Abstract

The author uses the records of the local parish of St Thomas the Apostle as a source of information on a number of jobs which no longer exist but were present in 19^th century Zamość. Apart from personal data, the records of the born, deceased and married parishioners include information about a person’s and their witnesses’ social status and jobs. The author used files compiled between about 1810 and 1867. The most important events which had an impact on the life of the inhabitants of Zamość in those years were the incorporation of the town into the Duchy of Warsaw (1809) and the Kingdom of Poland (1815, the Russian-occupied part), the sale of the town by the Zamoyskis to the government (1821), the relocation of the town’s authorities to Nowa Osada (1922), the November and January Uprisings, and the dissolution of the fortress (1866), which facilitated the civil development of the town and resulted in an increase in the number of its inhabitants to over 10,000 by the end of the 19^th century. The jobs identified by the author were classified according to the Polish Classification of Activities and supplemented with special functions (order and defence). The author enumerates, among others, jobs in the town’s administration, defence, and maintenance systems. She identifies a number of fortification workers, such as a sub-superviser, maintenance officer of the engineering directorate, manager of the engineering depot, fortification plumber, as well as various jobs related to education and commerce. In addition, about 50 crafts are mentioned, with such interesting examples as a wall master,  pipe organ motion setter, flour master, pipemaker, glovemaker, saddlemaker, tinmaker, wiremaker, and nailmaker.