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Hacı Mehmed Efendi

Born 1829/30 (AH 1245) · Tokat · Dated entries 1849 to 1899 (AH 1266 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 9, s. 217

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 9 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.

1Tokat
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Tokat

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.

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

  1. 1

    1829/30 (AH 1245)

    Tokat

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1849/50 (AH 1266)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Askerlik (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 28

  4. 4

    1860/61 (AH 1277)

    Kalonya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kalonya

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 32

    2. Gümrük Memuru

      Calculated age 32

  5. 5

    1861/62 (AH 1278) · 4 recorded years

    Kalonya

    AH entries: 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Kalonya

    1. Gümrük Memuru

      Calculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gümrük Memuru

      Calculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Kalonya / Tuzla

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kalonya; Tuzla

    1. Kalonya

      Gümrük Memuru

      Calculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tuzla

      Gümrük Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 15 recorded years

    Tuzla

    AH entries: 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tuzla

    1. Gümrük Kâtibi

      340 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gümrük Müdürü

      400 kuruşCalculated age 52

    All 16 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Azil

      Calculated age 57

  9. 9

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Infisal

      Calculated age 71

1 entry without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

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

Salary comparison sample

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 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. Tuzla16
    1865 to 1880 (AH 1282 to 1297)
  2. Kalonya6
    1860 to 1866 (AH 1277 to 1282)

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. Tuzla340 to 500

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. 1871 to 1880 (AH 1288 to 1297)
  2. 1865 to 1871 (AH 1282 to 1287)
  3. 1860 to 1866 (AH 1277 to 1282)
  4. 1849/50 (AH 1266)
  5. 1898/99 (AH 1316)

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

Schooling Mahalle mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı döneminde Tokatlı devlet memurları ( 1879-1909 )

    ÜMMÜHAN UĞURLU · 2013 · Pages 160, 161

    BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 9, s. 217

Read the original source accounts · 29 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated years

How to read the records

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