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Hacı Ahmed Efendi

Born 1845/46 (AH 1262) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1862 to 1899 (AH 1279 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.937

The career, year by year

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

Stage 1 of 8 · 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.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

7 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

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Vezne Odası görevlisi

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1863/64 (AH 1280) · 8 recorded years

    Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası

    AH entries: 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası

    1. Vezne Odası görevlisi

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Vezne Odası görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 25

      Continuing service as described

    All 10 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası / Kereste Gümrüğü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası; Kereste Gümrüğü

    1. Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası

      Vezne Odası görevlisi

      225 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kereste Gümrüğü

      Kereste Gümrüğü veznedarı

      595 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 10 recorded years

    Kereste Gümrüğü

    AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kereste Gümrüğü

    1. Kereste Gümrüğü veznedarı

      595 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Kereste Gümrüğü veznedarı

      480 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Kereste Gümrüğü / Hazine-i Hassa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kereste Gümrüğü; Hazine-i Hassa

    1. Kereste Gümrüğü

      Kereste Gümrüğü veznedarı

      480 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine-i Hassa

      Hazine-i Hassa veznedarı

      800 kuruşCalculated age 37

  7. 7

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Hazine-i Hassa

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Hassa

    1. Hazine-i Hassa veznedarı

      800 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine-i Hassa veznedarı

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 40

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 13 recorded years

    Hazine-i Hassa

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Hassa

    1. Hazine-i Hassa ikinci veznedarı

      1,400 kuruşCalculated age 42

    2. Hazine-i Hassa ikinci veznedarı

      1,850 kuruşCalculated age 54

    All 16 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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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. Hazine-i Hassa17
    1881 to 1899 (AH 1299 to 1316)
  2. Kereste Gümrüğü12
    1871 to 1882 (AH 1288 to 1299)
  3. Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası10
    1862 to 1872 (AH 1279 to 1288)

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. Hazine-i Hassa800 to 1,850
  2. Kereste Gümrüğü480 to 600
  3. Maliye Hazinesi Vezne Odası30 to 225

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. 1886 to 1899 (AH 1304 to 1316)
  2. 1871 to 1882 (AH 1288 to 1299)
  3. 1862 to 1872 (AH 1279 to 1288)
  4. 1881 to 1885 (AH 1299 to 1302)

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

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 115, 116

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.937

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 37 dated years

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