Halil Kenan Efendi
Born 1882/83 (AH 1300) · Mecca (Mekke) · Dated entries 1901 to 1908 (AH 1319 to 1325)
Languages Arabic, French, Turkish
Archival reference BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 116/253, s.253
The career, year by year
Read every yearEach mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.
Places and reading notes
- Mecca (Mekke)
- Jeddah (Cidde)
7 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.
The life
Halil Kenan Efendi was born in Mecca (Mekke) in 1882/83 (AH 1300). The father’s occupation was Jandarma yüzbaşısı. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Mekke Rüşdiye Mektebi. The language repertoire included Arabic, French and Turkish. [1]
Service began in Mecca (Mekke) in 1901/02 (AH 1319). Dated career entries span 1901/02 (AH 1319) to 1907/08 (AH 1325) across 7 AH years, from Mecca (Mekke) to Jeddah (Cidde), beginning with Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru and ending with entries for Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru. More than one post or place appears in 2 of those years. Place names include Mecca (Mekke) and Jeddah (Cidde). [1]
Life and career
Follow 5 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.
Stage 1 of 5 · Mecca (Mekke)
How to read this map
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.
1 1882/83 (AH 1300)
Mecca (Mekke)
Birth
2 First work as recorded
Calculated age 19
Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru
400 kuruşCalculated age 19
3 Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru
Calculated age 20
Continuing service as described
Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru
Calculated age 21
Continuing service as described
Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru
Calculated age 22
Continuing service as described
4 1905/06 (AH 1323)
Mecca (Mekke) / Jeddah (Cidde)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Telgraf ve posta merkezi kartpostal memuru
Calculated age 23
Continuing service as described
Telgraf ve posta merkezi yabancı haberleşme memuru
600 kuruşCalculated age 23
5 1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years
Jeddah (Cidde)
AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Telgraf ve posta merkezi yabancı haberleşme memuru
600 kuruşCalculated age 24
Continuing service as described
Telgraf ve posta merkezi yabancı haberleşme memuru (İstifa)
Calculated age 24
Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru
500 kuruşCalculated age 24
Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru
500 kuruşCalculated age 25
Continuing service as described
Telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuru (İnfisal)
Calculated age 25
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.
Pay over time
Pay in its time
Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.
This dossier has no validated link to the annual salary comparison.
Career patterns and pay
Recorded pay over the career
Kuruş · dated amountsSelect 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 entriesGaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.
Amounts recorded by place
Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate- Jeddah (Cidde)500 to 600
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 titleThe 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
All personal fields and their sources
Personal details
Education and languages
- Qualification
- Formal qualification recorded [source]Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi; sınıf ikincisi [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
- Education
- Sıbyan mektebi; Mekke Rüşdiye Mektebi [source]
- Education level equivalent
- 7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.
First work and apprenticeship
- Age at first service
- 19 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
- First work place
- Mekke [source]
- First-salary field
- 400 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
- First work year
- 1901/02 (AH 1319) [source]
Sources and evidence
- Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları
BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 128, 129
197 BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr. 116/253, s.253.
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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.