Aleksander Chodkowski, son of Józef Chodkowski and Maryanna Trętowska, was born on 18 March 1848 in Klonowo, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland. She was baptized in the parish church in Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland on 26 March 1848.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Aleksander Chodkowski – 1848
SOURCE: Parafia pw. św. Gotarda (Pałuki, Ciechanów Powiat, Płock Gubernia, Congress Kingdom of Poland), “Akta urodzeń, małżeństw, zgonów 1841-1851 [Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1841-1851],” folio 6 recto, entry 29, Aleksander Chodkowski, 26 Mar 1848; filmed as Kopie księg metrykalnych, 1808-1904; FHL INTL microfilm 0,702,611.
Click on the image above to view a higher resolution image. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Aleksander Chodkowski. Translated from the Polish, the record reads:
Klonowo 29.
    This happened in Pałuki on the fourteenth / twenty-sixth day of March in the year one-thousand eight-hundred forty-eight at the hour of two in the afternoon . There appeared Józef Chodkowski, owner of a part [of the village], thirty years of age, residing in Klonowo, in the presence of Mikołaj Chodkowski, his father, fifty-two years of age, and Józef Kierzkowski, forty years of age, both owners of parts [of the village] and residing in Klonowo, and he showed Us a child of the male sex, born in this village on the sixth / eighteenth day of this same month at the hour of six in the evening of his wife Marianna née Trętowska, twenty-eight years of age . To this child at Holy Baptism performed on this day was given the name Aleksander, and his Godparents were Piotr Kosakowski and Antonina Chodkowska . This document was read aloud to the declarant and witnesses who do not know how to write and was signed only by Us.
[signed] The Reverend Ksawery Nałęcz, Pastor of Pałuki
Aleksander Chodkowski was my 3rd cousin, 3X removed.
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