Official
Mehmet Hayri Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Sivas in 1853/54 (AH 1270). On record 1874 to 1890, 10 annual entries.
Archive reference 0099_0009; 15
Life#
Mehmet Hayri Efendi was born in Sivas in 1853/54 (AH 1270). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.
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 Çankırı in 1874/75 (AH 1291): Tahrirat Kalemi. The official was then about 20 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1874/75, the official was about 20 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1874/75, shows Musevvit Kalemi in Çankırı, with 300 kuruş a month. In 1883/84 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Erzincan, the salary going from 300 to 380 kuruş a month (before: Musevvit Kalemi in Çankırı). In 1885/86 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Sivas, with 380 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Erzincan). No annual entry is recorded for 1877 to 1883.
The highest salary, 380 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1883/84 as Muhabere Memuru. 18 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 10 years with a salary the median is 380 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and no cuts. The largest rise, 80 kuruş, is seen in 1883/84. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 1.49 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1889/90, when 21 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1853/54 (AH 1270)
- Birthplace
- Sivas
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
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
- 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Place
- Çankırı
- First job as worded
- Tahrirat Kalemi
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 21
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 300
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 300
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1874/75AH 1291 | Tahrirat Kalemifirst work | Çankırı | 300first-salary field |
| 1874/75AH 1291 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 |
| 1875/76AH 1292 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 |
| 1876/77AH 1293 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 |
| No annual entry: 1877 to 1883 (AH 1294 to 1300) | |||
| 1883 to 1885AH 1301 to 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Erzincan | 380 |
| 1885 to 1890AH 1303 to 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1874/75 | 300 | 535 | 13% | |
| 1875/76 | 300 | 530 | 12% | |
| 1876/77 | 300 | 582.5 | 9% | |
| 1883/84 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
| 1884/85 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
| 1885/86 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1886/87 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1887/88 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1888/89 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 21% |
| 1889/90 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 21% |
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 Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları (NESLİHAN EROL, 2022). Name as printed: Mehmet Hayri Efendi. PDF pages 253 and 254.
Probable link: same name and birthplace; served in the place the work covers
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Hasan Hüsnü EfendiSivas, 5 shared years
- Hüseyin Avni EfendiSivas, 5 shared years
- Ahmet Reşit EfendiSivas, 5 shared years
- Hafiz Hasan EfendiSivas, 5 shared years
- Osman Nuri EfendiSivas, 5 shared years
30 officials in all. Officials recorded in Sivas
Same school recorded
- Abdulhamit EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Abdürreşid Sabit İzzetSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Ahmet Faik EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Berdos [Bedros] EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Cemal EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1874/75 (AH 1291)
744 officials in all. Officials with Sıbyan Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Hafiz Bekir Sidki EfendiSivas, born 1853/54 (AH 1270)
- Mehmet Şevket EfendiSivas, born 1852/53 (AH 1269)
- Ohannes Bader EfendiSivas, born 1852/53 (AH 1269)
- Mehmet Nusret EfendiSivas, born 1854/55 (AH 1271)
- Mehmet Vehbi EfendiSivas, born 1851/52 (AH 1268)
94 officials in all. Officials born in Sivas
Full record
Annual entries (10)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1874/75AH 1291 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1875/76AH 1292 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1876/77AH 1293 | Musevvit Kalemi | Çankırı | 300 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Muhabere Memuru | Erzincan | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Erzincan | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Sivas | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0009; 15 |
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 (22)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Hayri Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1270 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | sivas | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Sivas | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Sivas | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Sivas | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | sivas | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| 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) | 1291 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1874 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | cankiri | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | cankiri | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | cankiri | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | Kastamonu | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Tahrirat Kalemi | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 21 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 300 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 300 | 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.
- 8 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.