THE GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY OF THE SERF POPULATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY AS RECORDED IN THE SERF ROLLS

A study of four localities in Horni Police in 1710-1725 confirmed that people most often migrated at the age of 20-35 years. People of that age left home most often for the purpose of marriage. Typical for people over 35 years of age was the tendency to remain in one place, and typical for people over 50 years of age was their elimination from the records of the serf rolls, almost exclusively as a result of their death. Children up to the age of 15 tended to move with their parents.