Well, Elizabeth, you forgot to say which census was quoted; but considering the fact that there was no 'middle class' to speak of back in those days, and he owned land and his own house, he was a 'better to do' fellow than most of his lands people (discounting the noble class). And since he died in 1787, way before the 'land reform' of 1848, he could have been a member of the 'lower' nobles; add to this the custom that families of those days had lots of kids and had to distribute their estate (more or less) evenly to the heirs - as opposed to the noble class, where only the first born son inherited (this way the land did not get 'whittled' down) - it is no wonder eventually families had less land than was enough to support a family. That's when they became serfs - or the lucky ones craftsmen. Joe Equinunk, PA - USA [email protected] Elizabeth Cardinal wrote: >I would like to know what the following information tells me about my >ancestors. > >Would they have been considered "comfortable", average or middle class or??? > >It also seems to me that they had reversals for by the time my great >grandfather was born he and perhaps his entire family were serfs or peasants >as they worked on one of the Esterhazy estates. > >Am trying to understand my background. > >Thank You > >Elizabeth V. Cardinal >[email protected] > > >Georgius Tegyi lived in Dorogd (today Taliandorogd) when the census was >taken. It was his own home. > >He had a yoke of oxen, a milch cow, 1,2 hectare of land and 0,5 hectare of >meadow. > >Georgius died in 1787. He had more sons but they lived in next village Szoc. > >One of his sons Michael moved back to Dorogd in 1802. His son was Martinus: >our last common ancestor. >