Ciubotă, Viorel - Nicolescu, Gheorge - Ţucă, Cornel (szerk.): Jurnal de operaţiuni al Comandamentului Trupelor din Transilvania (1918-1921) 2. (Satu Mare, 1998)

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Factors in the establishment of mixed marriages

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608 RC and 628 R)n and the marital strategies of confessional, ethnic or socio-professional nature are less compulsory.

The ratio on sexes of preference for mixed marriages', men (50%), women (50%)

The district of the archpriest of CAREI (Nagy-Karolyensi)

The district of the archpriest of Carei had 8 parishes around Carei. In 3 of them mixed marriages were performed (37.5%) with multiple interethnic openings . This situation was determined by the structure of the population. In what the Romanians are concerned, they are of GC confession in an overwhelming majority; the O are in insignificant number. This gives the GC’s marital strategies two alternatives either to get married inside the confessional community (where potential partners were not too numerous) or to follow the example of inter-ethnic mixed marriages but in the same locality.

In what concerns the Carpatho-Russian of GC confession, who lived in the other parish of Carei, the degree of inter-ethnic alienation by means of marriage is bigger than in the Romanians’ case.

The ratio on sexes of the preference of mixed marriages: men (75%), women (25%).

The district of the archpriest of CRISUL REPEDE (Sebes-Korosiensis)

The district of the archpriest of Crisul Repede had parishes from the Depression Vad-Borod (Auseu, Balnaca, Dobricionesti, Bezna de Sus, Borozd, Borod, Groşi, Topa de Cris and Vadu). The structure of the population was in majority O: 11914 believers (53.5%); GC represented 5928 (26.6%); RC were 935 believers (4.19%) and HC (12.73%)11 12 13. The structure of the population could be an argument for the open attitude of the GC towards marriages with O'3. But in reality, facts are different. Certain confessional compulsions seem to force them to get married in majority inside their own confessional community. Mixed marriages are reduced in

11 *** Recensământ 190..., p. 110-111.

12 *** Schematism....p. 215.

13 At Auseu, the marriage took place not only outside the community but also outside the ethnicity with a HC boy from the neighbouring village, Cacuciul Vechi. At Borod, the marriage was outside the community with a O girl from the neighbouring village, Comitel. At Topa de Cris, the marriage was not only outside the community but also outside the ethnicity with a Baptist boy from Vadu Crisului (DOSS 488/1900, f.5).