AGE FEATURES OF THE FIRST MARRIAGE IN UKRAINIAN SOCIUM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Summary. The purpose of the study is to compute, systematize and analyze the numerical indicators of the age of persons of both sexes who entered the first marriage in the Ukrainian lands of Left-Bank Ukraine in the middle of the 19th century based on the materials of church records. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism, systemacy, scientific content, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, structural and functional analysis, measurement and description method, logical method) and special historical (historical-genetic, historical-comparative, historical and typological) methods. The solution of the tasks is carried out within the anthropological, quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches in a combination of methods of local social history, microhistory and historical demography. The scientific novelty lies in the fact, that for the first time in native historiography, an attempt to touch upon the problematics of the age characteristics of the first marriage was made, to study quantitative indicators based on poorly studied archival documents ‒ church searches, to conduct a gender comparative analysis within the specified human community and similar indicators of the Polish town of Gubin, to identify female and male marriage and age flashes, to detail the analysis of bringing specific examples of married couples. The result of the study shows that the youngest individuals who entered into marriage for the first time were 16-year-old girls and 18-year-old boys. The obvious fact was the later male in comparison with the female pubescence and readiness for family life. Thus cases of masculine early marriage (15–19 years) were few in number ‒ 12.7%. Feminine figures indicate a low popularity of early-age family unions among women ‒ 30.0%. For both sexes, the age-related outbreak has been recorded since the age of 20. 70.0% of women and 87.3% of men entered into matrimonial unions from this age. The average age ofthe first marriage was calculated: for men – 23.4 years, and for women ‒ 21.5 years.

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