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Existence forms of the class with no surnames and achievement routes of surname and origin in the late Joseon Dynasty

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2013, (110), pp.247-284
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

KyungRan Kim 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the specific situation how the class with no surnames, who were known as numerous in number to the point of the late Joseon Dynasty, had existed and achieved the surname and origin from the process of having their own surnames. It is understood that the class with no surnames were classified in the lower class has rapidly changed to have their own surnames as experiencing the late Joseon Dynasty. For the cases that could confirm the routes of achieving surname and origin of the class with no surnames based on the family register, most of them were following the surname of the father or ancestors, which means the correlation between blood ties. It has been appeared that most of the people who had the surnames of the ancestors after a certain time as not having immediately were the children of concubines with the occupational classification of a servant. Furthermore, the fact, which the case of following master’s surnames was relatively few in number compare to the majority who had the correlation between blood ties, could be figured from the cases that could confirm the routes of achieving surname and origin. However, there were more cases that could not confirm the routes of achieving surname and origin than that could be confirmed. Most of the class with no surnames was servants. The records on servants are comparatively rough from the people with other occupational classifications, and especially, they were difficult to find the root of blood ties. They are identified to have their own previous surname, especially naming the representative surname of the region they live in, while having surname and origin. This tendency seems to have a close relationship with the formation of representative surname of Danseonghyeon.

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