조선후기 호적작성과 활용을 통해 본 戶 ―동래부 사례를 중심으로―

Abstract

A review on how a family register has been created allows you to understand the nature of a family register and the process and nature of a census at that time. Therefore, this article tried to look at whether ‘ho’(戶) in the family register is natural ‘ho’ or established ‘ho’ and to review how the nature as a material of the family register is by giving a dongraebu case as an example. An examination was made on the creation process and use of the family register centered around the family register material of the dongraebu. The results showed that for the dongraebu, there was no sign of the establishment to meet the conditions for the list of family registers in the process of creating the family register. In addition, the simplification of the family register documentation as identified in previous research was found the same as in the dongraebu; however. it was not because the nature as a material of the family register did not change but it was aimed to correct the evils that had occurred variously in the documentation process. Moreover, for the dongraebu, the family register was managed throughly, compared to other counties. This also supports the evidence that the family register is not the result after the artificial adjustment of the number of houses and inhabitants. The critical data to create the list of family registers included several wooden fences around the castle. The list of family registers is finally decided in consideration of the data obtained by these wooden fences around the castle and the contemporary list of family registers. Therefore, there was no need for the list of family registers to meet the wooden fences around the castle and it was difficult to match the data between them. In this regard, the results of the existing studies might be the ones obtained through the establishment to meet the list of family registers and thus the ‘ho’ (戶) in the family register seems to be unnatural. Of course, it may be hard to generalize the case of the dongraebu discussed in this article. As there were regional differences in the way of creating population documents, the process of creating the family register in the late Chosun dynasty also made a slight difference according to the region. Therefore, although limited, the ‘ho’(戶) in the family register of at least the dongraebu was difficult to regard as an established one. In addition, it is hard to consider the family register as a taxation book or it is not persuasive to see that the family register became invalid in the 19th century. This suggests the results that ignored the unnaturalness accordingly since the ‘ho’(戶) in the family register covers the inhabitants in the house.