A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 7. (Békéscsaba, 1983)

Hajdú Mihály: Orosháza XVIII. századi személynévrendszere

The Proper Name System of Orosháza in the 18

th Century MIHÁLY HAJDÚ The introduction of the study emphasizes the significance of the parish registers and accounts for the author using these registers in his researche. The first part deals with surnames in detail. The list of surnames occuring in Orosháza in the 18th century are put in alphabetic order, the date of their occurance is given and their way of writing, and the spelling variants are given as well which occured later with the year of their first occurance. Sometimes it contains references in brackets to the bearers in case of rare surnames. In case a name can be considered Hungarian, then the etimology is given, if its not of Hungarian origin then there is reference to that language it might come from. After this collection of data the names are examined by 10 year cycles. On the basis of this survay the author points out the fact that in the first period the Hungarian names figurai 82%, the Slovak 15,2%. Most of the surnames originating from place names refer to today's Vas and Győr-Sopron counties, that is to West-Dunántúl. There are many (21,7%) surnames originating from occupation names in the first period between 1744 and 1751. The surnames of the 2

nd period (1752—1760) alter from those of the first period in the larger number of foreign names, while the occupation names are in a smaller portion. In the 3rd period (1761—1770) more and more new names appeared, especially Slovak ones. This tendency increased in the following years. In the next part of this chapter on the basis of the 1751. census the author points out the fact that few names are of first name and place name origin (20—20%), most of the names come from occupation names. The second census examined comes from 1800, and was processed similarly as the previous data. By this period of time the number of surnames originating from first names and occupation names decreas, somewhat increases the number of those place names, and names coming from Slovak and German show much greater proportion. The chapter daeling with by-names first takes a lock at those ones which are used in the town and are registered. The list of by-names was drawn up according to semantic groops. The study deals with the surnames refering to previous dwellingplaces thoroughly, and the author points out that most of them refer to Békés and Csongrád counties, but there are quite a number of names (especially in the earlier period) refering even to Tolna and Veszprém counties. The systemazing of first names was made by every 25 years. The names of the first two periods (1700—1744) could be collected only from death registers, for birth registers were only kept since 1744 in Orosháza. The Christian names show constancy 111