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Official

Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301)

Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Kahramanmaraş (Maraş) in 1878 (AH 1295). On record 1895 to 1906, 10 annual entries.

Life

This official, whose name is not recorded, was born in Kahramanmaraş (Maraş) in 1878 (AH 1295). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Telgraf Memuru.

Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 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 Van in 1893/94 (AH 1311). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 2 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 380 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1895/96, the official was about 17 years old.

The first annual entry, for 1895/96, shows Muhabere Memuru in Van, with 380 kuruş a month. In 1901/02 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Başkale, the salary going from 450 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Van). In 1902/03 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Aleppo (Halep), with 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Başkale). In 1903/04 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Aleppo, the salary going from 400 to 475 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Aleppo). In 1905/06 the record shows 2. Müdür in Birecik, the salary going from 475 to 700 kuruş a month (before: Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Aleppo). No annual entry is recorded for 1904/05.

The highest salary, 700 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1905/06 as 2. Müdür. 73 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 475 kuruş. Over 10 years with a salary the median is 450 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 225 kuruş, is seen in 1905/06. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 6.3 per cent a year on average.

Record

Personal

Born
1878 (AH 1295)
Community
Muslim (Müslüman)
Nationality as recorded
Turkish
Father's occupation
Telgraf Memuru

Education

Rüşdiye
Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
Unpaid years (mülazemet)
2 years
Preparation route (classification of the paper)
Low
Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
No

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
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Place
Van
First salary field (kuruş a month)
380

Legal records

Legal record note as worded
işret / Edepsizlik / Mumaileyh Van merkez memurlarının serkeşliğine öteden beri önayak ve her türlü harekat ve sükenatı rüfeka arasında bais nifat ve mutadi veçhile nöbeti terk ile çarşı ve pazarda ve kahvehanelerde biꞌyat ile avar-ı vakit ederek gerek şifahen ve gerek resmen icra kılınan tenbihatı isga eylememesine ve bu halin devamı diğer refkatin ahlakını bozmasına mebni başmüdüriyet vekaletinden merkez jurnaline yazılan şerhe mumaileyhe vazife ve selahiyet zarfında ve adab-ı memuriyet hilafında olarak yazdığı şerh ve (…) vakıasından dolayı resmen tekdir ve tevbihi lazım geleceğinden ol-vechile icabı icra kılındığı halde yine terk-i hizmetle sefahatte devam eylemesine naşi bin üç yüz on dokuz senesi Zilhicceꞌsi gurresinde “26 Şubat sene 317” dört yüz kuruş maaşla cezaen vilayet-i müşarünileyhada Başkale telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyetine nakil olunmuş ise de Van merkez memuru iken başhümayun cenab-ı melükane başkitabeti celilesinden Van Kumandanlığına çekilen Şakka telgrafhanesinin zeylinde (…) arz-ı emr-i ferman-ı hümayun hazret-i hilafetpenahiye yollandığı açık iade ile yazılmış iken mumaileyh mezkur telgrafnameyi (…) serat merkezde taciz edildiğinden ve zaten vukuat-ı sabıkasıda (…) bin üç yüz yirmi senesi Muharremꞌin yirmi üçünde “18 Nisan sene 318”idareten azledildiği şube-i mezkurenin “1 Cemaziyelahir sene 320 tarihli vukuat pusulasında gösterilmiştir.; işret / ayyaşlığı yüzünden vukua gelen ahval ve hareket-ı gayr-ı meşruası hasebiyle muhafaza-i haysiyet edememesine ve yerli bulunmasına binaen üç yüz yirmi iki senesi Recepꞌinin üçünde (…) Ağustos sene 320 idareten azledilip; İşret
Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
1320; 1321; 1323

Career

Career of Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301), one row per stage
YearsTitlePlaceSalary (kuruş a month)
1893/94AH 1311First workVan380first-salary field
1895 to 1901AH 1313 to 1318Muhabere Memuru
6 entries
YearSalary
1895/96380
1896/97380
1897/98450
1898/99450
1899/1900450
1900/01450
Van380 to 450
1901/02AH 1319Muhabere MemuruBaşkale400
1902/03AH 1320Muhabere MemuruAleppo (Halep)400
1903/04AH 1321Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuriyetiAleppo (Halep)475
No annual entry: 1904/05 (AH 1322)
1905/06AH 13232. MüdürBirecik700
Monthly salary, kuruş
no entry02004006008001896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 1322700 kuruş
Salary against the medians of the same year
2005001,0001896/97AH 13141898/99AH 13161900/01AH 13181902/03AH 13201904/05AH 1322This officialMedian, all officialsMedian, same title

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
Salary of Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301) against the medians of the same year, kuruş a month
YearSalaryMedian, all officialsMedian, same titlePaid less
1895/9638050040026%
1896/9738050040028%
1897/9845050040045%
1898/9945050040044%
1899/190045050040043%
1900/0145050040043%
1901/0240050040032%
1902/0340050038033%
1903/0447547545049%
1905/0670047580573%

Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.

Placesbornfirst workannual entries
KahramanmaraşBirecikVanBaşkaleAleppo

Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.

Recorded with

Recorded in the same place in the same years

69 officials in all. Officials recorded in Van

Same school recorded

3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded

Same birthplace

6 officials in all. Officials born in Kahramanmaraş (Maraş)

Full record

Annual entries (10)

Annual entries of Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301)
YearTitlePlaceKuruş a monthInstitutionSourceArchive reference
1895/96AH 1313Muhabere MemuruVan380Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1896/97AH 1314Muhabere MemuruVan380Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1897/98AH 1315Muhabere MemuruVan450Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1898/99AH 1316Muhabere MemuruVan450Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1899/1900AH 1317Muhabere MemuruVan450Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1900/01AH 1318Muhabere MemuruVan450Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1901/02AH 1319Muhabere MemuruBaşkale400Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1902/03AH 1320Muhabere MemuruAleppo (Halep)400Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1903/04AH 1321Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye MemuriyetiAleppo (Halep)475Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
1905/06AH 13232. MüdürBirecik700Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)Recovered annual personnel extract0086_0153: 301
What the sources named in this table are
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 (17)

Recorded values of Unnamed official (0086_0153: 301) with their sources
FieldRecorded valueSource
Identity
Birth year (AH)1295Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
BirthplacemarasRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Province of birthhalepRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Father's occupationtelgraf memuruRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
ReligionMuslumanRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Nationality or communityTurkishRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Schooling
SchoolRusdiye MektebiRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Years of schooling7Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet)2Recovered annual personnel extract
First work
First work: year (AH)1311Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
First work: Gregorian year as stored1893Recovered annual personnel extract
First work: placeVanRecovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
First salary field (kuruş a month)380Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract
Legal records
Legal record note as wordedişret / Edepsizlik / Mumaileyh Van merkez memurlarının serkeşliğine öteden beri önayak ve her türlü harekat ve sükenatı rüfeka arasında bais nifat ve mutadi veçhile nöbeti terk ile çarşı ve pazarda ve kahvehanelerde biꞌyat ile avar-ı vakit ederek gerek şifahen ve gerek resmen icra kılınan tenbihatı isga eylememesine ve bu halin devamı diğer refkatin ahlakını bozmasına mebni başmüdüriyet vekaletinden merkez jurnaline yazılan şerhe mumaileyhe vazife ve selahiyet zarfında ve adab-ı memuriyet hilafında olarak yazdığı şerh ve (…) vakıasından dolayı resmen tekdir ve tevbihi lazım geleceğinden ol-vechile icabı icra kılındığı halde yine terk-i hizmetle sefahatte devam eylemesine naşi bin üç yüz on dokuz senesi Zilhicceꞌsi gurresinde “26 Şubat sene 317” dört yüz kuruş maaşla cezaen vilayet-i müşarünileyhada Başkale telgraf ve posta merkezi muhabere memuriyetine nakil olunmuş ise de Van merkez memuru iken başhümayun cenab-ı melükane başkitabeti celilesinden Van Kumandanlığına çekilen Şakka telgrafhanesinin zeylinde (…) arz-ı emr-i ferman-ı hümayun hazret-i hilafetpenahiye yollandığı açık iade ile yazılmış iken mumaileyh mezkur telgrafnameyi (…) serat merkezde taciz edildiğinden ve zaten vukuat-ı sabıkasıda (…) bin üç yüz yirmi senesi Muharremꞌin yirmi üçünde “18 Nisan sene 318”idareten azledildiği şube-i mezkurenin “1 Cemaziyelahir sene 320 tarihli vukuat pusulasında gösterilmiştir. used on this pageLegal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy)
Legal record note as wordedişret / ayyaşlığı yüzünden vukua gelen ahval ve hareket-ı gayr-ı meşruası hasebiyle muhafaza-i haysiyet edememesine ve yerli bulunmasına binaen üç yüz yirmi iki senesi Recepꞌinin üçünde (…) Ağustos sene 320 idareten azledilip other valueLegal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy)
Legal record note as wordedİşret other valueLegal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy)
Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records1320; 1321; 1323Later annual personnel extract
What the sources named in this table are
Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
Legal notes (later workbook copy)
A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
Later annual personnel extract
The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
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.
  • The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
  • Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
  • 10 annual entries of 10 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.

How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.