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Last updated: 29 August 2026

Population

How many were they, and how long did they live?

What this measure says

These curves follow the writing of the registers as much as the lives of the people. They rise when a register opens and fall when it stops.

The 1700s bring together the most people: 862 leave at least one written trace there, a count of attested people, not a census.

People attested per decade
The figures
DecadePeople attested per decade
15000
15100
15200
15300
15400
15500
15600
15700
15800
15900
16000
16106
162040
1630199
1640190
1650210
1660323
1670610
1680701
1690847
1700862
1710564
1720133
173061
174074
175062
176046
177027
178034
179026

Lives reconstructed end to end

348 people now carry the three deeds of a life, from baptism to marriage and on to death. 1,076 carry at least the first and the last: they are the ones that give a measured age, and their number rises with every wave of matching births to deaths.

Age at death, computed on reconstructed lives
  • under one year188
  • 1 to 4 years357
  • 5 to 14 years260
  • 15 to 29 years121
  • 30 to 49 years61
  • 50 to 69 years41
  • 70 years and over26

76% of these lives end before fifteen. Reconstruction finds children first, whose baptism and burial sit in the same register: this curve says what it measures, not the life expectancy of a population.

What the priest wrote, as a check

The age of the dead is written 5,468 times out of 9,022; 4,726 of those entries can be read by our rule, the rest stay out of the measure. Where a reconstructed life and a written age meet, the two agree within five years in 176 cases out of 223. The gaps are not smoothed away: each one flags a match to review.

Lineages

263 lineages are reconstructed, the deepest across 7 generations of men.

Where they said they came from

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Lives connected. Sources revealed.