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İsmail Hakkı Efendi

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1865 to 1887 (AH 1282 to 1304)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.865

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1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Trikala (Tırhala)Konya
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1845/46 (AH 1262)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1865/66 (AH 1282)

    Trikala (Tırhala)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Seyyare Fırkası tezkire mukayyidi ve mümeyyizi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 20

  3. 3

    1866/67 (AH 1283) · 2 recorded years

    Trikala (Tırhala)

    AH entries: 1283, 1284. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Seyyare Fırkası tezkire mukayyidi ve mümeyyizi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Seyyare Fırkası tezkire mukayyidi ve mümeyyizi

      208 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Trikala (Tırhala) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Trikala (Tırhala)

      Seyyare Fırkası tezkire mukayyidi ve mümeyyizi

      208 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 23

  5. 5

    1869/70 (AH 1286)

    Konya / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Konya

      Seyyare Fırkası mukayyidi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 24

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 24

  6. 6

    1870/71 (AH 1287) · 5 recorded years

    Suriye

    AH entries: 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye

    1. Tahrirat-ı Emlak Kalemi senedat ve ilamat kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

    2. Tahrirat-ı Emlak Kalemi Seyyare Beşinci Fırka muharriri

      1,185 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 2 recorded years

    Surat (?)

    AH entries: 1293, 1294. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Surat (?)

    1. Ağnam memuru

      1,500 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Aşar ve Ağnam başkâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 32

      Recorded service ending

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Suriye

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye

    1. Aşar ve Ağnam Tahrirat başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

  9. 9

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 4 recorded years

    Suriye / Surat (?)

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye; Surat (?)

    1. Suriye

      Aşar ve Ağnam Tahrirat başkâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Suriye

      Nüfus Nezareti başkâtip muavini

      350 kuruşCalculated age 41

      Continuing service as described

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Suriye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Suriye

    1. Nüfus Nezareti başkâtip muavini

      350 kuruşCalculated age 42

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nüfus Nezareti başkâtip muavini (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 42

      Recorded service ending

2 entries 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 only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1865/66 (AH 1282)250400150 to 2,00022.7%341
1866/67 (AH 1283)250400146 to 2,00023.9%399
1867/68 (AH 1284)208458150 to 2,50019.4%435
1868/69 (AH 1285)208475150 to 3,00018.6%505
1869/70 (AH 1286)250400150 to 2,25023.0%609
1870/71 (AH 1287)300400150 to 2,00030.7%649
1871/72 (AH 1288)400420.5125 to 2,37542.9%712
1872/73 (AH 1289)400450140 to 2,35043.3%736
1873/74 (AH 1290)380405130 to 2,20042.4%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)1,185450150 to 1,80083.0%882
1876/77 (AH 1293)1,500420150 to 2,00086.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)1,500450150 to 1,80086.6%1160
1881/82 (AH 1299)500400150 to 1,50060.9%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)1,250400150 to 1,40086.8%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)1,250400150 to 1,40087.7%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)1,250400150 to 1,50086.4%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)1,250400150 to 1,50086.1%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)350400150 to 1,50040.1%1725

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. Suriye11
    1870 to 1887 (AH 1287 to 1304)
  2. Surat (?)6
    1876 to 1886 (AH 1293 to 1303)
  3. 1865 to 1869 (AH 1282 to 1285)
  4. 1869/70 (AH 1286)

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. Suriye285 to 1,185
  2. Surat (?)600 to 1,500

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. 1882 to 1887 (AH 1300 to 1304)
  2. 1865 to 1869 (AH 1282 to 1285)
  3. 1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
  4. 1871 to 1875 (AH 1288 to 1291)
  5. 1876 to 1878 (AH 1293 to 1294)
  6. 1881 to 1883 (AH 1299 to 1300)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 87, 88, 89

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.865

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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