MARITAL COHORT OF THE RURAL POPULATION OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY: HISTORICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE VILLAGES OF ROMNY DISTRICT, POLTAVA PROVINCE)

Abstract

Оn materials from metric books, church searches, confessional murals, an attempt It was was made an attempt to investigate the peculiarities of the formation and historico- demographic of matrimonial cohorts of the villages of Nikolaevka and Vovkovtsy, Romny district, Poltava province of the first half of the 19th century, first of all of their masculine parts, including the first and the newly reconstituted. In the first settlement, the goal was to show quantitative fluctuations of marriage rate during a half-century history, and in the second it was over a decade. Some features of the wedding ceremony are indicated; general indicators of nuptiality in villages were disclosed; the dynamics of population growth over a century of history was demonstrated; the differences in the territorial origin of men and their division into local and migrants were shown; changes in the family relationship of individual families over the course of a century were founded out; the possible causes of migration processes to the masculine population were listed, and so on.