsun | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Samsun | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Trabzon | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | trabzon | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | belediye reisi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Sibyan Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1296 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1879 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Amasya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | Amasya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | Amasya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | Sivas | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Telgraf | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 16 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 400 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 400 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 20 annual entries of 25 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.