Since the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the local churches had been keeping a register of the sacraments (baptism, marriage and burial), as well as a control of parishioners’ registration in each parish: the Libros de Matrícula (Registration Books). In the absence of reliable registers in the pre-census period, the Libros de Matrícula, mainly at the beginning of the modern period, provided the most exhaustive control of the population. In them, with variable information, the head of the family, the members of the household, their age and even the specific address of the house could appear. With the passage of time, the civil authority would deepen the systems of human control in order to establish greater fiscal supervision to increase the Treasury, and new ways of counting the population were established: the systematic censuses and censuses of the 19th century.
Collection: Texts
Chronology: XVI, XVII, XVIII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/DOCU/article/view/40485/38828
Resource type: Image
Format: Manuscript
Source: García Ruipérez, Mariano (2012). “Empadronamiento municipal en España: evolución legislativa y tipología documental”, en Documenta & instrumenta, nº 10, p. 48.
Language: Spanish
Date: 1769
Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)
Copyright: © Mariano García Ruipérez © Documenta & Instrumenta
Abstract: The register of inhabitants of a parish (Santiago de Toledo, 1769), as a source of demographic control and reconstruction of family trajectories
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